RIP, my iBook

Apart from my laptop checking out, I had a good day. Peter and I got to talk some more about the intersections of our research, past, present, and future, and I think he would like to start to use the software we are developing for logging and visualizing knowledge work. I am giving another talk on Wednesday here that goes into more depth about this work, and my talk for the 360 conference on Thursday touches on it some as well. So we are laying some promising groundwork. I am also eager to bring Jeff into the conversations when he gets here on Wednesday

After spending the morning checking off some to-do's, I had a chance to meet with another ASB faculty member - Birthe Mousten. We had lunch and talked about her current research project which examines the way a Danish company's localization strategies in the various markets it sells to influences what I (and WIDE) would call their website's information model. Very interesting project! The analysis involved some very interesting ways to show how content is clustered in terms of total volume (compared across national and language communities). I also recommended that she consider looking at use with a similar technique to see if their localized content "footprint" on the production side seems to match with the footprint of consumption/use. Seems like a promising line of work that extends the sort of cultural usability work that Huatong and Kellie are doing with the kind of focus on Delivery and Distribution that Ridolfo is doing.

In the afternoon we visited "Klubben," the campus pub, for a free half-pint in celebration of BA/MMC students who had just turned in their thesis projects. I'll try to get a few pics with the new camera/computer setup.

After work, Birthe, Peter, and I had a nice dinner at Connie's house - a South American feast!



Tuesday's schedule includes time to work on the two articles I am trying to finish, a meeting with assistant professor Carmen Daniela Maier, and in the afternoon a trip to the AROS museum of art here in Aarhus.