Happy New Year and New Quarter

Winter break is over, and fortunately I was able to relax for the most part. I took some time to reorganize my desk and the way I file research papers on my computer. I also read Howard Becker’s “Writing for Social Scientists” (the new second edition) and Gregory Colon Semanza’s “Graduate Study for the 21st Century” – both excellent.

This quarter I’ve got a seminar on News and Information as Politics and Culture with Jim Ettema, another seminar/lecture about social network analysis with Noshir Contractor and an independent study about credibility on the web. At the start of last quarter I said I hoped to blog about topics related to my classes, which I wasn’t really able to do very much. I’d like to think I’ll do better this quarter, but my workload will be even heavier so I won’t make any promises. I will post about my revamped electronic organization system once I have done a bit more testing.