Welcome to my blog!
As a new Human-Computer Interaction Masters student and someone who has kept a personal blog for a long time, I feel it is time to begin a new blog that is meant not just for my friends, but for anyone with common interests who finds his or her way here. Let me begin by telling you a little about myself and what you will find here over time.
I have a Computer Science background, with some social sciences and humanities mixed in for fun. Some of my main interests are social computing and HCI, including but not limited to social networking, blogs and wikis. I am an environmentalist, but an introvert so not much of an activist. I reduce my ecological footprint in a number of ways including not eating meat, air drying my clothing, and driving a Prius when I'm not on foot or using public transit.
While I make no promises about the frequency of updates or the content I will post, as I start this blog I feel that it will be a place for me to write about interesting social phenomenon on the internet, new technologies that interest me, books I read, and anything of environmental interest to me as well.
That said, I have a few ideas for posts in mind and a summer reading list, so more to come soon!
Currently reading: Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Links: Freakonomics Blog
