http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/people/bergstrom Social Spaces at the University of Illinois Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:39:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm not a huge fan of Twitter. It has its place, I just don't feel the need to continually post details of my life like some do. I also don't like the idea of a public repository of all my activities that I do choose to post. All that is now ... http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/people/bergstrom/?p=34 I am quite happy to report that I was selected to receive a Siebel Scholar Fellowship for 2009-2010. I am one of five from UIUC to receive this award. 80 total are given in Computer Science, Business, and Bioengineering. It will keep me fed and working for the next year, with ... http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/people/bergstrom/?p=32 Next week Vote and Be Heard: Adding Back-Channel Cues to Social Mirrors in Uppsala Sweden. It's a work about how providing anonymous feedback seems to help people assert themselves in conversation, and generally be more satisfied with the conversation. If you're going or are there, I present Thursday morning in ... http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/people/bergstrom/?p=31 In the beginning of the year, I heard that Pepsi would be offering products made with natural sugar, rather than corn syrup. I rarely drink soda, but I was excited by the prospect. There are High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) sodas (Coke, Pepsi, etc) and there are sugar sodas (Jones), ... http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/people/bergstrom/?p=30 A witty little title Eric and I came up with to describe how comments in blogs tend to agree with the original poster. Between the two of us we labeled hundreds of blog posts to test that idea, and published a paper at HICSS demonstrating most comments do in ... http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/people/bergstrom/?p=29