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For me, attending GOR is not only a great way to meet a lot of people from my professional online research network, but also a sign that spring is near: Last year I had a great day in Zurich, walking around the city with the warm spring sun shining on my face; this year the weather is gorgeous again. 
Location of GOR 2006: Ravensburger Spinnerei
But you don’t attend a conference for the weather, so here we go: It’s tuesday morning, and I’m sitting next to Roland Abold and Andrea Handl at the opening session of the GOR 06 conference. Marc Smith is giving his keynote on "Social networks of the digital individual: Visualizing computer-mediated social interaction". Rather than presenting specific Microsoft research tools as he did in his workshop, he’s outlining general trends in the field of ’social software’. For example, he stressed recent developments of MoSoSo ("this is NOT a cocktail with fresh mint, but Mobile Social Software") - systems combining social networking features with mobile communication, taking further steps in the direction of ubiquitious computing applications - for example, AURA ("mobile object annotation system") or "blogjects".
An inspirational talk, for sure. Marc did a great job to stress the importance of social aspects of internet use: patterns and structures emerge which contextualize or frame individual usage; for example, it might help sorting and evaluating information if you get indicators of the social context of your actions displayed. I’d love to discuss these topics later on today at the session on weblogs, or tomorrow at the Social Software session…
Marc at the keynote
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[…] Listening to Marc Smith, both at the pre-conference workshop and his keynote. While we bumped into each other quite often during sessions, it was only shortly before I left for my train that I actually got a chance to talk to him briefly. He told me that he was leaving for Enschede that afternoon, together with Ton and Andrea, to meet with Lilia Efimova and other folks at the Telematica Institute - too bad I didn’t know that before; I’m looking forward to reading more about their discussions. […]
[…] I’ve attended various GOR conferences in the previous years (2006 in Bielefeld; 2005 in Zürich; 2004 in Duisburg; 2002 in Hohenheim) and always enjoyed the interesting presentations and inspiring conversations - I’ll definitely be in Leipzig next March. [view academic citations] [hide academic citations] Bitte wie folgt zitieren: Schmidt, Jan (2006): GOR 2007: Call for Paper. In: Bamblog [Weblog], 15 Jul. 2006. Online-Publikation: http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress/archives/514. Abrufdatum: July 15, 2006 Alternativ die APA citation: Schmidt, Jan. (2006). GOR 2007: Call for Paper. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from Bamblog Web site: http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress/archives/514 […]