I am reminded that knowledge management is hard. The last group I embedded with before leaving for my current post has been asking for help with a project. This is one of the few situations in which a raw data dump provides value.
I wrote a book chapter in one week while at a conference. I am extremely thankful for the last-minute weekend comments from some good people who enabled me to improve the chapter greatly. The edited volume is scheduled to be published in April.
I learned that assembling a new data set that: caught the attention of journalists in four countries, used as university course teaching material at least once, and spawned a three week public discussion, doesn't count for anything in academia because the outcomes are not measurable via an impact factor.
Also, ice holes are cold.
March:
Some of my responses to inquiries this month:
- No, I'm not (yet) familiar with the recent reforms to government media policies in that country due to Internet viral videos over the past seven years.
- I'm presenting /what/ at a workshop of senior people in two weeks? Does that mean I have to write something?
- Sure, I could write up an abstract based on a four word topic for a fall conference.
- Could we please get the coordinates of that data repository before university IT Borgs it?
- During those two hours on Monday, should I attend one of the two mandatory course by the graduate studies faculty, the mandatory research methods course by the department, the department meeting about immediate changes to our departments IT infrastructure, or that workshop at which I am to present?
- 'Intriguing' is not the word I would have selected to describe the task to distill 30 years of (a large team of talented people's) work into five tweet-sized responses.
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