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		<title>An apologetic rationale for David Allen&#8217;s &#8220;Getting Things Done&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arber Borici</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I commenced my PhD studies in September 2011, I decided to replace my existing system of personal organization with a new, much-talked about system referred to as Getting Things Done (GTD). This is, in fact, the main title of a book written by David Allen and published in 2001. Therein, Allen describes a personal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arberborix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27489645&amp;post=100&amp;subd=arberborix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Computer-Supported Collaborative Work; or, my first PhD course</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arber Borici</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout my academic experience, there is only a fistful of courses I valorized. The Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) course I attended at UVic and taught by M.-A. Storey in the September 2011 semester is one of them. The course was divided into three parts. The first part, spanning roughly four weeks, consisted of lecturing and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arberborix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27489645&amp;post=92&amp;subd=arberborix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ProxiScientia: A sneak preview of a visualization tool for collaborative software development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arber Borici</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The September semester is officially over, at least for me. This was my first semester as a PhD student, too. And it could be construed as a test of my patience  in assuming various challenges or challenging tasks and the success rate in attaining the predefined objectives, if not more. I confess I did, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arberborix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27489645&amp;post=84&amp;subd=arberborix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some career-related tips from IEEE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arber Borici</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently received by mail the IEEE guide to starting your career, a brief brochure divulging several tips from this prestigious organization. I believe in free knowledge, thus this post shall comprise two sets of tips taken verbatim from the guide. The first tips are related to building your professional network and the second to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arberborix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27489645&amp;post=72&amp;subd=arberborix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humanizing the CSCW philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arber Borici</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An important step in preserving the rigorousness of CSCW as a discipline would be to humanize it per its foundational concepts. That is, we need to derive ways to illustrate its principles in practice: in real-world complex distributed systems and environments. This may sound infantile since, after all, CSCW is about practical perspectives. But that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arberborix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27489645&amp;post=14&amp;subd=arberborix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[Workshop] Time-Space Distanciation Between Governments and Citizens: Computer-Supported Collaboration in e-Participation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arber Borici</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 1, three students and myself organization a workshop on e-Government in the context of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. This was a student-led workshop per one of the requirements of the CSCW course taught by Margaret-Anne Storey at UVic. Below is a post one of my collaborators assembled, reflecting the overall discussions that took place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arberborix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27489645&amp;post=54&amp;subd=arberborix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a matter of swift interpretation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visual cognition has been essential throughout our evolutionary adventure. The brain, although capturing continuous images of the world as complete patterns, rather than structurally, is still able to infer and reason accordingly. And this is done pretty swiftly, with apologies to digital machines. By &#8220;pretty swiftly&#8221; I allude to the &#8220;reading&#8221; counterpart of cognition. For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arberborix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27489645&amp;post=51&amp;subd=arberborix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A derelict discourse with Mrs. Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arber Borici</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mrs. Web, You&#8217;re growing old. And fat. But we love you. At first, we brought you up with tenderness and could track your growth. We sat back and observed with awe and constraints what you offered us. Then, you exploited our innocence by bursting in 2001 and seriously hurting the feelings of some of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arberborix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27489645&amp;post=49&amp;subd=arberborix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s always been like that. But, what next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arber Borici</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The size of the web has always been exponential since public accessibility was enabled. After all, Raman&#8217;s binomial summation can be applied to all sizes of W. That is allegorical, I believe. The point is to show how fast the web has been growing. And it has been growing exponentially. It will remain an exponential [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arberborix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27489645&amp;post=47&amp;subd=arberborix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Groupware. Then, CMC (with ontology). Then, CSCW</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arber Borici</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First a recap. In a previous post, I mention that the Internet is the ultimate CSCW artifact. I did that complying with what CSCW tackles as a discipline, succinctly exposed in Bannon &#38; Schmidt&#8217;s paper. In their paper, Turoff et al. conclusively argue that the &#8220;web should be viewed as a massive group communication system&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arberborix.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27489645&amp;post=45&amp;subd=arberborix&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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