Digital serendipities - Danica Radovanovic's thoughts about technology, media, life

upcoming conference ScienceOnline 2010

Danica — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:50:42 +0000

Those who’ve been lucky to attend and participate [moi!] in this years conference SciOnline09, traditionally held in January every year at Research Triangle Park, Sigma Xi, NC/ US, could learn a lot, meet great interesting people from different fields of activity and brainstorm, create new ideas, projects. Even more, all good things after the conference [...]

Lectures at OII

Danica — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:08:32 +0000

Oxford Internet Institute (OII) blog introduced new student group photos and pages (pages to be updated), as the 2009/10 generation of DPhils settled in. Soon new bio pages will be posted at OII web site as well as blogs of us who want to maintain one, and I will inform you about the URLs. This week [...]

Going to LeWeb’09

Danica — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:52:02 +0000

First to let you know I am in Oxford, UK, at Oxford Internet Institute, having great time on my quest. This is info for all people, colleagues and friends who’ve been asking me in the last few weeks: In which part of the world are you know? I’m trying to get into academic mode and [...]

Summer updates

Danica — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:45:13 +0000

Before I go for so long needed vacation [still have no clue where exactly yet, send suggestions, so far got invitation for Corfu and other places around Serbia], I have tons of things to finish. Some of then include ICSD2009 and reviewing process, finalizing AP using foaf that implied people and networking, following up with EU/UN [...]

Attacking the tasks: How to keep up with parallel projects?

Danica — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:55:05 +0000

Sometimes 140 characters are not enough to express myself, so I decided to write a reflection on motivation, organization, tasks, projects, and how I keep up with everything as reply to your questions, rants on Twitter. It’s summer time and most of you are on vacation, but some of us still work. Many of you asked, [...]

International conference for Digital libraries and Semantic Web 2009

Danica — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:15:19 +0000

If you’ve recently noticed on my Twitter statuses mentioning ICSD2009 and reviewing papers and communicating with other reviewers and scientists, it was because two weeks ago I was denoted a role of Programme Committee member for the scientific conference on digital libraries and semantic web. Since I’ve never been before in the conference Board or [...]

I will be joining Oxford Internet Institute this fall!

Danica — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:02:50 +0000

“So, you can take the girl out of academia, but you can’t take the academia out of the girl, eh?” Those were the words of a friend of mine after I announced the news. Well, guess who can has PhD scholarship? Last year I applied for Oxford PhD scholarships for 2009-2010, and [...]

I can’t get no satisfaction: why JAT airways sucks?

Danica — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:07:29 +0000

Yesterday I was updating my Dopplr profile and also being determined to buy some cheap air tickets for the summer and upcoming trips via JAT airways web site. This is not the first time of my epic fail, attempt to buy ticket online (last time was during Easter holidays but then I was thinking their [...]

Mobile live video sharing in education technology and conferences

Danica — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:03:49 +0000

Today I’ve tested for the very first time Qik – mobile live streaming and sharing tool that connects mobile and social technologies. I had a thought after this demo video with my colleague at UN about implementation of mobile video streaming into not only broadcasting conferences, events, but also in edu technology. The latest news [...]