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to the new web space. Come visit and don't forget to update your blogroll;))

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can be found here.

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This morning, I received an email from a friend, saying this: "Thank you for your congratulations on my analysis [this is the only sentence I understood in your message!].... but I suppose you sent me this message by mistake?" Of course, I sent it by mistake, I should have sent it to one of my researchers who is working on the 2. experiment. Ok, this was just for a starter... but read this;)):

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This blog has just turned one and I completely forgot about it. Could it have something to do with the fact that my ten researchers and I are in the middle of 2. experiment for PhD, this time mixing web surveys and online focus groups. Gotta rush to the class .... later!

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My mum told me I was born two months earlier. So, if I had been a nice baby, I'd have come out about this time a year ... but instead --> August 30You have the type of personality that people either love or hate.You're opinionated, dramatic, intense, and very outspoken.And some people can't get enough of you - they're totally addicted.Others, well, they wish you were a little more reserved.Your

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It's been one month now, since my last post. And in this month, there was all - from really hard work, fair laziness, to almost depression for not having the right energy and ideas.I am beginning to realise that writing up a PhD it is no joke. That it may sound like just another few hundred pages to be written in a scientific language, with some smart citation and some cool ideas of the author -

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Readings: Some articles from the journal Quality & Quantity and Qualitative Sociology. Other work: printing some other articles I had collected from LSE library. Satisfaction level: low-medium. Definitely I need to make a huge change in my working habits. In the last two weeks, I came up with a whole collection of "just need to do this before working for PhD" excuses. Amongst top five are

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So, Thursdays and Fridays don't count because I have to teach on those days ... day 3 was Saturday, day 4 was Yesterday. On Day 3, my nephews celebrated their birthdays so I had my readings with me but unfortunately didn't manage to read a single page. I had too much fun with all little fellows.Yesterday I did some minor readings and most of the day spent in the woods, picking chestnut and

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Did some reading today, but am not exactly happy with what I did. Need to improve, significantly ... or else there will be no progress! Plus, tomorrow and Friday is teaching, so will only proceed on Saturday.

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My day 1 has already started but the work assigned for day one not just yet;). I have some reading to do, some articles from Quality & Quantity. I better get started.

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We made it! I have just arrived home from 7 hours long meeting with ECPR representatives, held at Faculty of Social Sciences. The idea of ECPR summer school in Ljubljana was born in summer 2004, when I met prof Dirk Berg-Schlosser as an instructor to one of my courses at Essex summer school. At that time I hoped but not actually believed it would happen. Then prof Anuska Ferligoj, who was our

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I have just made the big plan for the big task - writing up the thesis. I calculated I am left with: 36 working weeks till the end of August 2006 (I counted out the weeks I would be at the conference or traveling to Belgium + 9 weeks for some more reading and the conduction of the second experiment); this gives me approximately 200 working days (again I counted out all day at which I would

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Mixed methods within a single study are becoming more and more popular methodological approach in social sciences. However, mixing is usually limited only to a fixed combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches, most typically in two phases (e.g. focus group followed by a survey). In proposed doctoral dissertation we extend this practice by the implementation of a flexible feedback-loop

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Yeh ... I feel bad ... I mean I feel very bad ... I left my blog alone for such a long time ... It's not like I absolutely wouldn't have time but it was more that I was in a completely different mood. I had my first doctoral seminar on Thursday. This is a seminar when a PhD candidate first meet up with his committee and they give comments and suggestions and critics. Luckily all went well!

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If I had this library in Ljubljana ... if I only had it for the next year or so ...

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or better the books bought in the last three weeks, some of which I already finished reading, am reading or just quickly scanning thru (or should be reading;)): Systematic empiricism: critique of a pseudoscience (David and Judith Willer, 1973); Quantity and Quality in Social Research (Alan Bryman, 2000); The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research: Third Edition (Norman K. Denzin, Yvona S.

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Yes yes ... Ian is dr now;) Congratulations, Ian!!! Short abstract of his thesis: The thesis concerned the superior economic performance of smallEuropean countries compared to large European countries in the 1980sand 1990s. Many explanations focus on the role of policies andinstitutions, while others mention the influence of national culturewithout investigating it fully. The thesis used a

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Please, do click to enlarge picture! What a notice!! At the place, where people are always running for trains or something ...

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This morning, on my way to LSE library (I usually take 171 bus from Peckham and go off in Aldwych) our bus was inspected - by the police. And my big black Targus backpack, which is full of books and a laptop, got a suspicious look. But then - seems like I didn't look suspicious at all so the police officer didn't shoot me;))I know, bad joke, but I still can't forget that innocent guy who got shot

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only minor explosions, three tube stations, one bus, one injured, read more one bbc news. Hmmm, what is this? Two weeks after the bombing someone is trying to scare Londoners again? Oh well, now that I managed to get rid of the temperature, will I have to be worried about the bombs? I don't think so. Let's work on;))

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Yesterday evening, one of my temporary housemates (Oliver) here in London invited me to an gallery opening. Like the other two housemates (Hannah and Steve, who designed the logo for this gallery), he is an art student, interested in impact of ICT on art creation and its dissemination. Yesterday opening didn't have anything to do with his web interests tho. Instead, he helped to build the gallery

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After all the conferences in the last week I am finally based here in London and I should start working on my papers, PhD and stuff. But instead I try to find ways how to cope with the heat here. It's waaaay too hot. Well, I will have to find a solution, I guess. So, basically, here there's no trace of what happened last week (well, apart from the stations, which are still guarded by the police

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Hmmm ... to all who sent me all the sms messages and emails: thanks for your concern. Luckily enough, I am in Oxford at the moment and won't be going back to London till Sunday. Then I hope things will get back to normal. Tho here in Oxford people appears to be mad chilled ... nobody seems to be bothered with what happened in London this morning ... well, at least it looks like that. I keep

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