1. Start: 12:08am
2. SysMgt: (5 minutes)
3. Web: scan social networking news (1 hour)
4. Act: Listen to VC's presentation on Implementing The University Strategy 2007-2011 (90 minutes)
5. E-mail: Unread 80 of 238 (30 minutes)
6. Act: Preparation of itc542 assignment two (45 minutes)
7. E-mail: comments on subjects slated for deletion. (30 minutes)
8. E-mail: Unread 66 of 223 (60 minutes)
9. Act: watch recording of ABC2's Good Game. Low-graphics football management MMOs very popular. Serious Games significant. (30 minutes).
10. Blog: CSU Library's writeup on Innovative Ideas Forum (10 minutes)
11. PhD: more writing on identity, the famous and social network ghostwriters. (5 minutes)
12. Web: watching Mark Pesce's lecture at Sydney University given about eight hours ago on culture and social networking. (1 hour)
13. End: 11:20pm
14. Entry: (8 minutes)

1. Start: 7:05am
2. E-mail: handle .id.au, gmail (5 minutes)
3. E-mail: Unread 89
4. SysMan: port update: id.au, baran; security update: id.au. (10 minutes)
5. Podcast: Future Tense Future models for business
6. Book: Googling Security (5 minutes)
7. Class: itc355 (90 minutes)
8. E-mail: Unread 80 of 239 (60 minutes)
9. Class: itc240/540 (90 minutes)
10. Student: questions on itc540 assignment (20 minutes)
11. E-mail: Unread 71 of 228 (45 minutes)
12. Web: scanning social network news (20 minutes)
13. Entry: (5 minutes)

1. Start 10:25am
2. Email: .id.au and gmail (5 minutes)
3. Web: scan PopUrls for social networking news. (15 minutes)
4. Entry: (1 minute)

1. Start: 1:30am.
2. Act: handle .id.au and gmail. (5 minutes)
3. Act: misc management activities. (5 minutes)
4. Act: read latest social networking news. (30 minutes)
5. PhD: 90-9-1 Rule 90% of online users lurk, 9% contribute a bit, 1% contribute the bulk. Nielsen, J 1999 Reputation Managers are Happening. Added to thesis. (30 minutes)
6. PhD: corrected spelling of Nielsen and reorganised handling of thesis files (currently 12 source files). (30 minutes)
7. PhD: Blog on Knowledge Management, Collaboration & Sharing is worth exploring. Entry on Xobni plug-in for Outlook inbox. A commenter mentioned Seek for Thunderbird. (15 minutes)
PhD: Visualising Virtual Communities might help me think about how to visualise e-mail communities. Found by exploring using Freebase. (5 minutes)
8. Book: Smith, M and Kollock 1999 Communities in Cyberspace Chapter two Donath, J Identity (10 minutes)
9. Blog: Michael Rees posting on Twitter Power - Combining Name and Hashtag Semantics. (10 minutes)
10. Entry: create and update. (15 minutes)

1. Start: 2:07am
2. Web: Scanning social networking news. (30 minutes)
3. PhD: Reorganised Bibliography. Put each reference back into separate files which should allow much easier sorting and writing a script to add them to the bibliography/references once there is a large number of them. (1 hour)
4. PhD: Added Lieba to Bibliography and wrote a a paragraph. There are some key ideas in this article worth exploring. (30 minutes)
5. Marking: itc533 1 assignment (15 minutes)
6. Act: Building Better Universities Renewal Fund Project: Pod/vodcasting and synchronous online learning tools. Budget $1 million. (4 hours)
7. Marking: itc533 2 assignments (30 minutes)
8. Email: unread 80 (45 minutes)
9. Entry: creating and updating (20 minutes)

1. Start: 3:10am
2. E-mail: handled .id.au and gmail. (10 minutes)
3. Web: looked CouchDB book beta on views. (10 minutes)
4. PhD: I need a timeline visualisation for the proposal.
5. Web: Top Google entry Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. Wiki. (Ward C. invented WikiWikiWeb). (10 minutes)
6. Web: Looking at Graphviz for timelines. I've used it for drawing M. Info. Tech. diagrams. (10 minutes)
7. Web: Found Forth Family Tree and Timeline. I played with Forth years ago as a setup from assembly language. (10 minutes)
8. Web: Improved the Wikipedia entry on Forth. (10 minutes)
9. PhD: Found Guide for PhD Candidates
   at Cambridge Computer Lab". (10 minutes)
10. PhD: tidied up the Bibliography and added the start of the Proposal with just a timeline table into Chapter 1. (30 minutes)
PhD: added Marc Smith's collection of papers to the Bibliography and wrote about Donack's thoughts on identity. (10 minutes)
11. E-mail: Unread 99
12. Act: Check A.C.'s anonymous survey to be handed out this afternoon during a marketing presentation at a local high school. Review A.C.'s presentation slides. (15 minutes)
13. Act: J.P. ten-page document certification for Z.I. (15 minutes)
14. E-mail: Unread 82 (30 minutes)
15. Act: Reading documents relating to Podcast, Vodcast and Synchronous Online Learning Tools Project for tomorrow's Rapid (15 minutes)
16. Act: Marketing presentation at a local high school. (2 hours)
17. Marking: itc533 five A1s (2 hours)
18. Act: decommission ISPG server and remove from Building 005. (20 minutes)
19. E-mail: Unread 77 (45 minutes)
20. Entry: Creating and updating. (25 minutes)
21. End:7:50pm

1. Start: 2:50am
2. E-mail: Examining the raw source of a spam message that includes an in-line image used twice. Accompanying text is a series of sentences with random themes. I wonder if it is possible to do some simple theme analysis, author style analysis or reading level to recognise it as spam. I've got lots of messages including spam to try some analysis and know about some spam corpus to try techniques on. (10 minutes)
3. Web: Scanning business IT news looking for content relevant to my PhD topic. Found an article by Helen Bradley (The Age) Sign your work which included a link to Gallery of Annoying SIgnatures and Esther's Signature File Collection which might be relevant to message recognition. (30 minutes)
4. Web: Looking through comments in the CouchDB Relax book beta site and found they are writing their O'Reilly book using asciidoc. Generates HTML and Docbook (which can give PDF and RTF documents) which is just what I want. Tried lots of version control systems and have settled on git (good tutorial) for my PhD thesis. (20 minutes)
5. Act: Added some more structure to my thesis. Learnt some more git. (15 minutes)
6. Pod: Listened to a CounterPoint podcast while jogging. Nicholas Gruen One of the things about Milton Friedman is that he was what I would call a kind of commonsensical economist, again, in the tradition of Keynes in that he was trying to use simple stylised facts and simple models to understand how the world works. He was trying to make the money simplifications, pick the two or three important simplifications.
7. Idea: E-mail triage as a serious game. My first thought was Guitar Hero and a stream of notes and red/green/yellow buttons or Whack-a-Mole
8. E-mail: unread 105.
9. F2F: Discussed itc240/itc540 teaching issues with P.A. (10 minutes)
10. Ev: Attended P.A.'s farewell. (30 minutes)
11. Ev: Attended Copyright Seminar (1 hour)
12. Act: Completed copyright training test Part A 5/5 Part B 8/10 - passed (15 minutes)
13. Act: Completed copyright training evaluation survey (20 minutes)
14. F2F: Discuss short-notice marketing opportunity at local high school to be held tomorrow with Anthony and Lynne. (15 minutes)
15. E-mail: Enquiry from HK SPACE about assignment submission required a detailed reply. (20 minutes).
16. E-mail: handle several messages from students (20 minutes)
17. E-mail: unread 94
18. Phd: Added Spegal.
19. End: 10:15pm
20. Entry: Creating and updating. (30 minutes)

1. Start: 11:50am
2. F2F: Part two of performance management interview. HoS recommended I make a daily diary of activities for two months. I'll do blog entries. Still need to do homework. (45 minutes)
3. E-mail: (after forum posting hadn't been answered after two days) question about forum posting requirements for itc240 (and so itc540). It wasn't clear from the subject outline and study guide. There are four modules and in the third assignment pairs of students are given one of the last three modules to do tasks on including three forum postings. In the second assignment one task is three weeks of forum postings related to modules one and two. Because of duplication and subsequent updates of the assignments the posting requirements for the third assignment became out of kilter and only two postings apparently are required. I also wondered if really the postings for the module given to pairs of student should be done by them during the weeks that module is studied by all students. There was no study schedule showing week number, date starting and module to study so I made one of those and posted it to both forums. (1 hour)
4. Phone: Arthur W from Information Studies wanted advice about the discussion list OZTL_Net. Mailman version hasn't been updated by tech support for several years and operational bugs are becoming annoying. Schools' mail servers are now including richtext footers in all outgoing messages which Mailman eliminates. Separate archive search developed by me isn't working correctly. I recommended they all move over to Google Groups making search much better and the danger of malware in attachments less likely. (30 minutes)
5. Act: Weekly maintenance of software on Baran server. Labstore still works. (15 minutes)
6. F2F: Help Rolf Faux (with http://icwater.org hat on) consider options for wireless connectivity for SAM-ET project. Sensors connected to eKo solar-powered modules with wireless connectivity back to internet gateway. Unfortunately there is no internet out in the test paddocks so Telstra NextG has to be used. Discussed how to get from gateway to 3G modem. (1 hour)
7. F2F: Discussed with Tan and Rolf the SAM-ET project. (30 minutes)
8. F2F: Rolf as student asked what he could do about Net Eng III (15 minutes)
9. Act: Request change of CC on MIT-EMC page. (5 minutes)
10. Act: Request network outlet in JCC room 256 installed last year be connected to Baran server. (5 minutes)
11. Email: Unread 92. (30 minutes)
12. E-mail: Handled enquiry from Ed about using CSU VPN with Linux. (15 minutes)
13. F2F: Discussed marketing with Anthony and gave him some advice about creating presentations. Showed him Dick Hardt's impressive presentation and pointed him to the Steve Job versus Bill Gates presentation styles on Presentation Zen. (30 minutes)
14. Act: Miscellaneous items. (1 hour)
15. Entry: Creating and updating. (45 minutes)
16. End: 11:30pm

Eric Clemons Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet We will see the information we want, when we want it, from sources that we trust more than paid advertising.

Richard Hamming You and Your Research. How to win a Nobel Prize.

Use sites for How to get a PhD (copy from UTS) and How to write a thesis.

I'm a big fan of Cory Doctorow. Here's a piece on copyright. Here's more on the same theme by Brian Martin and Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig.

Here's a useful collection of papers about e-mail sender reputation from TrustedSource.