Thesis Progress – social bookmarking interviews

Things have been pretty hectic at the end of the semester with finishing up the classes I taught and the one I took, plus working on the thesis. I’ve been getting together with other students who are working on their thesis and that has been a good motivation to keep things moving along (especially since I’m the one organizing the meetings I feel more responsible for getting things done). I’ve got a first draft of the proposal in and I’ve got comments from my advisor and a committee member, so I’m on track to defend at the beginning of next semester and get going on the actual research.

For those who don’t know, my thesis is on social bookmarking and its role in meaning making on the web. What do I think about del.icio.us being acquired by Yahoo? I don’t really know. I was a bit worried when they bought Flickr, but Flickr is still Flickr and I hope delicious will still be delicious.

My primary method for my thesis will be interviews. I’m hoping to do many of the interviews in-person (Chicago area), but I’m also doing a Skype (or whatever) online interview as well, so if you’re interested in sharing your experience with delicious please let me know (yes, just delicious, I’m trying to keep things less confusing by limiting to one system). The interviews will start hopefully late-January / early-Feb & I’ll make another announcement about that.

I’m on my way home to Cincinnati for a pre-christmas thing b/c my husband and I will be up in Chicago this year with his family for Christmas – so early presents for us Actually, Jim and I are going to go skiing or something in January instead of giving each other presents.