Finally, something worth writing about. Three weblog relevant workshop calls for papers came across the transom.
First off, at WWW 2006, the International Workshop in the Weblogging Ecosystem, makes its third appearance. This time Intelliseek is providing a large pile o' data for people to munge as they see fit.
As an added attraction for WWW 2006, there's now a Workshop on Collaborative Tagging. Out of this CFP comes interesting notes on folks I sort of know. Looks like Soctt Golder has taken time off from (ditched?) The Media Lab and is now working at HP Labs. The tagging paper he wrote with Bernardo Huberman is good stuff and I'm glad to see it get published somewhere. Also, Andrew Tomkins, of Web Fountain fame, has definitely ditched IBM and is now working for Yahoo! Research. Very interesting.
Lastly, Fernanda Viegas and Karrie Karahalios are organizing a CHI 2006 workshop on Social Visualization. Not only will the workshop address visualization of textual social media, e.g. blogs, e-mail, but will be looking at video and audio as well.
Time to get back to work!!