Academic squee

[hrj]

I confess, I do ego-surf on Google periodically. This is the first time I've gotten a hit on Google Scholar -- someone has cited my PhD dissertation in their own research. Too cool.

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[staffordcastle.livejournal.com]

Bravo!!

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Congrats! And yes, this is cool in the ultimate geeky-cool kinda way!

[the-lady-of-ely.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[mastersantiago.livejournal.com]

Very cool.

I do ego-surf every now and again as well, but it's kind of a pain for me since there is a Tim Converse out there who works for Yahoo and writes all kinds of programming and webdesign books.

I usually have more luck finding things relating to "Santiago the Magician." *smile*

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Wheee! Congrats!

[acanthusleaf.livejournal.com]

Most excellent!

And now I know about Google Scholar. The minute I turn my back, They come up with a bunch of new stuff.

[blaurentnv.livejournal.com]

Well, congratulations. You've gone past "published" to "cited" - what's next? "Reviewed"?

It had been a while since I googled myself. There are now 22 pages of "Bob Laurent," most of which are not me. When I first did this (before google; I think I used AltaVista), I was the only one that would come up. Kind of disappointing to loose my uniqueness.

[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

Congrats! That's an achievement, all right.

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

I had my first (non-SCA) experience of someone seeking me out at a conference to introduce herself and say she'd downloaded something of mine off the internet and found it very helpful! It turned out to be the handout on medieval logic that I'd made for last year's Kingdom University class...