CFP now open. This is an excellent event, in its third year and hosted right here in San Jose.

The social and community driven aspects of our digital lives continue to rapidly increase, resulting in transformative behaviours and, significantly, publishing and distributing huge amounts of fascinating data. The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media will meet once more in 2009 to discuss the latest research analyzing and leveraging this resource. As with previous meetings, we will bring together a wide range of researchers and industry practitioners from many disciplines providing a unique opportunity for sharing ideas and collaboration in this space.

John Kleinberg is one of the invited speakers. I wasn’t aware of the "Rebel King" anagram:

Prof. Kleinberg needs no introduction, but how so apt that the above piece of fascinating data is courtesy *social media*.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 at 1:56 am and is filed under conferences, icwsm2009, research, socialmedia.