Today I had my first presentation in Academic Presentations. We had a 3 minutes time frame to talk about a topic of our own choice. All presentations were videotaped and we have to write a short evaluation about ourselves. I think I will find a thousand things to improve.

These first presentations were held in an informal setting and we should talk about a topic we are familiar with. I decided to discuss blogs! The most challenging task was to shorten the collected material to 3 minutes. You could speak hours about sociological, technical or even political effects, and 3 minutes are just good enough to give an introduction. Finally I made a presentation which did not even contain the words feed, page rank, blogosphere or trackback. Very strange.

It was quite interesting to listen to the other presentations. We heard about the wish to stop smoking, the correlation between bus speed limits and side winds, growing baby orchids, “feelings” of lobsters, girls in engineering study programs, Chinese medicine, and the experience to see snow for the first time.

BTW: In my research I found out that HUMlab at Umea University launched an interesting blog in January. I still remember Karsten talking about the BlogWalk 5.0 hosted by HUMlab last November. Greetings to Ireland!