[Tccc] Introducing Paperfocus -- the Twitter+ for EECS researchers like you and me

Tianji Li tianji.liatnuim.ie
Wed Jan 16 18:22:53 EST 2013



 Dear TCCC readers,

I would like to introduce you Paperfocus (http://paperfoc.us), the Twitter+
for EECS researchers like you and me (http://paperfoc.us/people/2796/).  

Facebook and Twitter are dominating the Internet now, but unfortunately we
(i.e., researchers) do not use them often, since 'they are not useful for
our work'. Worse, talking about research on Facebook/Twitter is weird,
isn't it?

But this is wrong! Networking is important for everyone. And this is
especially so for us -- researchers who are doing networking research. We
should have a social network of our own to facilitate our work!

Therefore, I build Paperfocus, on which we can:
--Follow papers, people, conferences, journals.
--Share/Talk whatever we like about research. No weirdos any more! We are
in the our own circle!
--Ask/Answer questions about papers, conferences, journals, etc.

Fancy a look? Try to search your name at http://paperfoc.us/people. If you
have ever published papers before in the networking area, it should return
a page with your name on it, as I have added most of the
conferences/journals in the database.  Clicking on the publications tab
near the top of the page will show you most of your papers, ordered in
publication time.

If you are submitting to Sigcomm now, and feel quite under pressure. Maybe
shouting something can help! Do it here
http://paperfoc.us/venue/conference/324/
<http://paperfoc.us/???>ANONYMOUSLY! No registration is needed.

If you really like or hate a paper, tell us by commenting on it without the
need to log in. I do not track you, promise!

If you would like to like (i.e., vote up) a paper, or 'follow' it, there
are two options:

1. If your name is already in our database, you can claim your page
following the instructions that you will see after finding your page.
2. Otherwise, welcome to register an account and be social!

But why following/liking means anything? The reason is that papers with the
maximum followers/likers can be the 'best papers' selected by the
community, rather than by TPC. Social ranking vs close-looped TCP
judgements, which one would you prefer? Maybe this is what George Porter
wanted (http://tinytocs.org/vol1/papers/tinytocs-v1-porter.pdf)?

More reasons as to why it is useful are here: http://paperfoc.us/about.


Welcome to try it out and any comments will be very appreciated.

Best Regards
Tianji
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