Many introverts feel there’s something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you’re not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time. Introverts are constantly going to parties and such when they’d really prefer to be home reading, studying, inventing, meditating, designing, thinking, cooking…or any number of other quiet and worthwhile activities.

According to the latest research, one third to one half of us are introverts – that’s one out of every two or three people you know. But you’d never guess that, right? That’s because introverts learn from an early age to act like pretend-extroverts.

via The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance | Extroversion & introversion | Personality, Creativity & Productivity | LiveScience.

Differences in wages between federal employees and similar private-sector employees in the 2005-2010 period varied widely depending on the employees’ level of education.

Federal civilian workers with no more than a high school education earned about 21 percent more, on average, than similar workers in the private sector.

Workers whose highest level of education was a bachelor’s degree earned roughly the same hourly wages, on average, in both the federal government and the private sector.

Federal workers with a professional degree or doctorate earned about 23 percent less, on average, than their private-sector counterparts.

Overall, the federal government paid 2 percent more in total wages than it would have if average wages had been comparable with those in the private sector, after accounting for certain observable characteristics of workers.

via Congressional Budget Office – Comparing the Compensation of Federal and Private-Sector Employees.

Why does it take so much input from so many sources for the company to build perfect playlists?

via How Computers, Curators, And Users Create Pandora’s Playlists | Fast Company.

8 Crazy Things IBM Scientists Have Learned Studying Twitter.

Using EndNote with Library Databases

Saturday, February 4, 10:30 am–12:00 pm

Thursday, March 1, 2:30 pm-4 pm

Saturday, April 7, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Learning Commons Instruction Room 1306

Learn how to collect citations from the library’s database and export them into EndNote, a powerful tool for organizing and managing bibliographic citations. If you bring your own laptop, we ask that you already have Endnote downloaded.

Contact Miriam Bridges at mbridges@odu.edu or 683-4169 to register.

via Old Dominion University Libraries – Library workshops and programs.

A few things:

1. Read your first assignments and the cases mentioned in the syllabus.

2. Work on your written library research assignment; it’s due on Tuesday night, 1/17!

3. Remember that you have an opportunity to do a reflective essay (that would be one 1 of your 5 (out of 9 opportunities). If you do, it’s due 1/17 late PM!

See you on Wednesday.

DWC

No class this week (Peninsula or Norfolk sections of 753).

Assignments DUE BY Friday, 1/20:
1. Contact List/Survey Response
2. Written Assignment #1
3. Pre-test

Assignments DUE BEFORE the next class:
1.Homework problems

See you next week!

DWC

The syllabus and Blackboard sites for both courses (651 and 753) are now available. However, readings and journal articles are subject to change (as always).