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. This is blog post #400 since I started this blog in September 2010 and it's also close enough to qualify as the sixth anniversary of the blog - the first blog post was published on September 2, 2010! This is also the third instalment in this series of blog posts: - Blog post #200 + 3rd anniversary of the blog! (September 2013) - Blog post #300 + 4th anniversary of the blog! (October 2014) As can be seen, it took three years to publish 200 blog posts but only 13 months to write the next 100. Now it has taken almost two additional years to write the next 100 blog posts but then I had a four-month hiatus not just once but twice last year. Still, it took three years to publish the first 200 blog posts and three more years to publish the next 200 blog posts so I guess I'm right on track for publishing blog post #1000 sometime around 2025...? So what should I write about beyond commemorating the fact that this is blog post #400? I have re-read the previous two blog posts (above...

. Part I Something quite amazing happened last year. About this time, or actually a little later, I reviewed A Paper for the  2016 CHI conference . I thought the topic of the paper was extremely interesting, but, the authors hadn't read The Book. They spent a lot of time inventing the wheel again and again and much of it was due to not having read The Book. Another problem with the paper was that while the topic was very interesting, it was hard to see that the authors had managed to connect the topic to topics that were relevant to the CHI conference in a satisfying way. It was an interesting topic and an interesting paper, but was really CHI the right venue for the paper in its current form? My "verdict" as a reviewer was that the paper wasn't ready for CHI in its current form, but I also gave very detailed and exhaustive feedback to the authors on how to take the paper further. And that was that, or so I thought. Some months later I was over in the US for a public ...

. My conundrum is this: - I want to write a blog post to commemorate every significant event that happens in my (academic) life as it happens and when it happens . That includes writing a blog post about every paper I submit to a conference or a journal. - But the review process for conferences and journals is often (but not always) supposed to be "double blind", meaning I am not supposed to know who reviewed my submission and the person reviewing it isn't supposed to know who wrote it (in order to be able to treat it impartially). - The problem is that when I publish a blog post with the title and the abstract of the text I just submitted, I de-anonymize myself and the process isn't double blind any longer. I personally don't have a problem with the process being "single blind" rather than "double blind". It's  sometimes not very hard to figure out who (or at least which research group) has written a particular article. But my big problem...

. Me and my colleagues Björn Hedin and Olle Bälter submitted an abstract to the 9th [Swedish] Pedagogical Inspiration Conference a week ago. I recently attended the 8th International Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development ( EESD 2016 ) and I think of these two conference in similar terms; not the place to submit a paper in order to get a bona fide heavy-hitting academic reference, but, a great place to go to meet and talk to people who have the same concerns that you do and to get inspiration for your everyday life as a university teacher (or director of studies etc.). I do however have to admit that I have never attended any of these smaller Swedish conferences but my colleague Björn has attended several. He and I did in fact submit a paper , " I'm gonna study now! I just have to color-code my books first " (about students' procrastination/studying habits) to the 4th developmental conference for Swedish  engineering  educations three years a...

. We will hire a new assistant professor in Human-Computer Interaction with a specialisation in Sustainability at my department. It's getting close to the bone now. The work of figuring out and formulating what professional experiences, skills and abilities that person should have started the better part of a year ago and it was primarily me and  Cecilia Katzeff  who did that work. The job ad could be found on the KTH homepage, in Swedish newspapers and it also made the rounds in social media during the spring ( and is still available on the web ). The last date to apply was at the end of April and around a dozen persons applied. We have now come to the point where only four persons remain on the shortlist. The appointments board will meet with and interview the applicants today! The four persons that have been called by the appointments board are: - Elina Eriksson (KTH/CSC/MID - my department) - Björn Hedin (KTH/CSC/MID - my department) - Somya Joshi (Stockholm University,...

. Directly after the ICT4S conference ended on Thursday (Sept 1), I took the train from Amsterdam to neighbouring Belgium and the fairy tale city of Bruges. I settled in but then went to visit Sofie Lambert and Mario Pickavet at Ghent University the day after. Sofie and Mario had attended the workshop Elina and I organised in Amsterdam at the beginning of the week and they have also written the (2015) paper " Post-peak ICT: Graceful degradation for communication networks in an energy constrained future " together with other members of their research group. Sofie is a Ph.D. student and Mario is the head of the " Green ICT Research Cluster " of the larger group "Internet Based Communication Networks and Services ( IBCN )" at the Department of Information Technology at Ghent University. I gave a talk at their department (an updated version of the Peak Computing talk I gave at UCI in 2014) and spent an afternoon of discussions with members of their resear...

. My two previous blog posts were about the two workshops I attended before and after the recently held 4th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability ( ICT4S 2016 ) in Amsterdam last week. This blog post is about the conference itself. I want to start by pointing out a meeting I had at the workshop Elina and me organised the day before the conference. I was really very inspired by meeting Norberto Patrignani . I had become aware of his (and Diane Whitehouse's) paper about " Slow Tech " earlier this year and became all the more interested in that concept (and their paper) after talking to Patrignani personally. Patrignani and Whitehouse are apparently working on a book about slow tech right now and I look forward to it (perhaps next year?). With inspiration from the Slow food movement , Slow Tech is here defined as good , clean and fair technology (and there are no less than 22 wikipedia pages in the "Slow movement" category including Slow reading ...