Here comes the time of the year when Calls for Participation at conferences, workshops and seminars circulate around and you don’t know where to submit or where to go while the deadlines are approaching. It’s especially hectic if you’re conducting research on your own, and invited to be a Program Committee or/and a reviewer at some event or publication (Internet scholars know what I’m talking about).

With the tradition of the last year’s workshop Making Sense of Microposts or #MSM11, this year the big World Wide Web 2012 or WWW12 conference, is happening in April in Lyon, France. The official keynote speakers are announced,  and we can expect an interesting forum for researchers and practitioners in Web technologies to discuss and exchange positions on current and emergent Web topics.

This year, I’m again in the Programme Committee at one of the workshops: #MSM12 or Making Sense of Microposts, so I encourage you to submit your papers, findings, and demos – I’m looking forward to see you this spring in France.

Below is the rationale for (more…)