A new day begins with a new post!! The day usually begins in the same usual manner: I get up, brush take bath and head to the office where a number (usually greater than 45) articles are waiting for me to go through in Google reader. Looking at the number of articles to read puts me in a bad mood but as i start reading the titles of the articles and see that of the junk of articles one or two are relevant to my field and then i am happy as i have few articles to read. It also boosts my moral as it shows that the field is not that popular that zillions of papers are published in a day and I can still survive in this field :).
One thing I realized from reading these articles: the title of the article is the most important thing. If the title is not catchy or doesn't contain some keywords I don't even bother to read the abstract of the article. A very sad incident related to this happened to a friend of mine recently. My friend et al strived really hard in writing a paper and sent it to PRL for reviewing and publishing. A day after they sent the paper, my friend got a mail from the PRL editor saying that the title of the paper has been changed! He was feeling as though "neeche se zameen phisal gayi ho".. the after effects of the shock was seen even after two days of this event. The changed title was the worst ever possible. It seemed like the editor felt that the work done by these people was crap! My friend et al went through the rules and regulations of PRL submission to check if this sort of thing could be possible and revolted against the editor. Well the fight is still in progress and hopefully it will be a win for the right!
Recently we had applied to a contest conducted by NVIDIA. There was a one hour long discussion as to what could be a suitable title for the proposal sent by us. We didnt want to make the title too technical so that the common masses wouldnt understand and at the same time we didnt want to be too non technical such that it would sound cheesy to the tecno guys. But alls well that ends well and we came up with a very nice title the details of which I shall post after getting to know the results of the contest. Well we hope to win or atleast come in the top three. With that hope I end my post. ADIOS!
One thing I realized from reading these articles: the title of the article is the most important thing. If the title is not catchy or doesn't contain some keywords I don't even bother to read the abstract of the article. A very sad incident related to this happened to a friend of mine recently. My friend et al strived really hard in writing a paper and sent it to PRL for reviewing and publishing. A day after they sent the paper, my friend got a mail from the PRL editor saying that the title of the paper has been changed! He was feeling as though "neeche se zameen phisal gayi ho".. the after effects of the shock was seen even after two days of this event. The changed title was the worst ever possible. It seemed like the editor felt that the work done by these people was crap! My friend et al went through the rules and regulations of PRL submission to check if this sort of thing could be possible and revolted against the editor. Well the fight is still in progress and hopefully it will be a win for the right!
Recently we had applied to a contest conducted by NVIDIA. There was a one hour long discussion as to what could be a suitable title for the proposal sent by us. We didnt want to make the title too technical so that the common masses wouldnt understand and at the same time we didnt want to be too non technical such that it would sound cheesy to the tecno guys. But alls well that ends well and we came up with a very nice title the details of which I shall post after getting to know the results of the contest. Well we hope to win or atleast come in the top three. With that hope I end my post. ADIOS!
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