Damnit. Saw Matrix Reloaded tonight and I realised that in the brief, semi-obligatory reference to The Matrix in my thesis I wrote Mr Andersen when I meant Smith. Mr Andersen is what the evil sentient software agents call Neo. Agent Smith is […]

The sound of my keystrokes is accompagnied by the voices of women laughing as they walk home, the distant closing of office doors and a soft drizzle of rain against the constant hum of cars and city. I think summer’s arrived with […]

Wow. Look at all the different ways the exact same HTML can be displayed using different CSS stylesheets: The CSS Zen Garden. (via Jon)

Lilia Efimova‘s right: a lot of research bloggers don’t really use their blogs to document their research. We write around our “real” research”, yes, and blogging has definitely informed my research, and my research focus has changed through blogging, but I bet […]

I haven’t been reading Francis Strand’s weblog How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons recently, and coming across it again I’m amazed, again, at the skill and calm with which it is written. It’s a wonderful example of a narrative weblog. […]

There’s a brief interview with Noah in the Guardian, where he talks about the New Media Reader. Noah remarks that “People think of new media as something without a history”, and says that a motivation for compiling the New Media Reader came […]

Jesper reports from the Digital Genres conference. As no doubt do many others but it’s time to go fetch my daughter from school

I just discovered that Loobylu has a cooking section, Celebrity Chef with recipes with stories and lots of those gorgeous illustrations her blog is speckled with. I want to bake the Princess Meg Birthday Celebration Cookies.

Eirik’s started displaying comments and trackbacks prominently, which is lovely! Monologic blogs (with no comments) are less interesting than the dialogic ones, he finds, and though I used to be a comment-skeptic, these days I agree with him. Eirik also shows the […]