Month: October 2003

another one done!

Jesper handed in his dissertation two days ago! Congratulations!

two origins

I’ve been watching a video documentation of Two Origins by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: it’s a projection of two texts against the city hall at the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, in 2002, and each text is projected from a different angle, so they’re […]

flames

It’s cold and dark and they say that soon it will snow. I lit pages of French newsprint to start a fire and fed the flames with logs and letters stored long ago, destined then to burn today.

reaching for–

She finds the sky boring, all stark empty blues and whites and greys. She needs colour, multitude, intensity, glow, she says: she’ll do anything to be in that fire. She doesn’t want to see beyond it. Sometimes the sky glows red too, […]

blogs charted

Here’s a spatially organised chart of ways blogs can be used in teaching. (via Jon)

bushblog

George Bush has got his own official blog. He doesn’t post himself, of course, someone called “GeorgeWBush.com” does the posting. (via Jon, who also links to other US presidential candidates with blogs)

web design

Anders has made an intro to web design for the media department in Oslo that’s excellent: no coding (plenty of that elsewhere) but instead a discussion of rhetoric, goals, organisation, architecture, colours, links and so on. There are lots of images, links […]

interoperability unlikely

Did you know that AOL’s network for Instant Messaging (AIM), which iChat talks with, has been deemed a monopoly? Next time AOL upgrads AIM they’ll have to make it interoperable with other networks. So they’re not going to upgrade it. This appears […]

blogging from AIR

The Association of Internet Researchers conference is on, in Toronto. Liz just gave her talk on blogs this morning, Thomas Burg liked it, and Liz (in iChat while listening to presentations) sends me the URL to a site that collects blog posts […]

visitors

Oil refineries don’t let visitors get their fingers caught in the machinery. They load visitors into a bus and make a show of gathering up all the visitors’ lighters and matches to be kept safely at the front of the bus, out […]