Month: February 2004

the climate wars

Uh oh. It seems the Pentagon, no less, is warning that by 2020 Britain will be Siberian and abrupt climate changes will have brought the world to anarchy after or amid the upcoming climate wars.

sunset

Walking alongside the sunset is far more satisfying than disappearing into it.

does blogging count as scholarship?

Reading Scribblingwoman’s links to discussions on how blogging might be given credit as scholarship, I’m thinking that that paragraph in my job application letters about blogging might change a bit. Perhaps stats of readership and inwards links and some names of people […]

orkut stats

Orkut’s put up stats, showing the connectors (people most other people are most closely connected to), the celebrities and the stars. As Danah points out this probably won’t help build community, but it’s interesting seeing who’s listed. Clark, one of the US […]

murder story

The Case of the Molndal Murder is a Swedish location-based narrative where your movements around a museum call up videos on your PDA, using Bluetooth to determine your location in space. There’s a simulation you can view on screen.

dive

See the net differently using artistic browsers, mail software that adds phrases to the emails you write, install a program that visualises the data on your harddrives or spread disinformation about (not) yourself across the network: all this and more at Dive. […]

using the blog genre

I might show my students Bobquits.com today. It’s a mixture between a weblog and a reality show, reminiscent of Online Caroline and it’s a quit smoking campaign we saw advertised in NY. Unfortunately, it seems yesterday might have been the last update. […]

iris scan

At Schiphol, you can pay to be allowed to undergo iris scanning instead of showing your passpor. The photos at this exclusive program’s website are wonderful, with the image of a woman hunched over the iris scanner as one of the main […]

public intellectuals

“If You Build It They Will Come” is a paper by Tim Dunlop about how bloggers can be a new kind of public intellectuals who engage in dialogue with the public rather than talking to them. Tim Dunlop’s PhD (finished a couple […]