The BBC interviewer had read my blog post and remarked, a smile in her voice, that it was a little daunting to think that I’d blog my disappointment if I found her questions inane. Was part of the appeal of blogging the […]

Something is broken. Posts don’t appear, then they multiply, then they won’t delete. I don’t have time to fix it: I’m going to a spa outside of Oslo in a few hours. No, not for massages and mud baths. I’m going to […]

The New York Times has an article on email narratives (or here if you have no subscription), mostly discussing Intimacies, a project by Eric Brown where you download a self-contained package that simulates emails, IMs and so on, all giving you “A […]

“This is the kind of interlinked, triangulated storytelling that makes blognarrative so compelling.”

The BBC World Service rang! They want to interview me about blogs! Blogs and fiction. Tomorrow, by phone, of course. The BBC World Service was the background sound of my childhood. We had four different frequencies preset on the radio and knew […]

Danah has some good points about the problems with Google’s new mail service. It’s not that their bots filter your mail – so do the virus and spam-scanners your ISP probably uses. It’s that they make it visible to you and that […]

There’s a conference on new media as cultural techniques and as fora for communicative action here in Bergen on May 27-28. Participation is free and the program includes Jay Bolter on augmented reality, K. Ludwig Pfeiffer on the materiality of communication Knut […]

Can you read the story in these photos? No, not the one in the words. In the photos. Well, the words too. And look, the third installment’s out. And the story in the photos is in the news on the front page.

My students have written lots and lots of blog reviews – more than fifty, actually – and Bjarte’s review caused considerable joy and amusement as the reviewee and his readers ran the review through auto-translators to figure out what it was about.