Month: May 2004

“blogologists”

There’s a round table email discussion (well, actually the round table bit means each participant answered the same questions, there wasn’t any discussion) story on scholars who study blogs at the Annenberg Online Journalism Review. I’m in it, which is groovy, with […]

job in trondheim

Jon notes a job opening in Trondheim: an associate professorship in new media theory and production. I like seeing the new media field growing!

leaves above

Lying in the grass reading as a soft breeze caresses your skin is worth the occasional bug bite.

scandinavian blogging terminology

Lisbeth provides a good list of definitions of blogging terms in Danish. I’d grab them all for Norwegian, except in Norwegian blogg is more correct than blog, and that the plural should be blogger rather than blogs. Like its Danish sister-organisation, Norsk […]

fiction?

Justin Hall’s been accused of over-fictionalising his life, but refuses to comment.

what is an author?

I’m sifting through essays for the compendium for this autumn’s course on contagious media and networked culture, and rereading with joy in the process. I’d almost forgotten Foucault’s “What is an Author?”, though my copy (from Lodge’s Modern Criticism and Theory) is […]

regular

Oh look! Normal-sized women modelling bikinis! The readers loved it, but the modelling bureaus scoff at the thought of this kind of outrage becoming common.

timestamps

At ISEA this August I’m in a panel on “Uncovering Histories of Electronic Writing” with Noah, Michael and Nick from Grandtextauto, only Nick can’t come so Scott‘ll deliver his part of it. Noah’s going to look at Ted Nelson’s work on hypertext […]

not misleading

This is funny, in a throw your hands up in despair sort of a way. TRISTAN RODDIS, pissed off at that Federation Against Copyright Theft cinema advert where you stare at a branding iron while a voice tells you that “Piracy funds […]