From the Doors of Perception newsletter (monthly, concise, good links whether you attend the conferences or not) I found Network Logic: Who Governs in an Interconnected World, which is a new anthology of essays about network campaigning, smart mobs (Rheingold’s here in […]

Now that’s interesting, Rob’s using google poems as narrative elements in his blog fiction. There are three characters who share this blog, Allen, Wordsman and Rob. Wordsman’s girlfriend or wife Beverley has been missing, and now Wordsman’s posting cryptical google poems. The […]

HÂkon Styri on why a lot of people eagerly start blogging and hastily quit. In Norwegian.

There’s an interesting-looking location-based narrative currrently running in Stockholm: The Case at Kulturhuset (deep links impossible, click “exhibitions” to find info), by Knife and Fork Productions, who also made the Molndal Murder. I’d love to get something like that happening in Bergen! […]

Decluttering my inbox I found an email from Trond suggesting I might be interested in NetBehaviour: Netbehaviour is an open email list community for sharing ideas, posting events, opportunities, facilitating collaborations in the area of artists, academics, soft groups, writers, code geeks, […]

The large green words were projected next to a screen of rapidly changing lines, accompagnied by computer beeps, and the words appeared to be the human-readable translation of the code the screen and speakers were displaying. The text was about encryption, but […]

If only…. (With thanks to Cecilie for finding it)

Of course I remembered that today is f??rste mai, the first of May: labour day. I admired the flags as I walked into town, strident iambic verses drumming through my head in the place of the marching bands of labour days long […]

So I found myself laughing at this ebay listing I came across the other day. This guy was selling his ex-wife’s wedding dress, and had not only vividly recounted his tale of humourous divorced hardship, he’d taken photos of himself in the […]