Month: February 2007

(almost) everything I teach in a 3 minute video

This video is amazing – it’s the stuff I teach! From the materiality of writing (handwriting and digital) through hypertext, HTML, XML, the point of it all – I wish I had made this video. And I was so pleased to see […]

missing the super bowl

I’m kind of sad – for the first time ever I’m invited to a Superbowl Party (starting at midnight due to the time difference) but I can’t go – I’ll be asleep on a train to Oslo, on my way to tell […]

technorati’s latest: wtf

I like Technorati‘s new WTF system. WTF stands for (ahem) Where’s the Fire? So next time you see that Paris Hilton is in the top ten searches again you can click that, and not only see a gazillion blog posts about it […]

say no to dead tree phonebooks

How long has it been since you actually used a paper phonebook? I’ve been throwing them out as they arrive for years – well, since I got broadband internet I suppose, actually. Now, for us Norwegians, finally, there’s a website where you […]

does electronic text still INSERT itself?

I should probably know this, but I don’t – perhaps you can help me? Do the LCD screens we use today still refresh 30 times a second or whatever the way projectors and old screens used to? See, Michael Joyce writes: The […]

love the skin you’re in (hacking world of warcraft)

I like the taglines for this book: “Love the skin you’re in” and “don’t get pwned”. What taglines should we choose for the anthology of critical essays on World of Warcraft Hilde and I are editing? The final essays are due in […]