The Into The Blogosphere collection of essays on blogging is out, and many of the essays look really interesting. There are several on narrative, fictional and other literary aspects of blogs, among other things.

A selection of rather wonderful student projects, with lots of creativity and skill and obvious enjoyment: Sykkelturen 2004: Documenting and promoting three lads cycling from the North Cape to Sicily. Turan.dot: A presentation of the opera. Project Mayhem: A fiction piece (thank […]

‘nother article about blog fiction. Via Lisbeth. No blogging till tasks completed. Link only. Be good. Work hard.

finalise curriculum for autumn’s course on networked culture send compendium for autumn’s course to Studia for copying finish grading discuss grades with external examiner fill out grade forms pack edit paragraphs for funding app. mow lawn do dishes empty rubbish bin and […]

“I’m so glad to have you around,” she says, just as I start to tell her I’m leaving again. “You spend more time away than at home,” she says accusingly, but still brings in my mail, lovingly sorting it into neat piles […]

filtering

Reading that Google recommends a single webpage has a “reasonable number of links (fewer than 100)”, Gina made a bookmarklet that’ll tell you how many links a page you’re reading has. This page, before I post this post, has far too many […]

The FBI has subpoenaed several artists and art professors after Steve Kurtz was detained and had his (biological) art supplies confiscated. The FBI is using the US Patriot act’s paragraphs against bioterrorism. The mailing lists are abuzz (rhizome, fibreculture, nettime etc) – […]

Here are the links for my talk today in Trondheim, with a very brief summary. In the days of mass media (newspapers, radio, television) you could get away with sending a message to your audience and stopping there. With the internet you […]