Trying to teach teenagers about “abstinence” instead of safe sex is mindboggling. It’s worse when they’re taught falsehoods. And it’s not working, as this Unicef report on teen births in the world’s rich nations show. The USA has four times as many […]

I’m going to New York this morning to visit Hanne-Lovise! We’re going to see the Digital Play exhibition at the American Museum of the Moving Image. Sure it’s a 2 1/2 hour bus ride and then a subway ride away, but it’ll […]

Says BBC News: Merriam-Webster said “blog” headed the list of most looked-up terms on its site during the last twelve months.

Updated my list of email narratives. It needs rewriting, but at least all the titles and URLs and so on are there. If you know of others, please tell me!

Daughters of Freya, the email mystery novel I mentioned a few weeks back, has got a few reviews now, in Crime Scene Scotland, which also has an explanation of how the idea for the story developed from one of the authors. There’s […]

Teaching’s done for the semester and I’m returning to research mode. I’m starting by revisiting the presentation I gave in Oslo a week and a half ago. I was despondent the day before the talk, because I hadn’t done anything like as […]

Oh, look! Videoconferencing through iChat while on a trans-Atlantic flight! I so totally want to do that…. I wonder how much Lufthansa charge for in-flight wireless? Oh, look, US$29.95 for the whole flight – that’s not bad, considering that, well, wow, you’re […]

Towards a Literacy of Cooperation looks like a great course. It’s running at Stanford next semester, and for those of us who can’t get to California every Wednesday, an online component is promised via a wiki and a blog which will allow […]

The latest ACM Communications has a pile of articles on blogging. So nice that there’s enough out there now that one can choose to only read the articles on one’s own particular blogging focus. More literary blogging papers, anyone?

On the Association of Internet Researchers‘ mailing list, Wainer Lusoli wrote that several papers on political blogs were presented at the American Political Science Association Conference 2004 – search for “blog” from that site and you’ll see the titles and abstracts, and […]