I like the way the photograph is gradually obliterated by words describing the same event. What chance then for reality? (via GTxA)

Friday night was the second night of the digital art and electronic literature speaker series at Stockton. There was a good turnout, despite the rain, and it’s great getting to hang out with a large procentage of Grandtextauto again. I really enjoyed […]

Oops. My blog looks weird, huh? See, I deleted my stylesheet and have no backup. That was pretty dumb. It was the upgrading WordPress thing. I remembered to backup my index.php but not the stylesheet. Oh well. I’m going to go have […]

Startling against the drab grey, they drew my eyes harshly, tempingly, until I looked up and realised I could see the casinos across grey water, blurred grey against a sky still heavy with rain. Yellow Originally uploaded by Jill.

Today Google released a new search tool that will search your personal files: emails, documents, chat transcripts and so on. The next version of windows, codenamed Longhorn and planned for 2006, was going to be based on a powerful new search-centric file […]

I wonder whether Elite Designers Against IKEA was sponsored by IKEA?

Ooh! Back in early February this year I frantically wrote the abstract for my AoIR paper. I wanted to call the phenomenon I was writing about distributed narrative, so I googled the term and found that nobody had used it. I mean […]

It does feel frustrating to know that the outcome of the US election will affect the world yet we (obviously) don’t get to vote. The Guardian seeks to remedy this by offering ways non-Americans can affect the election. Non-Americans aren’t allowed to […]

I don’t understand. Americans have to register to vote before they are allowed to vote. OK, that I get, after all, organising 275 million citizens is no doubt harder than keeping track of the 4 or 5 million Norwegians. The deadline’s today […]

This sounds like a book I’ll enjoy reading: The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs, by Viviane Serfaty, who teaches American studies at the University of Strasbourg. Hunting around I find that in 2002 she gave […]