Roommatefromhell.com is a blog fiction / book that’s simultaneously being published as a book version of a blog and blogged in fake real time. Got that? It’s written by Jim Munroe, of No Media Kings, which is his non-fictional, standard issue blog. […]

I love talking to people who are genuinely interested in blogs and the web. Just before I left for France, Silje Vestvik from the local paper asked if I had time for a chat – it’s hard to fill the culture pages […]

I’m moving to Paris. Not toute suite, of course, but one day, oh yes, one day I’ll live in Paris for three months, or six months, or a year, perhaps. For now I’m practicing wearing my hair carelessly elegantly pinned up, a […]

Home. Sunny!

I’m going to France, and I think I might do some moblogging here. Probably just photos will get posted, since the text part of the phone to Flickr to blog is hiccupping, and then if I’m online (as in if I can […]

Imagine spinning a story to reinvent your life. It seems that’s what Chicago girl Norma Khouri did. When sick of her marriage and her mother, she wrote a book detailing her life escaping from patriarchal Jordan, and not only made a pretty […]

Ugh! I want to moblog from Provence (I’m going tomorrow! Yay!) and none of the options are quite working. Email to Flickr which posts to this (WordPress-powered) blog: This kind of works, but no title gets sent, well, no words at all, […]

This cheap motivational trick for writers sounds just like the sort of thing that’d work for me. Would work well for PhD writers too. Which reminds me, it’s about time I put my PhD thesis online. But, see, something’s weird with the […]

Got the student evaluations for last year’s class. I just skimmed them (too much else to do right now, I’ll look at it later) but I noticed a lovely question about how much work the students put into this course. Now the […]

MovableType’s educational licence price of US$39 for a single teacher and a single class of students – with unlimited users weblogs for current students in the class – is entirely affordable. That’s exactly the use I intend. Good for them.