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gameblogs

Now that looks useful: Gameblogs displays the latest posts from a variety of blogs that write about games. Does that kind of site exist for other topics? (via GTxA)

filesharing

Another study shows that filesharing makes no difference to record sales. Joi Ito also points to the original paper (PDF).

grass, silhouetted

I climbed Ulriken yesterday. Well, only halfway, because it was late and the gnats were driving me mad, but on the way down, as the sun was setting, I noticed that if I focussed on the grass instead of the sunset the […]

domain set up: check

OK, so I’ve got a working website set up for ELINOR at elinor.nu (elinor.com, .net, .org are all taken up by linkfarms or “investors” wanting $8000 for the domain), and there’s some extremely basic content too. More will come after the summer.

ridicule and fahrenheit 911

I was thinking more about Fahrenheit 911 this morning, having heard it’s not going to be shown here until September, and having been reading about it lately. When I saw the movie I cried and raged at all the bits I was […]

already about to be said

I once met a guy, at a party I think, who told me he believed that if a discussion continues for long enough, and has enough participants, every possible point of view will be expressed. He used this conviction as the basis […]

Distributed Narrative: Telling Stories Across Networks

This year I submitted an abstract to AoIR for the first time, and my proposal was accepted, I’ll be presenting in Sussex in September. My topic is distributed narrative, or viral narrative, or contagious narrative; I’m not quite sure what to call […]

french connections

I’m going to France next weekend, for a fortnight’s immersion in that most beautiful language. I searched my blog for last summer’s French posts, and found a post on on keeping secrets in public, oh, and a story told to me by […]

what really happened at Incubation

Scott posted an excellent trip report from Incubation to Grandtextauto – far more informative than my most fragmented bits and pieces and a good read, as well.

recommendations

Sometimes Amazon.com’s recommendations are pretty surreal…