My students are submitting their redesigned blogs for assessment this Friday. Here’s the PDF of their assignment, with grade descriptions. Were I assessing my own blog design, I’d give it a C: “Mostly works, but the code could have been planned and […]

I don’t know how to teach colours. I mean, I know: complementary colours, contrasts, colour circles, additative, subtractive, but it just seems either so obvious or so abstract to me. Thank goodness I found a wonderful tutorial for colours which is perfect […]

Justin Hall has blogged since before they called it blogging, since 1994. Rob Wittig’s review of Justin’s Links.net is a wonderful introduction to Justin’s site and to the stretched out over years experience of reading blogs as well. According to Justin’s entry […]

Grumpygirl mentioned an article on weblogs as a literary genre in Mexico, which I’ll read after going to Pilates. (I signed up for the Pilates workshop for no other reason than that the heroine of William Gibson’s latest novel does Pilates all […]

After finding humanclock.com an hour or two ago it’s been on my desktop in a tiny window, updating itself every minute. I love it.

I generally prefer the playing around phase of maybe redesigning one’s site to the nuts and bolts I-can’t-get-the-CSS-to-work-in-Netscape part of it all. I’d like more colours and pictures. I wonder if I could get away with something like this and still get […]

A useful run-down of surveys of bloggers and blogreaders, giving fast access to some numbers.

I had fun talking about electronic literature today. I even slipped in a few laps in the pool after my talk. It‘s a beautiful place. Here’s a brief summary of the talk, which I intended to be an intro to electronic literature […]

The BBC interviewer had read my blog post and remarked, a smile in her voice, that it was a little daunting to think that I’d blog my disappointment if I found her questions inane. Was part of the appeal of blogging the […]

Something is broken. Posts don’t appear, then they multiply, then they won’t delete. I don’t have time to fix it: I’m going to a spa outside of Oslo in a few hours. No, not for massages and mud baths. I’m going to […]