Diane‘s analysis of diet blogs (Feb 25) says a lot about blogs and narrative in general. Perhaps blogs require a narrative of change: “Once you’re no longer fitting into the category of “on a diet,” which has a built-in narrative structure, it […]

Hanna cites some descriptions of the commonplace books many readers used to keep, and some still keep. One of the descriptions proposes a completely different way of reading — a way of reading similar to today’s netsurfer-writer: Unlike modern readers, who follow […]

I’ve no time to read this now but it looks interesting: The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities. It’s a historical article, but not written in the conventional sequential way. It presents a summary, data, statements and ways […]

Some people are really into this Orkut thing. They create zillions of communities, stage fights, complain about the administration (in-Orkut discussion here) and blog their deletion from the system. They even propose an Orkut game, which could, in fact, be kind of […]

There are makeover blogs, too, of course. Not merely The Date Project, but Tales of a Bathroom Scale or Searching for Mister Close to Right or Manhunting, possibly not recently updated because a man was found?

I just found a student lab full of eMacs in the basement of our building. I have no idea how its existence has managed to escape my attention. Such a lovely sight in a world of PCs running Windows everywhere.

The University of Bergen now has a site subscription to Rhizome! That means that anyone (any one person at a time) on the University’s network can browse Rhizome’s art base and other information without paying an individual membership. Rhizome has a great […]

Uh oh. It seems the Pentagon, no less, is warning that by 2020 Britain will be Siberian and abrupt climate changes will have brought the world to anarchy after or amid the upcoming climate wars.

Walking alongside the sunset is far more satisfying than disappearing into it.