I’d never heard of The Encyclopedia of New Media, edited by Steve Jones and published by Sage Publications in 2002, but hey, it has definitions of both avatar (by Lori Kendall) and blog (by Mark Andrejevic) and I pretty much approve of […]

I don’t know, I really can’t see that much difference between the “before” and “after” photos at awfulplasticsurgery, another single-topic blog. Don’t most people look radically different from photo from photo anyway?

Half a year back I thought about Edison’s proliferative notebooks in relation to blogging: Did you know Thomas Edison’s notebooks ran to three and a half million pages? He wrote down ideas, plans, possibilities, drew sketches, visualised his thoughts and wrote about […]

I push aside my books and pull my new scarf across my arm, feeling the thin but slightly rough cloth drawing strings of bead in its wake. Lisbeth is coming from Copenhagen, and Jesper, and Espen, my beloved supervisor, and Torill‘s coming […]

Ooh. The official press release they made me write is on the university website now. That’s the photo the university photographer took, right there. I look slightly insane. And here’s the internal announcement. Adgang for interesserte, admission open to those who are […]

See, this is why it’s important to carefully plan one’s blogging oeuvre: Hoping to positively influence the evaluation of his artistic creation, an autobiographer can manage, manipulate, or even correct his own public image through autobiographical writing. How many previously unknown but […]

When there was trouble in the world, Vishnu would allow a portion of himself to be incarnated as a mortal: a fish, a boar, a dwarf, a semi-human semi-man, heroes like Rama, wise men like Krishna and Buddha. These were his avatars. […]

Musikkonline.no sells digital copies of music (9,50 NOK a song) where copyright is held by Norwegian companies. Ridiculously they’re not selling them as mp3s, but insist that you use Windows 98 or newer, Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player. Still, if you’re […]

I got a new webcam today, and immediately discovered the coolness of streaming icons in iChat. Now in iChat, your icon gets attached to each thing you say, like in a cartoon conversation. You can change your icon as often as you […]

So it’s true: I took a job writing spam headers, Oblivio writes. I’m not convinced that anything he writes is “true”, exactly, but I love his stories. Just the idea of that for a job!