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being junior

I’m only just starting to wet my toes in the complicated seas of university politics, but shudder at Lisbeth exhausted post and Torill’s only slightly cheering followup about struggling as a new academic trying to make a difference. Torill mentions the added […]

media teacher talk

I’m giving another talk on blogging on Sunday, to Norwegian Media Teachers, who are running a seminar in connection with a conference for media professionals in Oslo next week. So today’s main task is to prepare my talk.

welcoming technology

I left iChat open but set my status to away when I went out for lunch, and when I got back and touched my computer again it told me “Welcome back! Would you like to set your status to Available?” I like […]

climb

My daughter can tear off her shoes and socks, spit on her hands and climb right to the top of a lamp post. Once at the top, she slides joyously down again. Imagine being half the size of a grownup yet seeing […]

i can’t…

I blogged this two years ago but obviously need a refresher: everyone thinks they’re a fraud. At least some of the time. I didn’t actually realise that until I read a book my sister lent me – I used to think it […]

slides

Miligo just posted a long and thoughtful comment to my post on Powerpoint. I like how old discussions can reappear on the front page again when someone happens to comment on an old post. I like my prominent display of new comments. […]

william’s blogging

William Cole’s started blogging! I know William from Hypertext conferences, and it’s good to see he’s joined the blogosphere.

oops

Yes, I’m blogging like crazy because I’ve cleared the whole day so I can concentrate on working on two pieces I’m writing and so I was just going to have a few minutes of surfing first… I’ll start concentrating on the essays […]

newsgaming

Gonzalo Frasca and friends have released Newsgaming, a site where political cartoons and games meet. The first game up is called September 12th, and is a simulation where killing terrorists spawns new terrorists. I like how after you fired a rocket you’re […]

hijack

You’ve noticed, perhaps, that Verisign have hijacked the net to show their website every time you mistype a .com or .net address so that your browser can’t find the server you’ve asked for? There’s some interesting, though complicated, discussion of this, monopoly […]