Right. I’ve finished teaching for the semester, though I still have email supervision of essay-writing MA students for another week. Tomorrow and Friday I’m fixing all the last typos in my PhD thesis, and shifting round the conclusion a bit. And then, […]

Wired writes about a fictional weblog called Flight Risk: it tells the story of a runaway heiress. In the first post and in a box on the front page, the narrator encapsules her story: On March 2, 2003 at 4:12 pm, I […]

“I want to look at X, what theory shall I use?” is a question I’ve not been faced with before. I’ve only been teaching since New Year, you know. Web design and web aesthetics is wrapped up, and what with all the […]

So I was in Dagbladet today. Suffice it to say that the woman who sold me my copy did not recognise me from the microscopic photo just before the sports pages. The main headline was “De utleverer seg p nettet” (They deliver […]

There’s a championship in computer-throwing behind Johanneskirken on Friday at one. How therapeutic!

In today’s Digital Culture class we chatted with Eliza, the famous computer psychologist, and it seems one of the students has whipped up a blog-reading version of this famous bot, because she commented on my last post, from a UiB arts faculty […]

She’d never start blogging, she told me a few months ago. Now she has: Geniwate or Jenny Weight blogs with deep scepticism of honesty: As if I’m going to treat my blog as a dear , when you, of all people, can […]

Rune R¯sten’s written rather a nice little comparison of journalistic treatment of Bill Gate’s speech vs. blogged reports of it (May 5, no permalink, in Norwegian). The journalists he cites didn’t check the original speech but reproduced misinterpretations of it from other […]

Perhaps interesting in relation to blogging and discussions between blogs: Don Byrd and Derek Owens. “Writing in the Hivemind” in Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet, New York: Columbia UP, p 47-58. Or perhaps not, no time to skim it. […]

Oh wow. I just received a copy of the New Media Reader, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, and wow. I mean, I had seen the table of contents and thought, basically, wow, but I think it’s just seeing it now […]