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blog portal

Yes, Jarle, I agree absolutely, Humanistic Informatics should have a portal to our blogs, like they do at Harvard. We’ve talked about it. Soon we might start working on it too!

new bloggers

The New Media Theory students are using the course weblog actively, and even cooler: Wu has started her own blogspot blog, Thinking while walking and some others have set up a joint blog, La Escuelita. The New Media Theory course has a […]

boil water without a lid

According to Karlin Lillington, writing for the Irish Times, William Gibson will stop blogging when he starts writing his next novel. It sounds as though he needs privacy in order to write: He’s about ready to start thinking of his next novel […]

growing up

Lisbeth’s post about being a grown up academic makes me even more eager to complete that PhD.

ruby

I slip my grandmother’s ring onto the middle finger of my right hand. It’s looser than I remember it. My cheeks have lost their fullness, too. I look in the mirror and think that this is what I look like as a […]

miromurr

Thomas Brevik is Bergen’s most interesting librarian, and one of the people who convinced me that a librarian who’s enthusiastic about technology is a person you definitely want to know. He’s been blogging for ages, but has now got his own domain, […]

serial, social, process

Eirik Newth’s latest column over at Kulturnett uses jill/txt as an example to explain the social aspects of blogging – comments, trackbacks and so on. He writes: [B]logger som jill/txt fungerer mer som knutepunkter i et nettverk av medskapende lesere enn som […]

enthusiasm

Denmark’s ex-Prime Minister has really gotten into weblogging! I was going to just quote some of his latest post, which is of course written in Danish, but I think for the benefit of mankind I’ll translate it into English instead: I’ve been […]

omvendt

Se, han danser med en annen, skrev Tove Ditlevsen. Og allikevel gÂr jeg ikke. For lidelsen er en lenke som bringer den magiske vellyst lykken aldri kan skjenke. SÂnn er det, ogsÂ. Elske sitt glad og elske sitt lei seg. Ekel¯f: Du […]

evaluating online sources

Here’s an annotated bibliography on internet addiction with half real entries and half fakes. It was prepared by Trudi Jacobsen and Laura Cohen to teach students how to evaluate the reliability of online sources and comes with a description of how they […]