Norwegian-speakers who are interested in the question of how blogging relates to journalism (such as those of my students who have chosen the “Are blogs journalism?” assignment) would do well to look at Olav Anders ÿvreb¯s report on this matter: ÿvreb¯, Olav […]

Reading Charlotte H‰gstrˆm’s chapter for our World of Warcraft anthology, I found this quote: A person’s identity is not to be found in behavious. Nor – important though this is – in the reactions of othersm but in the capacity to keep […]

Today my students are bringing three copies of their first drafts to class for a first round of peer feedback and feedback from me. I just received an email from one student who wrote that his/her printer was out of paper and […]

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. But it does look a little bizarre: John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton – they all have Facebook profiles. Now Hillary and Barack barely really have anything on their profiles except for who supports them – […]

The topic for today’s class is blogs and journalism. We already talked a bit about the development of newspapers when we were talking about Habermas and the public sphere. Today we’ll be more specific. Some of the matters we’ll touch: We’ll start […]

Found at Tawnygrammer.org, in a discussion of the sudden disappearance of the trAce archives: In the future, perhaps, when redirects fail and old links have all broken, will we be able to make discoveries in abandoned regions of the web akin to […]

Usually I only think of backups when it’s too late. But today, when I discovered that my Endnote bibliography was corrupted and wouldn’t open, I only fretted for five minutes before remembering that after that wicked water incident I started using Backup […]

(Looking for the unoffical blogosphere version of the speaker list for MiT5? Here you go!) I’m off (in a matter of, well, months) to the States for not one but two conferences at the end of April. First up is MiT5 (Media […]

The Tags Networks Narrative is, according to its website, “a unique speculative project exploring the potential for collaborative keyword tagging (folksonomy) in narrative research” – at first I thought they wanted to work out how to write stories using tagging, but it […]

Since I just handed out the first paper assignments yesterday, today a link to 57 tips (!) for writing your term paper might be in order. Lifehack.org also has many suggestions for how to hack your studying skills. (For the un-initiated: this […]