Lots of great responses to the assignment this morning! Thanks guys 🙂 Here’s today’s plan: Hand out paper topics and discuss them. I think Olav might not be here today, but if he is, I’m going to ask him to show us […]

On Wednesday we’ll be doing this: I get to show you Michael Wesch’s awesome video of Web 2.0 in three and a half minutes. A quick rundown of some of the sociological background to social networks. Derek has agreed to show us […]

This video is amazing – it’s the stuff I teach! From the materiality of writing (handwriting and digital) through hypertext, HTML, XML, the point of it all – I wish I had made this video. And I was so pleased to see […]

I’m kind of sad – for the first time ever I’m invited to a Superbowl Party (starting at midnight due to the time difference) but I can’t go – I’ll be asleep on a train to Oslo, on my way to tell […]

I like Technorati‘s new WTF system. WTF stands for (ahem) Where’s the Fire? So next time you see that Paris Hilton is in the top ten searches again you can click that, and not only see a gazillion blog posts about it […]

How long has it been since you actually used a paper phonebook? I’ve been throwing them out as they arrive for years – well, since I got broadband internet I suppose, actually. Now, for us Norwegians, finally, there’s a website where you […]

I should probably know this, but I don’t – perhaps you can help me? Do the LCD screens we use today still refresh 30 times a second or whatever the way projectors and old screens used to? See, Michael Joyce writes: The […]

I like the taglines for this book: “Love the skin you’re in” and “don’t get pwned”. What taglines should we choose for the anthology of critical essays on World of Warcraft Hilde and I are editing? The final essays are due in […]

I got this in email from a few people, and it seems like a good idea, if enough people do it. Will you? Participate in the biggest mobilization of Citizens Against Global Warming! The Alliance for the Planet [a group of environmental […]

So I want some blogs to recommend to my students but man, all the blogs I read are by 35 year old women who are often academics and who like gadgets and new media and books and who really probably don’t have […]