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flickr and blogger sell our surfing habits to the man?

Hm. I had an email from Flickr today telling me I have to merge my “old skool” Flickr account with a Yahoo account. And to switch to Blogger.com‘s new cool system, I have to switch to logging into that using a Google […]

Class notes: where blogs came from and what they are

Today’s class will begin with a discussion of the worksheets I made up for this week. I’m interested in what the students think of them. We’ll also be looking at their blogs and we’ll talk about the assignments. The main topic for […]

facebook narrative

I’ve been exploring Facebook recently, after Ina invited me to join, and it really does have some intriguing aspects – it seems to merge many things from many other social sites. Of course I’m the ONLY “faculty member” on it from my […]

Rune Klevjer’s trial lecture to be on Super Columbine Massacre!

Rune Klevjer‘s PhD thesis has been approved, and he’ll be defending it on February 9th! The afternoon before the defence, Rune will hold his “trial lecture”, and the topic is very, well, topical: “Aesthetics and Ideology in Computer Games: An Analysis of […]

worksheet for students: am i insane?

I’ve been so impressed by the utvidet arbeidsplan (“expanded work plans”) my daughter’s been bringing home from school after the latest reform of schools in Norway that I’ve tried to make one for my students. The idea is to give them a […]

blogging behind bars

I found an unusual blog by chance: NÂgons mamma – nÂgons dotter (that’s Swedish for “Someone’s mother – someone’s daughter”), written by a woman in jail. She writes her blog posts in letters to her daughter, who posts them to the blog […]

class notes: Print to Web

In today’s class we’re going to look at the transition to print and we’ll discuss how technology and culture interact – and we’ll do some more blogging, too. Easy reading this week: just chapter two of Bolter’s Writing Space, which is about […]

should the repairers need my password?

Hm. My iMac is being fixed, and the repair person rang and asked for my password so he could fix it. Should he actually need that? Can’t they boot off a CD or something and not need access to my personal files? […]

Blogging HUIN206/307

Students blogging in our Critical Approaches to Technology and Society course: Robin Hamdi Alex Cristina Olav Catello Morten Bradley Lene ÿistein Sindre John Marius Iselin Derek Ole Johan Alessandro Maja