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teaching nightmare

I dreamt that only one student showed up for the first class of Critical Approaches to Technology and Society this morning. I did the lets get to know each other thing just for him, I showed him how to use a blog […]

and my students say games won’t get em jobs?

Hey, Kristine J¯rgensen, Bergen girl who studied at my university (though at Infomedia not our department) and is now finishing her PhD in game studies in Copenhagen, is Microsoft Norway’s new xbox gaming lifestyle specialist! Congratulations, Kristine!

there shouldn’t be cherry blossoms in january

Oh dear. I just posted a photo of the cherry blossoms on the tree I walk past on my way to work, and on a whim, did a search for “cherry blossoms in january“. They’re everywhere – Bergen, Paris, New York, Massachusetts. […]

norwegian youtube stars

A journalist rang me last night with questions about YouTube – Marika suggested he call me, he said, which was cool (thanks Marika!), because unlike last summer, by now I do know stuff about YouTube, more than enough for the two brief […]

digital life with no women

There’s a conference in Bergen in a couple of weeks time (commercial, not academic) called “Digital hverdag”, which means digital everyday life – there are exhibitions, and presentations, you know, but the striking thing is they’ve managed to set up a program […]

shall it stay or shall it go?

I’ve had Snap Preview on this blog for ten days now, which I reckon is enough for us to make up our minds about it. It’s cool in many ways – it’s certainly fun for a bit mousing over links and seeing […]

new survey data on how teens use social networking sites

Quickly, let me note that Pew Internet has a new survey out on how American teenagers use social networking sites (dated yesterday – hey, that was Sunday! No rest for the wicked?), and that danah boyd (direct link to post not working?) […]

five things – oh no

Oh no. Three people have tagged me to do the “Five things you didn’t know about me” meme. Ndesanjo Macha, who’s fifth thing we didn’t know about him is that he is a disiple of Houdini and can disappear in front of […]

snap preview as readymade (ready-to-assemble) poem

So as you might have noticed in the comments to the last post, Mez saw that annoying/¸ber-cool link-preview thing and made a poem with it. I love the speed of this easy technology and of people like Mez who just snap it […]