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the difference between remixing and plagiarism?

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from […]

another way of making money blogging

Good heavens. McDonaldsA new viral marketing company will pay you $10 to take a photo at McDonalds and blog your experience. I suppose at least when you blog it it’s kind of obvious what you’re doing, you get a big fat widget […]

freedom of movement

In many ways I preferred blogging as an outsider, as a lowly PhD student with no established position other than that of the outsider: a young woman in a small country on the outskirts of a continent with odd interests. Blogging as […]

going to be teaching with blogs again

OK, we’ll be blogging in the IKT og lÊring or ICT and learning segment I’m teaching. How could we not? We start today, and this time we’ll be using WordPress.com‘s hosted blogs, rather than Blogspot – that way I’ll get the ease […]

grading efficiency

I think I might pinch Dr Crazy’s strategy for grading essays – she uses a checklist as a front page where she checks off things like “Paper offers adequate context (historical, theoretical, and/or critical) for the claims that it makes about the […]

links that don’t condone the recipient

Does anyone remember that thing a year or two ago where bloggers invented a sort of “negative link”, so that you could link to a site you depised, like martinlutherking.org, but put a little notice in the link telling Google that the […]

bottom-up viral marketing?

In their campaign for a new camera, Nikon appear to have chosen an almost opposite marketing strategy to Coca Cola’s botched viral marketing campaign. Instead of making a fake amateurish video and posting fifty links to it from Norwegian discussion boards, Nikon […]

WoW research and teaching in the news

While I was in Vienna, Bergens Tidende had a nice long article about the research on and teaching with World of Warcraft we’re doing at our department, in a project initiated by Hilde Corneliussen. Then today, the university newsletter has an interview […]