OK. Today I totally need to get cracking on the paper I’m writing to submit to DAC. The deadline’s Monday and while I have the structure and ideas pretty clear, there’s a lot of writing left to do. I found something that […]

An article I wrote a few months ago called “Weblogs: Learning in Public” is out now in On the Horizon, which is a strategic planning journal for the educational sector. It’s in a special issue edited by Drew Davidson, with lots of […]

Wow. Grand Theft Auto has actually been banned in Australia, because of the sexually explicit content that is unlocked “simply” by downloading the Hot Coffee mod and installing it. (How on earth do you install anything on your Playstation, anyway? Mine seems […]

In an entertainingly written open letter to Hillary Clinton, Steven Johnson writes that, in the last decade, the decade of videogames in every home, violent crime has dropped more than in any other period of time. Car-jacking has been getting less and […]

I think I lost my camera. For a little while I consoled myself thinking it the perfect excuse to buy a better camera, but looking at prices it’s clear that the cameras I can afford are of exactly the same quality as […]

I got an email from the successor to EatonWeb, asking me to reregister my blog in the new version of their portal. See, the EatonWeb Portal used to be the place to find blogs about whatever topic you were interested in, and […]

The journal Drunken Boat has published several of my favourite pieces of electronic poetry and web art. Some of them don’t work in my newer browsers anymore (sigh) but such is the nature of the transient web. They recently announced The First […]

I’m going to be gone again for a few days. Back Monday. Seeya!

Remember Daughters of Freya, the email mystery about a Californian sex cult I posted about a few months ago? They’re organising a group read, where people who sign up get the story for half price (so about $4) and all receive emails […]