Today is one of those days that’s full of meetings. Two with students anxious about their projects, one information meeting about the reorganisation of the arts and humanities faculty, and a meeting with the dean and the faculty director about The Future […]

Yesterday I installed a plugin so my most recent bookmarks at del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site, show up in the left menu of my blog. That’s right, scroll a bit and you’ll spot them. (Well, unless you’re reading this in the distant […]

Random Place is an Australian soap opera that’ll be delivered to mobile phones at 8 am and 3.30 pm on weekdays, and will cost between AUS $1 and $2.50 a week (that’s nothing, it’s US$1.15-1.95, or NOK 7,50-12,00, and it’s per week […]

On Wednesday I’m talking to high school teachers who’ll be engaging their students in research in a University-initiated project called Ungdom forsker p ungdom, young people researching young people. The meeting with teachers on Wednesday is meant to get the teachers thinking […]

A two-minute time-waster: Flash game presents you with a set of images, and asks you to guess what word was typed into Google to find these particular pictures. I was surprised that I guessed it within 20 seconds every time. Except one. […]

Ooh, Steven Johnson turns the traditional “we must read books” argument upside down in his forthcoming book, All Bad Things Are Good For You. Here’s an excerpt from his blog: Many children enjoy reading books, of course, and no doubt some of […]

Norway has had an impressive contract between publishers and bookshops, ensuring that bookshops must stock at least one copy of every book published in the last year (or is it two years?) and fixing the price of books, so that a book […]

I’m going to have to redesign. If you click on the monthly archives, you only get the last ten days or whatever from that month. I can’t find my own old posts! Yikes! I think it’s that I’m using a slightly adapted […]

This is just sad. Reboot is a conference to be held in Copenhagen in June, and so far there are 23 male presenters and one woman presenter. The organiser claims innocence: i hadnít even thought of it this year. Take that as […]

I made one of those pictures of myself where you chose from lots of options. I’m in Southpark. Except once I’d put in the freckles and umbrella I couldn’t get rid of them. Yes, I get freckles in summer and use an […]