New Kid has an interesting post about what the transition from grad student to employed junior academic with a PhD feels like. Like her, when I was a PhD student I had senior academics tell me how lucky I was to have […]

I handed my tax return in online, but to my disappointment it didn’t calculate what my revised taxes would be. It had me down to pay excess taxes, but I’m sure I’ll get money back with the deductions I added in – […]

Norway’s recently acquired a vocal and self-aware blogosphere, as evidenced by last month’s expulsion of a blogger from nettdagbok.no, and the following establishment of a new portal for bloggers, Imperfektum. At about the same time, a group blog about blogging was started […]

The Guardian has a blog following the campaign leading up to the British elections. That’s not unexpected, but they’ve added a twist: you know how you can upload photos to your Flickr account by emailing them to a secret address? Well, The […]

I just got two books from Amazon: Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, and Women Don’t Ask. Hanna’s reading Women Don’t Ask, and it keeps getting mentioned. The Nice Girls book is a list of 101 mistakes women make without realising […]

In a brief article in Interactions, Brenda Laurel writes that in her study of 1000 children, she found that “narrative construction was the largest category of play for girls ages eight to 12.” That certainly seems to fit what I see in […]

Brevity wrote a program that produces an “average” of 50 photos tagged the same. This image is what happens if you combine 50 photos tagged with “shadow” and “self” from 50 different Flickr users.

I’m speaking at a seminar in Oslo on the 18th. It’s about digital and social networks, with speakers on Linux gift culture, about network economy, strong and weak ties, actors and actants in networks and about consumer networks. And me on networked […]

Ooh, I’d have loved to go to this summer school for grad students when I was a grad student. It’s a collaboration between Georgia Tech and Sˆdertˆrns Hˆgskole just outside of Stockholm. I must keep better track of these events, I would […]

The submissions deadline for the Aesthetics of Play conference here in Bergen this autumn is April 18. You just need a 300 word abstract. I really want to submit something but have to think up something games related yet relevant to other […]