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australian diaspora

Good heavens: there are 800 000 Australian citizens living abroad! That’s five percent of the population. We’re the Australian diaspora! I belong to a community! With a mailing list! And my community actually fought for me to be able to be a […]

ABCDEF

This is the first semester we’re using A, B, C, D and even E (and F for fail) as grades in Norway, and the national guidelines for what the grades are supposed to mean are now available, even in English, if you […]

opportunity

Look, he’s serious! And so incredibly honest about it! From today’s email: I am interested in buying text link advertising promoting my internet pharmacy off of your website. The links would not have to be in a very prominent place on the […]

not documenting, doing

Yesterday I agreed with Lilia that most researchers’ blogs don’t document research. Today while reading a post on David Weinberger’s blog I realised that that’s completely beside the point: research happens in blogs, and in the conversations between blogs. Blogs aren’t about […]

If I simply look back at my writing here since I wondered what my other voices might be, I realise I have changed. My posts are much shorter than usual and they’re a lot more frequent. My sentences recently tend not to […]

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I wanted to explore my possible voices. My other voices, the ones that I don’t use here. That I don’t use at all. I’ve shied away from it, written regular posts, manic posts, boring posts, eager posts. I’ve toyed with the idea […]

hiding behind a blog

Exhibitionism and mental masturbation? Nonsense. Blogging is about hiding. It’s about partial truths and a voice that is binding as well as freeing. When my partner tells me he’s unsure about our relationship I write about protesters rallying for peace. When I […]

releasing books

Eirik Newth wrote about bookcrossing.com, a brilliant project which coordinates the release of books – you read a book, register it at bookcrossings, write a brief review of it, print out a label and glue it into the book, then you give […]

SMS essay

On Kairosnews I found a link to an article about a girl whose teacher couldn’t understand an essay she turned in in SMS language. The guys at Kairos find this pretty intriguing, and I have to agree. Here’s an excerpt: The girl’s […]