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the gutenberg parenthesis and cultural differences

Today’s Remix Culture class is about the Gutenberg Parenthesis: a cultural realm where it is felt that cultural products (including stage plays and student essays) should be original, independent, autonomous compositions — the individual achievement and the individual property of those who […]

social media study group

On Thursday at 1:15 pm we’re gathering masters and PhD students (and other researchers) who are writing about social media at the coffee bar at the University Library here in Bergen – look for a gang of social media types sitting round […]

embroidered twin firebirds

I’ve been reading craft blogs recently, and got all inspired to give it a go myself. Did you know that people actually doodle with embroidery? Takes some of the fear out of it, calling it doodling. And look at Soulemama’s hoops – a far cry […]

høygravid!

In Norwegian, the word hoygravid means “high-pregnant”, or extremely pregnant. I only recently discovered that there’s an official definition of the word: when you have 40 days until your due date, you’re h¯ygravid. Or at least that’s what the word is on […]

big brother sees you – running up Stoltzekleiven

Yikes. Our local newspaper has video taped everyone who participated in Stoltzekleiven opp, a race where crazy Bergeners run up a local mountain. You can type in someone’s name, and if they participated, you see their start number and their finishing time […]

tables, seating, and wedding websites

It’s just six days till our wedding, guests start arriving tomorrow and Scott and I are figuring out lots of last-minute details. Like where people will sit at the reception, and how to set up the tables. To me, the traditional Norwegian […]

the future of electronic literature

We’re at the Electronic Literature Organization‘s symposium The Future of Electronic Literature, which is being held at MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) at the University of Maryland. Right now I’m listening to the panel on process-intensive literature, and you […]