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names in world of warcraft

One of my guildmates, Charlotte Hagström, is researching naming in World of Warcraft. If you play World of Warcraft, it’d be great if you’d help her out – this is from her website: Names in World of Warcraft: Informants needed! I am […]

launch for digitale fortellinger

Tonight is the launch of Digitale fortellinger, where a dozen or so digital narratives have been selected and developed and are to be presented on nrk.no, the public Norwegian broadcasting network’s website. I was on the jury this spring, and it’s really […]

wheresgeorge.com

I’m usually a sucker for projects that get innocent bystanders acting as a collective, so when I discovered that one of my dollar bills had an URL stamped on it, I was thrilled. I was miles from any internet connection, so I […]

don’t let em google our books!

Philippe Règnier mentioned a controversy between the French national library and Google’s scheme to put books online. “You’ve probably heard about it,” he said, and the French people all made sounds of recognition, but I hadn’t heard of it at all. So […]

should we tell our students to blog pseudonymously?

Lilia writes interestingly about her discomfort with being researched by students who’d been given the assignment of writing a wiki page about her research. She doesn’t mind being researched, but was uncomfortable about whether or not it was OK for her to […]

Rubber Chicken in Oslo

After one café turned out to only have a kroner a minute minimum 30 mins wireless (Eirik, the waiter didn’t know anything about the wireless so may have misinformed me), and the next, while billed an “internett café” on its door, wouldn’t […]

shyrin ble åtte år gammel

They found her. This is from today’s Bergens Tidende, on the second page. I first heard by email yesterday. The Norwegian is too pragmatically poetically sad to translate. Hun ble åtte år gammel, “She became eight years old”, but that’s not right, […]

phd thesis online

I fixed the PDF of my PhD thesis and put it online! Jill Walker. Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World. Dr. art. thesis, Dept of Humanistics, University of Bergen, 2003. To try to […]

ubiquity?

Wicked tongues have it that it’s the lack of wireless that’s the reason for the question mark in the title of this conference: AoIR 5.0: Ubiquity?. I found the computer room, after a while, hidden away but with every (working) computer busily […]