OK, so maybe this is what I need to do. Or is this freaky? No: what’s freaky is juggling twenty-five projects at once.

So I WordPressed my department’s website. We only need fairly minimal information on the website, but it’s been a pain keeping the old site updated. Now everyone can have their own account – including MA students, I reckon – and hopefully information […]

I planned my semester so that I work at home on Fridays and Mondays, not touching any kind of administration. So today I’m working on a book chapter about research blogging, and working at ignoring all those other nagging tasks that go […]

The source code of the early 3d first-person shooter Quake has been released. There’s already at least one art project (QQQ) that subverts the game aesthetics, Jeremy Douglass writes (Fortunately for people like me who want a quick shot, there are movie […]

Your blog sounds like the blog of a busy person, a friend wrote. Such a pity it’s the wrong sort of busy-ness – writing busy-ness has me blogging and thinking, but this keep a dozen balls in the air busy-ness doesn’t. I […]

Back to school for heads of (small) departments means: Plan your teaching for the semester. As usual. Coordinate orientation meetings. Write a report about how the department will nurture research in next year. Write a report evaluating the MA program. Follow up […]

Here’s the semester plan for the course I’m coordinating this semester, Digital Media Aesthetics. Teaching starts Monday.

Treasuremytext is a website to which you can send SMSes you receive to create an SMS diary. Each SMS sent (by a member who ticked off “contribute to SMS log in their profile”) is shown briefly on the front page, anonymously, and […]

An interesting exhibition format: British artist Katie Lips is exhibiting 160 SMS messages that have meant a lot to her in the last 18 months. Thing is, she’s exhibiting them on your ipod – the idea is that you download em and […]