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 […]

I hadn’t realised Brian Eno wrote the Windows startup sound. Wow. 43 folders has a link to an interview with him: The thing from the agency said, ìWe want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, […]

There must be a website somewhere with links to funny or parodic reviews at Amazon. Me, I followed the trail from the review of packing tape that Profgrrrrl mentioned to the complete works of porcupinebath, where I found multiple reviews of deodorant […]

Gas has never been more expensive in the US, at $2.30 or so a gallon (3,88 kroner a litre), and my impression was that it’s the sort of political issue presidents are elected on. Of course, here in Norway, petrol is US$6.15 […]

Of course I’ll be following BBCi’s new email and website drama about recently deceased popstar Jamie Kane. I wasn’t going to actually spend time on it just yet, but then I got this really personal email from Jess, who runs the fan […]