My Books

administration again

Back at the office and my to-do list is full of administrative tasks and preparation for a new semester instead of writing. I got an extension on the DAC paper though, cos I needed some library books to finish it. Tomorrow. More. […]

word meter

OK. Today I totally need to get cracking on the paper I’m writing to submit to DAC. The deadline’s Monday and while I have the structure and ideas pretty clear, there’s a lot of writing left to do. I found something that […]

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 […]

paper out

An article I wrote a few months ago called “Weblogs: Learning in Public” is out now in On the Horizon, which is a strategic planning journal for the educational sector. It’s in a special issue edited by Drew Davidson, with lots of […]

sexualised violence vs showing nipples

Wow. Grand Theft Auto has actually been banned in Australia, because of the sexually explicit content that is unlocked “simply” by downloading the Hot Coffee mod and installing it. (How on earth do you install anything on your Playstation, anyway? Mine seems […]

carjacking moving from streets to Grand Theft Auto

In an entertainingly written open letter to Hillary Clinton, Steven Johnson writes that, in the last decade, the decade of videogames in every home, violent crime has dropped more than in any other period of time. Car-jacking has been getting less and […]

lost camera

I think I lost my camera. For a little while I consoled myself thinking it the perfect excuse to buy a better camera, but looking at prices it’s clear that the cameras I can afford are of exactly the same quality as […]

BlogFlux

I got an email from the successor to EatonWeb, asking me to reregister my blog in the new version of their portal. See, the EatonWeb Portal used to be the place to find blogs about whatever topic you were interested in, and […]

panliterery awards

The journal Drunken Boat has published several of my favourite pieces of electronic poetry and web art. Some of them don’t work in my newer browsers anymore (sigh) but such is the nature of the transient web. They recently announced The First […]

off again

I’m going to be gone again for a few days. Back Monday. Seeya!