The submissions deadline for the Aesthetics of Play conference here in Bergen this autumn is April 18. You just need a 300 word abstract. I really want to submit something but have to think up something games related yet relevant to other […]

Did you know that British kids’ TV, if broadcast in the US, is generally dubbed with American accents? Or that British sitcoms tend to be remade for the US market rather than broadcast? Oh, cable for the elite might pick them up, […]

TV2 wants me to explain the difference between MSN chat and IRC or web chat rooms so that my grandma could understand it in 40 seconds, with a discussion of what the dangers are and whether you can be anonymous. The background […]

Ooh, Bergen National Academy of the Arts has advertised an assistant professorship in electronic media. They want an artist who can teach the practical and artistic aspects of video-, sound-, web and image-based electronic art and do artistic research and development or […]

This appeals to the leave-my-mark part of me: scan your skin and send this project the jpg. A square of your skin will become part of a database of human skin possibilities. This may be ironic or politically incorrect, or maybe just […]

Scott moved his blog to WordPress and a new domain! I helped tag old posts, which turned out to be rather interesting. Old posts are often rather good, and one of the disadvantages of blogs is that they so rapidly become almost […]

Ha! Liz mentioned weeks ago that there’s open wireless under the Virgin Lounge (though not from the Virgin Lounge, that signal’s restricted – Varig and elal are open though a little weak) at JFK, and since there’s nothing as cool as being […]

Apparently, Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl” was not written by a London call girl at all (big surprise) but by a British woman living in New York who has previously published her own erotic memoirs. Not sure it […]

Molly and Liz have stopped blogging for money, saying that it messed up their entire relationship with their blogs as their personal spaces. This is closely related to Torill’s points when the blog sponsorship deals were first announced. I wonder whether Kottke […]

Andreas Kitzmann’s book Saved from Oblivion: Documenting the Daily from Diaries to Web Cams looks as though it might be useful for studying weblogs and such. The book “focuses on the major forms of self-documentation that have been in use since the […]