The immigration queue at JFK snakes back and forth between black straps drawn from pole to pole. If you’re on a plane arriving from Europe, each lap takes ten minutes, and a jumbo jet’s worth of aliens fills five laps. The last […]

I’m flying today! I bought Blink to read on the flight, so by the time I land I should be an expert at making accurate split-second judgements 😉

My goodness. I’m sitting in class while my students do group work and I’ve done everything that’s not on my not-to-do-list! This feels very strange. I have meetings for the rest of the day, so the day will still be full, but […]

8% of The Strand’s audience is in Norway! So says the producer in a reply to my post over at the HUMlab blog.

After spending all day at home tending to a child just sick enough not to go to school, I’d really been looking forward to exploring a web first, this evening: The Strand: Venice, CA. It’ll make an excellent first post as a […]

Hey, a while back, Axel Bruns and Joanne asked me if I’d like to contribute an article about using blogs in research to a book they were hoping to put together. The book’s a goer, and will be published by Peter Lang. […]

Good heavens. That case about Apple suing the bloggers (or well, actually, are they bloggers? Isn’t it an online zine?) is the top story in Dagbladet right now. That’s kind of weird. Not that it’s old news, but that it’s top story. […]

Although I walk past it every day, I hadn’t noticed the crazed geometry of this tree until I saw it covered in snow this morning.

I don’t think there’s been this much snow all year. If the sweet old lady upstairs were still alive, she’d tell me seriously that I really should have taken my bench in for winter. She’s right, of course. Oh well, peeling paint’s […]