I’ve never had a desire for tattoos, but looking at photos of textual tattoos I can at least imagine wanting a tattoo. Not that I know what I’d write. While I love Shelley Jackson’s Skin project, I’d definitely want to choose my […]

What do you do when you can’t relax? You know, when you get home from work and you know you’re exhausted and need to relax but after two seconds on the sofa or reading a book or trying to meditate or do […]

My department needs to hire a person to teach a course on web programming for the autumn semester (July 1 – December 31, 2005). It’s a fulltime, six-month position as an associate professor (f¯rstelektor), with a minimum of 25% research (of your […]

Oh my god, this may be the awesomest thing to hit academia since, uh, the web. (Yes, I’m prone to extreme enthusiasm, but really, this is pretty cool.) CiteULike is like del.icio.us except for academic papers. You create an account (free), drag […]

Oh, look at all these women blogging quantum physics! Awesome!

So you read about those bloggers who wrote about Apple, and Apple sued them and insisted they reveal their sources? Apart from this being a rather nasty way of treating their own fans, the courtcase raises questions about the legal status of […]

Karin told me about The Strand, a new webisodic by the people who made Blair Witch. They shot the video last year (so I assume it’s video-centric?), and according to the press release the first episode will be available on March 15. […]

Brian Lamb neatly connected my (and I’m not the only one to have said this of course) insistance that students need to learn network literacy, that is, how to write and think and work in the distributed, collective environment of the web, […]

Here’s an archive of websites relating to the tsunami: “This Web archive is a collection of over 1500 sites relating to the December 2004 Tsunami disaster in Asia. A shapshot of these sites has been taken once a week starting from the […]

Last night I was reading danah boyd’s post about how some people log on to IM to mark presence, while others only log on when they want to chat, and how the cultural difference causes tension, especially since it’s entirely invisible to […]