My Books

webisodic: the strand

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. […]

network literacy and more

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, […]

tsunami web archive

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 […]

presence

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 […]

jon stewart on blogs

Jon Stewart’s sequence on blogs from The Daily Show is hilarious.

family-awareness clock

I was quite surprised to see that Microsoft had come up with the idea of a “family-aware clock” with a hand for each member of the family that points at their location. See, I remember reading about that clock before – there’s […]

linguistic barrier

I want to be able to read this! “Hipertexto Cooperativo: Uma Analise da Escrita Coletiva a partir dos Blogs e da Wikipedia”. I mean, it’s a title I might have chosen myself! Darn.

whispering buds

The snow is thick on the ground but there are buds everywhere whispering (ssshh, listen) look, we’re here. Too soft to capture if your day’s too full, your autofocus too fast.

dangerous workplace?

A woman was raped last night, or sexually attacked, the police won’t quite say, in a bathroom downstairs from my office. At 7.15 pm. I’m often here that late. It’s sometimes occurred to me that the building is awfully quiet after five. […]

publish your life under a creative commons licence

For the month of March, two artists in a long-distance relationship are going to put all their electronic communication online. Phone conversations, emails, IMs, camera phone pics, the lot, it’ll all be online under a Creative Commons licence. IN Network, the performance […]