Jamie Blustein alerted me to the cover story of the latest issue of Interactions, ACM’s magazine, which is by Jim Miller and about immersive gaming and storytelling. Here’s the abstract: if you’re lucky your library or university might have a subscription and […]

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. –Walker Evans

Torill alerts me to our nomination for best tech blog in the European Weblog Awards! Or the Satin Pyjama awards. European Weblog Awards would look better on the CV, but, ya know, just being nominated is flattering in itself. Actually, nominations can […]

You know that thing that now you shouldn’t use www. at the start of a domain name anymore? It’s a W3C standard, I’m sure, but I can’t find it on their site. Can you help me?

Wow. I’m probably going to end up head of our (quite small) department from next week or so. There’ll be an election, but no other candidates. There simply isn’t anyone else who can do it right now. It’s going to be a […]

Ooh, look: travelling scholarships to the Faroe Islands! I’d love to go there some day. No, I don’t think I’ll come up with a project suitable to apply for these travelling scholarships, but maybe you’d like to go spend a few weeks […]

I enjoy seminars. I like being able to talk with the students rather than to them, I like learning to know them as individuals and I like seeing them hunkering down together and getting stuff done. I really enjoy the discussions we […]

Lisbeth Klastrup‘s tracking the use of blogs in the upcoming Danish elections. Her first post on the topic lists blogs that are tracking the media, blogs by groups of politicians and by individual politicians.

I’m registering my publications and talks and everything in FRIDA, the just-become national Norwegian research database which will not only serve as a bibliography of Norwegian research, it’s also going to be where the powers that be figure out how much money […]

First lecture this semester, and I had it all worked out. I started taking notes for the lecture a week and a half ago; the blog post with the links I’d need was drafted on Friday, ready for a quick click of […]