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 […]

Did you look at Justin Hall’s blog lately? Justin’s been publishing his life online for eleven years, with an honesty (well, an apparent honesty, I don’t know him apart from his website so can’t verify anything, but it’s certainly truthful in the […]

Margot Wallstr??m, the EU’s Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication, has started blogging. I read her most recent post, which moves from personal notes about the tsunami through a description of the prime-minister of Luxembourg ending with concerns about having put on […]

Every time I get one of those emails with a photo of a child who can remember nothing in a hospital in Thailand I hope, wildly, that when I scroll down the photo will be of Shyrin. It never is. It’s the […]

Christy Dena has a wonderfully useful post on the differences between her approach to crossmedia or polymorphic narrative, and my approach to what I’ve called distributed narrative. Isn’t the web awesome, letting us find each other like this, now, as we’re figuring […]

Anjo Anjewierden ran a script identifying words used uniquely (kind of, read the post to see what that means) in particular blogs. Which would you rather read: Jill Walker: electronic literature, grant, hypertext, new media, wireless. Danah Boyd: abuse, adult, battle, blog […]

You could invent realms of poetry and symbolism from this photo, if you wished. The truth? A walk, comfortably hand in hand, exploring for just a short while before returning to work. Stop, I said. We need to take a photograph of […]

Last spring she stayed at our house. My daughter slept soundly but Shyrin woke at midnight. “Don’t worry, darling”, I told her, holding her close, “it’s OK.” A few weeks earlier her mother had fetched her at nine because she couldn’t fall […]

Donna Leishman is now Dr Leishman! Her PhD thesis was practice-based, consisting of a visual narrative, The Possession of Christian Shaw, which is discussed and considered in terms of theory, practice, and feedback from a number of “expert readers”, of which I […]