On the Association of Internet Researchers‘ mailing list, Wainer Lusoli wrote that several papers on political blogs were presented at the American Political Science Association Conference 2004 – search for “blog” from that site and you’ll see the titles and abstracts, and […]

I though Amnesty’s SMS appeals thing sounded cool, so I signed up. But how on earth can this work? The messages are so innane, so totally untrustworthy in their simplicity, I mean, look at today’s: Frances Newton skal henrettes i Texas 1. […]

I spent a day home with my daughter Wednesday, wisely deciding that a day’s rest will make an exhausted child with a sore throat better. It did, but I didn’t rest at all though, what with nursing a sick child, doing lots […]

Of course I followed the link left by the anonymous commenter who wrote in Danish that he could never stop himself from entering a candy store. Crafty marketer, that commenter, or just someone who knows the medium, because at the end of […]

Hyperfictions may not be for the literary gourmet who likes to indulge in a piece of prose in the figurative bathtub. Hyperfictions are for the addict to whom the sight of the fridge is the promise of a bowl of mousse. Who […]

George Landow is one of the pioneers of hypertext theory, having constructed hypertexts with students at Brown University during the late eighties and early nineties and written what was probably the most important early work on hypertext theory and fiction. He’s recently […]

Father Christmas is getting my eight-year-old daughter and me a game console for Christmas. I’m helping him along by, uh, choosing, ordering and paying for the item. Since I’ve never really used consoles I’m floundering a little. I’m going to the states […]

I was up till one Thursday redoing my talk, so deep into work I had to force myself to bed. I did the distributed narratives from a new angle and it changed completely, fascinating how a different framework opens different questions. Friday […]

Take photos of crowds at fixed intervals and the Crowd Compiler merges them for you. What fun.

I’m trying to beat my cold into submission and stay awake and alert long enough to respectably prepare tomorrow’s guest lectures in Oslo. I’m speaking to Anders‘s students, and then to the department seminar, both times on distributed narrative. I know Anders […]