Oh look, Mark Glaser’s virtual roundtable for this week includes US soldiers in Iraq who blog and Iraqi citizens who blog. Interesting.

A journalist asked me about the degregation of language in electronic communications, so I told him about the eloquence of blogs and the subcultures of leet and the art of codework and machine English. I looked up a piece I wrote mentioning […]

We’re doing textual analysis and close reading this week, and while I had a nice thorough article about this in Norwegain, I needed to find an English one for our exchange students. Alan McKee has written a book called Textual Analysis: A […]

The paper version of my AoIR talk on distributed narrative ended up far too long, but no matter, it’s useful to me as an initial survey of what I think distributed narrative is, and I love having started. I put the PDF […]

Terrorjesus is a hypercomic that really does have several paths through it – click the funny little curly arrows and you get a new, different page of comics. I enjoyed the loops of misunderstanding, though I only read for ten minutes or […]

Interesting opinion piece from Rune Klevjer in Dagbladet.no (in Norwegian). It’s great that the Norwegian goverment is funding Norwegian game development now – though kind of silly that they’ll only fund kids’ games. Rune’s main point is important: games still aren’t seen […]

I had been wondering why women have felt the need to start up their own gadget blogs. After reading Engadget this morning, I know exactly why. First there were the weak jokes about wanting sexy “nurse bots” instead of functional transportation devices. […]

While I’ve heard of No Pain No Game, or The Artwork Formerly Known as PainStation (did PlayStation sue them?), I hadn’t realise how much it hurts. That looks really painful. The game’s kind of like Pong, except played on a tabletop that […]

In Norway there’s a tradition that the weather on your birthday is like a report card on how good you’ve been over the past year. Today the weather is a mixture of everything: strong winds, sun for a few minutes, a little […]

Ooh! Look at the lovely composite photo of Nina Wakeford’s keynote at AoIR Anders took with his phone!