Forget studet plagiarism: in the real world you can fake a grassroots campaign by generating letters to the editor that get printed in hundreds of newspapers.

So someone wondered when I’d be moving to Paris to join my French boyfriend. Good grief. Must have been my I love Paris post set him off, don’t you think? Blogging has hazards I hadn’t even considered. I mean, sure, I love […]

I made a to do list on a large sheet of paper, spatially organised by topic but with enough white space that it still looks calm. This semester I’m going to write consistently, although it’s easy to look at the list of […]

I’m home from ISEA, I’ve sent my daughter to school, my teaching starts on Wednesday: semester’s starting again. I’m going to spend an hour or two planning my autumn. There are a lot of things I want to do but I’m going […]

I have no idea what Matthew Fuller is talking about in the final session at ISEA. He’s got images flickering above his head, and a terminal window that seems to be picking out words from what he’s saying and searching the web […]

Mary Flanagan and Ken Perlin are presenting Rapunsel, a project where they’re getting 11-13 year old girls keen on computers by – with the girls – designing a system where the kids program animated characters to choreograph a dance. From the website: […]

This is from the boat… and this is just what a lot of the evenings here at ISEA have felt like. iseaclub Originally uploaded by srett.

Nina Wakefield‘s keynote is on “The identity politics of mobility and design culture”, and I took notes straight here. Wakefield’s an ethnographer from Britain who’s basing her theories on identity on queer theory. Her main argument is that rich people are easily […]

We walked in late for Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s keynote, but Axel Bruns blogged his notes so we can pick up the question session OK.

If you read Swedish, read Kati K?§llman’s diary from ISEA. She just interviewed some of our panel for Radio Ekstrem (I think) and blogs in the community site her radio runs. You have to sign up to read it but once in […]