No online streamed mainstream radio during the Olympic Games – due to rights restrictions. No BBC World Service, anyway, and no Radio Australia either. You can still listen to selected archives of programs, but no news. Ah well.

So LinkedIn sent me an email suggesting I tell it about more of my past jobs so I could connect with more of my ex-colleagues. I started fairly honestly, but only two other University employees are members of LinkedIn, and none of […]

According to the highly reputable and most reliable news source The Onion, the CIA wishes Bush would quit blogging: “Right now, the president insists it’s his right to have it, as long as he doesn’t work on it during White House work […]

Textually.org has a category on mobile phones, SMS and literature.

Hm. Already the blog fiction Roommate From Hell, which I mentioned yesterday, is showing signs of being translated from book to blog. Look: I must have pissed her off by walking in. We went out together a lot‚Äînot all the time or […]

Roommatefromhell.com is a blog fiction / book that’s simultaneously being published as a book version of a blog and blogged in fake real time. Got that? It’s written by Jim Munroe, of No Media Kings, which is his non-fictional, standard issue blog. […]

I love talking to people who are genuinely interested in blogs and the web. Just before I left for France, Silje Vestvik from the local paper asked if I had time for a chat – it’s hard to fill the culture pages […]

I’m moving to Paris. Not toute suite, of course, but one day, oh yes, one day I’ll live in Paris for three months, or six months, or a year, perhaps. For now I’m practicing wearing my hair carelessly elegantly pinned up, a […]

Home. Sunny!

I’m going to France, and I think I might do some moblogging here. Probably just photos will get posted, since the text part of the phone to Flickr to blog is hiccupping, and then if I’m online (as in if I can […]