My Books

dawn

It’s dawn. I guess that’s a gentle suggestion that perhaps, given I’m on this continent and not on that, I might consider sleep.

tagging me

Looking at a map of the tags I’ve given my links at del.icio.us I find that though I’m an irregular user the words in their various sizes perfectly represent my interests. It’s not the only way of representing my interests, but yes, […]

strawberries

I love blogs, and thinking about blogs, or rather, I usually do, but right now, to be completely honest, looking at the dozens and dozens of posts and papers and comments and ideas at Blogtalk right now I feel totally uninterested in […]

blogtalk 2.0

Lots of posting on Blogtalk 2.0 in Vienna, from favourite bloggers of mine like Torill (who gave a great keynote from the sound of it!) and Jon and Mark and Lisbeth and Lilia, who’s posting notes constantly. For serious conference tracking, there’s […]

into the blogosphere

The Into The Blogosphere collection of essays on blogging is out, and many of the essays look really interesting. There are several on narrative, fictional and other literary aspects of blogs, among other things.

never keep a drink bottle in your laptop bag

What happened? Well, let me simply say this: never put your drink bottle in the same bag as your laptop. My laptop was only a little damp when we arrived at Liz’s, and I know the leaking could only have occurred during […]

fairy tale time

I found the SurLaLune fairy tale pages when I ran out of bedtime stories for my daughter, and I’m staying for the density of the connections woven there: illustrations from half a dozen editions of each story, books and films inspired by […]

skip registration

You know how online newspapers claim they want to give you their content free but actually mean they’ll only let you read it if you give them details about your name, address, household income, profession and which articles you read when? Try […]

traces elsewhere

Make friends with bloggers and sometimes their stories also tell a facet of you: I’ve played and met Weez and spoken on a panel and eaten delicious salads and done many other things that neither I nor anyone else is likely to […]

things i’d blog

Some of the links I found I wanted to blog once I could blog again: Ryan Schultz writes about and quotes the exact bit in the Wired article I read at the beach about how creepy guys can find your email address […]