Wow. Nobody from US immigration actually checks your passport when you leave the country. Every other country I’ve ever left has immigration do this, but in the US, they leave it to the airlines. I guess in my case the check-in guy […]

I just almost bought Moveable Type 3.0 for jill/txt. Regardless of how long I keep using Moveable Type, I figured I’ve certainly had enough pleasure and use from it that I’m willing to pay $70. The teaching blogs I can figure out […]

In a wonderful use of trackbacks, Mena Trott’s asking us to tell them how we use Moveable Type. Here’s how I use it – mostly for teaching, but also in my personal blog.

There was an S on my boarding pass today. S for Search, S for Suspicious; I’m not sure what it stands for but when there’s an S on your boarding pass they’ll single you out and search you specially. A friendly check […]

Mark Pilgrim has an eloquent post about reasons why open source software is good, and it’s not about the money. He’s switched to WordPress, as hordes of other bloggers are doing. I haven’t researched the alternatives, but WordPress does look good. Not […]

I haven’t read this freshly published paper yet, but will soon. It’s one of the first papers on blogs to be published in a peer-reviewed academic journal: Edmonds, K. Andrew, James Blustein and Don Turnbull. “A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator”. […]

If you haven’t already looked at Mena Trott’s post announcing that Moveable Type 3.0 will suddenly be, well, rather expensive, really, go check out the awesome list of trackbacks. Customers talk back – on the corporate website. Wow. I note with amusement […]

What is this man trying to say to me?

There’s a round table email discussion (well, actually the round table bit means each participant answered the same questions, there wasn’t any discussion) story on scholars who study blogs at the Annenberg Online Journalism Review. I’m in it, which is groovy, with […]

Jon notes a job opening in Trondheim: an associate professorship in new media theory and production. I like seeing the new media field growing!