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!

Lying in the grass reading as a soft breeze caresses your skin is worth the occasional bug bite.

Lisbeth provides a good list of definitions of blogging terms in Danish. I’d grab them all for Norwegian, except in Norwegian blogg is more correct than blog, and that the plural should be blogger rather than blogs. Like its Danish sister-organisation, Norsk […]

Justin Hall’s been accused of over-fictionalising his life, but refuses to comment.

I’m sifting through essays for the compendium for this autumn’s course on contagious media and networked culture, and rereading with joy in the process. I’d almost forgotten Foucault’s “What is an Author?”, though my copy (from Lodge’s Modern Criticism and Theory) is […]