My Books

regular

Oh look! Normal-sized women modelling bikinis! The readers loved it, but the modelling bureaus scoff at the thought of this kind of outrage becoming common.

timestamps

At ISEA this August I’m in a panel on “Uncovering Histories of Electronic Writing” with Noah, Michael and Nick from Grandtextauto, only Nick can’t come so Scott‘ll deliver his part of it. Noah’s going to look at Ted Nelson’s work on hypertext […]

not misleading

This is funny, in a throw your hands up in despair sort of a way. TRISTAN RODDIS, pissed off at that Federation Against Copyright Theft cinema advert where you stare at a branding iron while a voice tells you that “Piracy funds […]

network logic anthology

From the Doors of Perception newsletter (monthly, concise, good links whether you attend the conferences or not) I found Network Logic: Who Governs in an Interconnected World, which is a new anthology of essays about network campaigning, smart mobs (Rheingold’s here in […]

google poems as plot elements

Now that’s interesting, Rob’s using google poems as narrative elements in his blog fiction. There are three characters who share this blog, Allen, Wordsman and Rob. Wordsman’s girlfriend or wife Beverley has been missing, and now Wordsman’s posting cryptical google poems. The […]

why they quit

HÂkon Styri on why a lot of people eagerly start blogging and hastily quit. In Norwegian.

mobile stories in Stockholm

There’s an interesting-looking location-based narrative currrently running in Stockholm: The Case at Kulturhuset (deep links impossible, click “exhibitions” to find info), by Knife and Fork Productions, who also made the Molndal Murder. I’d love to get something like that happening in Bergen! […]

netbehaviour

Decluttering my inbox I found an email from Trond suggesting I might be interested in NetBehaviour: Netbehaviour is an open email list community for sharing ideas, posting events, opportunities, facilitating collaborations in the area of artists, academics, soft groups, writers, code geeks, […]

pr??verommet beta

The large green words were projected next to a screen of rapidly changing lines, accompagnied by computer beeps, and the words appeared to be the human-readable translation of the code the screen and speakers were displaying. The text was about encryption, but […]

apple for teacher

If only…. (With thanks to Cecilie for finding it)