I can’t think of an official, government or state website that allows its visitors to talk among themselves, or even to see that there are other visitors present. I’m finishing a short essay on Tegnemaskin 1-12 and I’m thinking of how quiet […]

Vesterblog is Tore Vesterby’s “thoughts on his Master’s Degree thesis project at the IT-University of Copenhagen. He will try to focus on what, how and which women play digital games.”

I, uh, ended up photoshopping away at that mockup last night instead of grading papers or finishing the essay that’s due today. I think I quite like it. I especially like the very formal “Dr Jill Walker, Dept of Humanistic Informatics” etc […]

There’s a CFP out for the Fibreculture journal on Contagion and the Diseases of Information. I’m interested in that.

My students are submitting their redesigned blogs for assessment this Friday. Here’s the PDF of their assignment, with grade descriptions. Were I assessing my own blog design, I’d give it a C: “Mostly works, but the code could have been planned and […]

I don’t know how to teach colours. I mean, I know: complementary colours, contrasts, colour circles, additative, subtractive, but it just seems either so obvious or so abstract to me. Thank goodness I found a wonderful tutorial for colours which is perfect […]

Justin Hall has blogged since before they called it blogging, since 1994. Rob Wittig’s review of Justin’s Links.net is a wonderful introduction to Justin’s site and to the stretched out over years experience of reading blogs as well. According to Justin’s entry […]

Grumpygirl mentioned an article on weblogs as a literary genre in Mexico, which I’ll read after going to Pilates. (I signed up for the Pilates workshop for no other reason than that the heroine of William Gibson’s latest novel does Pilates all […]

After finding humanclock.com an hour or two ago it’s been on my desktop in a tiny window, updating itself every minute. I love it.

I generally prefer the playing around phase of maybe redesigning one’s site to the nuts and bolts I-can’t-get-the-CSS-to-work-in-Netscape part of it all. I’d like more colours and pictures. I wonder if I could get away with something like this and still get […]