The BBC World Service rang! They want to interview me about blogs! Blogs and fiction. Tomorrow, by phone, of course. The BBC World Service was the background sound of my childhood. We had four different frequencies preset on the radio and knew […]

Danah has some good points about the problems with Google’s new mail service. It’s not that their bots filter your mail – so do the virus and spam-scanners your ISP probably uses. It’s that they make it visible to you and that […]

There’s a conference on new media as cultural techniques and as fora for communicative action here in Bergen on May 27-28. Participation is free and the program includes Jay Bolter on augmented reality, K. Ludwig Pfeiffer on the materiality of communication Knut […]

Can you read the story in these photos? No, not the one in the words. In the photos. Well, the words too. And look, the third installment’s out. And the story in the photos is in the news on the front page.

My students have written lots and lots of blog reviews – more than fifty, actually – and Bjarte’s review caused considerable joy and amusement as the reviewee and his readers ran the review through auto-translators to figure out what it was about.

Another sign of spring is that it becomes absolutely necessary to test the range of wireless base stations. A couple of hundred metres gives marvellous pixellation, it’s like playing with Photoshop filters for the first time.

I do love having parents I can brag to. Their enthusiasm for my every achievement, great or small, is infallible. It’s so nice to have some things in life that are completely reliable. So of course when Mum came by yesterday I […]

Justin Hall describes Mogi, a fascinating sounding GPS-enabled mobile phone game running in Tokyo where you collect stuff by actually going to places near where you happen to be in the city. He also links to slides from a presentation by Amy […]

Have a hip-hoppy Easter!