The Case of the Molndal Murder is a Swedish location-based narrative where your movements around a museum call up videos on your PDA, using Bluetooth to determine your location in space. There’s a simulation you can view on screen.

See the net differently using artistic browsers, mail software that adds phrases to the emails you write, install a program that visualises the data on your harddrives or spread disinformation about (not) yourself across the network: all this and more at Dive. […]

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I might show my students Bobquits.com today. It’s a mixture between a weblog and a reality show, reminiscent of Online Caroline and it’s a quit smoking campaign we saw advertised in NY. Unfortunately, it seems yesterday might have been the last update. […]

At Schiphol, you can pay to be allowed to undergo iris scanning instead of showing your passpor. The photos at this exclusive program’s website are wonderful, with the image of a woman hunched over the iris scanner as one of the main […]

“If You Build It They Will Come” is a paper by Tim Dunlop about how bloggers can be a new kind of public intellectuals who engage in dialogue with the public rather than talking to them. Tim Dunlop’s PhD (finished a couple […]

Read Torill’s story of how her father and his brother crossed Finnmarksvidda to fight for their country in exile. It’s a well-told story with some beautiful imagery and it’s part of our history. I love this sharing of memories and stories – […]

That free trade agreement Australia just signed with the US includes Australia extending copyright from 50 to 70 years. Things that have been in the public domain will suddenly not be. See Lessig and The Age.

My friend Lars has decided to

The library at Stockton is a good place to work. It’s quiet, there’s wireless and power, and look, windows from floor to ceiling that open out on the pine barrens that surround the college. I’m writing an essay on the peer assessment […]