Portals are totally out, social networks are in: Lycos is no longer a portal, it’s a social network. Meanwhile, in television, reality shows are out and makeovers are in, a media scholar told me the other week. D’ya think it’ll make a […]

Oh, now that’s an elegant version of a google bomb. The top hit on Google for “Bush’s foreign friends” is an art project faking Google search results. So if you do that search and click “I’m feeling lucky” you might, as I […]

Thin slices of rain cut through the air and nobody walked on the beach this afternoon.

Watchbloggers are (generally anonymous) bloggers who are each assigned one journalist covering the U.S. presidential campaign. This is an interesting answer to the question about “but are they trustworthy?” “Credibility is an interaction — not an aura,” Rosen said. “If a citizen […]

That’s me. A barcode that tells you everything you’d ever want to know about me. My body, memories and ideas compressed into impeccable machine-readable format. If you feel the urge to store yourself for posterity, generate your own barcode now. Or you […]

Howard Dean won’t become president, but that doesn’t mean that his novel networked campaign was a failure, says Joe Trappi, his ex campaign manager, to Wired: ‘”This wasn’t about one guy,” he said. “This is the beginning of the tools, and a […]

At the bus station in Philadelphia the bucket seats have black and white, plastic-coated televisions attached to them. A man used his as a pillow, the other occupants of the seats stared blankly out the window, but I, not accustomed to such […]

Happy birthday, Lisbeth’s blog! A charming interview between Lisbeth and her Alter Ego sums up the last three years.

At the end of last year, Halvard Jakobsen made a half-hour radio documentary about video game research that was broadcast on NRK over Christmas. He’s talked with J¯rgen KirksÊther, who’s working on a PhD on computer game history and works with games […]

In a few hours time I’m going to Philadelpia for Joint Work, which includes an