We’ve got a busy start to the semester here at Humanistic Informatics. Jan Rune Holmevik, MOO guru and wonderful person in general, is defending his PhD. Here’s the press release, with a nice photo of Jan, and a brief description in Norwegian. […]

Students are back on Thursday, and I want to plan finish planning schedules, assignments and guest lecturers before then. I’m still a rather new teacher, you know, and I want to feel in control of this stuff. Mind you, at this point […]

Just last week I was complaining that Norway, being a small country, doesn’t have a Netflix, and it turns out that it does: F24 uses exactly the same model as Netflix and has even been mentioned on blogs I read. I suppose […]

My friend, colleague and fellow Bergen resident Jon Hoem has started writing a blog in English alongside his longstanding Norwegian one, and has also restated his PhD project to be about personal publication, especially looking at blogs and wikis and what happens […]

Nick Montfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin are this month’s guests on Empyre, where they are discussing The New Media Reader and whether or not new media is a field and has a history, and where they are to be joined by artist Jill […]

Dejavu provides old browser emultators, allowing you to view period web sites and current websites through emulaltors of historical browsers such as Mosaic and Netscape 1.0. This trip down memory lane reminded me of the pleasure of those first white backgrounds on […]

In Bergen kids dress up on New Year’s Eve and go carolling from house to house. My daughter was a vampyre bat. She and her friends collected outrageous amounts of sweets and stayed up till midnight. A happy night was had by […]

In an hour’s time, at midnight, just as the fireworks light up the sky, a woman in the crowd on the bank of the Yarra will lean to her lover to kiss him. His lips will brush her cheek not lips and […]

Tee hee. Thankfully, “The FBI noted that use of almanacs or maps may be innocent, ‘the product of legitimate recreational or commercial activities.’” April Fools Day just isn’t going to be as funny this year… (I saw this at Eirik’s but it’s […]

I started reading Vernor Vinge’s 1981 novella True Names because it’s arguably one of the earliest cyberpunk stories, though it’s written before cyberpunk was an acknowledged genre. It turns out the protagonist is not only a “warlock” in the computer network but […]