My Books

talk at brown

My talk at Brown today is titled “Weblogs: Learning to Write in the Network” and is going to be mostly about using blogs with students. I’m going to stress network literacy and how blogging is not simply keeping an electronic journal, it’s […]

stockton talk

I’m speaking at Stockton today about weblogs, the real talk that the audio conference a few weeks ago was leading up to. Here are the links I’ll be using.

ms, dr or prof?

So I thought I was over making people call me doctor, but when I rang to book a room at the Inn at Brown, the man said “Which salutation shall I put? Ms, Doctor or Professor?” Hard not to grin at that, […]

anders

Anders has been given his trial lecture topic and he’s blogging towards that and the actual defence. I love how he has different kinds of layout for different kinds of post. Vivaldi Weather, for instance, is a beautiful example of what else […]

jersey shore

Scrambling to the top of the dunes I see endless ocean, sand stretching as far as I can see to either side, no mountains or fjords or islands, and for the first time I realise how much I’ve missed the horizon. It’s […]

parodic blogs

A parodic blog supposedly by the creators of Google. Fiction, mockumentary, whatever. Must be dozens of these kinds of things. Johnny Howard‘s, for instance, and here are a few others.

i shall sms them

“Oh, you can send SMSes to Americans, no problem!”, the phone help desk person assured me. I was trying to change my phone plan so I wouldn’t have to pay 3 kroner a minute on top of the dollar a minute style […]

romeo

Instead of packing, I installed Romeo. Now I have to carry my phone everywhere, because my computer mutes itself and turns on a screensaver when I go out of Bluetooth range. And I can remote control presentations and iTunes. Oh yeah.

problem with ipods…

Grassroots infomercials: Ipodsdirtysecret.com. Keep watching. It’s great media jamming. (possible solution if you do want an ipod: get an extended warranty, they’d just give you a new one, then)