We left the audio on as we worked. I read and searched to the sound of his typing, then later I typed to the sound of occasional outbursts of indignation as he graded papers. Sometimes we shared something we’d found, or thought, […]

Look at that. The University newsletter, PÂ H¯yden, has taken a quote from my remediated-into-website radio interview, combined it with a couple of sentences from the press release and hey presto I’m in the newsletter. Journalism is so efficient, I’m impressed!

Mary Flanagan’s syllabus for her Web Production class is a riot!

I just realised I have to figure out what to wear for my trial lecture, too! Would it be inappropriate to wear the same outfit as I’ll wear the next day? Should the trial lecture attire be a little less formal than […]

Jenny Weight’s course on programmed and networked media is fascinating, both for the topic and because there are lots and lots of creative ideas for stuff to do in class with (and without) blogs. For instance, visualise the network, figure out what […]

In Raine Koskimaa’s new Dichtung Digital article I found this lovely description of a Finnish hypercard work from the late 80s/early 90s: One of these (HyperApocalypsis) employed the premise that if the reader is not interested enough in the story and quits […]

From a Rhizome thread: Why is the loss of email and TV reception met with frustration and near-hysteria, but cell phone signal loss is met with, at best, mild aggravation and more often than not, if you think about it, mild relief […]

Solveig pointed to the stop smoking game at tobakkdreper.no, and after a quick play I have to say it’s pretty cool, as political or argumentative web games go. It’s a strategy game, done in Flash, where you play a tobacco baron and […]

The radio interview this morning was fun, and living as we do in convergent times, they remediated it into a web article three hours later: Doktor i internettfiksjon [update: with a link to the audio]. Very efficient way of interviewing people, that. […]

I shut my computer to put it to sleep and the phone next to it blinks in surprise. The display lights up, blue in distress at losing its link to the computer. It gasps for air. Then goes dark again, quietly and […]