She finds the sky boring, all stark empty blues and whites and greys. She needs colour, multitude, intensity, glow, she says: she’ll do anything to be in that fire. She doesn’t want to see beyond it. Sometimes the sky glows red too, […]

Here’s a spatially organised chart of ways blogs can be used in teaching. (via Jon)

George Bush has got his own official blog. He doesn’t post himself, of course, someone called “GeorgeWBush.com” does the posting. (via Jon, who also links to other US presidential candidates with blogs)

Anders has made an intro to web design for the media department in Oslo that’s excellent: no coding (plenty of that elsewhere) but instead a discussion of rhetoric, goals, organisation, architecture, colours, links and so on. There are lots of images, links […]

Did you know that AOL’s network for Instant Messaging (AIM), which iChat talks with, has been deemed a monopoly? Next time AOL upgrads AIM they’ll have to make it interoperable with other networks. So they’re not going to upgrade it. This appears […]

The Association of Internet Researchers conference is on, in Toronto. Liz just gave her talk on blogs this morning, Thomas Burg liked it, and Liz (in iChat while listening to presentations) sends me the URL to a site that collects blog posts […]

Oil refineries don’t let visitors get their fingers caught in the machinery. They load visitors into a bus and make a show of gathering up all the visitors’ lighters and matches to be kept safely at the front of the bus, out […]

Three days at Alver hotel discussing university pedagogy. Among other things we’re going on an excursion to an oil refinery to explore leadership and learning. Or something. If I wasn’t so sleepy from preparing my presentation for tomorrow I’d probably feel quite […]

On Rhizome a few days ago there was an announcement of a new exhibition of political computer games, based in South Africa, called <re:Play>. Haven’t had a spare moment to look at it yet, but it’s reported to be rather fascinating, and […]

Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) starts tomorrow, and Hanne-Lovise assures me there are lots of goodies. I’ll have to try and catch some of them.