Torill’s defence is being planned, down to the details of which Dean wears what, and the dates are September 11 and 12. Congratulations, Torill!

Danah Boyd is doing a PhD on Friendster (or more generally on online communities, social networks and identity management) and so, obviously, has a blog tracking the whole phenomenon: Connected Selves. Did you know you can buy a new Friendster network on […]

There is a Norwegian work of interactive fiction: Prinsessen i berget det blÂ. You need a nice old Spectrum computer to play it on, or an emulator, and the review says it’s kind of boring, but hey, it’s Norwegian!

Adam Cadre’s interactive fiction Photopia was touted to me as a game where I wouldn’t get stuck and cross because I couldn’t figure out what the interface wanted me to do next. It’s also said to take about an hour and a […]

I’ve often thought that the people who criticise Powerpoint haven’t realised that you don’t have to use bulleted points and preset designs. Of course, if you do, Edward Tufte’s probably right: it’s boring and the overuse of templates indeed may “usually weaken […]

Friendster is terrifying. It’s not just the way it smears this junior highschool atmosphere over everything, as Patricia wrote, it’s so unbelievably cliquish. You might come across someone you didn’t know, who has similar interests to you and maybe, with luck, lives […]

Ten enthusiastic students, and it was fun! Hooray!

My wish: that when a university installs a new LMS and insists everyone use it they make sure the servers are fast enough to handle 20000 students and teachers using it (trying to use it) on the first day of a new […]

A message on Fibreculture today asked for links to statistics about Internet usage and there are several useful-looking suggestions in the answers so far. NUA has what appear to be good statistics on how many people are online globally, though they’ve not […]