This morning I walked through the wet grass in my tiny garden to pick a sprig of disobedient peppermint, growing everywhere but where I planted it. I took the peppermint back into the kitchen, put it into a chipped ceramic cup that […]

I hadn’t seen this CFP before, for some reason: it’s calling for 250 word abstracts about blogs, and accepted abstracts will go to 3000 word papers that will be compiled into a peer-reviewed, web collection edited by Clancy Ratliff (who’s doing a […]

When I’m happy, my blog posts get lots of comments. When I’m grumpy, there are no comments at all. I’ve been tracking this hypothesis over the last weeks, and it appears to be foolproof: the correlation between my mood and the number […]

Blogcount tries to work out that notoriously difficult sum: How many blogs are there? (via Lisbeth)

Female EverQuest avatars for sale at ebay are significantly cheaper than male equivalents. Edward Castranova, who wrote a fascinating paper about the economy of EverQuest last year, has just published a paper about this too: The Price of ‘Man’ and ‘Woman’: A […]

Torill has posted a beautiful description of Lisbeth’s defence, and Lisbeth describes it herself, too. There’s even a video to watch of the actual diploma being handed over!

The wife of a Frenchman let me in on a secret method of holding up your side in a conversation in French even when you can hardly speak the language. You simply need three phrases: – C’est vrai! This mean’s “It’s true”, […]

Today Lisbeth‘s defending her PhD thesis on virtual worlds! I wish I could be there, but at any rate, Torill promised me she’ll blog it. Lisbeth’s a bit nervous, but she’ll be fine: she does wonderful work, has strong ideas and will […]

Go look at this map of the world that dynamically displays blog posts, as they’re written, glued to the appropriate place on the map – it’s awesome to watch. For your blog posts to show up here, you need to have the […]