I just discovered that Loobylu has a cooking section, Celebrity Chef with recipes with stories and lots of those gorgeous illustrations her blog is speckled with. I want to bake the Princess Meg Birthday Celebration Cookies.

Eirik’s started displaying comments and trackbacks prominently, which is lovely! Monologic blogs (with no comments) are less interesting than the dialogic ones, he finds, and though I used to be a comment-skeptic, these days I agree with him. Eirik also shows the […]

So many of the books at amazon are rehashed inferior versions of lively websites. I’ve been browsing to find some extremely undemanding summer reading and noticed that the apparently popular of V series reviews mention that V is known from the “Redbook […]

Salam Pax, the Baghdad blogger, will be writing a bi-weekly column in The Guardian, says an article in Wired, and is interviewed in the latest issue of Tekka (subscription required). The is he real? discussions seem to have stopped.

There’s an article in The Chronicle about scholarly blogs, and it points to two lists of such blogs: Professors Who Blog and Henry Farrow‘s blogroll (see the lower right column of his main blog page). Henry notes in a recent blog post […]

I dreamt my thumbs were broken. They swelled up and hurt and I couldn’t decide which hospital to go to so wandered up and down a curving road until I woke up. Consulting dream dictionaries I find that this is highly ambiguous […]

Grandtextauto’s a blog that keeps discussing stuff I’m interested in. Noah wrote a review of Marie-Laure Ryan’s Narrative as Virtual Reality (an excellent book) and its generated some discussion, including comments from Marie-Laure herself. Nick’s posted a review of MelbourneDAC. On a […]

There’s an interesting piece discussing how blog stories spread at Microdot News. They’ve looked at 45 stories that have been discussed on a lot of different blogs, and propose that participants either post opinions, reactions, summaries or votes. I’m not sure quite […]

Searching for a book owned by no university library in Norway yet cited in a student essay I’m assessing I came across Educational Action Research, an international peer-reviewed journal full of articles about combining practice, theory and reflection in teaching. A lot […]

When we were in Tokyo Lisbeth remarked that there was a new background sound: not just the beep beep of SMSes and mono- and polyphonic ring tones but also an ascending arpeggio announcing the arrival of a picture message to a telephone […]