There’s a championship in computer-throwing behind Johanneskirken on Friday at one. How therapeutic!

In today’s Digital Culture class we chatted with Eliza, the famous computer psychologist, and it seems one of the students has whipped up a blog-reading version of this famous bot, because she commented on my last post, from a UiB arts faculty […]

She’d never start blogging, she told me a few months ago. Now she has: Geniwate or Jenny Weight blogs with deep scepticism of honesty: As if I’m going to treat my blog as a dear , when you, of all people, can […]

Rune R¯sten’s written rather a nice little comparison of journalistic treatment of Bill Gate’s speech vs. blogged reports of it (May 5, no permalink, in Norwegian). The journalists he cites didn’t check the original speech but reproduced misinterpretations of it from other […]

Perhaps interesting in relation to blogging and discussions between blogs: Don Byrd and Derek Owens. “Writing in the Hivemind” in Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet, New York: Columbia UP, p 47-58. Or perhaps not, no time to skim it. […]

Oh wow. I just received a copy of the New Media Reader, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, and wow. I mean, I had seen the table of contents and thought, basically, wow, but I think it’s just seeing it now […]

Torill’s interested though sceptical to the idea of “media-controlled blogs” at Dagbladet, that is, that they’ll let user’s create their own blogs. On their fourth day of blogging, Dagbladet’s weblog posts are starting to seem more webloggish. Personal opinions of Torsdagsklubben posted […]

The candidates for the next American presidential election who are not blogging might need to hurry up to keep up: Turns out that some candidates notably Howard Dean, and increasingly-looking-like-a-candidate Gary Hart have their own blogs. This raises the disturbing prospect of […]

Dagbladet’s seriously going for weblogs, as an article by the adm. dir. of the net version shows: Vi blogges! it cheerfully exclaims. They’re planning to open up a community area where readers can blog too, which’ll be interesting. It’s amazing seeing weblogs […]

Any MoveableType experts around? I’d love help on this. You see, if someone sends me a trackback, but the entry it’s sent from doesn’t have a title, MoveableType substitutes the URL of the post instead. The URL is invariably far too long […]