Henry Jenkins has a very useful blog post exploring the origins of the term “digital natives” and showing how its a term that’s increasingly problematic today. This ties in beautifully with the talk I gave in Oslo a couple of weeks ago, […]

Bergens Tidende has a good article about Linn’s machinima evening last Thursday, and Linn herself has blogged very useful rundowns of the program (part 1 and 2) and even two pieces that there wasn’t time for. The evening (and these blog posts) […]

My daughter got a little distracted doing her maths homework this evening, which involved making charts in Excel. She drifted off into the apparently infinitely unfolding edges of the spreadsheet, calling out, “Look mum! I got to 25,000!” and so on as […]

Cory Doctorow on on why social networking sites like Facebook don’t grow forever: For every long-lost chum who reaches out to me on Facebook, there’s a guy who beat me up on a weekly basis through the whole seventh grade but now […]

Matthew Kirschenbaum on how reading is changing, in response to the US National Endowment for the Humanities’ rather retro report on “reading”, To Read or Not to Read: To Read or Not to Read deploys its own self-consistent iconography to tell us […]

Tonight’s going to be busy. First I’m giving a talk on Blogging and Freedom of Speech for the Bergen Linux Users’ Group at 7 pm. The meeting’s open and free, as befits a Linux-lovers’ meeting, so if you’re interested, come to Auditorium […]

Martin Gr¸ner Larsen completed his thesis, “Text, Thought, Time: The Weblog As Essayistic Process”, a literary analysis of blogs, several months ago, and is currently posting a compressed, translated-into-English version on his blog, chapter by chapter in a series he has named […]

Tonight is the Republicans’ YouTube/CNN debate, where, instead of journalists asking all the questions, the rest of us were asked to record questions and upload them to YouTube. CNN then chooses the questions they want to use, and the would-be-presidents answer and […]

Hooray! Labor won the Australian elections! In a landslide! Or, for more background for the non-Australians, see the piece about it in the New York Times.

A couple of years ago I wrote about a family-aware clock much like the Weasley’s clock, developed by Microsoft – they’ve continued working on it and are ready to have a few families try out the prototype: The Whereabouts Clock. It’s kind […]