So have you seen that Amazon’s going to be selling an ebook of its own called the Kindle? It looks pretty ugly, doesn’t it, and yes, we’ve seen ebooks before, but apparently this one will be different because it’s got wireless connectivity […]

I’ve seen some collaborative story-writing apps for Facebook before, but this is the first narrative I’ve seen that’s written to be read in Facebook: Why Some Dolls are Bad, by Kate Armstrong and Henry Khachatryan. I found it in the same way […]

You might have guessed from my fascination with babies, my sudden uptake of knitting and the slight bulge of my tummy: Scott and I are having a baby! We had the “big” ultrasound today, at the hospital, where they look to see […]

I’m speaking in Oslo today, at the Fleksibel lÊring (flexible learning) conference at the University of Oslo. Here’s the slideshow I’ll be using. It’s in Norwegian, sorry to all you non-weegies – you might be able to follow it anyway, though. | […]

Annelogue wrote recently about watching FLYING: Confessions of a Free Woman, a six hour movie by Jennifer Fox that explores how women live, think and feel today across the globe. Intrigued by Annalogue’s post I followed the link to the director’s blog, […]

Jon Hoem is leading a group from NVU that will look at uses of Web 2.0 in higher education, and they’ve started a blog, Undervisning 2.0. Should be interesting – Jon has a lot of good ideas about these things.

There are 244,387 Norwegians between the ages of 16 and 19. There are 204,060 Norwegians between the ages of 16 and 19 on Facebook. That means that 83.5% of Norwegians between the ages of 16 and 19 are on Facebook. I wonder […]

If you’re interested in social network sites like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and the like, you’ll want to have a look at the special issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication that just came out, edited by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison. […]

Great quote from Jeff Jarvis, via Kristine Lowe: They think this is ‘new media.’ And they think thatís something they need to try. (I would have hoped theyíd have come to that conclusion about 12 years ago.) Of course, itís not just […]

I’m still waiting to read William Gibson’s latest novel, Spook Country – but Martin’s read it and more than that, has wandered around through Gibson’s blog and discovered that the posts on it from October 2004, pointing to stories of things happening […]