Last night Scott and I saw Forced Entertainment. I did not enjoy it. I really should have read more reviews before going – this deliberately tedious piece consists simply of two actors sitting at two desks on a stage and taking turns […]

I just sent in the manuscript for the Blogging book I’m writing for Polity Press! Hooray! It’s not quite finished yet. Now it’s going to be read by readers, who’ll give me feedback on it within the next five or six weeks. […]

Remember Surrender Control? The SMS piece back in 2001 where you “surrendered control” to your mobile and received SMSes telling you what to do for three days? Tim Etchells, the author of that, has no doubt done many other things since, but […]

Bj¯rge actually emailed Datatilsynet to ask whether the video database of all the participants in the Stoltzekleiven Opp race was legal. They say no, it wouldn’t normally be unless all participants had agreed to it beforehand (which they may have – maybe […]

This Wednesday at 2.15 pm, Unn Kristin Daling from the Norwegian Internet History project will be giving a guest lecture at our department, discussing methodological issues that arise when dealing with source material for such a project. She will address questions such […]

I’m reading Michael Keren’s book Blogosphere: The New Political Arena, and I’m finding it very annoying. (I suppose the cover should have warned me, eh?) At first I thought the title must be wrong: I thought it would be about political blogging. […]

I have ten more days till my book on blogging for Polity Press has to be finished. Scott suggested I might be interested in the ways Burmese bloggers are spreading news of the current protests, despite the Burmese regime having shut off […]

Espen Skoland, a Norwegian who recently completed his MA on the impact of blogs on political campaigns, notes that while the political parties don’t seem to have done much with the internet in the recent campaign for the local elections, voters have […]