“Games can make things more complicated, rather than less complicated,” Ian Bogost told Stephen Colbert last night on the Colbert report. You can watch the segment on the Comedy Central website – at least until the next episode of the Colbert Report […]

Blogging is becoming a profession. Dooce has been making a “comfortable enough middle class to upper-middle class income” since she put graphical ads on her blog in 2005 (Salt Lake Tribune, October 14, 2006 – sorry, you have to pay $2.90 to […]

Some of the reasons I’m looking forward to Leopard coming out in October: A pretty graphical thing called Stacks to make piles of documents look not only neat, but sexy. I wish my manual desktop would do that. Copy something in an […]

Look at that: the words in white were written by Wikipedia authors whose contributions to the encyclopedia tend to be “preserved, or built-upon”, while the words in orange were written by authors whose contributions tend to be deleted, reverted or edited. Does […]

MIT Press sent us the copyedited version of the World of Warcraft Reader last week, so now Hilde and I, and most of the contributors, are going through the manuscript considering all those little red marks. I must say, I’m really impressed […]

I finally realised that the reason I feel like I’m all hunched up in my new office is not that I suddenly became more hunching but that the desk in here is five cm too low for me. No wonder I’m in […]

Megnut has a great post on how she ate during pregnancy and why – instead of just following every one of the ridiculous list of items Not To Eat, she actually researched why you’re not supposed to eat them. If it crosses […]

My friend Birthe Taraldset recently started blogging at Birthes mening. Birthe is a lawyer who’s done important work on whistle-blowing, was on the recent government committee to suggest legislation on computer-based crime, and is an active debater in the Norwegian media. She […]

Henry Jenkins has some interesting notes on the recent YouTube/CNN debates. If you’re American you know all about them, if not you might want a recap: for the first televised debates between the Democrats’ presidential candidates, CNN and YouTube collaborated and asked […]

Here’s a pretty amusing video that’s been going the rounds – it’s the first episode, uh, webisode, of a series about a World of Warcraft guild…