We finished it! Last Friday, two days before the deadline, Hilde and I sent the whole World of Warcraft anthology off to MIT Press! And look, Hilde’s photo shows it was a really big wad of paper (oh, they got it electronically […]

Fizzy’s Second Life Screencasts by first year law students studying property law in Second Life. (tags: secondlife property law) Exmocare: For Family Care Goodness. A wristwatch that monitors “your loved one” and sends you an email or an SMS if there are […]

On Tuesday, April 24, at 14:15, Barbara Ganley is giving a guest lecture here at the University of Bergen. Barbara is the author of bgblogging, and has used blogs in her teaching of writing for several years with great success. She has […]

Of course there’s been a lot of blogging about the Virginia Tech shootings (terrifying, heartbreaking), and about the use of social media and citizen reporting around them. Tama Leaver has an excellent post discussing intended versus unintended citizen journalism, and the ethics […]

Websites as graphs – an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet I’ve seen this site before, but was reminded of it while looking at and for visualisations of blog networks. This one generates really pretty pictures – though with no information about which URL […]

Will the JFK of the Net be French ? – Le Blog de Netpolitique Interesting article about the creative and extensive use of the web in the current French election campaigns, with links to sources both in French and in English. (tags: […]

Some of you have followed the fuss about bullying in blogs in the aftermass of the death threats to Kathy Sierra from the meankids blog (now shut down). Tim O’Reilly has suggested a Blogger’s Code of Conduct, which is pretty over the […]

Scott notes the 3rd Ciutat de VinarÚs International Prize for Digital Literature, with quite substantial prizes: Ä2500 each for best narrative and best poetry, and Ä1000 for best work of digital literature in Catalan. They’ll accept works in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, […]

Google maps just released My Maps, which lets you annotate maps with location points, lines, descriptions and HTML (allowing you to include images and links, for instance). You can save your maps and make them private or public. The Google Maps Mania […]

Bembo’s Zoo is an animated alphabet book (or, uh, website) where each letter spells the name of an animal – until the letters drift off and become the animal! Oh, and it’s all done in the font Bembo. I adore it and […]