Yesterday I got to be one of the parents to accompany my daughter’s class on their annual skidag or ski day. It was amazing. Norway is so beautiful, and skiing is so calmly pleasant, and kids are so happy and nice to […]

A tentative agenda is finally up for MiT5, and it has more parallel sessions than any conference I’ve ever been to. I mean, I know that the MLA and SIGGRAPH and such have 20,000 attendees, but I’ve always avoided them. I wonder […]

This blog post includes a link to the PDF report of a UK survey on what web 2.0 software and sites people really use – from Myspace, Flickr and blogging to World of Warcraft. A lot more people blog than play World […]

Students have been telling me that Facebook seems to have taken off in Norway over the last few weeks. Alexa shows that it’s currently the 32nd most visited site in Norway. That means students use it more than they use the University […]

Instead of waiting for the schedule to come up for the MiT5 conference (at MIT, April 27-29), I googled the blogosphere, and found the following participants: Scott Rettberg, Nick Montfort and I are doing a panel on “Appropriation and Collaboration in Digital […]

My students generally have no idea what I’m talking about when I ask them to analyse a website or blog or work of digital art or literature. A close reading, I say, textual analysis, and I try to explain it but I […]

Social network sites now have 6.5% of all traffic on the web, and is still growing rapidly, Hitwise reports. Here’s the distribution between sites: (via Micropersuasion)

I like my university. Not only do they have Studblogg, they’re running a competition for the best student-produced 20 second YouTube-ready video promoting the University. I think this is my favourite so far, although there are others that would probably, well, work […]

Inspired by Scott’s list, here’s where I’m planning on travelling this year. MiT5, April 27-29, at MIT (Cambridge, MA). I’m on a panel with Scott and Nick. ELO2007: The Future of Electronic Literature, May 3, MITH in Maryland. Personal Democracy Forum 2007 […]

I think I was born fifteen years too late to have an FTIC (Full-Time Intimate Community): FTICs are the close group of friends (usually around 8-10 people) with whom you share presence. Most mobile youths know whether members of their FTIC are […]