I have the feeling I’ve been rather slow on this, but I only just discovered TechMeme. It’s like Google News – but for blog posts. So this morning, you can see that the most hotly debated item on blogs right now is […]

We made a poster about humanistic informatics, too, when we were doing the research project posters on electronic literature and game research. Those of you who can read Norwegian can, well, read it, the rest of you can enjoy the pretty fonts. […]

Axel Bruns has written a very useful discussion of Habermas’s (lack of) development of his notion of the public sphere in response to the internet, based on a keynote adress Habermas gave that is now published.

Remember those amazing screens they used to analyse memory data from the precogs in Minority Report? Looks like we might actually be able to use screens like that soon: So this is by Perceptive Pixel, a company started last year by Jeff […]

Several people have been writing about my concept of feral hypertext in the last few days (Beth Kantor, Tags/Network/Narrative, a discussion in English 518’s Course Blog (taught by Chutry) – or see Technorati’s up-to-date list), so I thought I should provide a […]

Interesting uses of Twitter: Attendees of SWSX can send the text JOIN SWSX to a number and have their twitters shown on a large screen during the conference – or, I imagine, subscribe to all conference tweets as SMSes sent to their […]

There’s a great review of the Electronic Literature Collection in today’s Svenska Dagbladet, which is (I think?) Sweden’s biggest newspaper. The review was written by Jesper Olsson, who’s doing his PhD on digital literature at the University of Stockholm (but who apparently […]

I’ve been using Twitter today, and as in the early days of blogging, half the posts seem to be thinking about the technology itself. It’s kind of fun, to be honest, though I suspect it might not be sustainable. So what is […]

Oh, look: MA students at a British university are editing the Wikipedia as part of the coursework, and it counts for an eighth of their grade. I’ve thought of doing that but discarded the idea worrying that forcing uninterested students to do […]

Internationally, Microsoft is one of the companies with the most bloggers – though that’s probably not too surprising since they’re also one of the biggest companies, with something like 60-70,000 employees globally and growing. Robert Scoble, one of the most profilific Microsoft […]