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 […]

The University of Bergen was a pretty early adopter of blogging, at least in terms of marketing themselves to potential students. Last year’s StudBlogg has returned, this year with four bloggers who are all doing a great job of sharing some of […]

See, I knew flowers were good: 3. Buy yourself flowers once a week and display them prominently on your desk. Women who sat near a bouquet of flowers were more relaxed during a typing assignment than women who didn’t have flowers, according […]

The humanities faculty is reorganising into fewer, larger departments, and humanistic informatics will be with comparative literature, comparative linguistics, nordic language and literature, theatre studies, classics and art history – should be a really interesting mix. Tomorrow and the next day we’re […]

Is anyone using Twitter? As with most of these social sites I’m not sure how useful it will be, but I’m curious as to how it works. And again, you need friends on it to figure it out! I’m intrigued that it […]

This week is the school winter break, so I’m writing with my ten-year-old sitting in the sofa watching cartoons. Go outside, the weather’s beautiful, I say, as I type hunched over my computer, carefully ignoring the dishes piled on the kitchen counter […]

Thanks to a discussion in our research guild, I now know about this comprehensive list of in-jokes and cultural references in World of Warcraft. There’s a lot!

Oh dear. I’m writing my DAC paper, and I’m at that stage where I have no idea what I’m doing. The abstract looks so interesting, and was cleverly constructed to use stuff I’m doing anyway for the blogging book but with a […]

I’m sure I’ve seen statistics showing that 38% of Norwegians have been on television, but I now that I want to cite that, I can’t find the stats. Argh! Any ideas? My point is that even mainstream media is very participatory these […]