In today’s class we’re going to look at the transition to print and we’ll discuss how technology and culture interact – and we’ll do some more blogging, too. Easy reading this week: just chapter two of Bolter’s Writing Space, which is about […]

Hm. My iMac is being fixed, and the repair person rang and asked for my password so he could fix it. Should he actually need that? Can’t they boot off a CD or something and not need access to my personal files? […]

Students blogging in our Critical Approaches to Technology and Society course: Robin Hamdi Alex Cristina Olav Catello Morten Bradley Lene ÿistein Sindre John Marius Iselin Derek Ole Johan Alessandro Maja

I dreamt that only one student showed up for the first class of Critical Approaches to Technology and Society this morning. I did the lets get to know each other thing just for him, I showed him how to use a blog […]

Hey, Kristine J¯rgensen, Bergen girl who studied at my university (though at Infomedia not our department) and is now finishing her PhD in game studies in Copenhagen, is Microsoft Norway’s new xbox gaming lifestyle specialist! Congratulations, Kristine!

Oh dear. I just posted a photo of the cherry blossoms on the tree I walk past on my way to work, and on a whim, did a search for “cherry blossoms in january“. They’re everywhere – Bergen, Paris, New York, Massachusetts. […]

A journalist rang me last night with questions about YouTube – Marika suggested he call me, he said, which was cool (thanks Marika!), because unlike last summer, by now I do know stuff about YouTube, more than enough for the two brief […]

There’s a conference in Bergen in a couple of weeks time (commercial, not academic) called “Digital hverdag”, which means digital everyday life – there are exhibitions, and presentations, you know, but the striking thing is they’ve managed to set up a program […]

I’ve had Snap Preview on this blog for ten days now, which I reckon is enough for us to make up our minds about it. It’s cool in many ways – it’s certainly fun for a bit mousing over links and seeing […]

I need to read and comment on chapters of an MA thesis, so this will be brief, but it sounds interesting – it seems a blogger ran a campaign against the Disney-owned radio channel KFSO, which runs a talk show whose host […]