Oh, I would have loved to be here! But then again, I love being here, at home, Christmas decorations up and just thinking about whether I’ll go out and get the last gifts this evening. I’m actually happy that it’s dark already […]

I’ve been offered to opportunity to apply for qualification funding – funding for research travel and so on that’s likely to help me publish more so that I eventually qualify for full professorship. Which would rock. So I’m trying to figure out […]

Interesting new PhD fellowships open at the University of Oslo: two have been advertised for people doing practice-based research on new forms of texts that will be used in knowledge work, learning and so on. My understanding is they’re looking for projects […]

Leevi Lehto in Ny poesi: [P]ublishing in book form can be seen as a concession to the part of my potential readership that has not yet embraced the advantages of reading online. To me, book is a tool for marketing the online […]

Have you heard of Undercover? It’s laptop protection software for Macs that only goes into action when your laptop’s stolen. See, that’s when you tell the Undercover people your secret code, which they then register in their database of stolen computers, and […]

Ugh. When I got to my office this morning a window was slightly open, stuff on the shelf by the window had been knocked down, there were muddy footprints on the floor between the window and the desk and the external monitor […]

If you’re interested in marketing and commercial uses of social software networks, or if you’re concerned about social software in general, you’ll be interested in this post on the weblog ReadWriteWeb which describes Campari’s recent campaign. They combined a soft-porn with a […]

Nick just pinged me to let me know he and Ian Bogost have a website up for their upcoming book series Platform Studies. Platforms have been around for decades, right under our video games and digital art. Those studying new media are […]

Yoo-hoo! Most of the images are up on elinor.nu, our catalogue of Nordic electronic literature, and it looks pretty cool!

We made the Elinor site all snazzy! The new site is just up, so there are a few issues still, and most of the images aren’t there yet, but it’s still looking infinitely better than it was, thanks to Pixelpikene and their […]