Ah, another round of this discussion – how should we react when students cite the Wikipedia in papers? I used to say no, you can’t, not unless the fact that it’s the Wikipedia is the point of your argument. Then I eased […]

I found an article by Philippe Lejeune, the prime theorist of diaries for the last several decades and author of the first scholarly monograph about online diaries, “Cher Ècran”: Journal personnel et ordinateur. Paris: Editions de Seuil, 2000, asking “How do Diaries […]

I spent a while this morning hunting for the full text of Brecht’s article about radio from 1932 – the one where he points out that’s there’s no technological reason why radio should be a mass medium rather than a peer-to-peer form […]

Ever wondered whether you’re breaking DRM legislation or now? Even the experts don’t quite know what’s legal, as this recent Norwegian survey shows. I translated the results into English for your reading pleasure; for the Norwegian original follow that link. As Jon […]

Nokia’s LifeBlog creates a chronologically organised blog from all the SMSes, emails, videos and photos that have passed through your phone – Waymarkr takes it a step further by continuously taking photos. Install the free, beta software on one of many Nokia […]

Microsoft’s new mp3-player, Zune, will add DRM to anything you put on it, even if it has a Creative Commons licence that expressly prohibits DRM and states that the work is for sharing freely. A Microsoft employee blogs a response to a […]

Right, I’m going to BlogTalk in Vienna in a couple of weeks time. I’ve been dithering about registering and getting the plane ticket and all the rest of it, but now I’ve done it (nothing like having a deadline to make me […]

This spring I was asked by Andrea Drugan at Polity Press whether I’d be interested in writing a book about blogging for their new series of books on new media. A few weeks ago, I signed the contract! So that’s my big […]

Classic comment from the actor who played Bree in the lonelygirl15: “I didn’t realize how big the Internet really was.”

Ooh, a new lonelygirl15 video! I’m so glad they’re still posting them, despite the videos being revealed as fiction. Unfortunately the comments are extremely mean-spirited, as Jane pointed out yesterday. I wish I had twenty or so people who could code each […]