I’m in Chicago attending SLSA 2005, the conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. There’s a whole track devoted to electronic literature, so I’m pretty excited. In a couple of hours I’m talking in a panel about distributed narration, […]

I’m often amused to hear how interviewees experienced their encounters with journalists. Here’s one from a person who’s moved back to New Orleans and whose art program for at-risk youths is doing just fine – unfortunately that’s really not what the journalist […]

The other day I spent an hour with a Ukrainian. I think. He didn’t respond when I talked to him (in character as my dwarven warrior) but when I waved goodbye and was promptly attacked by three giant spiders simultaneously he helped […]

A great advantage of pseudonymous academic blogs is honest talk about the teacher-student relationship and pedagogy that works with real students. Dr Crazy’s been writing about her pragmatic rather than pedagogically idealised teaching lately, and today there’s a very specific post at […]

Hey, I’m on the jury of Gullbloggen, Dagbladet’s blog competition. You can nominate Norwegian blogs (written in Norwegian or English) until November 2, and then the jury – Bente Kalsnes, Olav Anders and me, will select three in each category, leaving the […]

Olav Anders ÿvreb¯ writes about a recently announced new Norwegian search engine, Sesam, which will apparently do a kind of google news service where it pays news sources users click through to, and which will connect a lot of publically available information […]

Hey, I’m on the jury of Gullbloggen, Dagbladet’s blog competition. You can nominate Norwegian blogs (written in Norwegian or English) until November 2, and then the jury – Bente Kalsnes, Olav Anders and me, will select three in each category, leaving the […]

Today at 12:15 PÂl Dimmen, one of the first batch of masters students (well, cand. philol. really, it was before the switch) to graduate with a post graduate degree in humanistic informatics is returning to his alma mater to tell current students […]

Whoops. A psuedonymous blogger complained about a friend who’d lived off welfare while the blogger had paid taxes, and the friend found the blog entry and told the real story in a comment to the original post – yesterday the blogger admitted […]

Hey, Bergen said no to Clear Channel’s advertising in public spaces! Awesome!!! Public outrage can actually lead to our democratically elected representatives changing their minds! Yay! Thanks, everyone! (Yeah, I’m late, it was yesterday. I was busy…)