Tomorrow I am going back to Sweden and Ume

I am in one of my favorite caf

This is a follow-up post that was inspired by an entry in Erik Stattin’s blog on wireless in public libraries (not primarily university libraries etc.) – he refers to Norweigian sources (Eirik Newth and Thomas Brevik).
I don’t have a clear sense of the situation in Sweden or elsewhere but I am quite sure that wireless [...]

From donut to books. I have been blogging about the books I have found while traveling. Books, of course, are much more than titles and summaries. They are tangible and visual. Here is my collection so far:

I buy books I need for my various projects and I think I have been rather lucky this time. [...]

Yesterday – when buying books – I also found this book: The Digital Sublime – Myth, power and cyberspace. Author: Vincent Mosco.
According to Mosco, cyberspace is a mythic space –
one that transcends the banal, day-to-day worlds of time, space, and politics to match the “naked truth” of reason with the “dancing truth” of ritual, [...]

I have just been playing with grokker2 for a bit. It has a good feel to it even though I am not sure about its affordances and uses. Anyway, I tried to grok Jaron Lanier (whom I met with a couple of days ago) because I thought he would make a nice case study.

You do [...]

In my pursuit of new interesting books I came across a book on alife and art yesterday. Mitchell Whitelaw’s Metecreation: Art and artificial life (MIT Press).
The blurb (from the MIT Press description):

Artificial life, or a-life, is an interdisciplinary science focused on artificial systems that mimic the properties of living systems. In the 1990s, new media [...]

It is a cool Friday afternoon in Berkeley. On my way to find some books I took this shot. It was taken on Bancroft Way and it shows the east (I guess) outskirts of the campus – near Sprawl Plaza.

The concept of a university police department is rather strange to someone coming from the North [...]

Yesterday evening I finished chapter on virtual worlds and intercultural learning. I sent it off to a few people I trust for reading and commenting. It is a good feeling to send it away – so that I can do the kind of work I really need to do now.
Well, I guess should try to [...]