Stefan Blomberg, one of the HUMlab graduate students, writes for the Swedish blog “Att skriva om TV-spel”. It is collaborative blog (five men!) and there seems to be quite a lot of lively (and male-dominated) discussion there. Stefan is doing some great work and I really think that being part of discussions like these and [...]

There is a new book in the Mediawork Pamphlet series coming out soon: Shaping Things by science fiction author Bruce Sterling. Should be interesting! Spimes are “future manufactured objects with informational support so extensive and rich that they are regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system”.

For Swedish-speaking readers: Tomorrow’s radio program Gender (Swedish public radio P1) will discuss the genderedness of the computer game industry. Time: 3.15 pm (but I am sured it will be archived). They will start out from a project called Supermarit – the goal of which is to change the whole game industry through visiting schools, [...]

The past couple of days I have seen groups of exchange students on campus being told about the university and university life in English. Another major group of students – the new ones – are undergoing a variety of initiation rites on campus and elsewhere. More and more faculty turn up and it is soon [...]

Cliff Atkinson has interviewed a number of really interesting people about their use and understanding of PowerPoint and presentation media. Among others Scott McCloud, Nathan Shedroff, Larry Lessig and Don Norman (and yes, the interviews are almost exclusively with male media people).

Today I baked bread for the first time in at least three years. It is something I used to do and I am happy about having taken bread baking up again (at least once) – although it is clear that I am not as ambitious in my baking endevours as Stephanie.
On a much more professional [...]

I listened to ten mintues from a radio discussion about John Dewey and his work on Swedish national radio earlier today (in the car). In “Filosofiska rummet” (the Philosphical room) in Swedish. Stream available from here. I have found Dewey’s writings on education very useful and I like his approach to things in general (given [...]

Currently I am following two online discussions carried out in different platforms:
Coglist email list discussion on conceptual metaphors
Grand Text Auto blog discussion on ergodic and cybertext
It is interesting to think about how (if?) the materiality of the medium affects the actual conversation. But, also, it is quite apparent that what makes a good discussion is [...]

I have been trying to finish a book section on electronic literature for some time but I have not quite been able to. I have been working on other things and also I have officially been on holiday. Anyway, today I finished it and I have learnt a lot reading texts such as From Lexia [...]

This is well-respected linguist Talmy Givon (I love his 1979 book On Understanding Grammar) on a 2000 article on human evolution (on the FUNKNET list today):
As some of you may know, I am a slow reader & live out in the boonies.
So it took me a while to get to a superb (tho long & [...]