On Monday I will give a talk (1,5 hours I believe!) on studying digital culture. The audience will mainly be about 30 teachers from the local area. Here is the abstract in Swedish:
Att studera digital kultur
Informationstekniken kommer in i våra liv på många olika sätt. Den är en del av vår vardag och kultur. Mobiltelefonerna [...]

I have just moved offices and going through boxes and plastic bags with stuff from my previous office I find all kinds of interesting things. Here is a recent example:

Fancy pen holder?

There is an article in a local paper today (Västerbottens Folkblad) about yesterday’s event here at the university – hundreds of school children visiting the university. The article partly describes how the kids got to program a lego robot. Some of the girls are interviewed and they seem to think that the lego robot was [...]

I am getting there. This is the book (not quite final but almost):

This is one single screenshot. You need a lot of screen space to fit more than 190 pages into Microsoft Word’s preview view. Of course, you can actually see more details when you do it on the screen (and do not have to [...]

I started a new blog entry because I thought I wanted to write but I do not seem to have anything say. I have been going through my book manuscript sorting minor things out. I do not have any more writing to do (basically) and I hope to have a full version ready by tomorrow [...]

For the first evening in a long time I am taking some time off – also from having a few Friday beers at the local pub. I have sorted some linguistics books for my library and I intend to watch TV, tidy my study up and maybe do a bit of emailing.
Earlier this week [...]

I am looking forward to reading Willard McCarthy’s new book Humanities Computing. It has just been published. Here is the introduction and the index.

A couple of years I tried to take five minutes at the end of every day to write down what I had done during the day (professionally). Rather useful and I think I should try it again. Thinking back on the week that has soon come to an end I tried to figure out what [...]

As a linguist I used to do quite a lot of work with corpora (text databases) and concordance software (software that enables you do look for all instances of a word or a phrase in a text – among other things). Of course concordances have been around for a long time (see for instance the [...]