For the first time in some time I took time to go to my favorite café downtown tonight. I really feel the need to work on my book and several articles I am working on. I did not do that much work but I sort of got in touch with that side of things again. [...]

This past week has been intense. Teaching, HUMlab things, applications, visitors etc. Yesterday I gave a lecture on information history. It was really fun and I enjoyed talking the students. It seemed as if several of them are interested in doing things in the lab. These days I rarely teach a whole course – rather [...]

Tomorrow afternoon I will do a lecture downtown on an expanded notion of text for school people. It is an in-service book and film day with author Sara Kadefors among others. Program here. The title of my talk is “Att vidga textbegreppet” (expanding our notion of text).

I have been involved in several projects funded by the Council for the Renewal of Higher Education in Sweden. This organization has tried to develop higher education (primarily undergraduate education but also graduate education) in Sweden and to support teachers and students involved in innovative projects that may improve learning. One underlying idea has been [...]

Below is the program for the FUMS conference at Uppsala University where I will talk on May 9 (most of it in Swedish, sorry). The conference has a clear humanities and information technology orientation.
Ett vidgat textbegrepp
Tisdagen den 9 maj 2006
Synen på texter har kommit att förändras de senaste decennierna. Mycket talar också för att de [...]

I will edit a book/collection of articles on academic language education/learning and information technology this year. It will be published by the Swedish Net University. I am very happy about this and it will be a good continuation of the inspiring symposium we ran last year. There is a great deal of interesting work going [...]

Since yesterday was a holiday today feels like a second Saturday. I have not had the energy to do all the work I had planned to do but I did a bit. I installed PaperPort which I will use to scan analogue notes of different kinds. The end result is pdf files with descriptive text [...]

I was a bit surprised when I got to the university this afternoon to find quite a few cars parked outside the Humanities Building. After all, today is a holiday here for some reason (day 13 after Christmas – basically the end of Christmas).
The Humanities building turned out to be unusually busy also in [...]

The new Lenovo T60 has now been announced. Here is some Lenovo information (also on the new X60). Here is an early review from AnandTech. On the great thinkpads.com forum the discussion has already started.
To be honest, I don’t like the fact they changed the volume/power buttons to silver, and added the multimedia [...]

I have been playing around with Wordpress 2.0 tonight – trying to get a sense of this tool at the same time as building the new blog I am working on. I am rather impressed – not least with the integrated wysiwyg interface, the link system and the the fact that it seems faster than [...]