I blogged earlier about finding a reference (Forrester 1975) in the book I am working on. I have tried all kinds of methods (see here). Yesterday I tried another not name-dependent search – i.e. I did not focus on Forester but rather on some of the facts that I attributed to Forrester. I used Google [...]

I am on my way home from a business trip. On my why to Arlanda (where I am right now) I read parts of My Mother was a Computer by Katherine Hayles. Really interesting and well-constructed. The last couple of days I have also spent quite a lot of time on preparing an EU [...]

Even though I know of some of the people involved I have not had a sense of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Another reason to spend some time in this part of the US sometime soon. The spring seminar seems interesting.

Game researcher Peter Zackariasson (here at Umeå University) has started to write columns for Realtid.se. Here is the first one (in Swedish). Peter is doing very interesting work. Here is an interview with him (SVT Kontroll, in Swedish). He is based at the Umeå School of Business.

I am spending some time going through a book manuscript I started a long time ago. One thing I hope I have learnt since I started working on the book: keeping track of references. I am presently trying to track down the bibliographic information related to “Forrester 1975″. Apparently it is a book or possibly [...]

I will go to the US twice this semester and on Friday we booked my second trip – in April. About 10 days. I have been invited to give a lecture and to take part in some meetings at UC Irvine. I am looking forward to this trip and hopefully I will be able to [...]

Bruce Damer and Galen Brant were among the first guests in the lab and they are very good personal friends of mine. Bruce just sent me a few photos from a random meeting in 2003 – in Thailand. I had just been in the US and we had not managed to get together because of [...]