A follow-up observation regarding my post on screens. One of the problems with such a setup is content. Right now the screens are blank/black, and the way they were placed in the café, that lack of content is rather noticable. If the screens had been an even more integrated more part of the space it [...]

Screens integrated in café . Newspaper frontpages quite crisp and readable. Simple, useful and stylish setup.

A vibrant café full of people, activites, sound, people talking. Then, suddenly someone shouting really loud and aggressive (madman like). Everyone goes silent. All conversations stop. Gradually we realise that the shouting was performed by one of the combatants in a chess game at one of the tables in the café. The sound level has [...]

One of the things that energize me is meeting interesting people and getting a sense of what is going on in various places. Today I met with Daniel Greenstein who is doing very interesting things at the University of California Digital Library. On Friday I will drive to Santa Cruz and meet with Warren Sack [...]

Another caf̩. Evening. I have looked at job advertisements at the Humanist List Рnot to find a new job (as I looked at ones from 2005) Рto try to get a sense of the humanities computing job market for my article.
“I can talk in front of anyone” (young woman being interviewed by a [...]

I am currently working on my article on the humanities and information technology; more specifically thinking about foundaitonal narratives for paradigms such as humanities computing and the importance (or possibly non-importance) of names and labeling. (Will anyone be interested in reading this?)
I have not been able to blog as much as I planned on this [...]

A History and Theory Reader: New media old media. Edited by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Thomas Keenan. Many interesting articles put together. Will evaluate mix later. I am not sure about publishing year. Copyright 1996 in my copy but 2003 on Amazon.
The Internet and the Madonna: Religious Visionary Experience on the Web. By [...]

It is nice to have left Umeå for a bit even though I am already looking forward to getting back. I will spend about 2,5 weeks in the US and I am in between flights at Heathrow right now. I almost missed the Stockholm flight because the Umeå flight was late. Why? Well, the computer [...]

This past Friday I finally submitted the manuscript for the book on language education and information technology (in Swedish) that I have been working on for quite some time (I referred to it first on November 16, 2003 on this blog). It has clearly taken too long to finish it but I have not really [...]