After a day in the Santa Cruz mountains I am now back in Berkeley. I had a great and productive day (maong other thing outlining the virtual worlds timeline project), and I will blog about it tomorrow on the HUMlab blog. There is a CAL-USC football game going in Los Angeles (90,000 people there!) and [...]
After a long flight and some time adjustment I am now (Friday evening local time) taking some time to go through email, upcoming meetings and writing tasks. I had planned to visit my favorite bookstore, but when I entered they were about to close in three minutes. It is unusually quiet here. I guess thanksgiving [...]
I am currently on a flight back to Europe after a week in the US. This morning I considering taking the power adaptor for my laptop with me but I did not. Stupid! I did not anticipate a functioning internet connection on the Lufthansa flight from San Francisco to Frankfurt. I have 54% battery power left. [...]
Rheingold: SL: world. Not community. Fred Turner: What makes SL feel consistent and at home? Cory: not really consistent. Cory: Innovation rate important. Web does not encourage intersecting networks. Conventions: Do not talk with people on BART. In shop you are more likely to talk. New York City. 60+ companies building stuff in SL. conflict: work/play. [...]
I am currently attending Critical Studies in New Media seminar at Stanford featuring Howard Rheingold and Cory Ondrejka (Linden Lab). About 25 people (1/3: women). Many Ph.D. students from a variety of departments and faculty such as Michael Shanks and Fred Turner. Seminar theme: Participatory Media. A very nice informal setup. Food. Cory is presently talking about [...]
I found this article in SULF-tidningen about a newly published Ph.D. thesis (in Swedish) on the two cultures: Emma Eldelin: De två kulturerna” flyttar hemifrån: C.P. Snows begrepp i svensk idédebatt 1959-2005 The book is available from Carlssons förlag (see here).
I have had a nice morning. After having had breakfast waffles at the hotel I walked to campus and had a cappucino at an outdoor café reading the first chapter of Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-First Century by Kurt Spellmeyer. I will probably do a series of blog entries on the [...]
Today I bought a couple of books at the Stanford Bookstore: From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Fred Turner. [Hopefully I will get be getting together with Fred this coming week] The Access Principle. The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. John Willinsky. [...]
I have now arrived in Palo Alto and there is a Starbucks next to the hotel. I am not a huge Starbucks fan but they are ok and it is a nice feeling to have a café that closes 11.30 pm nextdoors. When I went there (just before closing time) it was full of people [...]
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