I left Umeå this morning and am now waiting for my flight to Frankfurt. The final leg is Frankfurt-San Francisco. Unsurprisingly it has been a smooth trip so far. I had a good conversation with friend and former HUMlab director Torbjörn Johansson on the Umeå-Arlanda flight. I like this exact moment. Having worked very hard [...]

After a quick jog and a compensatory kebab, I am now going through my book manuscript at my favorite café. At this point here are only two more people here – enough to support to sense of an open café (although I think some staff around is probably enough). I am trying not too do too major [...]

I mentioned the audio recording of my chapter in the book that has just been published. It can be found here (mp3). We are very happy about the book itself - both the content and the ’feeling’ of the book.  I am at the café right now – spending two hours taking it easy, answering emails and writing. Upon entering [...]

This is the first blog entry created on my new Windows Vista machine (as far as I know). Although I am actually not at the computer right now. Rather, I am using remote desktop. A few notes on the computer: It was ordered with a RAID 1 configuration, but Dell did not configure it that [...]

Update from Sunday café session. No fire this time, but more people here than normally. I had planned to do some work on the digital humanities article, but I got side-tracked several times. Well, there is still 30 minutes to go. Tomorrow’s HUMlab seminar with Anne Balsamo should help! It is nice to have the [...]

Infontology refers to a column (page 31) on the humanities (and theology) written by dean Jan Svensson at Lund University. The material is in Swedish, and soon I will do most of my Sweden-focused humanities blogging in Swedish on another blog. At Lund University there are several financial problems for many areas and not least [...]

I have chosen not to prioritze blogging lately – or may be I have chosen to not to prioritize doing things that will encourage me to blog. Going to cafés for instance. Anyhow, I am spending Sunday evening at my favorite café. That’s a common start to my blog entries I think. This time I [...]

This afternoon I got a book I have been waiting for with anticipation (believe it or not): CALL Dimensions: Options and Issues in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. I have already found use for it in the chapter I am writing right now. And also, there are references in the book to an article I wrote a [...]

I am in the café again working on a part of my article that deals with information technology as a tool in digital humanities. I am trying to come up with a framework for analyzing different kinds of tools. What makes a tool innovative? How can the material qualities of a tool be articulated? On [...]

The café is almost full. I guess people are tired of shopping and being social at home. I found a table, but I had to move a plant and remove a few chairs to get enough space. And while I wish the café good business i hope they are not getting too popular. I need [...]