Might as well warn you: It's not likely that I will blog anything until December, at the earliest. I'm way too...
Finishing this dissertation is a emotional rollercoaster. Every other day, I'm completely sad and scared, being stuck in a new...
I've been meaning to write about Commanding Heights for a while now, but I just never get to do it, as...
I'm thinking a lot about Web genres these days. OK, here's an exercise. Click on the link below, turn away as...
Like most modern cities in Europe, Oslo is turning industrial parts of the city into recidential areas. Now, a real prime...
"What's the difference between weblogs and journals?", Helen Whitehead asked. "Blogging is a social, public act. Scribbling on paper in your...
At the DAC 2000 Conference in Providence, RI, Anne Mangen presented an experiment using Xerox PARC's Fluid Reader to tell...
My password to the Web server had gone bad, so my last posts haven't been published until now. It's fixed now.
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Two stray news items today: Yesterday, parts of France received more rain in a day than they usually have in six...
Who said that the Internet is writing's revenge on the image? I have heard it several times, and think both Eco...
I used to be #11 if you searched for "anders" on Google. Now this page has climbed to 10th position, still...
If you still haven't filled the void after the infamous Trojan Room Coffee Maker Camera was taken down, try this one:...
It rained this weekend too. No thundercoaster ride on me this season, it seems....
Oh, God, that was a book I shouldn't have read. Not now. Not while desperately trying to finish a dissertation in...
No rollercoaster ride on Saturday. It rained. We chickened. Sunday, perhaps?
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("Why do we blog?", Jill asks. One of my reasons for blogging is to try out ideas in writing. Here is...
"This website is intended for viewing solely within the United States". Have no idea what this is meant to mean in...
What Mark doesn't prescribe in "Writing the Living Web" is a cure for writer's block. I've had it for over...
In a note last week, I mentioned Mark Bernstein's 10 tips for blog writers. Now, he has expanded it into...
We are going to Tusenfryd amusement park on Saturday. I just love rollercoaster rides, and the "ThunderCoaster" on Tusenfryd is considered...
I haven't changed my research page in a year, and most of it is three years old. It's starting to go...
I've said for years that trust is the most important thing on the Web. What we praise about the Internet: the...
A Hypertext That Works: Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp, by Andrew Stafford. Duchamp's biography, and a discussion of some of his...
Curiously, Norwegian cooking keeps coming up in hypermedia blogs these days. I guess it is because everything is deeply intertwingled. Mark...
Jill links in jill/txt to two lists of books on blogs. Books about blogs, and how-to books on blog writing.
Who...
"I'll sleep on it" is not just a phrase, reports the BBC. In an article they cite scientists claiming that sleep...
Little less than an hour after I posted yesterday's note, it started to rain. It rained 16 mm in a few...
This year's summer vacation gave me plenty of time to ponder on the intensity of rainfall. There sure was a lot...
I am collecting terms from different books on new media, hypertext and the like. The collection is now online: Handlist of...
Eureka! I found it! The solution to the problem I've been dealing with for months. And it was so simple!...
The daily radio program "Politisk Kvarter" ("Fifteen Minutes of Politics") on NRK P2 is probably the one media program or column...
Web Guru for hire Jakob Nielsen calls for a new method for evaluating the fun in Web sites. As sites become...
I have just finished Peter Bøgh Andersen's "A Semiotic Approach to Programming". Andersen uses a very grammar-oriented, structuralist Hjelmslevian flavour of...
I cut the holiday short today, as the cold, rain, and wind just won't stop. Back in the office, I found...
Apple is starting to use another font, a grotesk (that's sans-serif for you frenglish typographers) for its homepage items. It started...
At dinner the other day, my sister told excitedly about a course she attended in presentation technique (what earlier times knew...
In The Language of New Media, Lev Manovich argues that the database is a logic, a cultural form, that dominates digital...
My morning as links: It's pouring down. But I don't care. I've got Love Over Gold beaming from my speakers....
Since I first heard them, I have had an instinctive liking to Janet Murray's Four Essential Properties of Digital Environments: Procedural,...
I get so much junk mail these days, I downloaded Spamfire. It really burns spam, but also some of my regular...
"I sincerely doubt that nonlinear argument even exists in a world dependent upon linear time and development", Darren Grem writes. Espen...
In the process of writing a draft of introduction and conclusion to my dissertation, I read a few other dissertations with...
Some weeks ago, Jill mentioned the lack of permalinks in this blog. (Actually they're there, but you have to scan the...
I believe in concrete examples, and I try to have a link to a certain site for every post in this...
Torill and Jill's response to Wyatt's comment, again, my summary, not exact quotes.
Torill: Is blogging the new rock'n roll?
It...
Sally Wyatts response to Jill and Torill. Sketchy notes, not accurate quotes. I'm responsible, Wyatt's not.
"this woman will response on...
We're at the end of Jill's and Torill's presentation.
"Unless we have voices online --- we're castrated!"
"No, we're not", the...
Trying to blog on the fly in Tinderbox, while Jill and Torill delivers their blog talk. Sort of meta-meta-meta-fun.
This is...
Should be writing, but not able to. Tired, sat up too late (though not that late) yesterday. Coffee and Spin Doctors...
Gonzalo writes about Sara Mendez, who found her son after 26 years. "hey, I assume that if you didn't read it...
Another undocumented feature of Tinderbox: I use five different browsers on two different machines, and keeping track of URLs is hard....
Yesterday, Apple launched two new products: the 23-inch Cinema Display, and the 10GB iPod. If you're buying me presents, I want...
Did you dance this morning? I did, with my daughter. I think it's one of the healthiest things you can do.
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Interestingly, when exported to the Web, information graphics go from nonlinear to linear.
Consider "Reconstrucción de la caída de las torres"...
People tell me Spanish papers have a strong tradition of using many and good information graphics. I wouldn't know, I don't...
Steve Outing, columnist at Editor&Publisher.com, says "interactive graphics" is what online news need in a recent column. These "clickable info-graphics", or...
I have been bad. I am sorry. I gave two people I like unfair treatment. My good friend Espen, and Mark...
1. A hypertext that works. I've been meaning to write about this one for months. I think it is my favourite...
Two recent developments have created trouble in my surfing life: Upgrading to Mac OS X, and reading blogs. Both events are...
(A hypertext that works) I always come back to the Victorian Web. It must be one of the oldest hypertexts on...
[Edited March 18, correcting quotes of Espen and descriptions of Mark's work] A few days ago, I clicked through all the...
This Blog, and increasing portions of my Web site is made with Tinderbox. I have been using the beta for months,...
Yesterday, I got an e-mail from Kulturnett, asking me for three favourite Web sites, or "strawberry places" as the text stated....
Just got a phone call from a lawyer, on his way to my place, he said, sounding a little annoyed that...
Took another admiring look today on the most beautiful Web site I have seen.
Although I oppose the use of text...
I loved playing with LEGO as a kid, that may be the reason why I like The Brick Testament. This guy,...
The Washington Post is also making television. On the Web. Nineta's Story is a mini-documentary about a Rumaninan girl with HIV....
Today, Johan Galtung gave a lecture here on "peace journalism". Interesting, provoking, and engaging.
Galtung claimed that nothing much has changed...
National Geographic Magazine Interactive Edition publishes material related to the yellow magazine every month. Second from the top each month is...
Although inspired by Jill, and made with the beta version of Ceres thanks to her, this is not an attempt to...