the conference last week ended with a very interesting debate in humlab between henry jenkins and espen aarseth. it is now available online.

my first ‘real’ job out of high school was as a tech in ICU. i read heart monitor strips and helped care for patients. i saw many people come and go out of our ward, one way or another. but one case has stuck with me. it made me change my major from nursing [...]

tonight max reformatted my computer so it now runs in english rather than swedish. we did this because i am sending this computer to my mother when i get my new one in the mail. it was good to do this when i had a little extra time, but at the same time, it feel [...]

i wrote a little about the jokkmokk blog and new things to think about on the HUMlab blog.
but beyond what i wrote there, i want to mention something in relation to podcasting, which i have become interested in as of late. we used audblog to record audio posts directly to the blog, which proved to [...]

another interesting discussion is evolving around a talk about the need for a philosophy of technology. erik stolterman discussed the problems associated with the dilemma of means and ends which is always present when using technology and that there are always hidden rationality in any use of technology. erik stated that ‘problems can only be [...]

i was fortunate enough to have several long discussion with henry jenkins today. he is an interesting and thoughtful man. while discussing blogging and lena’s talk, he asked me what i thought about the hierarchy of the reader/author relationship. i had not really thought of the relationship in those terms before as i jumped in [...]

just before lunch we listened to lena karlsson’s talk about reading online diaries and it was very interesting to me, especially about the parts between the relationship between the author and the reader. questions were taken up such as what makes the reader interact with the blog…what is the ratio of readers who interact that [...]

i really like the way the conference was opened. the university director, Inge-Bert Täljedal, said that the humanities has always been driven by technology. where would we be if no one had invented the pen or paper or oil colors. it is no surprise that this generation is taking the tools we have and [...]