i have to say that i don’t quite get it…how the university book store works here. maybe it does not have to work as well because out libraries work wonderfully, but still… i went to go get a book for my statistics class (which looks like it is going to be really good!) and not [...]

 i am working on my first (i think) paid presentation in which i will present weblogs as a teaching tool to educators in a town about an hour north of here (yes, mark, there are towns north of there :-P) on tuesday.
“BLOG: Not a just another four letter word. How weblogs foster conversation and collaboration [...]

just reading over the list of speakers for bloggforum 3 and it seems quite exciting, not least representatives from the guardian, six apart and microsoft! i will definitely have to attend!
Det har gått ett år sedan vi anordnade Bloggforum första gången. Sedan dess har bloggen gått från att ha varit något förhållandevis okänt, till att [...]

Today our own Jim Barrett is speaking about The Sims as Narrative Engine, on machinima, computer games, and The Sims. You can watch the stream here

i think this is going to be a way too personal addition to my way to personal category. i have attempted to be less personal this year, and it has worked pretty well so far, but sometimes you hit a ‘milestone’ and you have to set the feeling of anxiety free.
 
 i feel like i have [...]

today i found out that my abstract for the forensic linguistics ‘mini-conference’ was accepted. i am excited to get the green light for this paper (even though i have written quite a bit on it now), but i have another ethical question in regards to my research methodology. i now have the corpus of weblog [...]

when i was at my grandfather’s funeral a few years ago, we went through many old photo albums. one picture we found was of my great great grandmother who was, if i remember correctly, a choctaw indian. i brought a copy of the picture home with me, but did not really think about it much. [...]

after weeks of injury or illness or plain just not feeling like it, i went out running today! i ran around the lake and it was cold and clear and i remembered how wonderful it feels to stretch my legs and feel the coolness of the air burn as it fills my lungs. it makes sitting in my [...]