Because life has been such (well, you know) lately I did not even realize what an exciting day today was going to be!! Barbara Ganley from Middlebury College is in HUMlab conducting a workshop called “SocialSoftware in the University Classroom: Uses of Blogs, Wikis, Podcastingand Emerging Social Technologies across the Disciplines”.

I have met her before [...]

that is how many i turn today :-)

I have read the chapter on positioning subjects and ideas in Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet’s Language and Gender today and am full of idea about the interplay of gender and network placement (and the power structures that accompany that placement) with language. Currently, I am working on an article based on the ways that [...]

I just read To the average Joe, blogs aren’t cutting it and one thought comes to mind… why can’t ‘good’ be enough? Why do these reports about one tool always want to make it the be all and end all of web tools? Blogs are not going to drown out mainstream media (sorry hyper-myths). Blogs [...]

Now that I live in the center of town, I have had the opportunity to experience café culture. I never thought I would be able to work in cafés because of the noise level. And I am not sure if this has to do with age or a more defined course of work, but I [...]

I sent this out earlier in the month, I just want to send out a reminder that the last day to sign up (email me) is April 17th. There are still places left! Hurry :-)

WORK IN PROGRESSKonferens för doktorander vid Humanistisk fakultet 12 juni 2007
Humanistiska doktorandföreningen samt Humanistiska fakulteten vid Umeå universitet inbjuder till en [...]

Tomorrow Steina Vasulka, a sound and video artist, will speak in the lab about “The Artist and Her Tools”. Steina will use a mix of analog and technology and will draw on her 40 years of experience to examine the relationship between technology and art in her soundscapes.
After her talk, she will perform Violin [...]

i have printed out several articles while in lab today for evening reading, but when i got home the book i have been waiting for was in the post. it was not supposed to arrive until may 24th, but it came today (those kind of surprises are *so* great!!)
now which to read… lots of articles [...]