tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26384162012-01-26T19:09:35.116+01:00"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers." ~ Isaac AsimovTorillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.comBlogger27801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-68216255500822946752012-01-16T16:19:00.000+01:002012-01-16T16:21:22.179+01:00

One of the things about being a teacher is that it's pretty hard to know when teaching works. I tend to believe that the reason things work out is because I have such brilliant students. I am a pretty privileged teacher, I have a lot of brilliant students, they participate, they share, the listen and they learn. It's a wonderful place to be in. Sometimes, however, I get this sneaking suspicion

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-27121964567351803102012-01-10T15:04:00.001+01:002012-01-10T15:04:42.472+01:00

One of the things that my new to-do software does, is ask how much time I need to spend on the tasks I schedule. I try to put in realistic estimates. Until March 21st I already have work planned and booked estimated to take 53,12 working days. This is before teaching, planning, administration and meetings. All of this will take between 18 and 22 working days.  In this period there are 51 working

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-76090051527733066782012-01-03T12:20:00.001+01:002012-01-03T13:25:40.250+01:00

A picture from an old ad flashed around the internet with viral speed a week or so ago. It's a little red-headed girl, holding out her colourful, glorious Lego creation. The discussions and the issues this brings up has touched me both personally and as a researcher looking at play, games and leisure. Lego has long been the benchmark of free creative toys, dominating the market with their simple

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I have to admit, I always think I sound much, much better in other languages. The talk at the Tokyo DiGRA 2007 conference a particular example of that. The professional translator had put a lot of effort into the translation, including interviewing me to find out what I wanted to say, and I am sure her version of my talk was a lot more precise than the actual talk! Not to mention when Luca

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-22188469921414232012011-12-18T11:04:00.001+01:002011-12-18T11:04:25.948+01:00

It's almost Christmas, and time for nostalgia. Everywhere people try to find or create the most authentic Christmas spirit; scents, lights, colours and decorations as "real" and "original" as possible. Here in the little Danish apartment we have been experimenting with the Danish version of "real", and we think we will make it. Testing the traditional Christmas duck some weeks ago, our neighbours

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-54338196093659029222011-12-08T13:18:00.001+01:002011-12-08T14:56:13.890+01:00

Like so many others in these electronic days of endless potential, I have scheduling issues. And like so many others, I have learned how to use wonderful digital tools such as google calendar or all the other electronic calendars available - synchronised over many different platforms. It seems like technology actually can make life easier, as it helps me keep track of the many complex

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-43761850829375679922011-12-06T11:12:00.001+01:002011-12-06T11:32:23.406+01:00

Another research meta study was published today, about games and violence. This time it was the Swedish media council that published the study of all articles written on video games and violence 2000 - 2011. They conclusion was, as usual: No, there is no proof of a causal connection between games and violence. A lot of the research is quite flawed, as it uses dubious methodologies and measures

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-2296985774210894012011-11-13T11:20:00.001+01:002011-11-13T11:32:15.169+01:00

This is a post directed to Norwegian friends and family, a favourite recipe that people ask for frequently. Here we go: Auberginegrateng: 1 aubergine i skiver. noe olivenolje (et par skjeer) 2 hvitløksfedd, hakket ett lite glass hvitvin en boks hermetiske tomater, hakket en stor bunt basilikum 2 ts tomatpuré. Hvis du finner puré av soltørkede tomater er dette best. Kjøp et glass til meg også.

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-11599215637964531862011-11-13T11:11:00.001+01:002011-11-13T11:16:00.934+01:00

In February there was a flare-up in several debates in Norway, as a professor posted to facebook that she was reading the world's worst exam paper ever. No names, not subject, no quotes, just her opinion, a pretty frustrated response. Somebody on her "friend" list screenshotted this, and mailed it to a journalist. The journalist then wrote an article about how teachers harass students through

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-77920346462859065762011-11-12T11:37:00.001+01:002011-11-24T16:08:17.315+01:00

It's been a while since I wrote, and it's because I have been sick. Being sick in a new place and particularly a new country is scary. The first signs arrived almost a year ago, when I was all alone in Denmark. Over the months I had some rather unsettling experiences. I noticed a lump where there shouldn't be one (spoiler: no, not cancer and nothing life-threatening), but I carefully ignored it

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-15822993800847276722011-09-16T12:26:00.000+02:002011-09-16T13:53:04.327+02:00

I am lounging on a sofa-bed-futon in a small city apartment, with a laptop and a tablet computer right here. The tablet computer is resting on the side shelf of a Joe Colombo boby-trolley, the top of the trolley holds a kindle, a cup of tea and the equipment I need to do all of my banking and shopping: A plastic card and a coder. I have to admit I am quite happy that this isn't one of Colombo's

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-77485413731560772342011-09-05T19:55:00.001+02:002011-09-05T19:55:39.096+02:00

"Why don't you like The Road and Melankolia," my husband asked, quite reasonably. He has nevered shared my preference for fantasy and science fiction, just as I have never shared his love of social realism. We try to find common ground, and both items fit with things I otherwise love. How is the planet from Melankolia different from the Death Star? Why is the ruin of the United States in The Road

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-49764720775256084172011-08-17T13:00:00.003+02:002011-08-17T13:31:29.561+02:00

22nd of July 2011 the world was changed for all Norwegians. Thanks to a wonderful leadership (both the political and the monarchy) and an all round amazingly contrary population, Norway became sadder, but also warmer and more aware of the need for each other. In order to see why this made such an impact, you need to understand one of the first questions Norwegians ask each other, when they meet

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-26994380543591492382011-08-08T22:24:00.002+02:002011-08-08T22:26:23.199+02:00

Morten Jørgensen skriver om hysteri og spilling. Les og lær.

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-85269744724387482462011-07-29T13:26:00.005+02:002011-07-29T14:25:17.410+02:00

This is the link to an interview, in Norwegian, where I say why we shouldn't blame games for what the wannabe did 22nd of July. The journalist understood what I as saying, and managed to communicate that well, all down to the fact that I consider speculation about whether or not games influenced the n00b to be - speculation.For those of you who came here in order to find proof that my mind has

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-71540404834606435092011-07-27T21:21:00.002+02:002011-07-27T21:29:19.459+02:00

While we game researchers are frustrated with how games are used to explain everything, psychologists have to face "experts" telling the media this and that about the wannabe, diagnosing him wildly. The Norwegian psychologist Kristine Tofte is as sick of this as I am of the "too much gaming" angle, and writes an extremely good post about it.Her post is in Norwegian, but as a super-quick resume,

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-83568006152372077352011-07-26T13:17:00.004+02:002011-07-26T14:32:36.593+02:00

I thought I had dodged this, when nobody had called me all through Monday, after the massacre on Utøya. I did not want to stand there and sound like I defended a mass murderer, by claiming that no, computer games are perfectly innocent, particularly not after glancing through his manifest. Luckily I don't have to go through the manifest step by step with you myself, Nick Ross at ABC went through

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-42997978260125722852011-07-23T23:21:00.002+02:002011-07-23T23:33:38.503+02:00

I have been here before, seeing killers connected to computer games. Anders Behring Breivik played World of Warcraft. I do however think his more than 1000 pages long manifest, describing a process that started 9 years ago with the goal to become a European hero, is a lot more important than gaming. It appears that he fits the FBI profiles of violent shooters, where they are interested in the

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-12171380726891204112011-07-20T12:22:00.004+02:002011-07-20T12:24:58.660+02:00

Off to Hohenheim and Southern Germany for the first time since 1978. I suspect there have been a few changes, and the Torill that goes to talk at this conference on the social aspects of games is not the Torill who worked in a green-house in Stuttgart for a summer. At least, I hope the current Torill is a bit smarter, even if she doesn't look as good any more.

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-77789128323473990362011-06-27T22:34:00.002+02:002011-06-27T22:37:31.586+02:00

It's been a long time coming, but now it looks like Routledge will publish Online Gaming in Context soonish. I am in there with an article which kind of happened along the way of a lot of nice, friendly and interesting conversations with Kristine Jørgensen, Rene Glas, and Luca Rossi, the co-authors.

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-23211216984754779322011-06-15T09:44:00.003+02:002011-06-15T11:31:34.924+02:00

After I was used as an "expert" in Politiken yesterday (I am used to being presented by title and connection, not just this vague "expert"), where the headline proudly claims that "many men are lesbians online" (yes, I cringed) I haven't been able to stop thinking about this.First, by way of Nancy Baym, a really good write-up of the story by Kira Cochrane in the Guardian. Cochrane sees the hoaxes

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-46738482663991263482011-06-14T17:18:00.004+02:002011-06-14T18:34:54.548+02:00

I didn't know about this until a journalist from Politiken.dk called me today, to ask how I felt about it. It's the blog of a man with a deep interest in the middle east, who has been writing online as a homosexual woman from Damascus. He has now let people know that he is the one who pretended to be Amina, the Sunni lesbian, and he apologises to his readers.This is an interesting story, and I

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-40739609959930378862011-06-08T13:11:00.004+02:002011-06-08T14:57:18.300+02:00

Lately I have been thinking a lot about hand-writing, note-taking and commenting, and I have been considering a couple of different options for how to integrate hand-writing, which is a vital act of organising thoughts for me, and technology.When Hilde Corneliussen was here in the beginning of May, she brought with her an iPad and a very enthusiastic attitude about a certain application. One of

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-5616627453592610742011-05-24T13:13:00.002+02:002011-05-24T13:23:04.349+02:00

A friend reminded me of this webcam: Tjelden på taket, or the Oystercatcher webcam. It shows, for what I believe to be the fourth year in row, the nest of an Oystercatcher on the roof of the building for natural science at the University of Bergen. I can't remember when I saw this first, but according to their facebook page, the current birds have been there since 2008. This is one of the really

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-37286998246651935622011-05-10T17:18:00.003+02:002011-05-11T18:20:24.713+02:00

Oddly, we believe in science to the point that there's no need to argue for a phenomenon if it is presented within the frame of "hard science." The next time you feel like accepting hard science findings as undisputable facts, have a look at this Ph D comics movie, and face the fact that no, hard science doesn't really reveal much, and a lot of what it reveals we have no way to

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-52488613638164516192011-04-12T15:05:00.003+02:002011-04-12T16:22:23.495+02:00

This blogpost is about a lot of things, but mainly it's about the two books written by a former student, "som i himmelen, så og på jorden" and "men fri oss fra det vonde." Both titles are taken from the Norwegian version of The Lord's Prayer, which in Norwegian is named for the first two words: "Our Father - Fader vår." They are definitely not religious pamphlets though. I am not naming the

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-89058803679913813192011-04-02T09:08:00.005+02:002011-04-05T13:26:42.417+02:00

By way of an insomniac friend, this post and its subsequent response from Bioware has come to my attention. The response from David Gaider, lead writer of Dragon Age II was claimed to be perfect by several blogs, such as No more lost, a blog discussing gay rights and bemoaning the loss of lives to homophobic hatred. David Gaider stated eloquently and clearly that no, straight male gamers have no

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-3356238286052963872011-03-28T15:09:00.007+02:002011-04-02T09:07:54.867+02:00

The last few weeks have been filled with concerns about where we will live when my husband and I are both here and the house in Norway has been emptied and sold. I have already lived longer in the tiny, but posh apartment in the city than planned, and we have to find new place. Like good geeks, the internet was our main tool searching, and Boliga.dk is an extremely useful site. By now we have

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-10457407716655009802011-03-17T14:23:00.002+01:002011-03-17T14:28:13.686+01:00

Beautifully and poetically rendered, all the nuclear explosions in the world between 1945 and 1998.

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-2256928958418998922011-02-28T09:15:00.001+01:002011-02-28T09:15:51.154+01:00

Last chance today!****************************************************************************** FINAL REMINDER: DEADLINE / CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ******INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "THE SOCIAL SIDE OF GAMING" ************* CFA ENDS THIS MONDAY 28 FEBRUARY ***************************************************************************************Dear all,this is the final reminder that the Call for Abstracts

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-48104303128048619212011-02-15T15:52:00.004+01:002011-02-15T15:58:13.473+01:00

Did you think the battle over free information was over? There's another way to argue for control of the internet. Faltin Karlsen, who is currently looking at problematic use of games and the Internet, writes this concerned note:A group working with the next revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in the category called Substance-Related Disorders, suggests

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-11294212543184921562011-02-11T09:49:00.005+01:002011-02-11T11:56:08.030+01:00

The other day I picked up Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things. I am not done with it yet, so this isn't a review. However, it triggered quite a few questions in, which highlight one of the main problems with design, a problem my mother pointed out 40-50 years ago. What she pointed out (in less words) was how the distribution of power in society influences design.I love the main credo of

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-85607643144622469652011-02-03T13:14:00.003+01:002011-02-03T14:51:41.613+01:00

Once upon a time, somewhere around the bronze age, I started reading fantasy novels by female writers. I read works by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Tanith Lee, Barbara Hambly, Ursula K. le Guin and so many more fantastic and funny writers. I have been collecting books for more than 20 years, and now that I am moving there is a stack of crates in Norway, waiting to come with me.I am still reading new

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-18401326107683914832011-01-25T12:45:00.003+01:002011-01-25T13:03:51.856+01:00

On the list of things I never thought I was going to miss, Fronter is way up there. Volda University College started using it when it was new, experimental, horribly buggy and impossible to manouver in. Frustration abounded, with access, with the interface, with the demands on us for detailed administration and a much more computer-bound work structure. I hated it. Then I started to tolerate it.

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-15961478478311127342011-01-19T15:29:00.002+01:002011-01-19T15:32:04.825+01:00

By way of Stephanie, this lovely video:While funny, for those of us who read Janice Radway's Reading the romance, the irony just keeps piling up.

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-18423133607185775502011-01-19T11:52:00.003+01:002011-01-19T11:58:17.153+01:00

An interesting workshop in Stuttgart in July, for those who are into the fact that people can actually be social and gamers at the same time!There's a call for papers, and I have had the tip of a claw in there, fiddling with it, but the University of Hohenheim crew is running this without me. Hopefully I'll be able to be there. Germany is an interesting country, gradually opening up to the more

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-26812964062428860422011-01-11T09:30:00.004+01:002011-01-11T13:22:44.933+01:00

Winter came quickly, early and harshly this year, the Danes agreed. It started to snow the day I left for Norway in the end of November, and when I returned winter was firmly established. It got bitingly, dramatically cold, offering grand views and low sunlight.The biking conditions, however, deteriorated badly, and I got to regret forgetting the winter tires in Norway. But the metro - after a

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-34932681143127364502011-01-06T14:35:00.004+01:002011-01-06T15:45:14.830+01:00

Jane McGonigal claims that online games will save the world: Much as I love games, and even in the face of my own optimism about how games can lead to positive cultural changes, I have a hard time believing that we can "fix" real life by creating and playing games. McGonigal is a designer, and so she believes strongly, I suspect, in the power of design. In this talk it comes out as if she

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-86702129758134124342010-12-21T16:32:00.005+01:002010-12-23T15:17:22.413+01:00

This year the feeling of Christmas has been hard to achieve. But on Monday, suddenly, my daughter calls me. "Mom, did your present to your sister get lost?" "My what?" I respond, because I really wasn't thinking about Christmas presents. "It's on the internet, a present for her from you and dad." On the internet? WTF!?! What does the internet have to do with my presents? "A friend just mailed me,

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-76119527006098764742010-12-15T11:17:00.002+01:002010-12-15T11:21:21.733+01:00

A conference in April, in Greece, the Philosophy of Computer Games. So tempting! Now, do I dare approach philosophy and games again, and do I manage to do so in time for the deadline of February 1st?

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-33237800923336486752010-12-06T11:32:00.002+01:002010-12-06T12:25:15.906+01:00

By way of the Danish videnskab.dk, a pointer to an article by Canadians that concludes with how a lot of American research about human behaviour is wrong. Well, it may conclude that European and Asian research is wrong too, but since they haven't really checked that, who knows. The important thing with this article is how it talks about generalisation. So much of the research done in the United

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-39825388097584041992010-12-02T11:00:00.003+01:002010-12-02T11:18:16.972+01:00

For those out there who still play WoW, the last few weeks have been some ride, right? With the preparations for Cataclysm, the expansion arriving next week, Azeroth is changing, and I find myself wondering about how much I have relied on the stability of the game world.This week-end I took my original game character and rode around Durotar and the Barrens, her starting area. It was shocking.

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-43512074823591929282010-12-01T14:54:00.003+01:002010-12-01T15:26:31.051+01:00

I know what I want, at least: A very special memory stick! And if it's a girl geek and you want to say "I love you" in a suitably romantic way...Or, if she's an academic geek, and happen to be exactly like me, then she wants to try out new software, or needs a new version of the old. Trust me, nothing says "I love you" like knowing exactly what software your favourite geek girl needs. Or do you

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-37217278794684000702010-12-01T10:02:00.003+01:002010-12-01T17:11:18.983+01:00

One of the most popular Norwegian girl bloggers at the moment is a young lady who calls herself Linnea, and writes the blog "All you know is wrong" (Alt du vet er feil). At first glance you expect to encounter a typical fashion blog, as the top picture is of a very good looking girl with nice earrings, a fashionable top and a cheeky smile. The "About me" section gives a warning though, as she

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-34204982065712959542010-11-22T16:23:00.005+01:002010-11-23T07:48:19.263+01:00

Accidentally, as I was following up on other topics, I found that there is a wonderful drama playing out in the Norwegian blogosphere, complete with a sobbing bride, nasty, greybearded men and a handsome football-player. OK, the football-player has very little to do with it, but he's a very good-looking accessory.So, what happened here?A young and beautiful woman works part-time as a journalist

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-88631759983009724472010-11-19T15:48:00.003+01:002010-11-19T16:35:30.202+01:00

This was supposed to be a post about cheating, and ghost-writing academic articles. However, Lisbeth connected it to educational language politics, and that started this. Read at your own peril - it's all about language and education from somebody who only knows half of it.When ever I spend a lot of time away from Norway, my language suffers. Three - four weeks into a long stay in an English

Torillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-80702509262941606492010-11-16T14:21:00.006+01:002010-11-16T15:42:01.636+01:00

There should have been some kind of face-to-face debrief after IR 11.0, and I will at some point in the not too far future write the AOIR board with what I think they need to know (functionality of the conference organising system f.ex.,) but for now I'll just take it here.As some noticed, I was extremely ambivalent on facebook before I went to Gothenburg. I was ambivalent in real life as well.

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Today about flow and control. There's something intensely satisfying about using the bike to get around. While biker weblogs in Copenhagen worry that Danish children don't learn to play with and enjoy bicycles, I am rediscovering the sense of freedom I used to feel as a teen-ager, the agency and control the bicycle gave me.My first bike was stolen though, and it was years until I had another

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I have watched way too much TV the last few days. The literal pain in my neck has done anything else absolutely unbearable. This means I have found myself mindlessly watching more than a few ads.Before I left Norway, my husband noted that the trend was towards stupid men. Here, the trend is towards unreasonable, idiotic, furiously raging women. There's particularly this one television channel

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A very short, but very nice, press release, notifies the public that the Norwegian government suggests in the budget for 2011 to put aside 2 million Norwegian krone to buy games for libraries. "Innkjøpsordningen" is the system that secures a certain number of copies sold to public libraries of all books published from certain publishers (I don't know if self-published books count.) This will now

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I am stuck in an EU ICT conference in Brüssels, which, ironically, offers an outrageously bad internet connection both at the conference center and at the hotel. This means that I can not respond to the many email I keep getting about the conference program.The program is as finished as I can make it until I know more about who are withdrawing from the conference. This draft should have been

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I am currently stuck at Kastrup, waiting on a flight to Paris which is already severely delayed. Now, this is no fun, but some people just can't take it. The lady informing the passengers was still delivering her message as a man stormed up to her and started telling her off. Another employee of Norwegian, the airline, told him they were really sorry, and the man backed off for a moment. 20

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One of the topics I have been working on for a while concerns hedonism as a moral philosophy of gaming. This is, of course, frightfully ambitious, seeing that I am not philosopher. I am certain my arguments can be ripped apart quite easily by somebody who have actually studied philosophy, and not gaming. If so, feel free to find my article The player as hedonist in the Journal of gaming & virtual

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Moving to Copenhagen meant bringing my bike - of course. After all, Copenhagen has a strong bicycle culture and an eager biker population, with their special interest advocates, such as Mikael at Copenhagenize.com. I used to ride my bike to school in the summer half of high school, rushing past the stuck cars at home, I went biking around the fjords and mountains for fun (and love - strong

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All who have played games know there is a rythm to them, an ebb and flow of activity and energy, back and forth, sometimes like a tango where the participants are evenly matched and push, give and counter with intense focus, sometimes like the inexorable march of the invading feet as the stronger participants lay waste to all opposition. From the lighthearted singsong of easy togetherness to the

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From my friend Esther Ewing, a link to some talks published in TED: When games invade real life by Jesse Schell, and The game layer on top of the world by Seth Priebatsch.Both talks focus on how gaming is becoming the new money-maker, and how it is possible to learn from game design in order to make more and more money. In Priebatsch' presentation the main topic is the connection between

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This morning it was raining in a far too familiar way, so I decided to get on the metro rather than the bicycle. Cycling is quicker, but I wanted to spend the day at the office fairly dry, so off I went. That turned out to be a really bad decision, since the metro didn't run to where I wanted to go, due to the weather. Yeah.However, in a way it was a good decision. In Kongens Nytorv, my local

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In a lot of ways, the move to Denmark has been much smoother and easier than the move (for a year) to Sweden. Most important is probably that I knew both Copenhagen and ITU pretty well, while I had never been to Umeå nor Umu before I went there. I think one of the things that has made it all much easier, is that I got a personal number, or CPR - central personal registry number (?) right away.

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Ted Copman has started collecting information for a wiki, with travel tips for Gothenburg and IR 11.0. Useful stuff indeed!

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I have worked here a whole week now, but still feel a little awed by this high-tech building, trying to get into being here. The place is empty and quiet during the holidays, and it's also opressively hot. So is all of Copenhagen though, it's really different for a poor Norwegian dumped here.The reception was wonderful. Flowers, a grand tour with our appointed guides, and introductions all around

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I am not writing much these days. I wake up in the morning, and start sorting something. Everything goes into one of three categories: throw, give away, keep. Then the "keep" stack is split into pack, use, Copenhagen now.The biggest challenge were the books. We have reduced 25 years of collecting books to one (full) book cabinet. There's no way I am throwing out the graphic novels, those are

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It isn't, really, because I have a two year leave, leaving myself the option to turn around and come back to this hideout between the mountains. This hole, my sister so lovingly describes Volda as, and she's right, it is a hole in which to hide, a sudden green spot in between black mountains. And I have been crawling back into it over and over again over the last 19 years, hiding in between my

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Next week there's a small, but ambitious conference in Volda: Games: Design and Research. It's organised by Norwegian game researchers loosely connected, mainly Kristine Jørgensen (conference chair), Ragnhild Tronstad, Faltin Karlsen, Sara Brinch and me, and financed by Volda University College, University of Bergen, and the Norwegian Research Council.If you are in the neighbourhood, feel free to

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In between semester end, student supervision, guest lecturers, seminars, exam preparation, conference papers (oh no I have more mails I need to send out about that), conference organising, moving to another country and changing jobs, I am a tad busy. However, when given a forced pause (sitting in one place, looking awake), I grabbed the chance to read Playing with one’s self: notions of

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The results are almost done, I have a small stack of papers still waiting for reviews. However, more than 90% are now decided on, so the chance is very big that you will find that the result is already available in the conference organising system. Please check in if you are impatient, I need the afternoon to finish up the last reviews before I send out the notifications.--- update -----For some

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Rupert Murdoch can rattle his saber all he likes about taking his content out of Google, but I say do it, Rupert.Cory Doctorow points to the wonderful conenction between new technology and new content, in this careful explanation of why he doesn't want to buy an Ipad.

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No, we don't have a problem with seating for the Internet Research 11.0 conference. I just thought you'd like to see the conference chairs! Here we are, from the left to the right: conference co-chairs Ylva Hård af Segerstad, Ann-Sofie Axelsson, and me, the program chair, in Gothenburg discussing the work that needs to be done before we meet you all in October.

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Another article hits the digital sphere. Training, sharing, cheating is now available to the subscribers of e-learning, the journal. In 18 months it will be free, but until then: Subscribe, or be satisfied with the abstract.This article gathers a lot of the loose threads of my thoughts through the last years, particularly my experiences from playing in guilds that raid (although casually).

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Norwegians woke up this morning to hear that "Ludvigsen" is dead. It was - surreal. Not only did Gustav Lorentzen appear to be one of those upbeat, happy people who never would let age touch him, he was in great shape and died as his heart stopped during a cross-country run.Knutsen and Ludvigsen, the team Lorentzen was a part of, wrote texts that almost all Norwegians of a certain age know by

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I love to travel. It doesn't matter how, but the process of being on the way somewhere is in itself desirable. When on a plane, train, bus or boat I relax in ways I otherwise never do. All my time is dedicated to one thing: getting there. There's a saying in Norwegian "du har bare tida og veien," which means: All you have is the time and the road. What it means is that you can't delay, the time

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There's a program on NRK these days called Hjernevask or "Brainwashing." It's creating quite a stir, as a Norwegian comedian is having it out with his old professors, particularly any who have been doing gender research and claimed that gender is cultural, not natural.The program has caused a lot of good and interesting debate, and I don't really feel the need to expand on it here. But for those

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The Norwegian University og Science and Technology NTNU celebrates its 100 year anniversary, and to celebrate they have designed the game Spillet om framtiden or "The game of the future". In this you can be the headmaster of the University, fighting some mysterious female evil bandit (I am not sure what she has done, but she is dressed in black and has short, white hair. Is she perhaps a

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When I started working in Volda in 1991, it meant moving towards where I grew up. The light, the air, the mountains, the language, it all resonated deeply with me, and I felt like coming home after years in Bergen. The kids would grow up with clean air and wonderful nature, in a small community where they had space to roam and where we felt safe about letting them take themselves about where they

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There are currently two positions open at Volda University College for people interested in ICT, design and education:Associate professor in Media, ICT and design and Associate professor in Digital tools in education.The final date on both positions is 7th of April, and for more information, contact Dean Aud Folkestad at +47 7007 5310.

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Living among the mountains dwarfs you, but also lifts your eye and your longing to the peaks, it makes you want to get up, above the valley and the fjord, up to where nothing hinders your vision.In summer, it's a good life, the challenge is scaled to your ambition, and the reward is a sense of being on top of the world. During the winter, however...After three avalanches caused considerable

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This one was just too good to pass by. Thanks Nick!

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Sometimes I just forget that I have done something, and then it pops up and I go "Oh, yeah, right, I did that." It sounds horribly arrogant, as if I don't care, and I don't like this part of myself. You see, I do care about the articles I write and the work I do. It's just that when I have finished something, I put it behind me and move on, and sometimes I put it a bit more behind me than I

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Yes, I am part of organising a conference with a major buzzword in the title. Hence, imagine my delight when I found a nice visualisation of this and some other recent buzzwords in Academia:

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As program chair for IR 11.0 I get several questions along the same lines. So, for those out there who might actually google me in order to find answers, here's the submission guidelines for IR 11.0 Sustainability, Participation, Action:Submission guidelines for IR 11.0 Sustainability, Participation, Action All contributions should be submitted to https://www.conftool.net/aoir-ir11/ Each

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This extremely sad tale from China demonstrates only too well how dangerous extremes are - in either direction. While China already is the source of many of the horrible stories supporting the idea of internet-addiction in North America and Europe (such as the person who died after 20 hours of non-stop gaming), it is now becoming the source of the horror stories about what happens when a nation

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I don't mean, what company or what business or what country or what city, I mean: In what kind of space do you work?I am quite sensitive to work spaces, and I need them to be controlled and comfortable in order to inspire a good working process. That does not mean they have to be overly organised. As long as I find what I am looking for, I am fine. Actually, I tend to use clutter as a way to

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I just want to point you all towards Lilia Efimova's wonderful thesis Passion at work: blogging practices of knowledge workers, which was submitted last year. It is, of course, online, so: Enjoy!

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The conference website is up and running! It is still being built and tweeked, but even so it's infinitely better than no site at all! Add this website to your bookmarks, right along the URL for where to submit your paper!

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This arrived to an emailaddress which I have published online in order to be easily available for people up to the IR 11.0 conference. Since the mail address is openly out there, I am seeing a LOT more spam in the few months since publishing that address than I do in any other mailboxes. And so I also see some interesting phishing attempts, such as the following, supposedly sent from GMAIL.

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You know I have loved you since I found you online. You have sated my reading lust and supported my academic struggles for years. I have browsed your pages and lusted for your offers, my wish-list is long and much larger than my bank-account, and in my shopping cart lurks desires I want to consume side by side with guilt about procrastination and lazyness.But, dear Amazon - you are making life

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To submit your papers for IR 11.0 - Sustainability, Participation, Action, please use the submission site to be found here.The CFP can be found here, but the link to the conference organising site has not yet been added.

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When ever anybody makes a statement about gender in weblogs which indicates that women don't blog, I ask them to go start reading knitting blogs. It's one of my secret addictions, to surf knitting blogs, reading about all the things I could have made if I just put the computer away and picked up some yarn instead. Lucky for me, there are women out there who are both computer literate and knitting

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My colleague Svein Brurås wrote about an extremely good piece of journalism in a Norwegian newspaper, and I just want to join him in pointing towards it. Good journalism is worth celebrating and sharing. What it's about? Nothing really. Just a lonely man nobody noticed, who died from a stroke while he was out on his bike. The story the journalist uncovers through very careful and through

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I have just recently discovered a television series which made me an instant fan. BBC's Being Human is the perfect mix for me, it has a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire, they live in a small town in England, and they are struggling to fit in. It's a mix of True Blood and East-Enders and contains buckets of the delightful humour that tends to be such an integrated part of the best British series.

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IADIS - International Association for Development of the Information Society - are organising a conference in Freiburg, Germany, in July 2010. They have a call for papers, deadline is February 19th, and the conference is called GET - Games and Entertainment Technology. The CFP is very wide, generally, if you do something related to electronic games as a researcher, designer, programmer, teacher

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I have been playing World of Warcraft for almost five years now, and a lot of my research and writing has come out of that play. I am both fascinated with online games as a medium and cultural artifacts, and an enthusiastic happy player. Or, at least, I was the last until the new patch - 3.3.0. Now I have suddenly lost it.In order to play WoW well at the high end - intense heroic grinding and

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I anledning VGs ualminnelig dårlige artikkel om sammenhengen mellom et drap på Kongsvinger og spilling av World of Warcraft og Counterstrike, vil jeg vise til en artikkel om skoleskytinger og moralske panikker. Denne artikkelen kritiserer den overforenklede ideen om at mennesker ikke er i stand til å skille mellom fantasi og virkelighet, og den like enkle forskningen som underbygger denne

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Call for PapersInternet Research 11.0 - Sustainability, Participation, Action The 11th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)October 21-23, 2010 University of Gothenburg/Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden The challenge of this conference is to find multiple avenues for participation and action towards a

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An interesting piece of research, studying the Buddhist brain, shows that meditation works on the brain sufficiently to change the electromagnetic activity. This is very interesting, and while I have never managed to meditate (I fall asleep the moment my thoughts start calming down), it might be a much better alternative for children with attention dysfunctions than drugs.The research is, of

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When Google became the most used search engine and also started their own mail system, people started to worry. I am a little slow, so it took a while, but now that I am playing around with Google wave, desperately trying to figure out a use for it, I realise that I have been pwned.I have several gmail-accounts, because it's so convenient to organise and also share according to projects when I

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Just because this is a movie-piece that puts so much together - play, popular culture, cyberculture and animation:Thanks to Pål Hellesnes for the original pointer to it, BoingBoing for putting it where one of my friends could find it, and of course the folks behind legomatrix, Trevor Boyd and Steve Ihlett for spending 440 hours on making the 44 second long scene.

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When I was four years old, we moved from a cold, moist and unhealthy basement on a farm, to this house. The change was immense. Of course, for the first 20 years we couldn't afford to live in all of it, it had been designed for two families, and we rented half of it to students and tourists, depending on seasons. And so I had moved out before it was all "ours." Still, it's been the family house

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from XKCD

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