I don't know where my brain was when we discussed reality TV. This is the ultimate reality TV, and the format og Big Brother is taken from here and dramatized, to be a little more exiting than watching jenni live her life in full view of the world.

OJR Tools of the Trade: Content Management for the Masses
This is what the future for the media look like:
Hybridization is underway that blurs the line between high-end publishing systems and what can be had for cheap to nothing.

This is why it doesn't pay to publish online yet, and it's what the net-news-net-works need to consider: it's possible to communicate the content you like at a much lower price than your big neighbour, and equally available, if perhaps not as elegantly designed and presented. The future will lie in efficient search-engines, recirculation through linking, hybridisation and composite media. Online, the user will be hunting for content unlimited by the edges of the paper.

It's been a slow week work-wise. Good thing i have the interviews to work with. listening to the voice on the recorder
Hello Jonathan!

www.localmotives.com
It's opened, Jill's journal... or rather, the number of the online magazine LocalMotives or which Jill has been co-editor. Some articles in Norwegian, some in English, want to take a look?

This quote has annoyed me for a couple of days: I think that Joyce and Gutenberg were both artists, but only Gutenberg was an engineer, Joyce was a writer. However, I have a problem with the definition of engineer, would you consider a programmer an engineer? I consider a programmer - a programmer, and a type of writer, one who writes programs.

This is the annoying quote:
You couldn't see it at the time, but Joyce was a highly skilled technician, tinkering around with the book-machine, making it do things it had never done before. His contemporaries saw him as an artist (or a pornographer, depending on who you talked to), but from our vantage point, he could just as easily be a programmer, writing for the printing press platform. Joyce wrote software for hardware originally conjured up by Gutenberg. (cut by me) Gutenberg built a machine that Joyce souped up with some innovative programming, and Joyce hollered out a variation on a theme originally penned by Gutenberg himself. They were both artists. They were both engineers. (1997:2-3)

from: Johnson, Steven (1997): Interface Culture; How New Technology Transforms the Way we Create and Communicate, Basic Books, San Fransisco

NETTAVISEN DATASPILL: Quake er ikke realistisk
Somebody have discovered it: Quake isn't realistic. The world is a safer place now.

Sometimes I read articles which just annoy me. This morning I read three of them in a row, all in the same journal: Syn og Segn, an old and important Norwegian Culture Magazine. The topic was "Digital intimacy." I had tea and read articles, and soon I had learned that I chat online because it constitutes me as a subject and a human being, that the need for updates is what's killing journalism when it gets online, and this according to the author is a totally new thing, never happened until net journalism (hey, I thought radio journalism was about continuos updates, and radio is a pretty old medium by now), and last - that Artificial Intelligence research aims at recreating the visions of The Matrix, where we will be plugged in to converse with "the rational man" developed in MITs labs. I particularly liked the last argument: it's about as valid as medicine having Frankenstein's monster as the ultimate goal. Which they might have, of course, what do I know about the secret conspiracies in the medical field?

The URL for Syn & Segn is www.samlaget.no - for some reason it won't connect today

OK, I'll take the time to celebrate my luck, and instead of forcing myself to write an other three pages while my head hurts, my shoulders tense and make my hands hurt and the sun shines totally neglected, I'll go rest the parts that need it, and use all that lovely sunshine for something sensible, like worshipping it!

I am such a lucky girl! OK, so I am not a girl, I am a woman grown. But today the sun is shining, my husband didn't protest when I called him at 4 am to pick me up after the department had celebrated/mourned the end of an other semester, I just learned that I get my leave from the department for finishing my Ph.D. extended with four months (yes, I will keep my paycheck in the period) and I just got a big nice chunk back on the taxes instead of paying the almost 30 000 Nkr they wanted from me. Yep, I feel lucky!

University Business -- March 2000
an other article on the phenomena, this in English.

I guess I should feel outraged. I am struggling to take a real degree, and people are getting the same recognition I may get, through paying from 500 - 2000$. I am not. There's too much value put in a piece of paper, and too little in real knowledge and ability. If people are able to fake the competence of a Doctorate, then perhaps somebody should have a long hard look at what kind of jobs require Ph.Ds.

Bluffuniversitet
In the series of internet hoaxes: there are fake universities out there! This Swedish page reveals some of those bluffs, the page is in Sweedish, but a lot of the links lead to English pages.

The fact that I don't really need a wearable computer doesn't mean I can't want one!

GameSpot: QotW: What Makes an Online Game Successful?
According to their own poll it's all about "Fun gameplay". Not fancy graphics, not compelling stories - gameplay beats it all. This is why King's Quest II is still considered the classic, why Tetris hypnotises its users still, and why simulated board-games actually have a future on computers. They are fun and easy to play. Almost too simple to be true, right?

The Webby Awards: People's Voice
Do you like the fact that blogger is a free service and allows you and me indiscriminately our own voice online? Vote for them for the webby-award!

Huizinga and Caillois are playing their disagreements out in my head, while Brian Sutton-Smith leans back and comments, with a more familiar late 20th century voice on the rhetorics of the imaginary and the lower play functions of fantasy or phantasmagoria, a patchwork of philosophy where the common pattern is play, poked at and focused on in his The Ambiguity of Play.

New Players, New Games I found this link on Lisbeth's site, and she found it somewhere else.... yep, it's all about - no, not stealing, sharing.

some information on building MUDs

Heartless Bitches International
Just a link for those of my friends who feel like they belong... and for anybody else who like satire, irony and sarcasm with a feminist twist.

Hypertext Poetry and Fiction

Technology and Utopia