March 2007

Sunday 18th
04:33 pm Thinking about the great australian novel.

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April

Friday 13th
01:52 pm enjoying early spring and planning my son's birthday party

Wednesday 25th
05:47 pm Taking the time to be nice
05:47 pm Amazed at this new felling...warmth..sun is shining...great
05:50 pm Moving away from the computer now.........GoooooodByeeeeeeeee

Monday 30th
09:47 pm Feeling good. Just bought a nice suit for $10 second hand at the May day cellebrations:
bonfire and music and food and fun.Spring has sprung

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March 2008

Monday 10th
09:42 pm Its been a while. Working on thesis. Working on pedagogy course. Working on teaching a
course in culture studies. Looking forward to summer.

Monday 17th
02:11 pm Listening to a videocast on globalisation and economy: http://blip.tv/file/141863 We need
to change everything!
02:15 pm working on a course wiki at http://www.mos.umu.se:3455/CCEng/Home
02:18 pm Reading Getting Back into Place by Edward S. Casey
http://www.springerlink.com/content/th75wv68jv09t107/fulltext.pdf

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April

Friday 25th
07:47 am Getting ready for an undergraduate seminar with one of my students, preparing a
presentation on Second Life. Trying to get back to thesis

Monday 28th
08:11 am Having a cold, bailed out on the day, kid also sick, snot everywhere, should be working,
maybe later....listening; !!! "it must be the moon"
08:13 am my blog: http://www.soulsphincter.blogspot.com/ is old. Maybe a change to the
SpaceCollective: http://spacecollective.org/ is on the cards.

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May

Wednesday 7th
07:40 am Going to introduce an exam paper to culture and language studies students. First time I
have ever written an exam paper.

Friday 9th
09:44 am Writing my thesis....blah blah blah.
10:02 am This internet thing is getting way out of hand.......
10:03 am I mean so much can be done instead of working on what one is supposed to be working on
10:03 am Twitter for example.-- I could do this all day
10:04 am but I won't
05:30 pm The washing up Is always better When it is done.

Monday 12th
12:23 pm The chapter next will begin now!
01:03 pm One of the central tenets of information design is that “structure itself has meaning”
(Shedroff 34). Information design uses form.
01:43 pm Time to meet ben-ya-min 2 years old and at preschool :-9

Tuesday 13th
07:41 am "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these
butchers!" Julius Caesar Act III, Scene I

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Wednesday 14th
09:47 am Tomorrow 10:00am CET Art History and Computer Art: Exploring Art-Sciences-Technology
Interrelations. Live: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=685

Friday 16th
08:16 am The cold comes down off the arctic here. Mornings crisp and clear. My bicycle crunches
over dead leaves as we both wait for Spring.

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June

Monday 2nd
07:48 am off to the dentist.......ahhhh------ I dont like the dentist!
07:49 am But you can't play didgeridoo without teeth so I need the dentist......

Monday 9th
07:42 am have gathered up the pieces from the weekend put them in a shirt and shiny shoes and
gone to work. not partied but worked.
08:08 am god I need coffee...now

Thursday 26th
10:37 pm Looking forward to a feisty summer

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July

Tuesday 1st
09:47 pm reflecting on a busy day with much done.
09:53 pm just set up mobile twitter....I think

Friday 4th
11:29 am sitting up front, back straight screen on

Friday 18th
02:55 pm has just wrtten this: Implied response within the Façade living room is an example of
acculturation embodied in the digital text. The image
02:55 pm The image of the living room is a commentary on the commodified but hollow lifestyle of
the young urban professional stereotype.

Wednesday 30th
03:48 pm Ellipsis is often associated in narrative theory with representations of time but how it
implies response makes it relevant to Dreamaphage.
03:48 pm The thesis is rolling along....ho ho ha ha ah
04:12 pm words never end/they merely extend/out to the point/that drags us back to the
silence/from which we all come/only again to open the mouth

Thursday 31st
12:01 pm huge clouds rolling in from over the roof of the building opposite my window it is hot and
will rain soon
12:35 pm ellipsis ellipsoid elliptical ellipses elliptic elliptically ellipsograph ellipsoidal ellipse ellipses

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12:35 pm thunder now no lighting yet but storm upon me soon
12:53 pm Life the back-the-front narrative order created by the physical
12:53 pm should read: Like the back-the-front narrative order created by the physical
12:54 pm but its poetic

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August

Tuesday 5th
09:26 am Last week I gave up coffee. Felt sick for two days of withdrawl. Now feel like have bathed in
honey, the burning light of eternity is within

Wednesday 6th
10:21 am I hate books that don't have an index. Are these people too lazy to put one in. A Book
Should Always Have An Index..here endeth the lesson.
10:22 am A river runs thru my buidling/Currents of electricity blue/I ride the screen wave/Till it
breaks upon the shore/ Of going home time.
12:32 pm Lunched up and back at the terminal

Thursday 7th
09:17 am I am making a hat/To match/The emperors new clothes
11:16 am back from the dentist...how do the poor survive today?

Wednesday 13th
09:23 am The Egyptian Book of the Dead is a modern form of an ancient Egyptian text instructing how
a soul of the dead journeys to paradise.

Friday 29th
09:30 pm back from Stockholm..a city I like,,,,the lord is a monkey

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September

Monday 1st
08:53 am "With the equipment of technology, and with articles for consumption, there exists a
special world – the world of signs."
12:11 pm In implied response the devices of constraint orientates response with the recognition of
patterns in the narrative of the text.

Thursday 4th
08:57 am For swift-footed brilliant Achilles lay among his ships angered over the fair-haired girl
Briseis
08:58 am Narrative is the contexts of vocabulary.
09:03 am reading micronarratives
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/nagy/threads/micronarratives.html
09:14 am The number of Indian seamen employed on British ships was so great that the British tried
to restrict this by the Navigation Acts of 1660

Tuesday 23rd
08:30 am when one has 4 things to do and only 1 day to do them should one go back to bed?
08:33 am List: Thesis chapter rewrite, lecture preparation, teaching, WIP conference, seminar
reading, two museum talks, thesis seminar 2 in 1 month.
08:40 am I recomend http://tinyurl.com/3q7atu for sounds to think with........
08:57 am oh... and I fogot a chapter evaluation for an article in a compendium on Second Life which I
am also publishing in (my first article)

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Thursday 25th
10:23 am The clearing on my desk has exposed more work........

Friday 26th
08:06 am A bird at my window. Small. Blue feathers. It seems to be looking at me. While I work.
08:07 am For the artistic side of Twitter see:
http://incident.net/works/flussgeist/waiting/flash/index.html

Monday 29th
12:05 pm I believe I have a research-self. I need to think more about this.
12:07 pm Immediacy is the condition of implied transparency in the media.

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October

Tuesday 7th
09:41 am Steal This Film II in High Definition steamed format http://www.ilovextra.com/ Great film.

Thursday 9th
10:28 pm so tired I may actually die.......sleeeeep now going to bed

Friday 10th
09:20 am The pages of a book can be said to be analogous with clockwork.
09:20 am The pages in a book are evenly spaced interconnected points in a sequential whole which
regulate the represented passage/s of time.
09:39 am fictionality: . An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but
has been invented.
10:58 am The most anoying invention: Leaf Blower. Banned in two California cities. Here's to a global
ban!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_blower

Saturday 11th
11:53 am working on a Saturday...I say to anyone thinking of doing a PhD..think carefully about
this....it is too much work!
11:53 am five months to go.........ohh mummmy make it stop.

Monday 13th
10:03 am Our name is a skin which we put on each day. A space into which history and action are
placed. Response follows after.

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Tuesday 21st
09:01 am Recomend this week's episode of Schúldt if you are a Swedish speaker
http://tinyurl.com/6qwrvr
09:03 am Chapter presenation seminar at 15:00 today. Design and Implied Response in Digital Texts. I
wonder how literary scholars will handle design?

Thursday 23rd
11:54 am back to the thesis...this is agony...slow millimeters of progress down pages worn from
staring....rewriting is slighly better
12:00 pm Design is a major source of implied response in the digital texts.

Friday 24th
09:01 am Working at home today with sick child..sleeping...endless supply of tea and toast as the
kitchen becomes office space.
09:04 am The seasonal round of childrens illness......must stay healthy....power of positive thinking
09:26 am "Interaction design in the digital texts is largely concerned with the representation of
space." Comments anyone??
05:27 pm just got s decision from VR..we did not get the funding for the Second Life religion project
:-(

Saturday 25th
09:51 pm Coming to the end of William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties. Gibson is a genius.
09:52 pm Listening to Slavoj Zizek on the the end of everything: http://tinyurl.com/4zuhw4 A good
podcast

Monday 27th
10:56 am the trip to stockholm this week for Ben's surgery postponed...he has a cough so no risks
taken. Back to work......
10:58 am Dialogism in digital texts is “a multiplicity of social voices and a wide variety of their links
and interrelationships” Bakhtin 1981 263).

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November

Saturday 1st
11:42 pm Working on design chapter, watching documentary on Obama and McCain, preparing to
write an exam paper, catching up on email lists....

Monday 3rd
11:09 pm Writing an exam paper. It is difficult to write a good exam paper.

Tuesday 4th
11:19 am Interaction as a term to describe media where language plays a defining role in reception is
meaningless.
02:43 pm its strange to think that tomorrow the world is going to be different in some small way than
it is today.
02:54 pm Go to a final seminar for Elena on thesis; "Ese terrible espejo": autorrepresentación en la
narrativa sobre el exilio del Cono Sur en Suecia

Wednesday 5th
11:34 am Layering directs implied response along particular network paths within the overall
structures of the digital text.
11:34 am and YIIIPPPPEEEEE Obama is now superman.

Saturday 8th
07:12 pm advising an old friend in Australia on using digital media in promotional work

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Monday 10th
10:46 am Coping fine with lone parenthood (day one, twelve to go) and getting back to thesis writing

Friday 14th
11:32 am I wonder if one can say a computer program 'recognizes' an imput? I suppose one can;
there are facial 'recognition' technologies....
11:40 am How does recognition work; input, memory, comparison, match, judgment, decision?
11:43 am yes..Pattern recognition Pattern recognition Pattern recognition Pattern recognition
Pattern recognition Pattern recognition Pattern recogi
11:47 am also a good read http://tinyurl.com/2haty6(novel)
11:49 am my thesis is about half of the system than is pattern recognition. Implied response is the
programed side before input and after authoring.
01:21 pm Just hit 8000 links on del.icio.us http://delicious.com/didgebaba everyone is gold
02:20 pm body so tired..brain still ticking over like an energetic puppy in a fragile dog house.
04:32 pm some bits are fast with writing. some not. Tuesday I made three pages in one day (5-7
hours) today after 5 hours I have less than a page :-(

Saturday 15th
04:58 pm Entertaining friend from Rio

Sunday 16th
10:44 pm Making a new lecture for tomorrow: http://tinyurl.com/6edp3e

Tuesday 18th
08:30 am Feeling the corners of a cold. I am unwell. Not a good time for it. Must continue as if my
body is an avatar. Continue regardless.

Thursday 20th
10:45 am marking exam makeup.. while thinking about thesis and supervising museum studies
students working in Second Life...they are doing good work

Friday 21st
11:50 am tip of the week: Talan Memmott @ HUMlab: http://tinyurl.com/5oz7xl

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Monday 24th
10:31 pm Reading Southern Theory by Raewyn Connell....it is brilliant: http://tinyurl.com/55rlkd

Friday 28th
11:11 am working in HUMlab today, writing thesis chapter on design and digital texts and making
myself available for museum students working in SL

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December

Tuesday 2nd
10:57 pm Reading Art and Answerablity by Bakhtin. He wrote the essays between 24-28 years of age!
A serious mind.

Wednesday 3rd
11:50 am productive morning...exam written, lesson prepared, thesis paragraph done (only 1000 to
go)

Thursday 4th
02:06 pm I told my son (8yrs) I used to be a hippy.."do you know what a hippy is?". he said "Long
haired crazy people who live on the streets" :-)
10:34 pm I am happy to be here.

Friday 5th
11:10 pm head caving in, must sleep, want to work but cannot. More tomorrow, when this thesis is
finished I am going to dance on the roofs.

Saturday 6th
12:32 pm @hrheingold is a river of information..better than gold
11:26 pm I just joined the Twitter Group http://twittgroups.com/group/teachers and you can too.
Please Retweet.

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Monday 8th
09:27 am my office is more than a room. it is a thinking space.
11:12 am snowflakes stick to my window. wind directing traffic. bare branch cascade.

Wednesday 10th
11:25 pm @meika WHAT IS THE PATINA? and guess what Tasmania is its own country:
http://www.skoolaborate.com/ Watch video from Skoolaborate

Thursday 11th
10:42 am working at home. Kid sick and TV tuned. Me rewriting a very heavily edited thesis chapter
02:42 pm Welcome to Umeå “Changing Societies – Values, Religions, and Education” June 9-13, 2009!
http://tinyurl.com/5gwy9g
02:43 pm @daniel_skog me also working at kitchen table. But Lucia tomorrow at dagis

Friday 12th
11:46 am just joined Digital Islam: Reserach on Middle East, Islam and Digital Media
http://www.digitalislam.eu/

Monday 15th
10:47 am teaching a class on digital media, virtual worlds and journalism
07:00 pm @fairyrings the hamburger restaurant at Ålidhem advertises on the wall: we do burgers and
unlock phones.....
07:01 pm a nice combination I think

Tuesday 16th
10:36 pm Just watched War Made Easy: http://tinyurl.com/27ju6p Excellent!
10:38 pm "We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth."
Sydney Schanberg, NYT

Wednesday 17th
10:10 pm @fairyrings...wow!! Congrats.
10:15 pm listening to an interview and DJ session with Karl Bartos. http://tinyurl.com/4o9nzh
10:16 pm Bartos was in Kraftwerk and now Professor of sound at the art academy in Berlin
10:16 pm its in English

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Thursday 18th
09:27 am watching Judith Donath on designing social media http://tinyurl.com/4yuolf
11:57 am @fairyrings does Amnesty International know of his arrest? They have a global network of
activists concerned with this sort of thing

Friday 19th
08:59 am just walked to work..its like 5+ celsius and all snow has melted...THE WEEK BEFORE
CHRISTMAS. Climate change is obvious in the sub-arctic
09:36 am synchronicity @BryanAlexander, you are watching The Wire, I am reading a collegue of
yours (??Middlebury) writing on The Wire: Jason Mittel

Wednesday 24th
11:47 pm Christmas largely done.....actually was OK this year. I even played and unconvincing Santa;
"Santa you look so thin...are you sick?"
11:48 pm Sick Santa...could be a comic?

Friday 26th
03:52 pm off to dinner at my father in law's place...I think I have put on 2 kilos over Christmas,,, must
join gym soon...

Monday 29th
03:08 pm Holding my breath for Gaza. How this is allowed to happen in 2008/9 is a crime in itself.
03:14 pm "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Mahatma Gandhi
09:32 pm Investigating forward chaining in natural language processing....I wonder if anyone in Lit.
Studies will understand this thesis?
10:36 pm after a brief return to reality I am back in the zone..i am the thesis and the thesis is me.

Wednesday 31st
11:16 am Maj. Avital Leibovich, Isreali Army. "The blogosphere and new media are another war
zone," she says. "We have to be relevant there."

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January 2009

Friday 2nd
12:01 am @hrheingold we had on radio here 1948 Royal Roost - Bird, after on Google
http://tinyurl.com/7cg8ra
02:00 am thesis chapter 4, draft number 4. The end is in sight. This puppy in the post by Monday. On
design and implied response in digital literture
01:00 pm Must buy a copy of the Complete Works of Arthur Rimbaud.
09:45 pm Life expectancy is now 39 years in Zimbabwe http://tinyurl.com/786tjb
10:00 pm Good article on the Gaza situation: http://xrl.us/bebbz2 The ground attack could come
tonight according to The Times http://xrl.us/bebbz4

Saturday 3rd
11:47 am Cables between England and Australia 1935 http://tinyurl.com/9ztf8y. Like SMS

Sunday 4th
11:54 am This weekend I have been reacquainting myself with Scribd http://www.scribd.com/ where
a great archive is building up
11:55 am my own site is here http://www.scribd.com/people/view/936538 with docs from university
work and related
10:17 pm Norwegian Mads Gilbert says electricity off and fuel running out for generators @ Al-Shifa
hospital. 25% of dead R Women and Kids #Gaza
10:20 pm Mads Gilbert has been in Beirut Afghan conflicts and says #Gaza invasion is the worst he
has witnessed.
10:22 pm Footage from Swedish journalists on the border of #Gaza http://tinyurl.com/7ej9al
10:26 pm source for Mads Gilbert in #Gaza http://tinyurl.com/8y3xs8 in Swedish
10:29 pm Phone interview with Mads Gilbert in #Gaza http://tinyurl.com/9sdha3 Norwegian/Swedish
10:40 pm @proudisrael how do you know this?

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10:44 pm @myrnaslist very little information available on #Gaza despite High Court ruling to admit
journalists to the Strip none are let in
11:23 pm excellent article on #Gaza http://tinyurl.com/8dlozs
11:33 pm Finished thesis draft..printing tomorrow, read and take notes and then write a conclusion
11:36 pm Question. Will Fatah form a govt in what is left of #Gaza after this? Swedish news reports
that IDF are carrying concrete blocks for wall

Monday 5th
10:22 am Listening to WFMU http://wfmu.org/wfmu.pls one of the five best radio stations in the
world.
10:24 am @lwatego thanks for the tip on the web 2.0 indigenous group. Have joined
11:49 am university is empty..the klämdag rules in this land: http://xrl.us/bebimy
05:20 pm Blogging a classic Bugs Bunny from 1946 http://tinyurl.com/7w9ut5 The Big Snooze
05:23 pm a lot of the Loony Tunes from the 1940s are now in the public domain
http://www.nonstick.com/wmovies/index.html
05:36 pm IDF using white phosphorus shells in #Gaza. Terrible burns
09:49 pm eating chocolate and apricot muesli while reading email and blogs
11:37 pm Testing twitter from mobile

Tuesday 6th
02:12 am its 2am..has a PhD every killed anyone?....sleep needed. More tomorrow.
09:54 am it is snowing. I like the visuality of snow when it is falling. The air becomes 3 dimensional in
way unlike when it rains.
11:17 am writing thesis chapter, sitting at the kitchen table, pancakes on the stove, warm tea,
snowing outside
12:58 pm going tobogganing!!!!!!!!
02:09 pm Snow forest hillside. Clouds thick. As children rumble the mountain.

Wednesday 7th
10:35 am @fairyrings pulling teeth is a good comparison for thesis writing, i like ploughing concrete
myself. "It hurts mommy make it stop!"
01:28 pm I stood up for GAZA, now it's your turn - http://www.standupforgaza.com
06:06 pm with the situation in #Gaza the Israeli/Palestinian coffin counter has been relaunched
http://www.moiz.ca/coffin2.htm. One sees a imbalance.
06:08 pm Doctor Decries Israeli Attacks in #Gaza http://tinyurl.com/7uxmg5 Israel attacking
population
09:49 pm Reaction to the terror of #Gaza by a non-Zionist Jewish woman http://xrl.us/bebtct A
homeland is different from a state.
09:53 pm @meika the Windshuttle blunder was the best news all day...

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Thursday 8th
12:00 am international community directly guilty for this latest massacre #Gaza
http://tinyurl.com/8sp9bf
12:56 pm Chapter finished and has been mailed to supervisors. Home now with Erika down with flu. I
and youngest son dealing with Chicken Little.
12:58 pm So tired...2am to bed and up at 7 or 8 for the past week. Maybe sleep early tonight..that's
like a holiday for PhDs..going to bed early.
10:14 pm @fairyrings what about symbiotic (positive sense) or parasitic (negative) feeding "off" each
other is mutual- symbiotic
10:28 pm @enduring amazing the majority of the weapons that Hamas has they got from defeating
Fatah who go them from the USA Israel is armed by USA
10:30 pm @fairyrings cool...I feel like I am on a game show..I got the word..maybe a new possibility
with Twitter..guess the word!
10:32 pm @fat_fatima very suspicious
10:34 pm @fat_fatima burned?

Friday 9th
11:26 am getting ready to go into another chapter world of thesis...narrative and implied response.
Hope to have it done in under a month.

Saturday 10th
11:44 am Looking for free audio books? See Open Culture http://tinyurl.com/ynobde for 250 and
growing.

Sunday 11th
11:52 am I just heard my father's new year resolution: "To live one year more". I like the simplicity of
it and (I hope) high degree of probability

Monday 12th
12:33 am @itaysagi The author, Allyn Fisher-Ilan is not exactly a neutral source for that story.
12:36 am List of blogs from #Gaza http://tinyurl.com/9lg69b
04:53 pm Will be in Stockholm from tonite. Ben has surgery on Wed. for bilateral cochlear implants.
http://tinyurl.com/fpb4z
07:05 pm @fairyrings thanks..it all feels good so far. exciting to think we could be giving our son a
sound world from this. :-)
09:49 pm On a train to Stockholm

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Tuesday 13th
10:15 am Wait to meet surgical team 4 Ben
05:07 pm @fairyrings congrats...I understand the struggle. I got some 'good' news on thesis
yesterday..but still lots to do

Wednesday 14th
07:28 am Getting Ben ready for surgery

Thursday 15th
12:31 am Operation on Ben went well. He is recovering and so am I and his mom.
01:36 pm Feeling more relaxed than I have for days. Using hospital wireless, checking mail, getting
the wheels moving again....
06:30 pm @fairyrings all very well...catching the train tonight back to umeå...frozen umeå--- winter in
Stockholm seems like spring.

Friday 16th
09:18 pm Tuesday 20 January 19:00 (CET) HUMlab museum studies students present exam work in
Second Life. All welcome at http://xrl.us/becsfo
09:35 pm Tired! Woke on nite train 6am. home. work 9am. examining students 10am-2pm. DINO
meeting 3-5pm. Artist talk HUMlab 5-6pm. Cook dinner 7pm,

Saturday 17th
12:57 pm Doing some promotion for the museum students vernissage in Second Life on Tuesday. Let
it be proclaimed throughout the kingdom!
04:25 pm Watching a long interview with La Monte Young http://tinyurl.com/8ee6bj
04:37 pm High caffeine consumption could be linked to a greater tendency to hallucinate
http://www.physorg.com/news151140125.html
04:42 pm Interview with Sheldon Brown by Eduardo Navas http://remixtheory.net/?p=359

Sunday 18th
06:40 pm Been reading all day: my chapters, a chapter for a seminar on a Gothic computer game and
Video Game Spaces by Nitsche http://xrl.us/becxk8

hrheingold "To assist students as they attempt to educate themselves for a fulfilling participation in our
society" http://bit.ly/nnND via @scmorgan

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Monday 19th
08:59 am Taking up position at desk. Light snow outside. WFMU playing as I begin a long day.
08:42 pm Shocking news today: I have a final seminar date: 5 May. OMG!! This is going to be intense
10:06 pm must learn to write chapter introductions this week......not a list, not a summary, not a
rambling monologue of ideas and images.

Tuesday 20th
08:41 am working @ home this morning. after lunch 2 uni 2 prepare for museum students vernissage
in SL http://xrl.us/bec4vv ALL WELCOME
09:08 am CNN hypermedia of the inauguration
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/

Wednesday 21st
12:23 am "Bush was a buddy. Clinton was the kindly uncle. Obama is a prince." http://xrl.us/bec7zf
10:10 am The speech Obama should have given: http://xrl.us/bec94x
01:28 pm Waiting for international students at Design School to teach them about English grammar....
11:42 pm Sleep calls writing going well but slowly this is to be an exciting year as a cat walks across
the kitchen floor I say goodnight

Thursday 22nd
10:58 am @jilltxt Remixes: http://delicious.com/didgebaba/remix and Mashups:
http://delicious.com/didgebaba/Mashups. Best wishes from Umeå
10:36 pm The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies. by Mark Patterson (2007) I just
ordered it.http://people.exeter.ac.uk/mwdp201/

Friday 23rd
09:22 am Back at work, posted phone quality video from museums SL project opening
http://tinyurl.com/cav99h

Saturday 24th
02:02 pm What will come out of the #Gaza War of 2008-09? http://tinyurl.com/cb5u4q Nothing good
that's for sure.

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Sunday 25th
12:24 pm Meeting interesting people thru Facebook

Monday 26th
05:53 pm Spent Invasion Day writing all morning on thesis, Conversations and a meeting on E-Lit
http://electronicliterature.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
11:41 pm nine hours writing today. time to sleep. deadline in two weeks for half the chapters. should
b able 2 do it.

Tuesday 27th
08:47 am Touchdown at desk. Warming up brain. Ready to write.
09:37 am Facebook status becoming news: http://xrl.us/bedwv2 and http://xrl.us/bedwvy one a
murder and one a prince. Strange days.
12:54 pm going to meet a group of 9 australia teaching exchange students. Boy are they a long way
from home http://webcam.educ.umu.se/

Wednesday 28th
08:33 am I know this sounds familair but I am once again....back at my desk and starting work on my
thesis.
09:03 am A history of computer games in 10 visual stages http://tinyurl.com/bueh2e
09:32 am The PhD thesis: Welcome to the hell of your own mind.
05:09 pm Brilliant seminar in HUMlab today http://tinyurl.com/b4agwr now online
05:18 pm Swedish radio reporting on children in #Gaza who survived the war, almost too horrific to
bear.

Thursday 29th
12:10 pm Expecting a call from a journalist about the changeson wikipedia- Flagged Revisions. Is
wikipedia a news source? Why is this happening now?

Friday 30th
07:51 pm Friday...wow. A lot done this week but not feel like enough. Will be in Stockholm Mon-Wed
next week for Ben's cochlear implant turned on wow

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Saturday 31st
11:40 am Finished Draft three of chapter four...now back to chapter three draft four. Seminar
presentation on 17 Feb of two chapters
11:44 am New book from Sweden (English) on Intellectual property http://tinyurl.com/dkjxa6
11:51 am AHHHHHHHHHH

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February

Sunday 1st
09:53 am a tip: Open Culture is now on Twitter: http://twitter.com/openculture brilliant.

Wednesday 4th
08:09 pm Waiting in Stockholm airport 4 flight home
08:17 pm A hambuger restaurant with powerful microphones in the chairs. Sounds of digestion fills
the air

Friday 6th
11:41 am sick at home.
04:45 pm Lev Manovich on UBUWEB http://www.ubu.com/film/manovich.html SOFT CINEMA:
Navigating the Database

Saturday 7th
09:15 pm Summary of the approaching Pirate Bay trial in Sweden http://tinyurl.com/ca8rtu
10:09 pm just came out of a messy five page rewrite of thesis chapter...returning to a well written bit
is like entering a clearing in a dark wood
10:12 pm Not traveling to Stockholm tomorrow...what a relief. Ben unwell...flu...me better but so
much work to do it is not possible to describe it

Sunday 8th
01:53 am Crazy tool for biographies http://www.nndb.com/ includes neat mind mapping application.
10:39 am Mayhem in southern Australia. http://xrl.us/befgng houses destroyed while huge
eucalyptus trees remain with leaves beside the ruins

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12:02 pm I would bathe in tea if it got me clean..Earl Grey, the drink of the gods.
12:03 pm @SachikoHayashi money is also a certificate

Monday 9th
11:09 am Working @ home. Snow almost a meter deep outside. sun shinning. family all down with
colds, submit a seminar chapter tomorrow.
12:05 pm social media and the Australian bush fires http://xrl.us/befj49
12:08 pm Shameful state the S.E Australia landscape http://tinyurl.com/azzdpg no forest. all cleared 4
crop and stock

Tuesday 10th
01:25 pm @bruces while the fires are a tragedy I think the posse mentality that is now looming large
is a shame. it masks so much.

Thursday 12th
01:35 pm a theory book on Second Life http://butikk.tapirforlag.no/node/1195 I have a chapter in
it..out now..just what you need.
09:49 pm Doing quantitative research on digital research that could be of interest to industry in the
local area...I am about to chew my own leg off.

Friday 13th
10:04 am Become familiar with pirate resistance http://razor.azoff.se/fun/PirateResistance.html
videos text sound

Saturday 14th
12:17 am From Monday the pirate bay trial is live on twittter, tag; #spectrial
10:55 am amazing blog: http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/
10:57 am @zephoria when the cat arrives at the new space put a little butter on her front paws...it
helps with easing in to the new territory.

Monday 16th
09:03 am Pirate Bay trial live (in Swedish) starts now: http://tinyurl.com/b82xcb
09:08 am @daniel_skog precis--- this should be interesting
09:09 am does everyone remember Prisoner http://xrl.us/begeqz or Kvinnor i Fangelse som det är på
svenska

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09:10 am teaching in an hour on cultural convergences in India, S. Africa, Britian and Australia
http://www.mos.umu.se:3455/CCEng/Home
09:13 am #spectrial... the Pirate bay trial is now live http://tinyurl.com/b82xcb good morning
Playground EMI Bonniers SF Film Nord and Mr Pontén
12:23 pm @lwatego of course...follow away..I wish I had more teaching time to use the wiki as it
could be but so pressed to get info 2 students
12:25 pm The coverage of #spectrial so far is incredible...I hope it is being documented. twitter, live
video, blogs, radio, RSS
12:27 pm http://live.piratbartiet.se for #spectrial is not responding..crashed or blocked? (I am on
univeristy network)

Tuesday 17th
09:02 am good morning...do you know about the PDF Search Engine
http://www.pdf-search-engine.com/
09:05 am How Art Reprograms the World http://tinyurl.com/da7aaq
01:42 pm #spectrial is bizzare. prosecution is stumbling. confused. back tomorrow 9am

Thursday 19th
09:17 am I wonder how the growth of cloud computing and copyright law are going to mesh
http://xrl.us/begr96 Should be a consideration in #spectrial
09:18 am Hi @meika link failed to pirate bay trial...
09:20 am shocked: Touch and Go cuts distribution service, staff..someone on radio here said, the
bottom has fallen out of the global economy
09:29 am nice post on Robert Wyatt http://tinyurl.com/b2gpvn
01:27 pm consider licensing your dissertation under Creative Commons http://tinyurl.com/cmkoxu
01:29 pm #spectrial is a viral exercise in how to create torrents and use The Pirate Bay.
01:30 pm "The Swarm" has entered into the discourse of the #spectrial
01:31 pm Prosecution being educated about tech by defendants in #spectrial
01:34 pm Trying to frame the business model of TPB at the #spectrial.
01:44 pm The tech knowledge of the lawyers is startling at #spectrial.
06:58 pm I never eat meat and rarely eat take away (falafel sometimes) and I am so glad
http://www.thewvsr.com/adsvsreality.htm
10:36 pm I posted a longish blog piece on the #spectrial http://tinyurl.com/aprowm

Friday 20th
09:51 am #spectrial is fascinating. Collision between the culture of the swarm and the linearity of law;
where Self is single and hierarchy rules
10:27 am difficult for defense #spectrial if the Prosecution brings up this BBC video
http://tinyurl.com/2hjvnn "we don't care"

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10:38 am #spectrial can you answer questions about this article..judge annoyed about intro of new
material all the time
10:40 am #spectrial absolute American situation where material is thrown in without anyone
knowing about it
10:42 am prosecution in #spectrial has lost control of questioning
10:50 am @kjelltringen with grandma telling us that they will be right back :-)
10:51 am The decision by the judge in #spectrial to hand over all evidence is endangering their
strategy I would imagine
10:54 am ohh no the music is back on #spectrial
11:33 am a pirate is someone who stands outside the traditional distribution channels of media
#spectrial
11:37 am #spectrial WIRED is a net newspaper ????
11:40 am @Perdin I think the judge is doing a great job, impartial. But the prosecution is making so
many mistakes..#spectrial

Saturday 21st
10:05 pm documentary on Joseph Beuys. Transformer http://tinyurl.com/c6somx excellence from
1979

Sunday 22nd
07:55 am Getting ready for a flight to Stockholm..back to Huddinge hospital with Ben's hearing.
getting sick of traveling to speak to doctors

Wednesday 25th
08:30 pm 4 days offline been thinking about research and dealing with my amazing family

Friday 27th
08:54 pm strange world without internet, news from TV and newspapers; such limited views. I lost
contact with the stories that interest me.

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March

Sunday 1st
04:50 pm http://tinyurl.com/b8358p lost Six Organs of Admittance album...FREE
04:59 pm talking to a friend just back from Japan...sounds like an amazing place. "a higher civilization"
he says with "spiritual technology"

Wednesday 4th
01:20 pm Holding a cold at bay and getting ready to show history students the possibilities with
digital media

Thursday 5th
11:10 am Ad-Aware ani-spyware program (free: http://www.lavasoft.com/) comes with a great free
'Anniversary Addition' upgrade now
11:16 am Max Peezay has released latest video on Pirate Bay: There is a book of lyrics and graffiti art
for sale in the project http://xrl.us/beidwd
11:31 am New experimental music radio station online: http://tinyurl.com/b35s9a
09:09 pm How I get to work each morning: http://tinyurl.com/cqrah6 Snow snow and more snow.

Friday 6th
10:49 pm A little bit of fever is quite an inspiring thing.....

Monday 9th
08:38 am Been sick 4 weekend. Still have flu although not in pain as Saturday. Each year the seasonal
change sickness gets nastier. Maybe I weaker.

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10:59 pm I am healed...well healing...this flu is hideous. Lots to do. Hope to make it to work
tomorrow.

Thursday 12th
12:27 pm Adbusters: The Production of Meaning http://tinyurl.com/cxtv28 (Video)
03:31 pm @fairyrings I am glad it is of use. Yesterday's seminar. Recommendation on innovation and
media 4 journos: Don't follow the leaders!!
09:56 pm @openculture Sita Sings the Blues is good for Sweden. Thanks for the tip.

Saturday 14th
01:27 pm writing outline for thesis introduction. I have entered thesis phase II. new focus. same
material. not quite sure how this will end.
09:28 pm If you are missing #SXSW all the music can be downloaded from here:
http://sites.google.com/site/sxsw2009torrent/ (more than 5GB)
10:33 pm Australian experimental music scene in print; http://www.experimentalmusicaustralia.net/
comes with a CD as well.

Monday 16th
11:59 pm Sometimes when I work late, I take breaks 2 watch videos of my home country:
http://xrl.us/bekh6d once slept out on this beach for 2 weeks.

Tuesday 17th
12:00 am Good night......
09:10 pm Just listened to the CD Pink Moon by Nick Drake. Been a while since I last listened. Still great
http://tinyurl.com/2g2f9a

Wednesday 18th
10:48 am Writing an exam paper. Interesting as one must think of the possible answers while
composing the question. The double voice.
02:03 pm Have organised four Student Outreach visits to #HUMlab and now more emails to write.
06:45 pm I walk into the room: the 3 year old is giving himself a haircut while his 9 year old brother
plays Donkey Kong on PC; reminds me of 1989!
06:53 pm Listen to a great poet, Leonard Cohen has seen the abyss and writes well of it: Live in
concert in NYC FEB 09: http://xrl.us/bekqpc

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Thursday 19th
11:36 am The Mummies rock: http://tinyurl.com/cks6g8 crazed garage grunge

Saturday 21st
10:37 am @hrheingold So true Howard re: Amsterdam. When in town I recomend the Frankrike Bar,
a 20 year old squat http://xrl.us/bek4mo Spuistraat
08:52 pm Bizarre spam continues; "I have an obscured Business suggestion for you." Returns 42,300
hits on Google all using different names. A meme?
09:32 pm @BryanAlexander Thanks for the tip on The Big Takeover article..It is mind boggling how
huge this is and extremely disturbing.

Sunday 22nd
12:57 pm If I only had the time to read the Rhizome Experimental Geography Reading List I would:
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2448
01:06 pm Established in #spectrial and seems to be resonating; law makers have no idea about what
is happening in society http://xrl.us/bek7v6 France

Monday 23rd
12:16 pm What is it about narrative forms in digital media that I find so fascinating? A question I need
to answer to proceed with the thesis.

Tuesday 24th
09:19 am @anyaixchel Paris: GO! I have been there twice since living in Europe and it is wonderful.
Hotel Des Arts Montmartre http://xrl.us/bemd89

Wednesday 25th
09:25 am Litigation against torrent sites is pointless. The future of P2P is 3G and blutooth sharing. see
Zeebo: http://xrl.us/bemiri

Thursday 26th
09:00 am Interesting post by Jeffrey Bardzell: Discourse analysis and close reading are NOT
interchangeable. http://xrl.us/bemnuu
09:02 am @meika Nikhil Banerjee is also one of my favourites. Have you listened to Vilayat Khan?
Brilliant
10:19 am From The Guardian: Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up
http://xrl.us/primarycomms

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02:03 pm Three nice texts on technologies of representation available. The Employment of Chaos:
Instability and Narrative Order. http://xrl.us/bemn9v

Friday 27th
08:48 am Hopeful poets, PressPress Chapbook award now open: http://tinyurl.com/dkzc3c
09:38 am Presentation today for Religious Studies students on doing digital research:
http://tinyurl.com/dlmb56
09:41 am Unemployed using Web 2.0 to get jobs
http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives//021275.html

Tuesday 31st
05:25 pm @anyaixchel I have not enough time to blog with the depth and detail I would like. Twitter
on blog is good: save links, keeps blog alive.
09:57 pm And now the news from Sweden: http://tinyurl.com/d2kwxr Surveillance tomorrow.

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April

Wednesday 1st
08:27 am Exams marked, presentation for digital philosophy done http://tinyurl.com/dbe4f8 now
back 2 thesis
11:12 am enjoying the chat between Jenkins and Aarseth from 2005 http://tinyurl.com/cmzh9j
11:28 am Just saw a fly on my window pane. The first fly of Spring. Winter is over. Praise Gaia!
11:39 am Just opened BitTorrent in observance of the start of the IPRED law here in Sweden today.
12:24 pm @anyaixchel thanks...its was put together very quickly...but it all gets repetitive if all you do
is think, write, read and talk digital-PhD
01:05 pm something mad happening with my slideshare stuff; 80000 views on one of them..is this
real? http://www.slideshare.net/didgebaba
01:37 pm Local TV Station TV4 says from April 6 it will be broadcasting news in 3D..April Fools thinks I.
http://xrl.us/benc96
04:27 pm @fairyrings I water every Friday, as a ritual and my one office plant (which I inherited with
the room) is about 2 years old now..
08:30 pm "I'm blown away by this. Art is the antidote to despair and global warming is the greatest
issue of the age," said Dame Vivienne Westwood
09:27 pm from EU on net neutrality: "respect for private life…data protection…freedom of speech and
association" http://xrl.us/benfav

Thursday 2nd
08:12 am Superheroes from London: http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/ "The police stopped an
armoured personnel carrier outside The Times"
08:57 am second day working @ home. making slow progress with thesis introduction. forcing me to
sharpen and understand what it is I am doing.
08:58 am must stay away from internet.........came to me in a dream this advice.
10:17 am @anyaixchel yes...every 2000 words. Great idea (do I sound like an addict?)
10:18 am @anyaixchel oohhh. no...i just checked twitter and responded without even realizing I was
trying not to....this is getting worrying.

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Friday 3rd
09:25 am @BryanAlexander I would be interested to hear what you thought of 'Låt den rätte komma
in'. Haven't seen it yet but seems to be a gem.
09:35 am Mark Rothko @ The Tate
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/markrothko/panorama/default.shtm
Interactive site.
09:40 am Back to the writing now. summary of primary texts.....uuhhh
11:32 am Eclectic Tech Carnival (/ETC) in Umeå 8-12 June 2009. 4 women interested in technology
http://blog.humlab.umu.se/
01:20 pm @anyaixchel no..saving on characters, although I could have probably written 'for' :-)

Saturday 4th
03:58 pm "spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of
vocal sounds" from http://xrl.us/benumw

Monday 6th
01:51 pm 1025 words written today. So far so good.
09:29 pm PhD students in the Language Studies Department...come and eat vegan chocolate cake
tomorrow in HUM pantry: 12-13:00 Doc lunch is on!

Tuesday 7th
10:42 am Today. dentist (done), ice cake (done), present digital history studies, PhD seminar, write
thesis.......OMG!!
12:18 pm Digital History Presentation done (oh so quickly done)
http://realmixed.blogspot.com/2009/04/digital-history.html
12:19 pm Now to read Homi K Bhabha, The Location of Culture extract for seminar. Must also have a
respectable draft of thesis intro 4 supervisor

Wednesday 8th
08:53 am Back @ the controls...thinking Misty Morning by Bob and The Wailers
http://tinyurl.com/db8wpg
10:26 am Ghost Twittering; apparently 5o Cent and Britney S. have someone else do the 140
characters for them http://xrl.us/ben9ks WHY BOTHER?
06:29 pm Slutrapport Laboratorium för Spontankultur (Final Report for the Laboratory for
Spontaneous Culture) http://xrl.us/beoawq PDF in Swedish

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Thursday 9th
07:55 am Dreamt I was in Am*dam with Jimi Hendrix, large communal space (common in my
dreams), lots of people, Jimi was relaxed and friendly.
09:52 am Just found out about the death of a friend; http://tinyurl.com/ckdpnc Travelled with him in
India
08:34 pm Blog post with recommended online media for the week, http://tinyurl.com/dzkjul some
fine things

Friday 10th
01:39 pm Reading Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics http://xrl.us/beohkq wonderful.
01:59 pm From Catholic Church; Virginia Woolf and her 'crowd' ruined society: http://xrl.us/beohma
Watch http://xrl.us/beohmx weirdos

Saturday 11th
05:49 pm Just found on blog tracker someone googled 'video seks' from Riyadh. Saudi Arabia- found
my blog, Must have been disappointed. Spelling!!!!
05:50 pm My personal history with virtual worlds
http://www.flickr.com/photos/didgebaba/sets/373729/show/ started 2003 up to present.
06:15 pm Find tweets near you: http://nearbytweets.com/ geo-social positioning

Sunday 12th
11:36 am Working on material for a fourth term Eng. Lit. seminar on Digital Literature and Mikhail
Bakhtin's dialogism. Will post blog text soon.

Monday 13th
09:25 am Lots to do even though today is a holiday...ha ha...Finish lesson prep for tomorrow on
Digital Lit. and rebuild a wiki from backups-wow
09:26 am that is complete a lesson not in the Finish language....language is so dialogic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogic
11:36 am Digital Literature, Bakhtin and the Dialogic Principle http://tinyurl.com/cpseqs

Tuesday 14th
08:02 am @BryanAlexander Have you ever spent time in the Franz Kafka International Airport
http://xrl.us/beowo7 sounds like fun
09:51 am Back to thesis...now where did I leave it?

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Wednesday 15th
08:30 am Possibilities fill the air as sunshine is breathed in and the wide road runs before me.
10:48 am Wiki I was using since 2007 to teach Realia and culture has died. Now must create HTML
site from backup http://www.mos.umu.se/cceng/11.html
05:13 pm Vegan shepherds pie for dinner..no shepherds will be hurt during the entire cooking
session.
08:55 pm Last day 2 apply for uni in Sweden in the Fall. Website overloaded. Nothing works (I shall
study if all else fails) https://www.studera.nu/
09:06 pm Of course with summer course applications up by 85% the Fall term could be good for
unfinished-PhDs getting teaching work. Recession work.
09:07 pm Of course the aim in to finish the thesis...just need an income while I do so.
09:13 pm The server at auth.studera.nu is taking too long to respond.
09:13 pm so sayeth the server....
09:27 pm The whole of Sweden and the rest of the world is supposed to apply for university courses
thru one website...crazy.
09:29 pm By the rest of the world..I mean anyone. University is free in Sweden and anyone can apply.
All you need is prerequisites and a visa.
09:29 pm but deadline is in an hour and a half for the Fall Term (starts September)
09:32 pm the other thing you need is to survive the website where you apply....it seems to have
crashed.
09:33 pm Many courses are taught in English..see where I work: http://xrl.us/beo5tt Umeå University
09:35 pm some interesting course at Informatics http://www.informatik.umu.se/gru/en/eng.html
11:01 pm seems that for the third year in a row the application site for uni courses in Sweden crashed
and we have been given 12 extra hours to apply

Thursday 16th
11:33 am snowing here and its April....dont believe me..check it out live:
http://webcam.educ.umu.se/
12:05 pm trying out Tweecious (these names are mutating) http://friedcell.net/tweecious/new
posting tweet links to del.icio.us
01:25 pm Dare I post a compliment "I think your interpretation is the best I've seen on the web and
the closest to my intentions with the piece" :-)
01:27 pm from the author of Dim O'Gauble http://xrl.us/beo8ay Commenting on a seminar plan for
next week http://xrl.us/beo8a4

Friday 17th
07:58 am @fairyrings Happy Birthday....may the coming year be full of achievement and health.
08:11 am virtual CBGBs: http://www.bravadousa.com/cbgb/pano/pano.html like being inside a
Jackson Pollock but with punk attitude
09:28 am World of Warcraft musical in Swedish http://tinyurl.com/d7vo7r (video)

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Sunday 19th
09:12 am Recovering from son' 9 years birthday party..intense build up to intense few hours..with
lots of sugar eaten and chaos.
07:34 pm Sunday Night thesis work...this is getting serious.

Monday 20th
11:35 am J G Ballard is dead http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8007331.stm quite a shock.
Amazing author.
03:57 pm 1037 thesis words written today, Its just going 5pm..I feel like a working person......yyee
haaa
09:31 pm Witness the unrivaled energy and manic genius of Klaus Kinski http://tinyurl.com/c2bbdc
My Best Friend (2000)

Tuesday 21st
02:08 pm What is design and how does it create meaning in digital texts? a summary in a paragraph
and I have now been working on it for 3 hours
08:37 pm Bildmuseet Umeå Tabea Metzel talks on Joyce Wieland, experimental filmmaker in New
York 1960s. Films shown, 1pm Sat. 25/4 free. coffee/cake
10:58 pm Six hundred words today.Bit disappointing but design took time to write summary. Plus
teaching all morning and wrote an exam tonite. zzZZZZZ
11:00 pm I sure do write a lot these days. Have stopped reading. Such a sacrifice. Imagine just being
able to read anything, One day!

Wednesday 22nd
07:36 am Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/HigherEd to join
07:37 am And now back to thesis introduction...'Response as Reading in Digital Literature'..
07:38 am Earth Spider by Yoshitoshi Taiso (1839-1892) http://tinyurl.com/c82qa9
07:44 am Listening to new Sonic Youth http://tinyurl.com/cv3m8n Still good after all these years
07:47 am and now back to thesis introduction....
07:55 am Hype over but Second Life going strong: http://tinyurl.com/d72ddj
08:17 am typeface considerations http://tinyurl.com/czfoeg italics are interesting.....
08:18 am thesis writing underway..and yes @stefangelfgren its sunny!!!!!!!!!
08:19 am italics where a word is used as an example rather than for its meaning
08:46 am has everyone seen The Virtual Window interactive site http://thevirtualwindow.net/ goes
with the excellent book
04:25 pm Yahoo will be "officially closing the Jumpcut.com site on June 15, 2009."
http://www.jumpcut.com/ shame..it was a good idea
08:12 pm Discovering that 6 hours sleep a night for three nights is the limit for me these days.Ohh for
the time when sleep 3 nights in 6 was enough.

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Thursday 23rd
08:12 am just five per cent of Africans surf the web http://xrl.us/bep22u as Tim Berners-Lee "The
future is still so much bigger than the past,"
08:14 am Pirate Bay #spectrial becoming more understandable now http://tinyurl.com/cbd44n Judge
member of SFU
08:31 am @meika Svenska föreningen för upphovsrätt (SFU) Swedish Association for Copyright
08:32 am @brokep I agree on SVT Kulturnyheterna...does some excellent work.
08:33 am now to thesis and enough of this warm wave of information washing over me as internet
bath....
08:33 am back in five hours
11:26 am Anything can happen #spectrial lawyer called for a retrial: reports judge a member of same
copyright groups as entertainment industry reps.

Friday 24th
08:12 am Recovering from 24 virus...short sharp and nasty
08:51 am "Broadcast": how artists critically engage media by appropriating, reconfiguring or
distorting broadcast material http://xrl.us/bep73u
01:45 pm If anyone wants to listen to the best freak folk improv from Oz http://xrl.us/bep8gv
10:12 pm Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein (1993) online in full:
http://www.ubu.com/film/jarman_wittgenstein.html

Saturday 25th
08:17 pm Apparently we in Sweden are living in a socialist nightmare
http://www.thelocal.se/blog/20090423/436/ according to The Daily Show (funny)
10:08 pm apparently (no. 2) a half naked man ran amok in my local supermarket this morning. I
missed it. Was at home writing.

Sunday 26th
05:13 pm Been bookmarking for a while. Here are 705 things you can stream or download from the
net http://delicious.com/didgebaba/Download
05:57 pm Second Life introduction http://xrl.us/beqf3o Perfect for first timers
06:28 pm Weekend: blog post http://xrl.us/beqf5w, 2000 thesis words, arange SLbuild, 5 loads wash,
2 kids+3 bikes 2 allotment, 12hrs sleep + shopping
06:28 pm I am running away from home soon.

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Monday 27th
07:59 am Back in office after intense but productive weekend...last night found a large hole in my
thesis introduction and today it has to be filled.
09:00 am I can see the first buds of Spring outside my window...yes, spring is yet to happen here on
63 degrees, 50 minutes, -1 seconds North
09:13 pm Thesis chapter: 1300 words today 'The Digital Text as Dialogic and Response Inviting',
Debating now to push to the end or make corrections.
09:15 pm brain is tired but heart is still in it,,,,may start and see where writing takes me..can always
make corrections tomorrow. 3pm deadline.

Tuesday 28th
08:36 am Synesthesia: Genesis P-Orridge http://tinyurl.com/ccby8f 90 mins interview 1997-2001
08:38 am Sonic Outlaws, the story of Negativeland http://tinyurl.com/dc668e entire film online
05:34 pm memory woken by @jilltxt mention geocities The first website I ever built (2001) is still
online http://www.geocities.com/soundheartocean/
06:06 pm Most recent wesbite I built a contrast to the first one I built
http://www.mos.umu.se/cceng/11.html a recycled wiki saved in server crash
07:03 pm P2P file sharing situation in Sweden updates from today: http://xrl.us/beqpxi amazing
things happening. ISPs destroy records. IPRED fails

Wednesday 29th
08:11 am TV Eye by the Stooges- take five (phlegmic coughs and wicked guitar) playing as I blog an
upcoming seminar from Second Life. Sun shinning
10:44 am HUMlab seminar on Virtual Macbeth by Angela A. Thomas @anyaixchels streamed 8 may
11:00 (CET) Details: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=976
04:28 pm @fairyrings The Eclectic Tech Carnival makes me wish I was a
woman.....http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=968

Thursday 30th
11:54 am writing a paper: "Religion in New Places: Rhetoric of the Holy in the Online Virtual World of
Second Life"
09:49 pm back from bonfire and general merriment. Best pic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/didgebaba/3489705728/

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May

Friday 1st
06:58 am Artist David Hockney uses his Apple phone to paint http://xrl.us/beq37c
05:13 pm http://twitpic.com/4c9jl - Tibetan Buddhist thanka in Second Life
05:16 pm Holiday in Sweden today. Great weather, Parks full of people around where I live. BBQs and
music in the streets. Am I in another country?

Saturday 2nd
08:14 pm Just booked plane tickets to Singapore and Australia in July-August...traveling with my son,
In Singapore for zoo http://www.zoo.com.sg/

Sunday 3rd
05:20 pm Very little work done this weekend. Weather too good. Slept and ate and rode my bike. Like
being 12 again. Mummy I don't wanna go to school.
08:37 pm allergies have started very early this year..my eyes itching in May, unusual. usually late June
and a month of hell.

Monday 4th
08:11 am Poets ranked by the weight of their beards: http://tinyurl.com/dagm2o
08:16 am An environmental search engine: http://se.growyn.com/ welcome to Scandinavia
08:20 am Free PDF http://www.powells.com/pdf/AlchemystByMichaelScott.pdf Michael Scott's The
Alchemyst (Young adult fiction)
08:21 am Three years have passed since the collapse of the Tower of Pisa http://tinyurl.com/dgcaam
08:25 am Super heroes walk the streets of many US cities http://xrl.us/berdud Some take the bus.
Few fly.

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08:26 am Shadow Hare said he dislocated his shoulder two years ago while helping a woman who
was being attacked.
10:48 am Just found another theorist for my field/s http://www.unc.edu/~khillis/index.html
10:53 am Last day for tax returns in Sweden is today-- off to town for lunch and errands: Tax, plane
tickets.
05:47 pm Program about Futurism on Swedish radio: http://tinyurl.com/c97784 if ya got ears
09:19 pm Now writing a paper on "Observing Three Learning Situations" to finish a teacher training
course to get points to apply for a job.
09:21 pm Its like 'The House that Jack Built'. Write the paper to finish the course to get the points to
get the job to keep doing the PhD write th
09:26 pm And sometimes I wish I was in London http://tinyurl.com/c8efy5

Tuesday 5th
10:29 am Of course you have all seen RIP: A Remix Manifesto http://tinyurl.com/blrola what do you
mean no?
10:30 am @GardnerCampbell welcome to Sweden...look forward to meeting you in HUMlab
tomorrow.
10:34 am Urban space, surveillance, residual landscapes, conflict, design and the state. It can only be
Subtopia http://xrl.us/berift
05:21 pm Had a seminar just now. presented introduction. went well. people say my writing is much
clearer. must work more with sources
05:32 pm Now return to Religion in New Places paper.
10:19 pm sleeping and writing or is this a dream?

Wednesday 6th
07:57 am Off to HUMlab for a day of interesting missions. As well going to read Fredrich Kittler on
advice from a friend.
07:59 am @meika did I ever tell you that while hitchhiking in Tas in 1996 I had an egg thrown at me.
In Snug, a ute, yelled "gettajob" dog in back.
08:01 am Here is a picture of my dad. Explains a lot about me
http://www.flickr.com/photos/didgebaba/36559845/in/photostream/ Psychedelic Rabbi
12:54 pm Gardner Campbell at HUMlab live http://bit.ly/Yaiyx
12:56 pm Gardner Campbell @HUMlab disruptions...remix, twitter, millicomputing
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3871.html
12:57 pm Adrian Cockcroft Director, Web Engineering, Netflix 1080p playback 10 times web surfing
speed
12:58 pm "As we move through the environment. The peripherals sense someone is present and
ready to compute"
12:58 pm Still be a place for "sustained writing" and paper
12:59 pm We will be in constant contact with virtual worlds via mobile millicomputers
01:00 pm The border between the virtual and the real will become difficult to trace

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01:01 pm 14 year old daughter 4000 txt messages a month
01:04 pm soo everybody will be sitting back of the room, and UNcle phil will be at the front telling us
how he has failed us
01:04 pm Craigslist killing newspapers http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites
01:05 pm newspapers have content that 'doesn't belong together'
01:05 pm newspapers rely on sales lists for income
01:06 pm criagslist has disrupted newspapers
01:06 pm Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shriky http://bit.ly/EqqRm
01:07 pm You may not be able to recognize real disruption but you may be able to talk about it while
it is happening
01:07 pm Before printing press there were scribes
01:09 pm Printing press was disruptive. Aldus Manutius, the Venetian printer and publisher, invented
the smaller octavo
01:09 pm Octavo disrupted books became cheaper, more portable, and therefore more desirable,
they expanded the market for all publishers
01:10 pm We will not have the comfort of the old ways. What we have had will be broken before we
have built the new.
01:11 pm Google may be causing harm to us socially (side point)
01:11 pm Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf how reading rewired our brains
01:12 pm Wolf maps disruptions in the brain during reading
01:12 pm The alphabet is disruptive
01:13 pm ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ REWIRES THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
01:13 pm "the most massive disruption in civilizations since the invention of the alphebet
01:14 pm alphabet millicomputers twitter Second Life a move away from pictograms and towards an
alphabet
01:15 pm the change into the mediated alphabet environment
01:16 pm Malcolm Gladwell http://bit.ly/17gZ5c Now s not the time to circle the wagons
01:17 pm In the classroom Gardener Campbell 'tinkers'
01:17 pm The New Media Reader MIT press: students blog what they are reading
01:18 pm Atypical putting material out on the open web
01:18 pm "Aren't you worried they will say bad things about your class"
01:18 pm Creates public intellectuals
01:19 pm Student links back to a moment when she began to think in a more metacognative way
01:20 pm Students point back to their own work. "They are part of a much larger enducational
universe than they imagined"
01:21 pm The are 6 million blog "I don't have time" from faculty....So you don't go to libraries that
have more than a couple of hundred books?
01:24 pm Google alerts http://www.google.com/alerts artists subscribe to mentions of their work
01:26 pm Sam Cooke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke, Bernini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernini the ecstasy of St Theresa led to blog post

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01:42 pm Douglas Engelbart "invented the computer mouse" like saying Da Vinci 'did a few drawings'
http://bit.ly/b2l0m
09:34 pm Read the introduction to Discourse Networks by Friedrich Kittler, why haven't I discovered
this earlier? Must read more.
09:34 pm Video of Kittler http://bit.ly/11ITUq The relation of Art and Techne.

Thursday 7th
08:12 am Calming down to meet Laurie Anderson who is coming for a visit to HUMlab
http://bit.ly/GmBwa
08:18 am RT @ggatin I miss my homeland, sun, surf, and giant spiders
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6231301.ece
08:22 am Laurie Anderson is NASA's 'first and last artist in residence' http://bit.ly/S2SlM
10:28 am Just met and spent and hour with Laurie Anderson. Very cool person. Recomended Story
Nest http://storynest.metatale.com/
10:29 am As well Clock of the Long Now http://www.longnow.org/ beautiful stuff
01:24 pm Sitting in #HUMlab planning events
01:28 pm @meika yes Laurie said...she seems to know Stephenson and Brian Eno who is also
involved. Anyone can go and help as well apparently. Desert.

Friday 8th
08:23 am @anyaixchel see you in SL soon
08:28 am 1 1/2 hours until Inside the mind of Macbeth seminar streamed live
http://live.humlab.umu.se/ and in SL http://xrl.us/berw7i
08:29 am More details here http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=976 #HUMlab and Angela A. Thomas
http://angelaathomas.com/
12:03 pm Seminar from #HUMlab in Second Life http://stream.humlab.umu.se/index.php Virtual
Macbeth....so cool
09:49 pm amazing week. two papers written, three seminars. one given, one listened and one
produced, met Laurie Anderson, payed for tickets Australia

Saturday 9th
09:32 am Nietzsche used a typewriterhttp://bit.ly/XggOh , The Hansen Writing Ball (1856)
10:01 am Missions for the weekend: mark exam papers (done), finish conference paper, complete job
application....play guitar (keeps me sane)
10:03 am Damn just realized that SLanguages is on now..no time
http://www.slanguages.net/home.php
05:17 pm The other night I watched a doco on Grisha Perelman and the Poincaré conjecture. Very
interesting: http://xrl.us/ber354
05:25 pm So what is Perelman doing now http://bit.ly/DVfca living with mother and poor

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10:30 am Working on "Religion in New Places: Rhetoric of the Holy in the Online Virtual Environment
of Second Life". On a Sunday as well...
10:31 am @meika and what is wrong with hippies maaan?
10:33 am Researching 1970s Swedish children's TV for my son, A time of creative exploration and
HIPPIES http://bit.ly/y9EE6
09:07 pm Who does Rupert Murdoch think he is? "The current days of the internet will soon be over."
http://xrl.us/ber7b3 I beg to differ.
10:23 pm I have not lived in Australia for ten years, and judging by this video channel things have
changed http://www.vivecoolcity.com/preview/

Monday 11th
08:01 am @GreatDismal the fringe of Surrealism? Who did you have in mind?
08:34 am The WoW Pod is for the 24 hour gamer http://bit.ly/m45rf includes kitchen and toilet.
11:35 am Going to put Second Life up on a 4096 *2160 screen in #HUMlab. Its the size of a small car!!
12:02 pm Australia is the only western land to have a net filter, Swedish report http://bit.ly/e6tSX
12:02 pm The technology for Oz net filter supplied by Swedish company, NetClean
http://www.netclean.com/
12:45 pm Waiting for tech support in a room with 20 researchers on digital humanities..Some artists
and tech people.
08:29 pm What to do next? Conference paper or job application? May look at the latter.
09:59 pm Job applied for. All done online in an hour. Please spirits of the internet deliver this job to
me. The perfect job at the perfect time.

Tuesday 12th
09:26 am I am working at home today. Finishing the text for a conference paper on religious symbols
in Second Life.
09:35 am If you have not yet visited the Bodhi Sim in Second Life you should
http://www.bodhisim.org/ it may close soon :-(
10:33 am National Borders: paying for air ticket. cannot accept foreign credit card. Go outside, find
wireless, pay online..return to travel agent.
02:32 pm If you live in Umeå, Ålhéns in town is selling out all Muji http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muji
for half price. I think I am going back 4 more
10:10 pm JSTOR offering free download of British pamphlets from 17th, 18th and 19th century
http://xrl.us/besfrh
10:42 pm Writing about female avatars wearing hijab (head scarf) in Second Life when visiting
mosques in world. Difficult to explain what it means.
10:44 pm How to put a Hijab on an avatar http://bit.ly/UyK7Z
10:50 pm Having an avatar wear a veil means that the veil is a part of identity and not just a cover. It
makes rather than takes away. Interesting.
10:58 pm Avatar wearing Hijab http://bit.ly/Hh0td

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11:03 pm Muxlim Pal is the first Muslim virtual world http://pal.muxlim.com/
11:49 pm @meika identity is contagious. Anything you touch can become part of it. People fall in love
with their cars. Hermit in SL Popular in RL.
11:59 pm and now it is goodnight....more fun tomorrow.

Wednesday 13th
07:58 am Finishing up paper. Enjoying the sunshine. Getting ready for two big days in #HUMlab
08:08 am The Embassy of Piracy build your pyramid now http://embassyofpiracy.org/build/
08:10 am Copyright infringements per university worldwide http://bit.ly/AbNNo
09:45 am A modern day bloodbath in Sri Lanka http://bit.ly/zkH5U

Friday 15th
07:38 am Good morning. This is what the world sounded like when I was 19
http://www.cousincreep.com/intheraw/pissant.htm
08:02 am Sly and the Family Stone live in Harlem 1969 http://xrl.us/besrwq
08:03 am Boal obituary. Still sad about this http://bit.ly/MlC4v
08:04 am "if we don’t like the image that we have in front of us, [theater] would allow us to
penetrate into the mirror and transform our image" Boal
09:06 am prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a historical group,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopography
09:45 am Perseus Digital Library with online editions http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
09:48 am Hypermedia Berlin http://www.berlin.ucla.edu/ the urban over time in the digital
09:49 am Hypermedia Berlin became Hypercities http://www.hypercities.com/
09:51 am Sustainability and the virtual is not just a question of money. Insitutions must structure for
the changes.
09:58 am Looking very cool; Reframeit, adds a layer to web pages for notes markup etc.
http://reframeit.com/
10:07 am The study of logic produces a set of ideological boundaries that must be considered - David
Theo Goldberg
10:08 am David Theo Goldberg http://bit.ly/15N6pS
10:22 am Consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, and engineers, leading researchers and
nonprofit research institutions: http://www.hastac.org/
10:30 am $50 million digital media and learning initiative http://bit.ly/hYjmA
10:31 am Bruce Damer is at HUMlab http://www.damer.com/
10:34 am The Colossus 5 bit paper feed http://bit.ly/IvSjK
10:37 am The Electronic Computer Project von Neumann architecture http://bit.ly/WlwJv
10:40 am the Laboratory Instrument Computer Developed for biomedical research
http://www.smecc.org/linc_computer.htm
10:45 am Creation of te first networked multi user graphical space 1974
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_War MAZE War

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10:47 am All th features of Doom 1993 http://bit.ly/pKqqI are present in MAZE War 1974
10:49 am The Xerox Alto was an early personal computer developed at Xerox PARC in 1973.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
10:50 am Keyboard design for computers comes from mainframe design
10:51 am Video of Xerox Alto http://bit.ly/nXtyr
10:52 am http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star Xerox Star 1981 systems concept owes much to
the Xerox Alto
10:54 am Lucasfilm 1986 Habitat http://bit.ly/Wfo0d First avatar space
10:56 am In Walk the Avatars a documentary film about Habitat 1986
10:58 am AlphaWorld, is the oldest collaborative virtual world on the Internet
http://www.activeworlds.com/worlds/alphaworld/
11:00 am Avatars98 http://www.ccon.org/conf98/
11:02 am Virtual Worlds Timeline http://www.vwtimeline.org/
11:04 am Bruce Damer clothes designer http://vimeo.com/961875
11:05 am Digibarn rules!! http://www.digibarn.com/
12:38 pm Ele Carpenter http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ presenting at HUMlab symposium
12:39 pm Gerhard Richter's stained-glass window in Germany's Cologne Cathedral evokes technology
and science http://xrl.us/bessh3
12:40 pm Is it object or analysis that clarifies research?
12:41 pm I am thinking about Jerome McGann''s Deformance http://bit.ly/1cuTpt
12:43 pm Stefanie Wuschitz http://grenzartikel.com/ speaking about art research/art as
research/research in art
12:47 pm Galan Bradt at #HUMlab http://www.virtualgalen.com/
12:48 pm Working with technology in learning how to understand how autistic children do pattern
matching (reading)
12:50 pm Emma Ewadotter at #HUMlab http://www8.umu.se/kvf/aktuellt/ppf/eewadotter.pdf
(Swedish text)
12:53 pm Galan: Being a digital human means having explicit relationships with machines.
01:07 pm David Goldberg: If I adopt an avatar that allows me to examine being a different person,
The ethics of such an act needs to be explored.
01:42 pm What do we mean by an academic institution? Hierarchical authored knowledge against a
network that mobilizes people.(Goldberg)
01:46 pm The academy supplies more that just a wage; community, equipment, spaces, feedback,
networks, set and settings.
01:54 pm optimism is important in activity and an awareness of seasons, Things come and go and you
only have a percentile of productivity
03:03 pm Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail 10 yrs old evicted by police and house destroyed
http://xrl.us/bessut Slumdog star's kittens killed by bulldozers
08:53 pm Amazing two days in HUMlab. Much to think about. Now tired by happy.
09:43 pm Give up on TV...here are 380 online videos worth watching: http://soulvlog.blogspot.com/

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Saturday 16th
08:55 pm Trying to stay away from Eurovision Songs. Family is absorbed, I am not.
08:59 pm Cybernetics is an antihumanism http://bit.ly/24auEA
09:02 pm So much for the artists; on a .99 cent track Apple supposedly keeps .34 cents and gives the
content provider .55 cents. Is copyright working

Sunday 17th
07:01 pm 6majik9: "Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input." http://bit.ly/19edGw
07:02 pm Just back from a BBQ with the HUMlab crew and guests @bdamer and Galen
07:31 pm trying out new Educational Spacewalk Simulation http://bit.ly/UOXec from Digital Space

Monday 18th
08:00 am Chimurenga Library project, revolution in the stacks: http://www.chimurengalibrary.co.za/
and the collective http://www.chimurenga.co.za/
08:12 am @stefangelfgren ahhh yes, the right track...I remember travelling along it for a while but my
road map is all mixed up now.
02:10 pm Will Bona Fide Life Evolve from within Human Technology (and what are the consequences
of this happening)? Bruce Damer, DigitalSpace Now
02:10 pm Its live and I am there http://live.humlab.umu.se/

Tuesday 19th
08:12 am The excitement of the last few days is settling and now it is back to daily text analysis,
writing articles, chapter revisions, consult work
12:20 pm Just been approved for six more months of PhD employment (with conditions). Must finish
thesis by spring 2010!! Yeehh!
12:22 pm Now back to reading the work of Mr Hållen http://www.eng.umu.se/personal/nicklas.asp
with a seminar in an hour.

Wednesday 20th
05:18 pm Now a long weekend...I hope I can get some work done ;-)
10:09 pm Our Digital Island http://odi.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/ State Library of Tasmania archiving
online sites. Do other libraries do this?

Thursday 21st
09:44 pm Today built a new bike, fixed another, cycled 10 kms. This summer is going to be a lot of
cycling. I would love to do a long trip. Berlin?

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Friday 22nd
08:40 am I knew I was doing this for a reason: Living abroad gives you a creative edge
http://xrl.us/betqjh
08:53 am Cistern Festival looks cool http://www.cistern.se/ maybe I should go
08:55 am Plus another 50+ festivals I can recommend http://delicious.com/didgebaba/Festivals
09:02 am ‘We call them pirates out here’, and in Mt Druitt http://xrl.us/betqnk a form of colonialism
continues in Australia
09:39 am Also listening to Tim Buckley Dream Letter: Live in London 1968 so fine http://bit.ly/10g64I
12:55 pm Time to go outside for a while..sunshine fresh air.....

Saturday 23rd
08:54 am Contemplating which end of the pool to dive in. Depth or speed? That is the question.
09:09 am Zizek on Parallax and Architecture
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bydesign/stories/2009/2567788.htm radio broadcast
06:18 pm @anyaixchel Have you seen Amelie from Montmartre, wonderful
film.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9lie

Sunday 24th
11:17 am Five international postdoctoral positions in the digital humanities are now available at
HUMlab http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=1050
11:28 am @meika How tall are you? ;-)
12:06 pm @meika "short writer's statement"..I imagined some new guild of vertically challenged
scribes. Sad joke :-/
12:29 pm The Australian racist imagination reveals itself, 'Clare the Kings Cross bogan'
http://bit.ly/N18lN thesis material!
12:39 pm Can recomend David Theo Goldberg Racist Culture http://bit.ly/bIFyS
12:41 pm Since starting post grad work I have become more aware of how I think. Like a lighting
storm, flashes followed by rumble.
12:42 pm Have to change topics every 30 mins. Can write 150 words quickly and then have to go back
our it for an hour.
12:43 pm Read what I have written over and over again. Takes a long time to come to the point.
Usually remove stuff rather than add it in revision.
12:44 pm Lunch time....
12:46 pm Thesis: Texts represent the ranges of responses that can be made to them. These are
discursive meaning systems.
03:34 pm @meika Whet you mean?
11:24 pm Indigenous Australians win at Cannes http://bit.ly/1601oH well impressed.

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Monday 25th
07:41 am dis.grace is a hybrid art project that digitally re-appropriates South African author JM
Coetzee's Disgrace http://www.disgrace.co.za/
11:24 am Writing a new plan introduction combo: what I am going to do, what I have done and how
much time it is going to take..stuck on Chapter 4.
11:48 am And now to the lab...from page to virtual 3D environment and then back to the page.
09:36 pm Latest adventure from HUMlab in Second Life http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=1061 and
here is the original http://xrl.us/bet488
09:37 pm Come to the 50th anniversary of the Umeå Uni Student Association in SL
http://xrl.us/HUMlabSL 09:00 (CET) Wednesday 27/5
09:42 pm Tofu blueberry ice cream...total enjoyment!

Tuesday 26th
07:52 am 80+ Videos for Tech. Media Literacy http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1480 go wild.
09:11 am Jutta Weber: On Digital Warfare ‘Ethical’ Killing Machines. MA 226 MIT Building Umeå
University 2009-05-27, 13:15-14:15
09:12 am Deeply moved (in tears) by video of John Berger reading Ghassan Khanafani's Letter from
Gaza http://vimeo.com/4115673 Brilliant
09:24 am Umeå now features police helicopters in the sky almost daily. Reminds me of the spotlight
patrols from the air in Melbourne in the 1990s
12:24 pm The Faculty of Medicine has much better restaurants than the Humanities Faculty at Umeå
University. Just returned from lunch. Will return.
04:55 pm Tibetans “ready to die” to protect sacred site http://bit.ly/pXfmO

Wednesday 27th
10:51 am http://twitpic.com/61n3j - The virtual Lindellhallen fom Umeå University translated in
Second Life
10:56 am Marjorie Perloff has a new website http://marjorieperloff.com/ with essays and other
goodies
12:13 pm Just met Jutta Weber, very interesting chat http://bit.ly/etT21
05:47 pm @rasmusfleischer Bizzare about drugs and the net. Just listened to M candidate from
Mälmo saying the same thing. A "new policy" revealed
05:50 pm Fear is the lubricant of politics.
05:51 pm Cooking tofu contemplating the scene and feeling poetic.
05:52 pm Fresh basil is ssoooooo cool.
05:53 pm Congratulations for Prix Ars Electronica to #Piratbyrån
08:35 pm @TwoWhiteHorses Tack for idag i Second Life.
08:46 pm Negative Sound Institute offers music that is available exclusively through free mp3
downloads http://www.negativesoundinstitute.com/
08:48 pm Harry Partch: "Barstow: Eight Hitchiker Inscriptions" http://bit.ly/kXhL6 M P Free

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10:21 pm One of my favorite countries is Sleep.
10:22 pm Obama @ college http://bit.ly/18NOiM looked kinda Beat

Thursday 28th
09:59 am Report in swedish about recent #HUMlab work in Second Life. Thanks to all involved in this
http://xrl.us/beugez
10:20 am I love writing. A slow media but fully immersive. Time disappears when I write. It can also
be painful. Magic in the way worlds emerge.
11:45 am I am concerned about the new Werner Herzog film. http://bit.ly/Oc5Yd What has he done
and is it good?

Friday 29th
08:12 am "When anything is possible, serious psychological problems arise in the development of the
individual person." http://xrl.us/beukx7
08:13 am When does sound become music? great text: http://xrl.us/beukx7
10:55 am extract of an address by the Prince Charles to Nobel Laureates symposium on climate
change http://xrl.us/beuk99 The value of natural capital
11:00 am Google Wave video could be the subject for a thesis http://bit.ly/13u3Sm Code as
Commodity
08:39 pm Brännbollsyran 2009 has started in Ålidhem. http://bit.ly/2W4snD 24 hours of madness, not
so fun 4 residents.
08:47 pm The police helicopters are early this year for brännbollsyran.
08:53 pm Useless Science or the Alchemist http://bit.ly/T7LIw by Remedios Varo

Saturday 30th
05:48 pm Summer in northern Sweden almost makes the other three seasons almost worthwhile.
Brilliant weekend!!

Sunday 31st
10:28 am The WFMU Free Music Archive is (yet) another reason to be cheerful
http://freemusicarchive.org/ and it includes http://xrl.us/beutna
10:57 am Follow dead people on Twitter http://tweeji.com/
03:30 pm Kathy Acker interviews William S. Burroughs http://xrl.us/beut8u The whole 33 minutes on
art, words and the future.
07:04 pm Flicker: The True Story of Brion Gysin and the Dream Machine
http://www.flickerflicker.com/flash/index.html film about an interesting man

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Monday 1st
10:53 am Have just opened Spotify on my computer...have resisted up till now...but damn,...its not
bad..Listening to Dead Meadow.
10:55 am Everything is amazing and I am happy!
01:54 pm What is reading? I am trying to answer this question.
09:29 pm 'Reason and Persuasion: Three Dialogues by Plato' in an interesting online format
http://www.reasonandpersuasion.com/ entire 388 pages 20MB
09:47 pm @GardnerCampbell Hope to see you back in the far Swedish north one day.

Tuesday 2nd
07:38 am Listening to Ravi Shankar on Spotify: Raga Kausi Kanhara. I think it must be a morning rag,
seems to suit the moment so well.
07:40 am Jean Baudrillard recites his poetry backed up by an all star band
http://ubu.com/sound/baudrillard.html 12 tracks..a whole album.
07:41 am Cindy Sherman's super-8 film,"Doll Clothes" http://ubu.com/film/sherman_doll.html
09:00 am The Stems are on Spotify..I see they have the reformed as so many others have but I saw
them in 1987 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stems
09:47 am Thesis is actually starting to come together...from 200 pages of good close readings
surrounded by vague assertions I am building it anew.
12:55 pm Just watched FLicKeR on Brion Gysin and the Dream Machine..excellent film
http://www.flickerflicker.com/flash/index.html

Wednesday 3rd
08:18 am Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, live 1986 http://bit.ly/IuR4c
08:36 am Dipo initiation ceremony - Ghana http://bit.ly/dmOKX
10:14 pm RT @openculture 35 of the best video sites online http://xrl.us/bevcc4 academic and open.

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Thursday 4th
11:12 am if I think about how much work I have to do..it sort of paralyses me. So I don't think about it
and just keep working.
11:23 am I miss Sydney sometimes; http://bit.ly/12rXJp amazing city
05:54 pm Took part in a final seminar for fellow PhD candidate. The same thing awaits me, a test of
how well the material has grafted to the brain.

Friday 5th
08:02 am The Eclectic Tech Carnival starts here on Monday: http://bit.ly/w1nDH /869 I am going to
inhabit the fringes of it
08:26 am Contemplating the contrasts http://xrl.us/bevjtz Obama in Egypt with Geert Wilders
http://xrl.us/bevjt3 win in EU elections. Open vs. closed
09:37 am David Carradine dies from an "auto-erotic accident'' in Thailand while making a film called
Stretch...is this real? http://xrl.us/bevj6s
10:03 am @fairyrings at the moment screen shots are OK but it is being decided in the courts in
Sweden right now http://xrl.us/bevj7r
08:27 pm Have been getting into the music of Bardo Pond again. It seems like I have come full circle.
Returning to the sounds of my 20s. Getting old.
08:29 pm What I looked like the last time I listened to Bardo Pond http://xrl.us/bevnhk Can you tell?

Saturday 6th
10:08 am The TeleTubbies in a difficult situation http://bit.ly/19gVFk
10:08 am And the meme rolls on
10:18 am Not a word in old media about Sweden represented by The Embassy of Piracy at Venice
Biennale 2009 http://xrl.us/bevpue shame
10:19 am ARE YOU A PRECARIOUS WORKER IN A CULTURE FACTORY SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD?
BECOME A REBEL AND TELL US YOUR STORY AT: SALEDOCKS@GMAIL.COM

Sunday 7th
10:36 am Make a printable zine in PDF and Kindle format from blogs. websites, word docs.
http://www.zinepal.com/ works well but only in English
10:52 pm Planning visit to Singapore next month. Free wireless in Singapore http://xrl.us/bevusq and
will son to the Zoo http://xrl.us/bevuss
11:02 pm Congratulations to the Swedish Pirate Party who are currently polling at around 7% of the
vote in EU elections. Someone is going to Brussels
11:04 pm Leader of the Swedish Pirate Party tries to come to terms with the win at EU elections
Image: http://xrl.us/bevutv he looks sort of stunned.

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Monday 8th
08:54 am Waiting for planning meeting to start in #HUMlab while around me the Eclectic Tech
Carnival takes shape http://www.eclectictechcarnival.org/
09:00 am Digital text as cyberpunk dream, Nawiz. http://nawlz.com/
09:11 am Getting ready for paper presentation on Wednesday at Changing Societies conference
09:38 pm RT @BryanAlexander I was talking about THE IMPENDING DEMISE OF THE UNIVERSITY
today http://xrl.us/bevy4w Sounds cataclysmic. But maybe not.
11:05 pm Thoughts on Swedish Pirate Party win in EU elections http://bit.ly/10n1Ok
11:14 pm my home faculty is looking for a Professor in Literacy http://xrl.us/bevzmt anyone
interested?

Tuesday 9th
08:39 am today am juggling. making a video in second life, writing and doing slides for presentation
and reading a seminar paper for seminar 3-5pm,
08:40 am I have not written thesis since Friday and I miss it..
10:24 am Now following slavoj zizek @zizekspeaks on twitter. Should be interesting.......

Wednesday 10th
07:36 am Conference today with a paper presentation at 4pm and giving a culture tour of our town,
Cafe Pilgatan and me playing in the city church,
07:39 am After culture tour its to the pub. I recommend the best book and music shop in Umeå
http://www.mingusbok.se/ MIngus with online ordering
01:51 pm Presenting in 1 hour Religion in New Spaces: Rhetoric of the Holy in the Online Virtual
World of Second Life http://xrl.us/bev9im Slides

Thursday 11th
12:24 am Lisa Nakamura http://xrl.us/bewcgp Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The
Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft
06:42 am Moving furniture today. After two nights of social life I have had enough. Long to return to
scholarly contemplation and writing.
06:47 pm HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet. http://bit.ly/cduhH

Friday 12th
10:40 am The Clash were a band that one can live by http://bit.ly/NPl9 Guns of Brixton.
04:06 pm If you can read Swedish http://dinoprojektet.se/ DINo is now online. Amazing organization
for culture and digital media in north Sweden.
04:08 pm @fairyrings its an artist. someone told me about it. He makes them all over the world.
seems he has been in umeå too.

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04:09 pm @fairyrings The website is here http://www.space-invaders.com/ Space Invaders: The Story
of an Invasion
04:11 pm While we are in Singapore there is "Da Vinci — The Genius" with "large—scale Machine
Inventions" http://www.davincithegenius.com/ ohh yes!
04:13 pm Who says there are no super heroes http://bit.ly/3Y2jE1 Elvis jumps babies

Saturday 13th
08:21 pm @StephSong Orientalism by Edward Said "Orientalism is all aggression, activity, judgment,
will-to-truth, and knowledge" great book
08:27 pm Wow..Ele is in Wired magazine http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=1132 at #HUMlab
08:37 pm "Whenever the Pirate makes a move, an uproar ensues, we like the sounds of that uproar."
Miltos Manetas http://xrl.us/bewqid Venezia

Sunday 14th
05:29 pm TV on Sami in northern Finland. Reindeer herders who live traditional life based on the
seasons http://bit.ly/UPmE2
05:31 pm The Sami eat a lot of meat. Not much else available in the winter, which lasts about 7
months of the year.
05:31 pm Heart disease is a problem for the Sami.
05:32 pm Sápmi is the land of the Sami, stretches from the north of Norway, over Sweden and
Finland into Russia.
05:34 pm Never ask a Sami person how many reindeer they have. Very rude. I did it once in Jokkmokk
and was taken aside and it was explained.
05:38 pm The program on the Sami is called Renlycka and is from Norway, not Finland. The speak
Sami which sounds like Finnish. Beautiful images

Tuesday 16th
03:16 pm Home from the forest and pleasant 24 hours..now back to serious work....
03:56 pm Everyone knows UBUWEB right? http://www.ubu.com/ most amazing collection of words
images and sounds from the peripheries on the net
04:02 pm Gertrude Stein Reads Gertrude Stein (MP3) http://bit.ly/fhhwh
04:20 pm Bloomsday Today..http://bit.ly/39oFqM Narrative reborn

Wednesday 17th
07:29 am I met Laurie Anderson recently. Quite a joy. A concert she gave in Umeå will be streamed
tonight at 20:55 (CET) http://xrl.us/bew7o6

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Thursday 18th
07:50 am Listening to Dead Meadow live in Barcelona
http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=31825=53184 Thanks to WFMU
07:56 am Traveling today. I wish for the ability to read and write on a bus without feeling sick. Damn
motion sickness to the depths of the ocean.
07:58 am Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #digital #humanities
#research
08:05 am Iran Going off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm31kpjBiFQ the people stand before
the edifice of power in #IranElection

Friday 19th
08:46 am Show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click -
http://helpiranelection.com/
08:48 am Midsummer today. Will spend the morning writing and then see what happens after that.
Not very summer for weather me thinks. 15 C and cloudy
10:09 am Citizen journalism is reaching new heights in #IranElection coverage http://iran09.info/
amazing videos and shocking images
06:52 pm Rick Roderick - The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the 20th Century http://xrl.us/bexj93 8
videos with book. Great stuff

Saturday 20th
09:37 am Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art
images. http://add-art.org/ a joy!!
07:35 pm Listening to Nass El Ghiwane remembering (most of) three months I spent in Morocco in
1997-98 http://bit.ly/jWwyk
07:39 pm Footage on Swedish news tonight from Tehran. demos continue. bomb attack on Khomeini
mausoleum. several dead. no end in sight.
07:52 pm #IranElection provides a flood of online media http://www.demotix.com/iranelection
brilliant informal coverage where all else fails
08:02 pm @zozizz best coverage of #IranElection. Thank you. Terrible events bring a sadness while we
watch the strength of these people.
08:25 pm "Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics" as full text PDF try before U buy
http://bit.ly/RmZeX
08:50 pm Everything from Continental Drift is worth reading http://bit.ly/3tHSVA
10:37 pm re-discovered an old seminar video of mine http://bit.ly/4EB7q Sims as Narrative Engine

Sunday 21st
09:29 am Sunday morning Neil Young http://bit.ly/MRwyS music to watch the world by.
10:37 am "Nothing quite captured the mood and pace of events like the tweets coming from the
people of Iran" http://xrl.us/bexrf9 The Times

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08:13 pm Has the Swedish embassy in Tehran been accepting wounded or turning them away?
08:21 pm Summer Solstice going to play didgeridoo at sunset (23:00) http://bit.ly/54bYi on a hill top

Monday 22nd
08:42 am My parents hitchhiked thru Iran in 1967. Said Tehran was like Paris; open streets cafes,
music, poetry. I wonder if it will ever be so again
09:01 am http://bit.ly/x8SBx Quantitative research on #IranElection result. It looks rigged
08:55 pm have been fishing today. well by fishing i mean standing by a river with a stick and string.
caught nothing. son had fun sort of. cold. wind
08:57 pm I think I am an indoors person. As opposed to the outdoors person. I like books. music, walls
windows to look out of. This means indoors.
08:59 pm 360,000 committed, practicing pagans in the UK http://bit.ly/8Potv
09:00 pm Actually I am an outdoors person. I just don't like two hours of cold wind freezing me to the
bone beneath the flight path of an airport.
09:01 pm Should choose another spot next time I go fishing.

Tuesday 23rd
11:13 am http://twitpic.com/86fbh - Me (center) with Tove (left) and Bjorn at a staff (birthday) party
Wednesday 17 June, Umea University, Langua ...
12:58 pm If anyone else is so afflicted, there is a new edition of the MLA style guide out:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/
12:59 pm No more URLs!! MLA says they are out, And every entry receives a medium of publication
marker.
01:02 pm Have a similar relation to the MLA guide as to Good News Bible when @ school. I defaced
and made jokes about it but always had it with me.
01:06 pm @jilltxt While website entries will still include authors, article names, and website names,
when available, MLA no longer requires URLs.
01:07 pm @jilltxt Writers are, however, encouraged to provide a URL if the citation information does
not lead readers to easily find the source.
01:07 pm @jilltxt I have ordered my copy of MLA guide and wait for it with anticipation (how sad I
have become...)
01:10 pm I wonder if not requiring URLs by MLA can tie in to the whole pirate/proxy/ShortenURL
thing, A URL will mean less in the future maybe?
01:11 pm Back to Lev Manovich's five principles of new media.....
01:39 pm set yr location to Tehran, timezone GMT +3.30. Security forces r hunting for bloggers using
location/timezone srchs. this creates a logjam
05:26 pm @StephSong good luck in LA LA Land..I would think San Francisco more to your style Steph
05:30 pm @zozizz On Swedish radio today: Swedish embassy in Tehran accepting injured: 2, Nastaran
Street Pasdaran Avenue (North of Dr. Lavasani)

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Wednesday 24th
11:00 am How Twitter looks for people in Iran http://twitgoo.com/xrbb
11:12 am Someone I used to hang with in Sydney, Lucas Abela is in this month's Wire
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2639/ Mp3s of intensity
11:13 am I knew Lucas when he lived in his kombi: http://www.dualplover.com/justice.htm now he is
a star
11:38 am @fairyrings Communities of Practice: A Discursive Analysis of Blogging and Community
(maybe?)
11:39 am @fairyrings but should one repeat words in a title? looks sloppy maybe....too many
communities in the title?
11:40 am back to work...too many distractions...must finish chapter section...
01:46 pm Listening to The Levellers, A Weapon Called the Word; "But the palace stays the same only
the guards ever change" good advice for all
03:48 pm The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman
world http://xrl.us/bex8q6 Andrei Codrescu
04:02 pm BBC Memoryshare is a living archive of memories from 1900 to the present day
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/memoryshare/
07:13 pm Amazing that I can hear this http://bit.ly/nZnS9 and live my life of peace quite while people
are dying for what they believe It aint fair
07:17 pm "Security forces have shot and killed the wounded persons before transmitting them."
http://bit.ly/itX5y #IranElection
07:18 pm Tweet freely in Iran - bypass govt. censorship. Use for free. Select country Canada at
http://tinyurl.com/nzxco5 #iranelection
07:22 pm The White House is streaming live: http://polfeeds.com/whlive (via @ObamaNews) right
now on #IranElection
07:58 pm If they can't protest we will Stockholm, Sweden, Medborgarplatsen 25 June 16:00
http://protests.sharearchy.com/ #IranElection find a site
08:02 pm Please retweet: just signed petition 'Appeal to the UN on the Situation in Iran' -
http://301.to/2iu #iranelection
08:04 pm Please retweet: just signed petition 'Appeal to the UN on the Situation in Iran' -
http://301.to/2iu
10:09 pm A heavy day ends. 1000+ words written. Horror in Iran. Let it end on a lighter side: eccentric
homes http://xrl.us/bex94g on Atlas Obscura
10:20 pm Boycott Nokia for Iran Crackdown http://campaigns.aicongress.org/nokia

Thursday 25th
07:33 am Sun shining for another day of writing and learning about the world. Just discovered
BVM0Experim0Indus0TV http://xrl.us/beycso joy!
07:52 am Amazing image http://twitpic.com/8cqyc but is it real? Just remembered that the Iranian
government also loves Photoshop http://xrl.us/beycu2
03:59 pm @stefangelfgren happy holidays...
05:54 pm @hrheingold del.icio.us number of bookmarks and comments gives me an idea of a site's
credibility.

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06:02 pm Sweden is busy locking down content with IPRED and FRA laws Canada is doing free net
content that is good http://xrl.us/beyeyy RTStephSong
11:31 pm Iran the "Twitter Revolution" http://xrl.us/beygrk that “network openness” leads
automatically or directly to democracy is false

Friday 26th
08:52 am "The women's movement in Iran goes back to the middle of the 19th century."
http://xrl.us/beyi55
09:22 am Micheal Jackson: Later 20th century Homo Sacer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sacer
Is this what 'Man in the MIrror' was about?
10:01 am While I enjoy the content of Spotify https://www.spotify.com/en/ it has no real application
for sharing music between users based on taste.
10:02 am Spotify is the anti-file sharing network. So thanks goes to despotify http://despotify.se/ for
making it better
10:40 am The Depravity Scale aims to standardize legal terms such as "heinous," "atrocious," "evil,"
and "depraved," https://depravityscale.org
10:42 am Follow this link to participate in The Depravity Scale research
https://depravityscale.org/depscale/survey.php I wish I had the time.
12:00 pm Finished a genealogy of classifying the properties of digital media. Now on to what is
reading.
12:02 pm Zizek on Iran (English) http://bit.ly/mELhp
12:04 pm "Mousavi: is he a Western-backed reformer who wants more personal freedom and market
economy, or a member of the cleric establishment" Zizek
03:32 pm Without a Bush, Ahmadinejad has no foil upon which to make his threats. Now he casts
Obama in the role http://xrl.us/beykc9 #IranElection
05:32 pm Just blocked a swarm of followers; semi-naked women real estate agents..WTF?

Saturday 27th
08:31 am Intense protest at Iranian embassy in Stockholm http://xrl.us/beypev (video) 150
demonstrators break into embassy #IranElection
03:55 pm "Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around
"as high as a kite", http://xrl.us/beyp3p
03:58 pm Looking forward to getting back to Australia for a month soon....and join the wallabies.
07:11 pm #Neda and the images of Race; Neda Soltani, Race, and Digital Labor by Lisa Nakamura
http://www.differenceengines.com/?p=189 #IranElection
07:17 pm Live-Tweeting The Revolution: Day 14 #iranelection http://tinyurl.com/krp99w Intensity has
not diminished in Tehran
07:20 pm In Iran 60 percent of university students are women http://bit.ly/XItB0
07:31 pm http://amplify.com/u/968

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Sunday 28th
02:48 pm Giorno Poetry Systems poster
http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/2718/dialapoemlarge.jpg
http://www.ubu.com/sound/gps.html Listen Now
02:51 pm God is in the house: Artist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad in conversation
http://bit.ly/fBUSe
02:56 pm A blog response to Iran, Twitter and MJ http://bit.ly/C3oTu on Videogum (linked from post)

Monday 29th
08:30 am Sky Saxon is dead http://bit.ly/mIm3E
05:32 pm Re-reading Schechner on performance, http://xrl.us/beyyay. Performance Theory (2003
edition) and Ritual, Play, and Performance (1976). Good
10:51 pm @meika welcome back..thought you may have wondered out into the Tarkine or
something..never to be seen again.
10:53 pm Living in the Queenslander; houses I grew up in, rented cheap and remember well;
http://xrl.us/beyzyh Space and memory

Tuesday 30th
10:04 am National-security experts warn that MJ death could distract from Iran's increasing
crackdown on democracy http://xrl.us/bey4be #IranElection
10:07 am The Pirate Bay is being sold to Global Gaming Factory X AB
http://www.globalgamingfactory.com/ Announced today
10:09 am Comments on the Pirate Bay blog http://thepiratebay.org/blog/164 are overtly negative to
the sale of the site. The end of TPB?
10:10 am According to TPB "Now we're fueling up for going into the next gear. TPB will have
economical muscles to let people evolve it." Bad English
10:17 am Iranian Events in Context: A List of Open Resources http://xrl.us/bey4da #IranElection
10:47 am Writing a thesis on a sunny summer's day introduces a new degree of difficulty into the
whole procedure. "But I wanna go and play mummy!"
11:30 am My concerns with the sale of The Pirate Bay http://bit.ly/eoFVH now back to thesis
07:39 pm Return to thesis chapter. Slowly. Meanwhile, Indian hardcore and metal Mp3s
http://indianrockmp3.com/
09:18 pm "choice to move to the cave not surprising." http://xrl.us/bey62p Ms Mountford, an artist,
lived out her life until the age of 49 in a cave

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Wednesday 1st
08:24 am Second Life may be filtered in Australia as unclassified content http://xrl.us/bey98h This is
of course crazy.
02:35 pm Some days write a lot and some days just think. Today has been a thinking day. Finished
section on What is Reading in Digital Texts. Nexts?
08:49 pm Alleph by Sakab Bashir http://www.alleph.net/ALLEPH_HOME.html a digital work I have
been reading since 2005.

Thursday 2nd
07:54 am Start work on archiving student projects in Second Life. Have decided to keep museum
works in my inventory. No other way or is there?
07:55 am As well thesis is ticking along. Chapter on methods and terms is halfway reworked. All work
must be done by 15/7 as I am outta here.
08:33 am No! There should not be rules about poetry, it should be found in a brackish mixture of self
and shelf, world and word http://xrl.us/bezfj6
10:01 am I wonder if The Pirate Bay has experienced a surge in tracker activity since the
announcement to sell two days ago? I bet they have.
03:15 pm Video of panel session from Almedalen on copyright, file sharing, digital culture in Swedish
http://fores.se/upphov09/
03:18 pm For those not familiar; Almedalen is http://bit.ly/14lLgO
04:06 pm Hans Pandeya, the potential new owner of the Pirate Bay is intelligent and seems to know
the score http://fores.se/upphov09/
08:34 pm Returned from picnic on the river bank to farewell Stefanie W. http://grenzartikel.com/
leaves for Berlin tomorrow. Nice people there.
08:36 pm Now listening to Dead Meadow live in Barcelona: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/31825
(Download) so cool

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Friday 3rd
10:02 am In the dialogic text "the author's design for a character is a design for discourse." Bakhtin,
Dostoevsky's Poetics 63
10:33 am @simon_lindgren nice video. I blogged more here http://bit.ly/3wrT1G
12:34 pm Not "third world", but a colonised people struggling for survival: http://xrl.us/bezmzt
Australia Aboriginal culture survives, despite all.

Saturday 4th
11:23 am Pallin; "im not wired to operate/under the same old politics as usual/i promised that four
years ago/and i meant it" http://xrl.us/bezq3i
11:25 am Andrew Jackson Jihad, "People II: The Reckoning" http://bit.ly/Gyr73 great lyrics
11:45 am Executive producer of Yo Gabba Gabba possible next US ambassador to France
http://bit.ly/SW7sr

Monday 6th
09:37 am William Burroughs art with guns http://bit.ly/Gy6XN
10:40 am Listening to http://bit.ly/ZmV4w Can; Sountracks (1970 original pressing) excellent
01:10 pm Nice little Copyright/Copyleft (Archive) http://bit.ly/2hfa1e of links
07:07 pm I await patiently the Os Mutantes Documentary Movie http://bit.ly/1Qz0yQ like a patient.
07:11 pm Bat Macumba everyone http://bit.ly/jn46j
08:29 pm Banksy vs. The Bristol Museum http://xrl.us/bezyuy and http://bit.ly/3uIjJ7 wish I was there
08:32 pm "I don't think we're on canvas anymore" Dorothy http://bit.ly/Skb8d
09:46 pm 1265 words written today, thesis drags on. back again tomorrow.

Tuesday 7th
01:00 pm Has been raining solid for the past 7 hours here and no sign of letting up. Flooding started
http://xrl.us/bez5wv
03:30 pm Just uploaded a recording of me playing in the street
http://www.archive.org/details/StarseedTransmission good didgeridoo vibes

Wednesday 8th
09:50 am For millennia, the idea of Sweden has enthralled the world's imagination
http://xrl.us/be2bh7 at last all is explained.
10:12 am The next negotiating meeting on the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) is 16-17 July
in Morocco http://xrl.us/be2bko in secret
10:31 am G8 is getting more ridiculous, Berlusconi has a new friend to tack...I mean take
http://xrl.us/be2bm3 ohh Silvio...

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10:33 am With "showgirls and starlets as Italy's candidates in the European elections." the govt' could
just be turned into a TV show?

Thursday 9th
09:22 am today I explain what performative reading is.......
09:41 am For the best of obscure 1960s and 70s hippy psych weird exotica as downloadable musics
http://hippy-djkit.blogspot.com/
09:47 am Shall be in Copenhagen next week http://www.openhagen.net/ Openhagen is a urban free
space initiative that looks great
09:55 am To travel is better than to spy. http://bit.ly/kQTLO
10:45 am Off to play music in the street for an hour or two
02:09 pm Drunken Boat number 10 is now online http://www.drunkenboat.com/db10/08poe/ many
many people involved. Looks spectacular

Friday 10th
09:52 am We will be making mobile phone movies in HUMlab next term. Here is one from South
Africa http://www.smssugarman.com/ Sex workers in SA
09:52 am Here is background on SMS Sugarman http://xrl.us/be2owv
10:07 am The 10 oldest inhabited cities http://bit.ly/AzH8f
11:42 am "Have any works appeared in digital media whose interest goes beyond novelty value?"
http://xrl.us/be2o6r A fair question?
11:43 am I would say "Yes" here are 150+ http://delicious.com/didgebaba/DigitalTexts digital texts
with value beyond novelty.
03:15 pm Incredible piece of music http://bit.ly/avj1E has just re-awoken me for my last hour of
writing for today,
03:16 pm More from Valentina Lisitsa http://www.youtube.com/valentinalisitsa

Saturday 11th
09:51 am One of the best web radio stations is Resonance FM http://resonancefm.com/ London
Musicians Collective sends out its best to the world.
10:40 am sun coming out. me playing music in the street. main shopping street in umea outside the
Victoria Gallery in about 20 mins. come on down.
12:58 pm Not playing music. Playing with my kids instead. Making pancakes and watching them in the
playground outside. Peaceful Saturday.

Sunday 12th
12:07 am Oprah's sexual ignorance, of course, isn't limited to women http://bit.ly/u2ufd
12:10 am One of my favorite artists: Brody Condon's "Without Sun" at Machine Project
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2761

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12:13 am Three Reasons to Vomit http://xrl.us/be2wgq
12:18 am "Business has treated intellectual property as capital, like coal or land, ignoring the social
value" http://xrl.us/be2whe Hindustan Times
10:57 am Every week or so I post recommended online media on my blog
http://soulsphincter.blogspot.com/search/label/Downstreams Now have 100 entries
10:59 am We live in amazing times my friends.....
11:19 am Thesis writing on a Sunday. Only four days until holidays. Need Fela to see me thru
http://bit.ly/PODia
12:30 pm @KISSmyBLAKarts Maybe you will find this interesting if you haven't seen it
http://bit.ly/ievIo
04:00 pm @anyaixchel I hope Paris is great for you...it will be.
04:27 pm @lnakamur interesting virtual worlds and racial discourse. Have u seen this
http://bit.ly/byd8F

Monday 13th
01:31 am Failure to sleep brings thoughts about the 300 things to do before leaving this country for
another and then another and then another.
01:33 am @BryanAlexander good luck with that flight Bryan. Any strange creatures clinging to the
wing?
11:21 am The telematic body comes (not a pun) to Second Life with JoyReact sex toys
http://xrl.us/be24dz intimacy over the net.
11:23 am From Stelarc's Ping Body http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/pingbody/index.html to JoyReact is
a journey worth paying attention to I think.
11:27 am More on the telematic body here; http://bit.ly/MaM2n
07:22 pm sunny evening as I struggle to remain focused on the final revisions of a thesis chapter. in
72 hours I will be in Copenhagen. FOCUS!!!!!
07:25 pm @StephSong Meat Free is the only way to be.
07:32 pm Anyone seen the film Jezus is een Palestijn (Jesus is a Palestinian) by Lodewijk Crijns.
Excellent film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143323/
09:26 pm "Is there not charms By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abus'd? Have
you not read Roderigo, Of some such thing?" King Lear
11:16 pm Major distractions from thesis..Being Human is on SVT play http://bit.ly/nkcoj OMG!!

Tuesday 14th
12:12 am Results tagged “Narratology” from The Narrative Design Exploratorium http://xrl.us/be27yq
12:14 am this is the journey to the end of the night...won't stop till done.
01:58 am 1200 words written today (all done in corrections!) and another draft is finished. Shall email
to supervisors (2/3 on holiday) tomorrow.
03:19 pm My local hamburger take out does a side line in cracking mobile phones, Costs $45 US to
have a phone 'unlocked' by the official carrier.
03:20 pm Taking a mobile to Australia with my mobile carrier will cost a fortune.

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03:22 pm The world's first Goth Chick http://bit.ly/7BdX4 Emily Dickinson
03:26 pm Fela Lives http://bit.ly/cS8Hc
03:39 pm When cricket really was circket http://bit.ly/FmyCt no helmets the crowd a drunken mob.
04:22 pm Bit of a shock: Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil fame) has cleared the way for the Four Mile
uranium mine in outback South Australia.
04:24 pm What happened to Peter Garrett? http://bit.ly/19ks4O (1982) makes me sad,
04:28 pm Four Mile will be mined by the in-situ leach method. A weak acid is pumped into the
uranium-bearing formation through a series of wells.
04:32 pm "If you read the history books youll see the same things happen again and again Repeat
repeat short memory theyve all got it" Short memory

Wednesday 15th
11:29 am Heading downtown to play music in the street.
11:30 am Heading downtown to play music in the street. Booking tickets to Singapore Zoo. Packing.

Friday 17th
04:15 pm In Copenhagen. Warm day with crowds in the streets, Staying across the road from Tivoli
http://xrl.us/be3tiji. Life good. Singapore tomorrow

Saturday 18th
05:35 am RT LeesaWatego Fight to save sacred site from shopping centre http://bit.ly/ZkD4R

Sunday 19th
12:53 am Have made it to Singapore. Hot here 28 degrees at 7am. Hotel room not available until
11am so we retire to the pool area. Bring on the sun.

Monday 20th
03:30 pm I ate at Wagamama http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagamama In Copenhagen at it felt like I
was in Second Life (good food but)
03:34 pm Last day in Singapore tomorrow and I am going to be on TV, An interview for the program
Culture X http://xrl.us/be4eoy http://xrl.us/be4eo6
03:38 pm Tomorrow night fly to my homeland: Brisbane Australia. Yee haaa.

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Monday 10th
12:18 pm In Singapore returning to Sweden after 3 weeks in Australia. Tired but happy. Flight at 1am
to Copenhagen. Stockholm tomorrow.
12:19 pm Silas playing robot ninja computer game as I come back to the web after a break from it.
12:20 pm 2210 RSS entries to read!!!!!!
12:23 pm I have been body surfing in the Pacific, bush walking, playing music with friends, buying
clothes, buying a new didge, showing my son Oz.
12:38 pm Much research travelling, contacts made and things found out. One being
http://www.radelindia.com/Index.aspx digital Indian instruments

Thursday 13th
07:25 am Jet lag is playing with my mind.

Friday 14th
07:13 am Where to start; ideas everywhere, met so many cool people travelling, have plans and
obligations, time too slow and too fast depending on
07:18 am It is now possible to listen to one of the best radio stations in da world 4ZZZ online:
http://bit.ly/gKBVe

Saturday 15th
07:36 pm played didgeridoo for 4 hours today, 3 hours yesterday and 3 the day before....Back to the
job on Monday.
07:55 pm Anyone is Brisbane; 6majik9 is playing the book nook this weekend.
http://www.booknook.com.au/ possibly tomorrow maybe it was today.

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Monday 17th
07:56 am Good morning world. http://bit.ly/Pkmqa Nothing changes in my house.
09:21 am What I found out about on my holidays http://bit.ly/6a1lv
09:24 am Really digging Dead Meadow http://bit.ly/vTXZJ
11:05 am Multitouch computer tables for libraries (and cold cats) http://xrl.us/bfahrm
11:16 am Vol 2, No 2: 3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare http://bit.ly/oLRpe
01:44 pm Kathy Acker’s Re-Doing Childhood, originally released in 2000 http://bit.ly/TuoJ3
01:52 pm Welcome to Awkward Family Portraits http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ my favourite:
http://bit.ly/oDOdE

Tuesday 18th
01:29 pm Online documentaries http://www.snagfilms.com/ free streams
01:44 pm 20 Places to Legally Watch and Download Free TV, Movies, and Documentaries
http://tiny.cc/u3Gji
05:26 pm Video: William F. Buckley debating James Baldwin, October 26, 1965, Cambridge University
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/videodir/asx2/2299.asx

Wednesday 19th
07:58 am meetings meetings meeeeeeeetings
12:51 pm SBS First Australians is online http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/

Thursday 20th
10:27 am All day at a planning session for Language Studies. Language is identity! We proceed from
there. More tweets thru the day.
10:30 am Second Life now offers a phone service http://xrl.us/bfax8w call avatars and real people.
The virtual is real.
10:40 am vision + identity: enthusiasm, curiosity, multiple, expertise, freedom, cooperation, playful,
mature, fair, accessible, non-hierarchical
10:52 am Rolling Stones http://bit.ly/3JRNkg documentary
10:56 am Enabling: references patterns of interaction which allow individuals to develop and grow.
(Also signifies dysfunctional approaches to life).
10:59 am More time on content rather than form. We spend too much time on form and not enough
on content. University as intellectual environment.
12:12 pm We now have a ICT coach in the humanities faculty at Umeå University. His name is Satish
and he is speaking now at our planning day.
12:14 pm Satish speaks about bringing synchronous and asynchronous learning closer together.
12:17 pm Time, student numbers, assessment, materials, goals, how they are measured, how learning
is practiced, how they are presented, and ICT tools

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12:20 pm ICT tools: Student feedback, paper or electronic? Take students to computer lab and get
them to fill in the form.
12:22 pm Video teaching: using text screen capture with pencil cursor. Using examples and talking
them thru. A step beyond PowerPoint
12:25 pm Cambro http://bit.ly/hEoZB versus Moodle: http://moodle.org/ who will win?
12:27 pm ICT The Salvation: come and speak to Satish. The three minute tip. ZIP files
http://www.winzip.com/index.htm
04:09 pm Jeffrey Bardzell http://bit.ly/2D0iFJ on aesthetic interaction.

Friday 21st
07:45 am Rolling Stones documentary from 1972 http://bit.ly/14gNc3 when rock n roll was real
08:06 am Agreeing with @StephSong
http://specials.divertissements.fr.msn.com/cinema/avatar/default.aspx wicked visuals
08:27 pm At last I have cable broadband it is so fast ya ya ya ya a yaaaaa
08:34 pm Television is no longer an option for me. Have been watching quite a bit since moving. Bad
shit. Now internet is back to save my brain.
08:35 pm will begin with The First Australians http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/

Saturday 22nd
02:03 pm Listening to The Incredible String Band; The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter. A favourite disc.
http://bit.ly/QTcrX
10:19 pm http://twitpic.com/ewdl9 - Tabletop or Multuggerah. A site of: "The angry squatters
pursued the aborigines to Table Top. The aborigi ...

Sunday 23rd
01:15 pm Things moving quickly. New Computer @home with Linux. Wireless almost set up. May pick
up a Mac tomorrow. Radio Nada back online.
01:16 pm 25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives http://bit.ly/2yJDie

Monday 24th
07:38 am Sunshine bike ride forest gleam work day staff meeting write plan bike ride and home.
07:46 am I met Laurie Anderson recently and she is cool; http://bit.ly/Wlvu1
12:25 pm Back to teaching prep. Cultures of Commonwealth English
http://www.mos.umu.se/cceng/11.html is being rebuilt
12:26 pm falling sick on a journey / my dream goes wandering / over a field of dried grass - Basho
(1694)

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Tuesday 25th
08:28 am New Brother of the Occult Sisterhood CD http://bit.ly/K5VRA
08:30 am And welcome Pacific Soma, a new label for the kaleidoscopic listener
http://pacificsoma.blogspot.com/
12:47 pm Going on a tour of the Open Source Embroidery http://bit.ly/EQq4v exhibition
12:52 pm Just order Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet and Michel Foucault's The Archaeology
of Knowledge The Discourse on Language

Wednesday 26th
12:22 pm Reading VJam Theory: Collective Writings on Realtime Visual Performance
http://www.vjtheory.net/vjamtheory.html breaks new ground.
12:23 pm VJ Theory describes itself as "saddle-stitch binding black and white interior" sounds like a
room not a book...it suits the subject

Thursday 27th
08:35 am To play for yourself. To play for the spirits to make them come, which is what Indian raga
musicians do. http://tiny.cc/Q5GlZ
08:56 am back to course planning; starting to become a little bit tedious. Vow to have all done by the
morrow.
10:58 am @stefangelfgren "innovative use of ICT in higher education" should we write a book about
it?
11:04 am Psychiatrists are now going to roam around in WoW http://tiny.cc/xSTHV looking for
people "before they lose touch with the real world." lol

Friday 28th
10:07 am Music from around the globe via Sweden and your digital online device http://bit.ly/11cg5o
10:09 am Good morning world.
10:10 am Check this out; Mali Music afel bocoum/ damon albarn, http://bit.ly/cQRdW
10:11 am Slow dubs of fuzz base and djembe with chorus chant from iron throats
01:53 pm going home to work...hows that for an oxymoron

Sunday 30th
01:13 am Just stumbled on this http://blog.humlab.umu.se/archives/sense1.mp3 Sydney College of
Art 1995.
11:30 am Reading a biography of Jack Kerouac, Memory Babe. What an insane life.
11:31 am @avantgame have yo been hacked?
06:17 pm Some words on Nonlinear storytelling in Games http://bit.ly/kwUvo

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Monday 31st
09:21 am At last can return to thesis work. Lessons planned and now waiting for web editing. Read
and edit old chapter on Prefaces today.
12:04 pm Paratexts by Gérard Genette: ridiculously expensive to buy and has just been placed in
restricted (nonloan) section of uni library. Crisis!
03:16 pm Interpellation: the process by which ideology addresses the (abstract) pre-ideological
individual thus producing a subject.
10:35 pm Just watched Chamane http://bit.ly/18SCTM one of my favorite films.

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Tuesday 1st
08:17 am Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues, conference in Austria http://tiny.cc/wnl6h
08:34 am The CIA for kids; https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/ "not just by “spying” like you see in the
movies or on TV (though we do some of that, too)"
09:00 am History of outlaw MC Gangs in Sydney Aust. http://bit.ly/qZsRM a 'nice' Flash story.
12:49 pm Orwell on the outbreak of WWII http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/1939/ 70
years ago today. Bleak times.
09:57 pm Two courses start in HUMlab tomorrow using Second Life for both teaching and learning
http://tiny.cc/DA8WY going 2 be amazing
09:58 pm time to sleep.......

Wednesday 2nd
12:25 pm Attacking the Factory Model School System; 12 easy steps to turn a teacher into a prison
guard http://www.dyslexicstoryteller.com/12ways.htm
12:32 pm Nothing in my life more important than blogging: http://bit.ly/d8j2a

Thursday 3rd
11:18 am A Spring poem spoken by me at the end of summer. http://chir.ps/Sm
11:29 am The Father Yod Story http://bit.ly/yacrJ
11:30 am Do you know The Mark of Cain http://bit.ly/9XxDv Australia's answer to Big Black

Friday 4th
09:00 am Cellstories, fiction delivered to your phone http://cellstories.net/welcome.html
11:10 am back to thesis....teaching done for the week and all plans are in.

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11:58 am Ayub Ogada - Kothiboro http://bit.ly/heZAP
11:59 am @stefangelfgren I wonder is anyone else tweeting at the social media club? More please!
12:04 pm Current chapter I am working on "Response in the Paratexts of the Digital Texts"
12:07 pm moussu t e lei jovents - ma rue n´est pas longue http://bit.ly/BY0A7
02:25 pm Australia is really becoming this centre for dinosaur discovery http://bit.ly/ezNWU
10:35 pm Live from Burning Man http://bit.ly/MU5e3 streamed for the benefit of humanity

Saturday 5th
09:57 am Autumn is about. Soft air and blushing leaves. Cloudy. I need a fireplace.
10:12 am University of Utah recording all non-human areas of the American West
http://westernsoundscape.org/ audio online
10:17 am This singing is just wild http://www.tanyatagaq.com/audio.html

Sunday 6th
02:40 pm the wikipedia entry on Academic Assessment is good
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assessment
07:14 pm The Beatles: Rock Band http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/videos/trailer3/ seems to
overrepresent the more psyched tunes from the band. Cool!
07:19 pm #arthurmagazine New video interview with the great Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim
Bey) on "intentional community": http://bit.ly/JM6SU

Monday 7th
09:51 am Sesame Street Highlights http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/2891 videos from that most
psychedelic of children's programs.
11:43 am We are at a threshold of social change http://tiny.cc/aFbiz brought on by a failed economic
model
11:56 am A nightmare of capitalist Japan: Spirited Away by Ayumi Suzuki
http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/SpiritedAway/index.html
11:58 am Current issue of JUMP Cut magazine online
http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/index.html
01:26 pm New Adbusters out https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/kickitover
09:31 pm A lovely account of Small World Festival with lots of downloads of the music
http://tiny.cc/SmallWorld514 From The Spring - great blog
09:32 pm @fairyrings and it ends with "and they all lived happily every after"...
09:35 pm Listening to Neil Young: Live at Canterbury House 1968 and making chocolate cake for
doctoral lunch tomorrow...
09:39 pm Although I am not eating chocolate cake for lunch...far too grown up for that I tell you
what......
09:52 pm Tomorrow at kl.13.30-14.00 CET Euro City of Culture 2014 announced
http://www.kulturradet.se/ to see live stream. Umeå could win.

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09:52 pm Where is Umeå you ask: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ume%C3%A5

Tuesday 8th
09:58 am The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations
http://www.topoi.org/
12:53 pm Umeå is the European Capital of Culture 2014!!!!
10:30 pm Time to wake up: http://bit.ly/51oBq Health; Die Slow

Wednesday 9th
07:53 am Reacquainting myself with the sounds of a misspent youth; Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
http://bit.ly/TiS0k
08:39 am I see Mary Flanagan has a new book coming out http://bit.ly/38aYI8 excellent news.
09:34 am "The semantic boundaries between " theory " and " criticism " blur."
http://litguide.press.jhu.edu/preface.html John Hopkins Guide to Lit
04:30 pm Have started teaching museum and culture analysis students using Second Life
http://tiny.cc/DG1bb here are suggestions of sites from them
04:43 pm 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell (1946) http://bit.ly/DrUfM
04:52 pm Internet Manifesto from a group of German bloggers in English http://tiny.cc/U6tgw "there
is no such thing as too much information"
08:43 pm Celebration of Tasmania’s forests will be held in the Jackeys Marsh valley in Northern
Tasmania from February 5-7, 2010.http://tiny.cc/CmD5h
09:04 pm This Saturday from 10:00 in Ålidhem; multicultural festival, between the library and the
shopping center. Come vote on the youth center.
09:05 pm Swedish trained journalist on radical collaboration
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010478.html from #hrheingold

Thursday 10th
09:53 am Student intake is a record number for this term. Yet the only facilities I notice being
upgraded is the lawn outside the library.
07:38 pm Just picked up Neal Stephenson's 'Anathem'.another slab of dead trees from the master.
981 pages, it may take a while as bedtime reading.

Friday 11th
07:24 am I like the Daniel Johnston T-shirt on the Kurt Cobain Rock Star avatar
http://tiny.cc/VirtualKurt I wonder if they would include Johnston
08:01 am Fela Kuti 'Water No Get Enemy' http://bit.ly/cRwtK The genius lives on. Good Morning!

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Saturday 12th
12:55 am A collection of images by and of Antonin Artaud http://bit.ly/KYnNo
05:33 pm Worship the Glitch is a fine fine blog http://blog.worshiptheglitch.com/ music, ideas and
attitudes. From across the latitudes.
05:40 pm Does everyone remember this one: http://bit.ly/dWv2r
05:41 pm ha ha tee hee ha ha ha http://bit.ly/BVp8N

Sunday 13th
08:35 am If you are in the northern zones, look out the window and listen to this; http://bit.ly/q1O1A
genius.
11:35 am Black Country; sort of VU meets Jesus and Mary Chain with a boys choir singing
http://tiny.cc/BlackCountry
11:38 am Kew Bridge Eco Village http://bit.ly/NXuJD and http://bit.ly/4jTk1
02:52 pm Think to go swimming..

Monday 14th
07:34 am I made the local paper today http://www.folkbladet.nu/?p=155154 in Swedish, playing for
a venue for culture in my neighborhood
09:45 am Morning music:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NjX1ziHVX8 Etran Finatawa - Surbajo
09:46 am “My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.”
Sherlock Holmes, The Red Headed League.
11:02 am Gjallarhorn - Suvetar http://bit.ly/wwayY Lunch time music
12:14 pm Does anyone know what has happened to the Electronic Literature Collection Vol 1 online
http://collection.eliterature.org/? Its gone?
12:15 pm Lucky I have a Disc copy of it...
06:35 pm Nice, Vivaldi Four Seasons right now; http://bit.ly/3FUSEb
06:39 pm @fairyrings site looks great! takes a while to load but its worth it when it does......
06:42 pm For those of you who don't already know, http://bit.ly/tLmOT SK Thoth in HD! Fantastic...
06:48 pm #bruces Joy Division Unknown Pleasures LP Cover Animated http://bit.ly/3Sn3rT
10:17 pm Remembering how good Joy Division were http://bit.ly/nmLqF and reading Althusser

Tuesday 15th
07:12 am "Digitization law and policies have also gone missing-in-action."
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/691772 sounds familiar.
07:17 am Howard Rheingold on Essential Media Literacies http://bit.ly/x1dJB
12:32 pm Met with students reps this morning to create shared presence in Second Life. Now
preparing for culture studies class on virtual worlds.

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12:32 pm Its my day working in HUMlab (in case any thesis authorities are reading this and wondering
why I am not writing) :-)
01:38 pm My teaching blog, Virtual Worlds, Culture and Technology http://bit.ly/ES32B
03:57 pm Malcolm Maclaren on This Spartan Life http://bit.ly/ql89N
05:48 pm Forget Gen Y: Gen X is Making Real Change http://bit.ly/qRPon

Wednesday 16th
09:11 am University of Texas setting up big in Second Life http://tiny.cc/yvjQL
06:00 pm Just received a copy of Fernandno Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet in the mai.. My life is now
somehow more complete.
09:42 pm have just been published in Poland: FORMAT magazine.

Thursday 17th
10:14 am Writing thesis on paratexts---the preface as mode of control in digital texts. Listening to
Radio Clash http://tiny.cc/8msDT Think Brixton!
10:18 am or The Clash, Ghetto Defendant (w Allen Ginsburg) http://bit.ly/aBssr
10:11 pm Recomended Media for an Autumnal Garden http://bit.ly/10yC0L

Friday 18th
07:21 am Good morning. When I grow up......http://bit.ly/5kee6 Fever Ray
07:46 am Global action on Climate http://www.avaaz.org/en/tcktcktck_map/ governments must
address the situation in a real way now.

Saturday 19th
06:19 am I went passed 9000 links collected on del.icio.us and didn't event notice
http://delicious.com/didgebaba

Sunday 20th
08:40 am yesterday was amazing and today has only just begun......
09:32 am Captain Tobais Hume, Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke (1607), tones of magic
http://bit.ly/1a4Kkq
08:13 pm Distasteful program on TV; Ingmar Bergman's last housekeeper on and on: the time the
man ate dinner and his favorite socks. Please shoot me.
08:15 pm Writing thesis, to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club first album. I have been doing this all wrong.
Acceleration and the thrill of knowledge.
09:49 pm thesis: "Language as Architecture: Response as Reading in Digital Literature". Due - May
2010.

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10:40 pm Download a new recording of the Master Musicians Of Joujouka live:
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3035/ from The Wire this month.

Monday 21st
05:43 pm Next 7 days will be spent at computer, a tube thru the nose for nourishment. Damn my ego
and this PhD folly.

Tuesday 22nd
05:22 am When oh when will I get to Tokyo http://bit.ly/1y4IvT
04:15 pm Have resumed my association with coffee after many months of not doing the easiest drug
in the world.....

Wednesday 23rd
09:37 am Back into the thesis chapter. Happy with the progress so far but it is rather slow. Managed
around 800 words yesterday in a mammoth 12 hrs.
09:38 am And the Beatles are not on Spotify...can someone fix this situation?
10:24 am Perfect music for writing a thesis too: John Lee Hooker, Country Blues...ohhh feel the pain.
10:52 am Australia’s first Indigenous opera underway at VCA
http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/musse/?p=326 thanks to #KISSmyBLAKarts spreading it.
11:21 am Just picked up The Meaning of Video Games: Gaming and Textual Strategies by Steven E.
Jones. http://tiny.cc/gEeeo
04:51 pm Pirate Bay trial II "It’s my life on the line here. It’s not just winning or losing some sort of
game. It’s my life." http://tiny.cc/9Qx8c

Thursday 24th
09:47 am God is Alive Magic is Afoot http://bit.ly/3q99Gc

Sunday 27th
04:13 pm UBUWEB Radio http://wfmu.org/wfmu_ubu.pls poetry like it should be
04:52 pm The Linden Dollars trading seems to be getting more organised and more lively
http://tiny.cc/PRRTD think I will retire and trade LDs.

Tuesday 29th
05:01 am Up since 5am writing. Have I overcome the need for sleep? We shall see at 5pm.
06:03 am Going back to sleep after a productive few hours. "Balm of hurt minds, great nature's
second course,. Chief nourisher in life's feast."

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Wednesday 30th
08:40 pm Its official. My life is now just a blur until April 2010. Just now; Paper submission and
presentation for tomorrow. The rest follows......

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October

Thursday 1st
08:26 am getting ready to write. remembering what a fine band The Stone Roses were. Summer
1990, a small blue car and their first album.
09:28 am There are no excuses for being a Google clone:
http://delicious.com/didgebaba/searchengines 100 search engines.
09:31 am Picsearch http://www.picsearch.com/ better quality images than Google.
10:04 am http://bit.ly/uei8t Presentation on Virtual Worlds and architecture in 2 hours
02:47 pm Call for Articles and Net Art: On-line journal Hz http://bit.ly/4ntuNu
03:07 pm @meika what do you mean...its only 4pm.

Friday 2nd
07:57 am So Sub Pop reissues Nirvana's Bleach as a double CD with outtakes. It seems to have aged
http://tiny.cc/tMVs1 even with a 'New' track

Saturday 3rd
02:23 am This is a great picture http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7674/henri61.jpg Goodnight.
07:22 am In the late 80s and early 90s I surfed the waves of the Brisbane (AUS) punk scene
http://tiny.cc/s99bc here's some tunes and views from it.
10:12 am Mid Autumn Full moon today and God is a Hippie http://www.phonotactics.info/?p=177
old jazz in a new skin.
11:18 am "We need to think collectively and sensibly about how this emerging reality will affect our
lives." Lawrence Lessig, Code http://codev2.cc/
12:03 pm Just upgraded to premium for Spotify. Took me a couple of months but they have me. The
soundtrack to my thesis writing is now assured.

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Sunday 4th
08:34 am Why does Depeche Mode suit so well the writing of a thesis in digital literature? These and
other questions answered at the defense.
08:35 am @StephSong Golf should be banned. Have thought so for a long time. Acres and acres of
sterile wilderness filled with fashion crimes.
11:21 am @stefangelfgren ha ha....I detect irony there somewhere.

Monday 5th
12:51 pm Umeå Jazz Festival 22-25 Oct http://bit.ly/ePFzd looks good. Inc. my friend Will Guthrie
01:20 pm Friedrich Kittler, The Perspective of Print http://bit.ly/oWbXf (PDF) good stuff
05:57 pm Poets were the first on and will be the last off this rock.
06:20 pm This is just astounding music http://www.crammed.be/craworld/crw51/index.htm Staff
Benda Bilili, some of Congo's finest
06:21 pm @rasmusfleischer har slutat helt med TV senaste veckorna. Det bli bara deprimerande till
sist att titta på det.

Tuesday 6th
12:11 pm What amazing person was Leon Battista Alberti http://bit.ly/Bi60n of course everyone
knows this already.

Thursday 8th
11:43 am Playing music Saturday night in Skellefteå, African Story Week. Jamming with musicians at
Nocks nightclub http://tiny.cc/jmAOi from 21:00

Monday 12th
05:22 pm Learning sign language during the day then teaching work and thesis the other 18 hours of
the day.
06:37 pm Latest Mute magazine looks good http://bit.ly/2au3ND and its free online and yours
07:26 pm Ghost paintings from Japan http://bit.ly/uD0BS
08:00 pm If at first you don't succeed, kill the witnesses.

Wednesday 14th
04:21 pm Student project for my Cultures of Commonwealth English course http://bit.ly/cNbJK so
good when it comes together.
08:08 pm Slavery is rare among Hunter gatherer populations, as slavery depends on a system of social
stratification.

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Thursday 15th
10:33 am Now this image has narrative potentials http://bit.ly/2YrGoP
10:34 am @fairyrings would that be Alice in Wonderland for the entire marriage or just the
reception? The former could be demanding. But worth a try.

Monday 19th
07:56 am Working at home today. Must finish thesis chapter. Stasis last week. Great things this week.
11:24 am music is prophecy: "its styles and economic organization are ahead of the rest of society"
http://tiny.cc/crA7P
11:27 am @fairyrings this could be a thesis topic in itself. See SupportforHealing Island in SL
http://bit.ly/5Y9g2
11:48 am Perception is nine tenths of the law.
03:47 pm Managed 4 hours writing this morning. Now dinner and then more writing. Tajine chicken,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajine

Tuesday 20th
12:36 pm Watching Stuart Allen on Citizen Journalism http://live.humlab.umu.se streamed live now
from #HUMlab
01:40 pm "Citizen journalism is people commenting on journalism" Stuart Allan at #HUMlab. I am
thinking about fanzines http://tiny.cc/ab1XA
01:48 pm "A masquerade of information: branded faces delivered over to the prostitution of the
image." Baudrillard 2001 40
04:19 pm I love Space Hijackers http://tiny.cc/q5Amj Concerning the ludicrous and satirical
performance of a group of activist-artists on April 1
04:24 pm University of California is on strike http://bit.ly/JQYtC
05:17 pm In research one must do justice to the topic. it is our duty to reflect the worth of the topic in
the standard of research. Otherwise its..

Thursday 22nd
01:07 pm After Media (Hot and Cold), by Eduardo Navas http://remixtheory.net/?p=400 I need
coffee....and cakes
01:11 pm God bless the real http://bit.ly/L4SyN and the reel, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real
01:12 pm "Networked culture pushes media to become accessible in multiple forms that are
optimized for assimilation of information." Navas
03:10 pm Needed a reference to CC license as defining texts. Thought Lessig. Books all on loan from
library. Go 2 web http://tiny.cc/KYZ16 Bingo!
03:11 pm @stefangelfgren museums and the digital http://delicious.com/didgebaba/Museums
03:49 pm Lights being turned off in other offices/Late Autumn leavings/Stripped branches against a
grey sky/I continue writing my bloody thesis......

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Sunday 25th
09:35 am Wake to Yusef Lateef http://bit.ly/nQXMN and wonder why I did not got to the jazz festival
this weekend.
08:07 pm Morrissey, the former singer in the British band The Smiths, is in a stable condition after
collapsing on stage http://tiny.cc/2ID3y

Monday 26th
05:18 pm Blog post. Virtual worlds and information architecture http://bit.ly/2mC2uW brief
06:58 pm In Australia "about 711,000 addresses within three kilometres of the coast and less than six
metres above sea level". http://tiny.cc/GyAyz
07:11 pm Borrowed 4 EST Cds from the library. Good stuff http://bit.ly/15nHtk
08:06 pm Nice video of Lawrence Lessig explaining what is Creative Commons http://bit.ly/54qwb
(2006)

Tuesday 27th
09:37 am Writing about the conflicts between authorial and legal prefaces in digital literary
texts....well, you asked what am doing.
05:35 pm 700 words written today. Very close to finishing chapter two. Tonight or tomorrow a draft
will be printed and then begins the next stage.

Wednesday 28th
03:19 pm Bat for Lashes http://bit.ly/tSq2F nice
03:54 pm Always the last to know. Pitchfork looks very promising. e.g. the young Gainsbourg
http://bit.ly/19Mz4k
03:57 pm Writing introduction and conclusion. 34 pages of tightly argued, incisive and well supported
text. Now I just need to convince others.
03:58 pm Coffee is so good with cookies...I am being drawn back to the bean. Tea is still my first love
when it comes to warm beverages.
05:27 pm Sitting down to finish Chapter Two, Reading from the Law/s: Response in the Paratextual
Elements of the Texts

Thursday 29th
11:18 am And now for a conclusion.
01:28 pm The heart of Australia http://bit.ly/6ghGc

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Friday 30th
10:34 am Records that changed my life: Goo by Sonic Youth (1990) http://bit.ly/3YsL29
12:40 pm Advice about coming to Umeå and doing postdoc research at HUMlab
http://wiki.humlab.umu.se/1/62
03:41 pm Chapter two of thesis sent off to supervisors for reading and judgments...As finishing PhD
comes closer the work gets more difficult

Saturday 31st
11:10 am Preserving Virtual Worlds http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw/
02:53 pm Listening to Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, 'Master and Everyone' all day- so so so good.
07:39 pm RT @DougCoupland RT @StephSong in some countries cats are the size of dogs
http://tiny.cc/yUOee Australian feral mega-cats
09:04 pm Get Smart, The Scared Cows Thrill thrill thrill Kill Kill Kill, Make the scene, Bump off the dean
http://bit.ly/Qjicl

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Monday 2nd
11:06 am "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right." — Ani DiFranco
02:12 pm Final rewrite of thesis Chapter 3. How the design of a digital work of literature invites
responses, contributes to narrative and reading.
07:12 pm Charles Ess in #HUMlab tomorrow, 13:15 CET. Live stream http://live.humlab.umu.se/
(open from 13:00)
07:28 pm Nice video of Charles Ess http://bit.ly/1mruaD
09:26 pm The Group http://tiny.cc/ouNkO cutting edge writing from the younger side of Australian
letters, This is the sub-cult cuts to the core.
09:31 pm Anyone who has seen Holy Mountain knows what I am talking about http://tiny.cc/5Pzvd
when I say it messes with your mind/s
09:36 pm More news Next year's AOIR conference, IR 11.0, is in Gothenburg, Sweden October 6-9th
2010
09:37 pm as well, what I will be doing tomorrow http://bit.ly/xON1m
10:27 pm Narrative is not only organized according to grammar, syntax, tempus and place, it is also
organized according to media format.
10:31 pm Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain is online. http://bit.ly/gfQCn Good God!

Tuesday 3rd
07:30 am New journal for electronic literature http://www.electricliterature.com/ called....Electronic
Literature.
09:09 am Eduado Navas vists the Interactive Institute in Stockholm and confirms my own ideas about
it http://remixtheory.net/?p=402 amazing
09:22 am Warren Ellis has a brain...http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7885 this is proof and it is
considerable.
09:23 am The party is over: Netherlands poised to demolish the 1970s law that made squatting legal
so long as a building had been vacant for a year.

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09:25 am Squatting in Holland http://www.rnw.nl/nl/node/34267 I recommend it. But is looks like it
may be threatened.
10:53 am For more on the squatting scene in Am*dam and why it should be saved;
http://vimeo.com/groups/18288/videos/6812727 Table Bed Chair
01:10 pm Will be tweeting from Charles Ess at #HUMlab live stream as well: http://bit.ly/1pLxy0
01:17 pm Trust and Democracy Online? Vicious Circles, Virtuous Circles, Possible Futures, #HUMlab
Charles Ess, (2009-2012) Info and Media Århus Uni
01:18 pm Digital Media Ethics http://bit.ly/15ihaj by Charles Ess at #HUMlab
01:22 pm Background for Ess, cultures and technology design Information Ethics Conference
#HUMlab
01:27 pm Trust online: a taxonomy of trust. rational/cognitive definition. that includes artificial
agents.
01:30 pm Trust in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) Ess at #HUMlab. How do we develop an image of trust
among machines?
01:32 pm E-trust is the consequences of decisions. Ess at #HUMlab. MAS for stock trading - MASST
01:33 pm There are limits to how far we can realize notions of trust in a machine environment Ess at
#HUMlab - financial crisis as example.
01:35 pm Trust in a affective direction . emotive definitions of trust, Anna Marie Carusi (2008, 209)-
imagination as image building facility (Kant)
01:37 pm Consensus image around art and community. "Visualizations are more than pretty pictures"
Ess at #HUMlab
01:39 pm Bjorn Myskja http://tiny.cc/f3E0H "Trust is at the center of the human condition as such"
quoted by Ess at #HUMlab
01:41 pm Logstrup (1956) Trust is on the receiving end of ethical behavior in the sense that trusting
someone involves an appeal [to responsibility].
01:42 pm Bodily proximity is necessary for trust based morality (after Levinas http://bit.ly/4bS0F0 Ess
at #HUMlab
01:43 pm Can the internet foster the public sphere? The answer is no - Ess at #HUMLab
01:46 pm Deception plays an important role in trust building. Later Kant (Ess at #HUMlab) pretending
to better makes us better (Myskja 2008 217)
01:50 pm Shannon Vallor - the virtues required for friendship in terms of trust.
http://www.scu.edu/cas/philosophy/faculty/vallor.cfm ESS @ #HUMlab
01:52 pm "Particular online practices may contribute to the shaping of their moral character"
Shannon Vallor
01:53 pm "Nobody is on all the time in that kind of way" Ess at #HUMlab. Friendships and trust needs
patience which requires a lot of time
01:56 pm Technology is built for convenience and speed. We are don't being trained for patience. Ess
at #HUMlab
01:59 pm Vallor: affordances of contemporary ICTS - leading away from trust as virtue. Possible to
build tech. that favor virtues? Ess #HUMlab
02:01 pm Twitter as representative of speed, paucity, immediacy. But does it foster virtues?
Environments that inspire trust needed. Ess at #HUMlab
02:02 pm you are vulnerable as a body and this lies at the heart of ethics. 'Its only a game' defense is
not sustainable. Ess at #HUMlab

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02:04 pm "Just Like me Only Better" (returns 4 million hits on Google). Representation online and
trust ESS at #HUMlab
02:07 pm Virtual adultery. Is it possible? Cartesian view is not problematized. But virtual technologies
seem to be questioning boundary ESS #HUMlab
02:10 pm Virtual adultery is already here http://bit.ly/2X6k3m Ess at #HUMlab
02:11 pm "Wire the world and it will make the world democratic" we laugh politely today. Give
everyone a book and they can read? Ess at #HUMlab
02:14 pm "Much easier to shop" user testimonials provides some traction for systems of trust online
Ess at #HUMlab
02:16 pm Technologies that foster the quick and the fast and therefore do not create conditions of
trust Ess at #HUMlab
02:17 pm rich ling and the (re)turn to embodiment http://tiny.cc/x3WT8 Ess at #HUMlab
05:20 pm Heard Gibbon song for the first time last summer
http://www.listeningearth.com.au/audio/34GibbonForest.mp3 amazing

Wednesday 4th
03:09 pm I wish I had time to make sound projects again http://vimeo.com/6033559 ....soon my
pretty soon..
03:10 pm VIDEO>> #13Aban Video: Security Forces Beating People http://bit.ly/3qE6Zm #IranElection
#Iran RT @zozizz

Thursday 5th
09:35 am If I had an extra 4000 I would buy an Erasmus from 1551 http://tiny.cc/DSL2y AbeBooks
rare book sale. I would like to start shopping.
09:44 am RT @avantgame Pareidolia: discussed last night @ dinner: Friedrich Jürgenson
http://tiny.cc/GJBSL EVP http://tiny.cc/dGVEu
09:56 am Half of four-year-olds in Sweden use the internet http://bit.ly/4lMCt5
10:19 am Seen and Heard: "See This Sound" at the Lentos Museum http://rhizome.org/editorial/3000
10:44 am @jilltxt just using Google Translate for Umeå University web pages (That really should be
both SW and Eng but are not). It works very well.
11:07 am #HUMlab friend and Research Fellow Ele Carpenter interviewed on Rhizome
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2975
11:24 am An insight into what it is to be an Australian living in Sweden
http://aussieclouds.appspot.com/sweden/youknow.html
12:08 pm RT @daniel_skog @RickardEriksson: File-sharers spend over £30 per year more on music
than those who download legally. http://tiny.cc/QVBiM
03:32 pm RT @brokep In Guantanamo, new movie release at The Bay about another Bay
http://vodo.net/ingitmo CopyFree

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Friday 6th
08:57 am I love steampunk http://bit.ly/2qicws
09:19 am Secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement leaks. It's bad. Very bad. http://bit.ly/2HkNyy
10:13 am In northern Europa what it means to be an artist is to fill out endless grant applications
http://www.netfilmmakers.dk/netblog/
11:03 am Wooden Veil is a Berlin-based art group formed in 2007. http://bit.ly/4tFT4Z

Saturday 7th
11:13 am Everyday some light shines in from another corner of the music world. Today its from South
Africa: Kalahari Surfers http://tiny.cc/tAY8Z
11:24 am Congratulations to Amelia Andersdotter. New Member for the European Assembly for the
Swedish Pirate Party. http://tiny.cc/1EKIs From Dec. 1
12:13 pm Color of the Pomegranate (1968) http://bit.ly/2Zqeb5 psychedelic Armenian film.
02:02 pm Human Lobotomy - Save the internet: This is happening now. Not just in the USA. In
Sweden. In Australia. In Can.. http://bit.ly/30xauu
03:02 pm Wrecker and Mended Media for the Weak: Some choice online media items have landed on
my screen this week. Is it.. http://bit.ly/o5H69
04:25 pm High Tone Radio is now broadcasting http://www.hightone.org/

Sunday 8th
09:52 am ◯╭╮◯╰╮╭╯◯╭╮◯╰╮╭╯◯╭╮◯╰╮╭╯ ╭╯╰╮◯╰╯◯╭╯╰╮◯╰╯◯╭╯╰╮◯╰╯◯ ╰╮╭╯◯╭╮◯╰╮╭╯◯╭╮◯╰╮╭╯◯╭╮◯
◯╰╯◯╭╯╰╮◯╰╯◯╭╯╰╮◯╰╯◯╭╯╰╮
03:02 pm Dancing in the Streets: http://bit.ly/1dLTkT
06:59 pm What goes around comes around http://bit.ly/1PldZs great activist street art
11:01 pm Ozymandias as Machinima (2000): Praised by everyone from New York Times Arts
columnist Matt Mirapaul, to film c.. http://bit.ly/1owHyc

Monday 9th
12:18 pm Looking at stunning images from Ellen Rogers http://www.flickr.com/photos/beep_peep/
02:19 pm "Indeed it is unusual these days for Facebook not to feature in a case such as this," Police
http://tiny.cc/zDfny arson murder in Cornwall.
05:29 pm Twenty years ago today, BerlinWall falls. Zizek summarizes http://tiny.cc/EYv8B 1989 I was
in my first artist house in Oz. Noticed nothing
06:04 pm Slavoj Žižek Speaks at Cooper Union: “First as Tragedy, Then As Farce”: Philosopher and
Cultural Theorist Slavo.. http://bit.ly/2eCpkX
09:25 pm Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/ has really professionalized their news,
looks great and informs as well.

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Tuesday 10th
09:04 am I am plugged in and ready for another day of words words words...
09:49 am John Pilger's speech on accepting the Sydney Peace Prize 2009 http://tiny.cc/J3daG
Breaking the Australian Silence.
11:39 am I can recommend Firefox Stylish Add-ons. http://bit.ly/wfdCx just pimped my Twitter and it
looks great
12:03 pm Don't Die Wondering: http://bit.ly/QYv3N
12:50 pm Snow falling in Umeå Sweden http://webcam.ub.umu.se/view/view.shtml
01:34 pm RT @LeesaWatego RT @markpollard A FREE 114-pg book of stories reinventing manhood.
Share http://bit.ly/freemanbook
03:21 pm @stefangelfgren Interesting to trace the etymology of 'digital natives'. I first heard it here:
http://tiny.cc/xfMp4 Rupert Murdoch trying.
06:16 pm Beautiful raga guitar from Peter Walker (1967)
http://www.ravensingstheblues.com/mp3/Bianca.mp3

Wednesday 11th
09:23 am RT @stefangelfgren @TimScullin: What’s the Future of Twitter? [VIDEO]
http://bit.ly/16B3a3
09:38 am Murdoch accused Google of stealing stories from News Corp newspapers and might ban
them in charges 2 online editions. http://tiny.cc/GjOeC
09:46 am The Late Age of Print, a short video about Ted Striphas' book http://bit.ly/xxG8O
10:15 am Eating Animals is Making Us Sick
http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/10/28/opinion.jonathan.foer/index.html by Jonathan
Foer
03:30 pm "Twenty years ago it took open-heart surgery to discover what went on inside an
Englishman. " http://tiny.cc/Z9z9a

Thursday 12th
10:02 am According to my Twitter vocab I am upbeat and arrogant http://bit.ly/4hcOOf
06:15 pm The original Love Buzz http://bit.ly/mZycO Shocking Blue

Friday 13th
12:57 pm simulation and representation. mutually exclusive? I think not. now to explain why in about
two pages.
01:50 pm Art in Sweden from the perspective of an international visitor
http://remixtheory.net/?p=403
02:44 pm @rasmusfleischer men Archive.org fungera med Creative Commons licens inte "fair
use"-princip @lillmacho @selanna
02:50 pm @rasmusfleischer ja visst. du menar Waybackmachine.

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03:45 pm My friend John takes pictures of the Pacific Ocean and here is one
http://www.flickr.com/photos/devocean/4096900660/ wow!
04:25 pm Poetry by Steven Jesse Bernstein, The Man Upstairs and Strip Poker
http://www.myspace.com/thesadbag
09:03 pm Band name of the month is Porn Sword Tobacco http://www.pornswordtobacco.com/
09:54 pm Twitter comes alive in the European night. http://tiny.cc/BQWWN so clear from my list
10:26 pm After the Roman Empire collapsed in the West, the idea of res publica disappeared, as
foreign to the barbarians of the Migrations Period.

Saturday 14th
09:47 am Saturday and considering the material metaphors of Dreamaphage http://bit.ly/1s6BBH
09:51 am While doing this I am listening to Lamb, the first album http://bit.ly/4Aodv

Sunday 15th
02:46 pm Just realized: In Australia we said "I will find some space for it." In Europe people often say
"I will make some space for it." Difference
03:44 pm Student unrest across Europe http://bit.ly/3byHAC a map of occupied campuses
03:45 pm @BryanAlexander Hot Fuzz is a great film Bryan. Watched it with my son a week ago, he
loved it. As did I

Monday 16th
09:43 am Mythology and computer games: Avatar the Game is a meeting of the two
http://tiny.cc/FboIi
10:26 am Mike Skinner and the poetics of failure http://bit.ly/2T975p
02:38 pm Introducing HUMlab to new research students. http://bit.ly/9zKQ2
02:51 pm The imaginary pirate of globalization. The terrorist, the hacker and the financier are the
new pirates, http://tiny.cc/ABIHO
02:56 pm The middle ages were not without humor http://bit.ly/FoSq2 Mooning gargoyles

Tuesday 17th
09:22 am AUST Testra leaves Second Life;http://tiny.cc/LehVt "in 2007 when it was an emerging
opportunity. It was largely an experiment" so 2007?
09:10 pm "The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life." Raoul Vaneigem
http://tiny.cc/d2JUv

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Wednesday 18th
12:41 am Music for 1am on a Wednesday http://www.mixpod.com/playlist/35303865 a playlist of
French psychedelic dub and folk punk.

Thursday 19th
10:53 pm NationStates a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own
warped political ideals.http://nationstates.net/
10:56 pm Today has been crazy but productive. As a reward the last word in Japanese noise
http://www.ubu.com/sound/hanatarash.html ハナタラシ
11:01 pm Tuition fees at UC just went up by 44% for 2010 "turning higher ed into a gated community"
http://tiny.cc/qgdXH videos of protests
11:21 pm Death to Everyone (Live)
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2009/11/18/bonnie-prince-billy-death-to-everyone-live/

Friday 20th
03:15 pm Installing old Flash Player so I can read an old work of Digital LIt. The levels of decoding
become apparent in working with the electronic.
03:30 pm The digital story is Dreamaphage by Jason Nelson (2004) http://tiny.cc/uPJ5K and you will
need to install old Flash 9 http://tiny.cc/wQJid
05:16 pm Protests at UC continue
http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/uc-protests-continue/"not about debt, it’s
not about bankruptcy"

Saturday 21st
05:37 pm Australian man became lost on an early morning drive to the shops and ended up 600km
away from his starting point. http://tiny.cc/seR5u
11:39 pm Australia's ABC is putting lots of clips on YouTube, amazing stuff;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ6F0FFJxj4 witness Keith Richards 1973

Sunday 22nd
10:37 am Some fine media for free download, a game, music, a book...http://tiny.cc/PXsIa my
recommended online media for the week

Monday 23rd
12:19 pm Posters from Poland..cool
http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/11/holy-mountain-of-contemporary-polish.html
01:25 pm @meika re: the brain filters out noise and tunes in...so does this mean the brain is musical?
http://tiny.cc/6Zqhc

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04:43 pm Local history project using a wiki to collect material;
http://www.wigo.se/index.php/Huvudsida in Swedish.

Tuesday 24th
09:21 am Rainy November day. Perfect for writing, drinking tea, eating cashews and TEACHING THIS
AFTERNOON! Digital Lit for digital culture course.
09:23 am research must “achieve demonstrable benefits to the wider economy and society”.
http://tiny.cc/KGUdd impact of the humanities.
09:28 am Wonderful music http://www.myspace.com/jhuntcomposer of sounds that shatter the
glass habit
09:47 am Spotify’s business model needs some work http://tiny.cc/BkKtY
10:15 am @stefangelfgren best of luck with the affairs of child health.
03:15 pm Introduction to digital literature
http://realmixed.blogspot.com/2009/11/introduction-to-digital-literature.html

Wednesday 25th
09:51 am Morning music as I warm up the keyboard: Lhasa de Sela
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOLg_XY2cWA
02:01 pm @fairyrings not so much messages, as a conversation. Twitter is a huge asynchronous chat
feed that follows news, opinion and education.
06:25 pm Stanford first university to take the whole dissertation approval and publishing process
electronic. http://tiny.cc/YJNtd
06:30 pm An estimated 5000 others across New South Wales are learning the oldest languages on
earth http://tiny.cc/xeZRO Alright!!

Thursday 26th
10:37 am E-sport, live från Dreamhack http://svt.se/dreamhack 10 hours streamed 4 the Swedish
speakers

Friday 27th
09:10 am University of Western Australia is using Second Life in teaching and learning
http://tiny.cc/CyMTO
04:49 pm 74% of NSW Australia is in drought. Rivers are disappearing. http://tiny.cc/DIhRl drier
conditions expected. Anyone going to Copenhagen?

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Saturday 28th
01:35 am Games: The Art of Making, Bending, and Breaking Rules
http://www.hz-journal.org/n13/ames.html
12:19 pm I tweet 2 consume. 2 luxuriate in the ideas of others. 2 imbue myself in the pearls of the
collective being. I drink the wisdom of crowds.
12:20 pm Others "don’t tweet, I might lose face; my social or professional credibility could suffer." -
Ian Bogost http://tiny.cc/ZFzDp
01:39 pm @deepwarren hi Sharon....of course you are watching pseudo germans dressed in wolves
heads. I am preparing midgets for jelly wrestling.
01:40 pm Synapses are modified according to a rule called Spike Time Dependent Plasticity (STDP)
http://tiny.cc/ZEBns

Monday 30th
10:54 am RT @deepwarren Fun is the brain's workshop.
http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2009/11/play-makes-you-a-good-citizen.html
11:14 pm I think I have given up giving up and will be back for more in the morning.

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Tuesday 1st
10:22 am BLAST-UP! Is a computer game, a poem and a tribute to Vorticism
http://www.babel.ca/blastup/
11:34 am Installing OpenOffice as it has become the program of choice for majority of students. They
cannot afford Word. Why do they need it anyway?
12:42 pm Retreating back to my desk at home after 4 hours at university and the movement of
society. I am a happy hermit.
06:17 pm For the rest of the day I will be #red
07:01 pm 'World AIDS Day': A major global disaster killing millions. #Red as in alert
http://tiny.cc/rXSAf
10:15 pm Pirate Party Australia just announced that it is now accepting founding members
http://www.pirateparty.org.au/

Wednesday 2nd
05:11 pm Second Life presence of Oxford University’s First World War Poetry Digital Archive
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Frideswide/219/199/646/

Thursday 3rd
08:10 am As the darkness of morning layers upon the darkness of night it looks like today will be
spent in Second Life.
11:42 am RT @spacehijackers http://tinyurl.com/ministryofcopycats Ministry of Sound NYE trains.
http://tinyurl.com/circleline2 cities and used space
09:48 pm Women of the Avant Garde Pt II
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/AGAT-WomenOfTheAvantGardeP2-112409.mp3

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Friday 4th
08:40 am Australia remains the largest per-capita polluter in the developed world http://tiny.cc/KyHIi
embarrassing....
10:16 am @meika have you see this http://audioboo.fm/ may help with 'e-reading like podcast'
11:27 pm Chinese media use virtual world tech to reenact Tiger Woods crash
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80836372/ making news..virtually.

Saturday 5th
10:43 pm BBC on Captain Beefheart
http://www.soulvlog.com/2008/11/captain-beefheart-documentary-bbc-1997.html what
joy

Sunday 6th
12:34 pm Just watched Zoya on the state of Afghanistan http://tiny.cc/jyMjX and it made me sing this
song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04bCoHXDj6c
06:49 pm You know you spend too much time online when you reach for a piece of paper on your
desk using the mouse...I have done this.
07:19 pm Jack Rose is dead!! Too shocked to speak
http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/12/05/remembering-jack-rose/

Monday 7th
11:12 am Isn't constructivist pedagogy great
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_%28learning_theory%29 I love it...
11:37 am "The Lives of Indigenous Women in a 'Post-Racial' and 'Post-Feminist' World"
http://blip.tv/file/2876889
12:16 pm Climate conference Copenhagen live on TV Papua New Guinea making problems in first
session.

Tuesday 8th
11:13 am Don't believe what you see http://tiny.cc/ACzFm 15 botched photoshop jobs
03:09 pm I think it has been raining here for six weeks...I Can't Stand the Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7RSTuwKxe8
07:09 pm University of Arkansas Announces Extensible Virtual Worlds Workshop
http://sl.nmc.org/2009/12/07/extensible-virtual-worlds/

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Wednesday 9th
10:13 am Peter Bryngelsson from the the Musikhögskolan Malmö on how music animates film and
games. Sorry for Facebook friends but I am tweeting it
10:14 am Live stream available here: http://stream.humlab.umu.se/
10:19 am Peter Bryngelsson seminar is in Swedish. It is brought to us by DINO, Digital Ideas in the
North Organization
10:20 am The seminar will focus on how music "animates" motion in films and games. This means
that the music selects for us the movement we will see.
10:22 am What are the differences between sound in film and computer games?
10:26 am Peter Bryngelsson plays the theme from Super Mario Bros on slide lap guitar in #HUMlab
seminar
10:32 am People of an older generation often discuss computer games from the perspective of
morality and how it effects society and individuals
10:33 am The generation that came of age in the 1960s grew up connected to TV.
10:35 am Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values ~ Patricia Pisters (Editor),
Wim Staat (Editor) http://tiny.cc/YrIRA
10:35 am Magnetic tape - audio and later visul (VHS) changed the dynamic of media in the family
home
10:36 am With the TV 'strange' people were invited into the family lounge room, e.g Alfred Hitchcock
10:37 am Ian MacDonarl, Revolution in the Head
http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Head-Ian-MacDonald/dp/1844138283
10:38 am The 1960s youth left the family in front of the TV and turned against it.
10:40 am The 'new type' of young male: they are not written about, shy, detached, but the video
game is a entry to a world where he is welcome
10:43 am Son spent entire summer inside attending LAN parties. At 18 emerged from bedroom with a
Japanese girlfriend, a job and education.
10:45 am Michel Chion: film sound theorist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chion
10:47 am Opening sequence to Lars von Trier's The Antichrist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-TNfPzh_k sound and image
10:51 am Pain Grief and Despair. child watching coitus slow-mo open window snow child in wonder
jumps out with bear washing machine
10:53 am Antichrist opening Opera Aria by Hyden and opens film Farinelli: Il Castrato
10:54 am Audiovisual Contract: sort of symbolic pact to which the audio-spectator agrees to forget
that sound is coming from loudspeakers
10:55 am On Screen, off screen, diegetic, non-diegetic
10:56 am Theories of Michel Chion http://filmsound.org/chion/av-contr.htm
10:57 am Voice over are non-deigetic, laugh tracks are off screen..
10:58 am Zizek on canned laughter http://www.lacan.com/zizeklaugh.htm
10:59 am Life of Brian did not have laugh track - unique among Python films
11:02 am Avatars- representative figure in computer games. They are present in films also.
11:02 am 1st person avatar, 3rd person avatar. bound to the figure thru console.

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11:04 am 1st person - eyes of player are eyes of avatar. sound - objective sound: how own body
sounds
11:05 am Deleuze - Noise to voice
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/crpl_philosophy/entry/deleuze_the_passage/
11:06 am Reference to Cage . there is no silence
http://www.cobussen.com/proefschrift/300_john_cage/316_cage_and_silence/cage_and_silence.htm
11:08 am Silence of the Lambs - music in 1st person view is the soul's form. music is a link with the
figure. as the avatar is a body, music is soul
11:10 am Rhythm holds more rhythms within it. Melody places us in height and balance. Gives feeling
of being in place
11:11 am the rhythm goes forward and the melody goes up and down in a balance
11:22 am The brain looks for synchronization between sound and image
11:28 am "All film have a narrative structure" I disagree. all dramatic films have a narrative structure?
no...think Jodorowsky, think Ron Fricke
11:38 am movement film reality: equivalent in musical movement. environment - space and music
(drones). drones create a sense of space environment
11:39 am Only Swedish film makers believe there is such a thing as silence.
11:42 am Drone: a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is
continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece.
11:43 am "Psychopaths often have a lot of sound within them" Peter Bryngelsson
11:44 am drones create feeling associated with place.
11:49 am music and torture; Vital Remains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUs2i58iK7Y but dark
and death metal not used in torture
11:51 am torture loop used by Swedish military to simulate torture. sounds like Delia Derbyshire.
11:53 am the question of Masonna has not yet been answered as far as I am concerned.
01:29 pm Day Three: Singleton to Gloucester – No more policia, no more problemas, no more
nothing. I am approaching the abyss http://tiny.cc/8EBut
05:02 pm Tre Solar /Three Suns, apparently the worst film made in Sweden recently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m_fQcX8tds looks terrible
06:38 pm welcome to the small crowd of new followers I picked up today. Hope it is interesting for
you all #FB
08:40 pm 25% of the assessment of a given research output would be based on its perceived
‘economic and social impact.’ http://tiny.cc/1tBey #FB
10:40 pm We May Be Born With an Urge to Help
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01human.html?_r=1

Thursday 10th
01:48 pm The Bill of Internet Rights
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-mep-proposes-internet-bill-of-rights-091209/
02:43 pm Have just taken flu shot against 'the new influenza' as it is referred to here in Sweden. Oink
Oink.......

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04:18 pm The end is nigh
http://soulsphincter.blogspot.com/2009/12/five-theorists-from-last-five-year.html my
thesis is in final layer of production
06:23 pm Spent time watching this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/8-cell-simple.gif am now relaxed
06:35 pm @BryanAlexander I hope everything is OK post-storm. Sounds dramatic. #FB

Friday 11th
12:56 am If life was only more like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6s5L28Igg
02:40 pm Swedish Parliamentarian Anna König Jerlemyr, 31, (M) will have national police in Second
Life http://tiny.cc/F4ryT
02:41 pm PETER Garrett has granted an emergency National Heritage listing to Tasmania's Tarkine
rainforest. At last!

Monday 14th
11:02 am Listening to Charley Patton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyIquE0izAg and warming
to another week of writing writing writing
11:28 am Blog post on images of bloody and strong leaders
http://soulsphincter.blogspot.com/2009/12/we-take-our-images-with-us.html Silvio et. al.
02:07 pm I am finding that this is cheering me through the day
http://soundcloud.com/etokarecords/sets/ekar020-various-artists-pt-2
02:33 pm Something does not add up when artists are earning more than ever but so many
publishers are crying poor due to P2P http://tiny.cc/qxnKz
02:42 pm Build your own book scanner
http://diybookscanner.org/PDF/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-from-Trash-and-Cheap-C.pdf
04:38 pm @BryanAlexander have you seen Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun, excellent game for
learning imperialism. Rather complex through.
04:54 pm @BryanAlexander No..I want to but it takes so long to play. Need to change structure of
classes and term to accommodate game play.
05:28 pm Following #cni09f on Twitter now

Tuesday 15th
11:31 am snow at last http://www.webbkameror.se/webbkameror/tv4/tv4_umea_1_640.php
12:11 pm @deepwarren if by freaky you mean cold white fluffy and blowing in the wind...yep it is.
02:38 pm I just generated a #TweetCloud out of a month of my tweets. Top three words: music,
sound, film - http://w33.us/5ty5
02:43 pm I just accepted an invitation to Voddler....I am happier for this http://www.voddler.com/
11:58 pm @deepwarren I so do want to visit Sydney one day. I have not ventured down its grimy
boulevards for 10 years. So missing it. #FB

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Wednesday 16th
12:01 am Watching Repo Man (1984) what a fantastic film. I remember seeing it as a manual for life
when I was 19 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/
12:20 am @stefangelfgren sort of late...sleep soon...time is a very fluid thing these days #FB
12:23 am @stefangelfgren working in SL. More squatters, someone deleted half of the sky sculpture,
need script for time limit access 4 avatars. #FB
01:03 am Voddler looks good. Television is looking so over and done with.
12:04 pm At what point does internet filtering become censorship? http://tiny.cc/S0mms
10:18 pm Scanned Situationist International comix from 1968
http://www.flickr.com/photos/didgebaba/sets/671958/show/ avoid boredom. avoid the
bored.

Thursday 17th
10:27 pm Lost friends in past 2 years. Jabe http://tiny.cc/T03Wy beautiful person who I knew for too
short a time. Hard times but strong heart.

Friday 18th
10:42 am A thesis chapter section is snarling at me like a viscous rodent. I must return to it and break
it.
11:08 am Twitter hacked by 'Iranian Cyber Army'
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/18/twitter.hacked/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
12:16 pm Neil Young - Don't Let It Bring You Down (Live 71)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU9_Q7PJuNQ just had to listen to this.
12:26 pm Mobile phone network down for me. Phone reads (in English) 'Emergency Calls Only'.
01:49 pm @BryanAlexander temp is about the same here in Umeå,

Saturday 19th
04:47 pm @stefangelfgren I think you have discovered a new word - "smygtwittrar" and i would be
worried if I was you ;-)
05:26 pm I think I am moving to Blue Mars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C89ZL6wjwM=1

Sunday 20th
10:03 am http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile=54295809==24940017
Good morning.....
10:20 am Has anyone uploaded a copy of the SBS program Alter Ego (avatars in Second Life)? Would
love to see it.
10:24 am Morning sounds, 9 Countries by Wax Audio
http://www.waxaudio.com.au/9Countries/sounds.htm
02:13 pm Big Band gibberish http://tiny.cc/9jndL what English sounds like to non-speakers...

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10:27 pm Jack Rose live Fredericksburg, Virginia entire concert
http://silvercurrant.blogspot.com/2009/12/jack-rose-athenaeum-fredericksburg-va.html
11:50 pm Forget the images. System change – not climate change A People’s Declaration from
Klimaforum09 http://tiny.cc/RZMOM

Monday 21st
11:00 pm An then the earth turned and we are on our toward the Spring.....
11:01 pm Life on earth may seem expensive but it does include an annual free trip around the sun.

Tuesday 22nd
10:23 am Download video of 7 1/2 hour scenic train ride between Bergen and Oslo on the Norwegian
west coast in HD http://tiny.cc/rrdHi
10:28 am Pete Seeger's life as told by Billy Bragg http://time-has-told-me.blogspot.com/
11:31 pm A woman identifying herself simply as ''Mary'' claims her nine-year-old son Jesus Christ is
the Son of God™. http://tiny.cc/pU95V

Wednesday 23rd
06:17 pm Spacemen 3 - Walkin' With Jesus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4nOSRw8GJs Happy
Christmas all....

Thursday 24th
01:21 am Late at night I enjoy watching truly bizarre Japanese animations
http://www.youtube.com/user/nihontenjin
10:39 am #Berlusconi attack faked http://tiny.cc/mh4a1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0IsCLqNVXI http://tiny.cc/NAiCq

Friday 25th
11:38 pm Some sound from me to you. http://www.archive.org/details/Telepath23 Live recording of
a recent playing.

Saturday 26th
03:05 pm Working on my thesis on Boxing Day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmo-dx5uvEU
slowly going mad.....

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Sunday 27th
04:36 am a communication tool by which people with short attention spans could scatter their every
thought to the winds http://tiny.cc/xyAwd
11:10 am Totally snowed in...must be a meter outside my door. No sign of the snowplough..Amazing.
03:19 pm Seriously wishing I was in Berlin right now http://c3.ckck.de/#home #26C3
05:41 pm Israel has indeed been harvesting the organs of Palestinians in #Gaza #FB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKmb2AQXZqY
05:46 pm Wikileaks, Here Be Dragons. Finance, Documents, and the paper trail of truth
http://streaming-26c3-wmv.fem-net.de/saal1
05:59 pm Watch this video about the possible future of Iceland from the Wikileaks guys
http://streaming-26c3-wmv.fem-net.de/saal1 amazing.
06:15 pm julian Assange and Daniel Schmitt (Wikileaks) are doing amazing work http://wikileaks.org/
be part of it.
06:19 pm All systems leak. #26C3

ubahnverleih "Here Be Electric Dragons" - Full Audio torrent http://rnm.me/rno #26C3

Monday 28th
11:37 am Cameron's Avatar as an "uncanny valley of morality"
http://langer.tumblr.com/post/301628906

Tuesday 29th
02:20 pm The Swamp Ladies of Estonia
http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/12/swamp-ladies-of-estonia.html
amazing images
02:43 pm What is streaming? http://soulsphincter.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-is-streaming.html
05:11 pm Listening to gamelan http://www.archive.org/details/gamelanmk2007-12-14 while I drag
the last pages of this chapter out...ohh the pain.
06:04 pm Chapter 3 The Anticipation of Response in the Design of the Digital Texts: A Material Model
for Reading is done.......
10:11 pm Police in #Iran drive into protesting crowd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIvW1w3B4OI graphic video.

Thursday 31st
10:37 am Someone does not like Twitter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/29/trouble-twitter-social-networking-banality

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Friday 1st
01:07 pm Roland S. Howard, Australian guitarist extraordinaire dead at 50
http://soulsphincter.blogspot.com/2010/01/rowland-s-howard-1959-2009.html

Saturday 2nd
12:07 am The Lorax video: http://tiny.cc/Ttwub "I speak for the trees"
01:25 pm A UN meeting of crucial importance has failed http://bit.ly/65xY76 #COP15 Please RT
02:16 pm If you are in Sweden and like music from S.E Asia check this out http://tiny.cc/mRlea Laya
Project
07:15 pm Working on Second Life project. It seems the financial 'crisis' has played havoc inworld. Lots
of businesses are gone.

Sunday 3rd
11:49 am Obama administration is “looking very seriously at the role that games can play in achieving
national priorities,” http://tiny.cc/oN4JN
04:41 pm @nileshc Nazi ­sympathisers in Sweden are advocating terrorist acts to disrupt this year’s
elections there http://bit.ly/6k8iVc
09:00 pm Download media recommended and a short satire.
http://soulsphincter.blogspot.com/2010/01/media-recomendations-to-nations.html
09:06 pm The Make Believe Sea
http://www.flickriver.com/groups/themakebelievesea/pool/interesting/

Monday 4th
02:49 pm @eliterature New Electronic Literature Directory looks great.
02:49 pm And it is all here http://directory.eliterature.org/

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06:02 pm Bono "hinted that China's efforts prove that tracking net content is possible"
http://bit.ly/63UxF4 Lord help us....
11:02 pm Click to ask Nordea's CEO, Christian Clausen, not to fund the forest destruction:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/no_pulp_mill

Tuesday 5th
09:56 am The first time I have seen a anti-war demo that is taking on the issue of robots
http://tiny.cc/sBljI
04:21 pm Been re-working a thesis (chapter 4) text I wrote in 2008. I can see it is crap. I wrote it? This
is a good sign. I am improving maybe.

Wednesday 6th
09:30 am Good morning...Here's a rare one from David Bowie http://tiny.cc/CGI1x and a fine sound it
is.

Thursday 7th
09:49 pm @VyarNadLub and @jintanab? @hollysuel welcome to the conversation #FB

Sunday 10th
03:28 pm What computer games can teach you
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/10/playing-in-the-virtual-world

Monday 11th
10:06 am Hoist the mainsail, clear the decks, baton the hatches, distribute weapons...another year of
labor is upon us....dive in!
10:34 pm My take on Avatar
http://soulsphincter.blogspot.com/2010/01/avatar-blindness-in-old-new-vision.html
Warning: slight spoilers

Tuesday 12th
06:44 pm Realizing that anything is possible.

Wednesday 13th
02:49 pm Just brought a large drawing block and a set of good pencils. Must storyboard a film and
then plan a return to drawing.

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Thursday 14th
08:34 am Student presentations from a term in Second Life. Machinima films on gender ethnicity and
class. So much talent.
09:13 am Second Life as a tool for the mediation of subjectivities. Playing with stereotypes in digital
environments in #HUMlab
10:49 am Google taking a stand on censorship and control of the net by govt in China
http://www.accessnow.org/page/s/GoogleWin sign the petition
06:50 pm Burroughs- The Movie http://www.ubu.com/film/burroughs_movie.html can one ever get
enough of the dry wit of Bill?

Friday 15th
09:04 am Watching presentation by students for a term-long project on Gaze and Power, in Second
Life with #HUMlab. More excellent work.
09:18 am Natural disaster as immersive media field
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/gleaning-information-from-haiti-online/?hp
#Haiti
10:24 am @patriksv blog entry on its way for museum studies in #HUMlab
04:59 pm Exhibition for culture and media students workl in #HUMlab and in Second Life next
Wednesday http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=1387 All welcome.

Saturday 16th
04:52 pm I just generated a #TweetCloud out of a month of my tweets. Top three words: life,
amazing, video - http://w33.us/6dbu

Sunday 17th
04:19 pm Bulding avatars on a snowy Sunday evening #fb

Monday 18th
03:46 pm "Linden Lab limits the number of accounts any household or individual may create. You
appear to have exceeded this limit." Only 5 avatars!
04:02 pm Brody Condon in #HUMlab Seminar: Known Planes of Existence - 2 mars 2010 kl. 13:00
http://www.humlab.umu.se/node/1229 should be excellent
10:39 pm "There’s a cultural revolution going on in Second Life facilitated by a shift in approach by
Linden Lab" http://tiny.cc/VF9vZ
11:26 pm In case you are wondering 'How big is Australia?'
http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/australia2.jpg

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Wednesday 20th
02:53 pm Machinima films by second year culture anaysis students
http://www.youtube.com/user/imoviehumlab#p/a/u/2/cim4yz-cbrQ in #HUMlab
09:38 pm The Na'vi in Second Life http://soulsphincter.blogspot.com/2010/01/navi-have-arrived.html

Saturday 23rd
01:21 pm Off to open day at my kids school. Everyday should be open at school.

Sunday 24th
09:17 pm February issue of Mojo magazine has a CD mixed by the Amorphous Androgynous
http://tiny.cc/Ducid It is well worth buying the mag for it.

Monday 25th
10:35 am At home writing thesis. Finally managing to resume the hermit life. Thought does not
require company.
10:59 am The PhD thesis way - build it up, take it down, build it up, take it down, build it up, take it
down........

Tuesday 26th
03:30 pm Just uploaded a new photo on Framtidsredaktionen http://ning.it/5chRAf

Wednesday 27th
10:09 am Storm brewing here. Winds picking up and 30 cm snow expected. Ahhh, inside day.....
10:40 am Famous writers who took too much
http://www.life.com/image/50698313/in-gallery/38742/famous-literary-drunks--addicts
10:48 am More reports from what was the world of Philip K Dick http://tiny.cc/F5YPw
12:33 pm This is very cool http://www.youtube.com/xl Thanks @GardnerCampbell @dannynic
02:43 pm Wild weather here. Venturing out.....see what happens.

Thursday 28th
11:02 am Howard Zinn, author of ‘People’s History’ and left-wing historian, dies at 87 in California
http://tiny.cc/L8Puh
11:05 am Presenting #HUMlab and digital journalism this afternoon to students. So much to choose
from and so little time.
04:12 pm Done for today...back to the hermitage (lower case....in case you were wondering:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penfolds_Grange)

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Friday 29th
09:09 am River of death continues to flow
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/world/middleeast/26iraq.html
09:24 am Up early and writing.
10:00 am @stefangelfgren the question is 'Who to be online?'
10:30 am OMG I can see the sun!!!!
10:46 am Meaning is bound to the material configurations of the media artifacts.

Saturday 30th
01:13 am Student work in Second Life video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV3l1lX3gg0 #fb

Sunday 31st
01:45 pm Listening to Dutch old cajun podcast http://ow.ly/129n6 missing the lowlands....
01:57 pm podcast not so great....boogie woogie...still miss Holland but.
02:23 pm Going to see Where the Wild Things Are. Expectations high.

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Tuesday 2nd
12:43 am eyes melting...work load approaching critical but somehow it still feels like fun...god...what
is wrong with me.
10:43 am Wikileaks down but not out http://www.wikileaks.org/ give money now...
10:44 am Check this out from Pixies - http://t.opsp.in/EMrb
11:57 am Hillary Clinton's speech on Internet freedom. Finding it difficult to take it seriously.
http://tiny.cc/LjLyw is she talking to kids?
02:42 pm Lecture on social media as text
http://realmixed.blogspot.com/2010/02/social-media-as-text.html actually using ideas
developed in thesis
02:43 pm @stefangelfgren congratulation on EU submission...now just a matter of time.
03:52 pm UK copyright holders have ‘leased’ copyrights from other companies for the sole purpose of
cashing in on allegations of file-sharing
03:53 pm http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-scheme-a-scam-legal-blackmail-say-uk-lords-100128/
Copyright and scam practices in the UK
08:28 pm its nice when your students Google your name after a lecture and read your blog. #fb
08:50 pm Just picked up The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print,
looks great

Wednesday 3rd
12:02 am Watching the PBS film Digital Nation
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/

Thursday 4th
09:54 am Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html Free from U of Chicago this
month

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10:29 am Watched Digital Nation: contra to it, the use of tools alone does not constitute a culture.
Digital Culture is about sharing not use.
10:34 am You can now browse my bookmarks
http://delicious.com/browsebar/didgebaba#8a3dba538df9df5ce3ba11c0f8170c4a enjoy
11:00 am Sydney street art online http://www.wallup.net/Site/_New_Now/_New_Now.html cool
stuff from a cab driver.
11:13 am The Group issue #4 is online http://groupmag.blogspot.com/2010/02/group-issue-4.html
some great writing.
06:52 pm Bo, a language of the Andaman Islands is now dead;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8498534.stm

Friday 5th
09:21 am off to meet with thesis supervisors....always a pleasure pain experience.
04:57 pm Paper accepted at the 5th Global Conference: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture,
Cyberspace and Science Fiction Mansfield College, Oxford

Sunday 7th
11:48 am From a LinkedIn invitation acceptance; "Every person you connect with builds value for you
and all your connections." In what way?
12:02 pm JODOROWSKY: “I am old. I have so many things to do, so every day I get quicker, in order to
do them! http://tiny.cc/Rx10E
02:55 pm Snow adventure in images and video
http://soulsphincter.blogspot.com/2010/02/snowy-sunday.html
03:14 pm The genius of Laurie Anderson http://www.ubu.com/film/kitchen_anderson.html
06:14 pm Sarah Palin's Q At The 'Tea Party Convention' http://tiny.cc/63Pew is mind boggling.

Monday 8th
09:17 am Teaching Social Media Copyright and and Creativity
http://realmixed.blogspot.com/2010/02/social-media-copyright-and-creatvity.html

Tuesday 9th
03:54 pm Racial typing in the virtual world of Second Life
http://soulsphincter.blogspot.com/2010/02/racial-typing-in-second-life.html

Wednesday 10th
05:03 pm I am pretty sure that my feet did not touch the ground today...so busy it has been a blur

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Thursday 11th
09:10 am President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must
be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog!!!!
09:20 am Doctor Who: The Auction Costumes and Props from the BBC Archive Wednesday 24
February 2010 Knightsbridge http://tiny.cc/hsuVV
01:55 pm Live stream, Fan Fiction: The Logical Extension http://live.humlab.umu.se/ on now from
#HUMlab

Friday 12th
11:05 am Total Joy Division day today. Its the drums and guitar work I think that really draws me to
their music.
11:41 am Cool presentation at Fan Fiction Symposium at #HUMlab http://prezi.com/uwjwjrhvvye3/
The Open Work and Fan Fiction
12:59 pm For IP independents Joy Division doco: http://svtplay.se/v/1880574/k_special__joy_division
01:52 pm to be an independent IP: http://www.ultrareach.com/ http://hotspotshield.com/

Saturday 13th
07:30 pm William S. Burroughs and Joy Division
http://realitystudio.org/biography/william-s-burroughs-and-joy-division/

Tuesday 16th
11:50 am As one actor attempts to help another attach a flight assist to her avatar I am getting ready
to film a scene in a future place
05:57 pm In 20mins for the Swedish speakers, independent game developers live
http://live.humlab.umu.se/ speaking about process in #HUMlab
06:55 pm Every day the same dream http://tiny.cc/YaygN play it five time, The working week. How do
you feel?
09:00 pm Transexualism is no longer considered a psychiatric disorder in France http://tiny.cc/5v7F5

Thursday 18th
11:47 am 10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action, shown in #HUMlab today 13:00. Sweden
premiere. Welcome (under UB UMU) http://tiny.cc/13QaX
04:57 pm Hey look, its the 'Rich Countries With Snow In Winter' Olympics
http://newmatilda.com/2010/02/16/rich-countries-snow-winter-olympics

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Friday 19th
11:43 am I <3 Writing.

Saturday 20th
09:12 am Tuesday; Icelandic parliament to introduce a measure aimed at making the country an
international center for investigative journalism
09:18 am Sweden's own Ice Hotel
http://weburbanist.com/2010/02/17/arctic-vacation-the-artist-suites-of-the-icehotel/.. just
down the road from me.
09:50 am Ruby Hunter has died http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Hunter sad to hear. Saw her and
Archie play several times in the 90s. Always great.

Sunday 21st
09:04 am Tanmaya Bingham http://www.theage.com.au/interactive/2010/times/people/
03:50 pm Back in the horror that is Cambro.........
03:54 pm How many thousands of hours (and monies) are wasted by poor purchasing of teaching
platforms by universities?

Tuesday 23rd
08:37 am Going home not coming out until thesis is finished.
12:10 pm just uploaded a 10 page review of reading for digital literature studies http://tiny.cc/HDS9m
1995-2006. Enjoy
01:46 pm The things one can find on the net Landow. Hypertext3.0
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27114200/Landow-Hypertext3-0-Crit-Theory-New-Media
06:46 pm The notion of utterance emphasizes the historical event of speaking - Bakhtinian Dialogism
08:07 pm john Lee Hooker has 375 separate album titles for sale on Amazon. Astounding.
09:35 pm Brody Condon in #HUMlab next week 1-3 March http://tiny.cc/A4Ef0
09:42 pm @stefangelfgren Interesting SL 2.0. seems like SL meets Facebook http://ow.ly/1aqEU
09:55 pm The Hitler mashup meme rolls on http://rhizome.org/editorial/3315

Wednesday 24th
09:52 pm "The primary determination of nomads is to occupy and hold a smooth space."

Thursday 25th
09:18 am We have a call for papers, a Machinima compendium; http://tiny.cc/XInb2
08:33 pm Dangerous Minds tackles the Numbers Stations http://tiny.cc/6c0G7

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Friday 26th
11:58 am In Feelings "an intention and an affection coincide in the same experience." Space and
Place by Yi-Fu Tan p9
12:03 pm @stefangelfgren recent experiences in SL have frustrated
http://chronicle.com/article/After-Frustrations-in-Second/64137/
01:06 pm @deepwarren NSFW I suppose it depends where you work......

Saturday 27th
10:06 am Writing is like magic.
11:17 pm One thousand words written today. I may actually go outside tomorrow.

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Monday 1st
12:18 am Just picked up Brody Condon at airport for #HUMlab tomorrow workshop at 13:00 CET.
Under the UB at Umeå University.
07:17 am As soon as I woke up this morning I started learning...
07:23 am New series, Rituals http://svtplay.se/t/113624/seriestart__ritualer includes Burning Man. if
outside SWD http://www.ultrareach.com/
01:09 pm Brody Condon workshop at #HUMlab: what he does, "depends on the situation"; 1,
branding and art.
01:10 pm How the works live in the world. Put on custom computers in series of 10 and sold to
galleries and collectors
01:13 pm Performance works are also important but will be explained later. see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s7P8pOGJbM
01:28 pm Brody explains that the visual styles he grew up with was computer games, fantasy visual
styles, a history that has not been written.
01:29 pm First ask why is that style marginalized as a visual style? Why is a game different from a
painting?
01:33 pm How do you take the Pop Culture materials that you know, that are yours, and move it into
a space where it begins to function of art?
01:34 pm The visual surface, the history of images: renders the piece on its own terms as a image.
01:35 pm Art: has to do with context. Its not about the specific thing, its about the context in which
the 'work' is placed.
01:36 pm Art is a place of discussion. You do or do not put it in that place of discussion.
01:46 pm Brody Condon, Adam Killer (1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f5O5Yw9gr8 drag
effect is a game engine effect. Depends on video card also
01:47 pm Velvet Strike; artistic interventions in public space.
02:08 pm Brody Condon: Art school told me it was about me. I since worked out is not about me. Its
about the brands.
02:15 pm "the internet changes everything" Brody Condon at #HUMlab

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02:16 pm Don't confuse the artist with the brand, unless the artist has a performative presence that is
part of the brand.
02:33 pm History of Mod Art: Sheik Attack, Eddo Stern http://www.eddostern.com/sheik_attack.html
02:39 pm The key to building Mod Spaces is which game engine you are going to use.
02:40 pm Open source game engines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines
02:44 pm Waco Resurrection: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk-T9sAMxjs
02:47 pm "I see these as performances, I am not coming out of film" Brody Condon at #HUMlab
02:55 pm The avatar, what is it there? This meditation of self: Worship
http://www.virgilgallery.com/v2/?ikId=7748
02:56 pm Known Planes of Existance, Brody Condon
www.tmpspace.com/images3/JudgmentCatalog_web.pdf
03:29 pm Nordic Progressive Role Play http://www.nordicscene.org/ is 20 years ahead of the USA
03:31 pm http://knutpunkt.se/front-page/base_view The most advanced role play happening in the
world today
03:48 pm DOGMA LARP 99 http://www.larp.eu/index.php?option=com_content=view=110=144
04:12 pm LARP: A disciplined immersion in a set period of time..Brody Condon #HUMlab

Tuesday 2nd
08:42 am @SachikoHayashi Nice to have some of your work on show in #HUMlab again Sachiko #fb
08:43 am Tonight in #HUMlab http://www.gallerimaskinen.se/ machinima exhibition. 17:00-21:00
10:43 am In advertising the symbol becomes the referent.
12:30 pm Brody Condon live in 30 mins http://live.humlab.umu.se/ online from #HUMlab
01:35 pm Some of Brody Condon's work is like Butoh on Ketamine.....
07:23 pm "Sketching language is undisturbed flow from the mind of personal secret idea-words"
Kerouac http://tiny.cc/OBCH8
09:42 pm Just taught myself to change a bicycle chain. Those link pegs are tricky.

Thursday 4th
09:42 am Back into thesis with all the bright eyed determination and misguided enthusiasm of a first
year PhD!

Friday 5th
08:43 am Reflections on the recent visit by an artist to #HUMlab http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=1540
09:02 am XML3D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKQkO7gk1Tc 3D web pages. Now we have to
start thinking about info architecture in a serious way

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Saturday 6th
10:50 am South African feature film made with mobile phones http://www.smssugarman.com/
online and free
06:52 pm In Between The Notes - A Portrait of Pandit Pran Nath (1986) (28 mins video)
http://www.ubu.com/film/nath_notes.html

Monday 8th
08:11 am A channel of spoken verse on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/SpokenVerse so
glad to have found it...
01:18 pm Beautiful day. Sun shining. Snow melting. Me writing. Listening to Tobias Hume
compositions. Feeling that the subject and object are one.
07:30 pm Check out Electroacoustic Music History Volumes 01-24
http://dualtrack.blogspot.com/2010/03/va-electroacoustic-music-history.html

Tuesday 9th
12:26 am Gonjasufi's debut album 'A Sufi And A Killer' on ClashMusic.com
http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/hear-gonjasufi-a-sufi-and-a-killer-album
09:50 am I have noticed pyschogeographies have come back into my life a lot recently. The 'Placial
Turn'.
09:51 am For more on psychogeography see http://delicious.com/didgebaba/Psychogeography
02:30 pm The Empire of Wrongness crumbles before the promise of unlimited beats, slick bleeps and
swoosh of woosh. Dubstep drives the wedge further.

Wednesday 10th
05:46 pm Trio Lligo tillsammans med Norrlandsoperans Symfoniorkester
http://www.sr.se/webbradio/?Type=broadcast=2245436=0

Friday 12th
12:53 pm Two birds building a nest right outside my office window.

Monday 15th
09:01 pm Was Little Walter or Sonny Terry the greatest blues harp player ever? I will ponder this for
the evening.....
09:03 pm Behold the evidence Sonny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuyaf5YBGh8 and Walter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUwfrj9aMNA difficult..

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Tuesday 16th
10:22 am Great blogs of our time: http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php Do yourself a favor
and read it.
10:55 am US military committed to Virtual Worlds research http://tiny.cc/xgTG1
11:07 am All My Friends are Dead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nOLGye3u7I I have trouble
conceptualizing this film...do you?
12:38 pm New music is always good http://www.myspace.com/forestswords grit dub from the dark
woods

Wednesday 17th
09:14 am Writing exams, finishing a chapter section, meeting and thought.....
01:02 pm Aoxomoxoa afternoon sunshades of capped dreams dragged loftwards by blind beatless
gem merchants. http://tiny.cc/rJKfw still working :-)
01:04 pm Aoxomoxoa Outtakes
http://www.archive.org/details/gd69-xx-xx.sbd.dodd.16760.sbeok.shnf online and free I
tell you free!!!
04:01 pm Commodities are objects granted ''independant social power'' (Bruce Russell)

Friday 19th
09:35 am Reading a promo paper copy of Neural mag. What a great publication
http://www.neural.it/
11:04 am On occasion Mr Behan would dress in his best before carousing. Often wearing a live
python as a necktie http://tiny.cc/pEbPi
12:03 pm Watched Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972) last night. What an amazing film. Still thinking about it
and will for some time to come.
12:26 pm Beginnings are the most difficult, endings are inevitable but not easy, middles just follow
form. Writing is an art.
02:57 pm Next Vice Chancellor for Umeå University
http://www.chalmers.se/en/sections/research/professors/descriptions/lena-gustafsson
03:08 pm @stefangelfgren seems they are only interviewing one person
http://vk.se/Article.jsp?article=338297

Sunday 21st
09:55 am @StephSong Tattoo!
10:59 am @meika thought the same thing myself. A Mutant Message all over again.
12:56 pm Selling a sitar if anyone is interested
http://www.blocket.se/vasterbotten/Sitar_26410900.htm?ca=2=1

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Monday 22nd
09:35 am Thinking about things http://tiny.cc/28m59 A lot of writing to do

Tuesday 23rd
02:29 pm Microsoft invites you to update the program. You do so. Then nothing works. Is this some
kind of joke?

Wednesday 24th
06:14 pm Fri 26/3 13-15 Jonas Linderoth: "The effort of being in a fictional world: Upkeyings and
laminated frames in MMORPGs" C304, 3 Beteendevet

Wednesday 31st
12:01 pm Tonite in HUMlab (under UB library UMU) free screening of District 9. At 17:30, with
discussion.
02:16 pm The stones used to hold up the Christmas tree hav emerged from the snow.

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Thursday 1st
10:25 am Sad to learn last night of the death of Lhasa de Sela on January 1st 2010.
http://tiny.cc/h7o9z such a loss to us all.

Friday 2nd
08:19 am The secret history of Sydney http://tiny.cc/mbv11 50 years of drag
08:50 am While I was asleep the world went mad http://tiny.cc/is4iq (video) Scarface as a grade
school play; only in the USA
09:13 am Hip Hop from France but not as we know it http://www.myspace.com/no0008 No
10:29 am etched fragments of ostrich egg are perhaps the earliest example of ‘symbolic
representation’ http://tiny.cc/r8way
12:10 pm Images from the God and Hair box by Father Yod and YaHoWha http://tiny.cc/6dnhd
06:31 pm Dreams by Delia Derbyshire is now online and available
http://www.ubu.com/sound/derbyshire.html

Saturday 3rd
03:00 pm Listening to Mudhoney and writing my thesis. Easter has never been more predictable.
03:03 pm Now this is what I call a scroll http://projects.vassar.edu/bookofthedead/

Monday 5th
02:52 pm The Old Cataract Hotel at Aswan is closed for renovations until next year

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Wednesday 7th
06:33 pm A Scanner Darkly in #HUMlab 14 April http://tiny.cc/hync8

Thursday 8th
02:25 pm http://twitpic.com/1e1v69 - the person with the eye patch on Chatroulette does not get
spoken to....fastest nexting Ive seen.

Friday 9th
11:13 am Malcolm McLaren dead. Words of advice for the young
http://www.thisspartanlife.com/episodes.php?id=3 Malcolm in game space.
06:20 pm 4ZZZ Brisbane is online...so good...http://bit.ly/dvaSSK
08:10 pm Johnny Rotten plays his own records on Capital Radio 1977 http://tiny.cc/q5b6b
08:13 pm Malcolm was cool http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/malcom.jpg
08:26 pm As the business of democracy rolls on http://torrentfreak.com/images/DEB-election422.jpg

Saturday 10th
02:37 pm Appears all hell has just broken loose in Bangkok http://twitter.com/bangkok dead and
injured in the streets.

Sunday 11th
02:08 pm Today Spring comes to my town and I am sick...always a sign the winter is over.
08:00 pm All of Nirvana’s tracks from Bleach, Nevermind In Utero), compressed into one long opaque
wall of sound http://tiny.cc/lf39x
08:04 pm The Society of the Spectacle (Now in 3D) (2009)
http://www.pascualsisto.com/projects/the-society-of-the-spectacle-now-in-3d/
08:54 pm Have yo challenged all your values today?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prawnwarp/4502065897/
10:10 pm This is lush http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2010/04/persian-handstands.html

Wednesday 14th
10:47 am Seminar #HUMlab Tuesday 20/4 13:15 The Human Inside Of You: Avatars and
Posthumanism Live: http://bit.ly/4brfcp slurl: http://bit.ly/bkNYbz
09:21 pm Arundhati Roy facing jail
http://www.smh.com.au/world/author-investigated-over-rebel-ties-20100414-se5d.html

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Thursday 15th
08:49 am The truth about the working conditions that bring us out gadgets http://bit.ly/9IsqHY

Friday 16th
07:24 am Steve Reid (RIP) and Kieran Hebden – Morning Prayer http://bit.ly/97EJ8N Get your freak
flag on....
07:48 am William Carlos Williams reading The Yellow Flower and more
http://www.ubu.com/sound/wcw.html Good morning poetry!
07:46 pm The real sound of the Italian countryside
http://open.spotify.com/album/1TGFmZeUxGA3YHSCSmUMyJ Jennifer Gentle

Saturday 17th
06:52 am @hrheingold :-) Hindu philosophy still has a place for non-being. Something, I am sure you
will agree, all humanity should be interested in.
07:30 am "Each discipline uses constructions and coded language that can, to an outsider, look like
nonsense" http://bit.ly/cdRvlF
07:36 am The best Banksy so far http://flavorwire.com/82934/the-best-banksy-controversies-so-far
08:59 am Does the fact that Norway's PM can "run his government from Apple's tablet" beguile the
role of govt- today? http://huff.to/b56qRp
11:30 am @jilltxt Friend comments that IRunNorway is now an app on Ipad maybe :-)
01:49 pm After a week with a bad cold, if I did not need my lungs so much I would pack them off to
boarding school until they learn to behave..
04:46 pm @hrheingold have you seen this video:
http://www.soulvlog.com/2009/06/life-of-hindu-sadhu.html so simple...

Monday 19th
08:27 am Some are born to greatness, others have it thrust upon them, and some rent it on the
weekend.
08:44 am English is slowly progressing towards androgyny
http://newmatilda.com/2010/04/15/forms-androgyny
06:24 pm @stefangelfgren Congrats. You are on your way to the Illawara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illawarra Wonderful!!!!!

Tuesday 20th
08:34 am Seminar today 13:15 in #HUMlab Avatars and Posthumanism; Live http://bit.ly/4brfcp and
in SL; http://bit.ly/bkNYbz

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Friday 23rd
05:23 pm RT @HUMlab Producing a Seminar in Simultaneous Physical and Virtual Space
http://bit.ly/9e2tvJ

Sunday 25th
11:37 am Tibetan monks attended a mass prayer for earthquake victims in the quake-hit town of
Gyegu, China http://bit.ly/bDPJ8q great image
11:51 am Good day fellow
passengers......http://open.spotify.com/track/1eWfXgkkrMVHSloDUmSMdd Spotify: Lamb –
Merge
12:00 pm Tibetan monks in Chinese quake zone performing work of rescuers and military
http://nyti.ms/dvROwS

Monday 26th
12:42 pm Fourth Etude on Everlasting Life http://www.todellisuus.fi/4-etude performance in
#HUMlab April 28th at 5pm-8pm

Tuesday 27th
10:25 am Bryan Carter U of Central Missouri at #HUMlab 13:15 (CET) Presence, Representation and
Identity in Virtual Spaces http://live.humlab.umu.se/
12:18 pm Welcome to "Presence, Representation and Identity in Virtual Spaces" with Bryan Carter
Livestream: http://bit.ly/1pLxy0 #HUMlab
12:20 pm Presence depends on where I am, why and who. Bryan Carter in #HUMlab
12:21 pm Race, class and gender are in some ways uncomfortable to speak about in the USA
#HUMlab seminar
12:22 pm Who I am in the United States context is dealt with by race. Seminar in #HUMlab
12:23 pm Carter "come from heritage with situated identity" Traceability of identity is limited.
Identity was dictated according to heritage. #HUMlab
12:24 pm This is due to America's complicated past. Identity has been mocked, maligned and erased.
#HUMlab
12:25 pm African Americans have been mocked through the media, cartoons (Disney). Maligning of
identity is part of the baggage carried by people.
12:26 pm The re-presentation of identity is about naming ourselves. About countering the heritage
#HUMLab
12:28 pm Identity is also about who I am: social roles. Husband, son, father, Christian, Assoc. Prof.
"that tech professor" #HUMlab
12:29 pm History suggests some disturbing things based on ethnicity, class, upbringing. "I am
supposed to be a statistic" #HUMlab
12:31 pm Identity formation is about individuals and how they identify themselves. #HUMlab
12:33 pm Virtuality raises questions about identity. Virtual identity are not supposed to be part of
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12:34 pm "I have learned how to 're-present' myself in a number of ways: avatar, video broadcaster,
internet radio" #HUMlab
12:35 pm Technology has encouraged an unprecedented level of identity "re-presentation" - voices to
the voiceless. #HUMlab
12:36 pm Digital: Attention is now paid to those on the margins of society. Alternate identities for
those who wish to live differently. #HUMlab
12:38 pm A re-imagining of ourselves is only limited by our imagination and the technology. #HUMlab
12:39 pm Passing: The 'one drop rule' where ancestry determined race. Passing as another race-
mentally, socially, culturally.
12:40 pm we are able to pass into an entirely different identity in virtual spaces. #HUMlab
12:41 pm Virtual environments allow us to alter our self-perspective in ways we have never been able
to do in the pass. #HUMlab
12:42 pm Second Life is the "Alpha" version of a very important supplement to human existence.
#HUMlab
12:43 pm Avatar: an alternative representation of a person. #HUMlab
12:44 pm Neuromancer by William Gibson, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Introductions to the
virtual world.
12:45 pm Virtual Harlem began in 1997. Ten blocks from the Harlem of the 1920s. #HUMlab
12:46 pm Virtual Harlem; Connect with the time period in a more visual and tactile manner. #HUMlab
12:48 pm The Black Programming Consortium http://www.nbpc.tv/ funding Virtual Harlem #HUMlab
12:50 pm With whom are avatar Bryan Mnemonic's collegues interacting, him or me? Are we one in
the same? Does he carry the same baggage as I? #HUMlab
12:53 pm When you profile surf in VWs we process identity. Outward appearance is judged and
stereotypes are subscribed to. #HUMlab
12:55 pm Screen names. avatar bodies. "The ball turns both ways" we choose our avatars and they
represent us. #HUMlab
01:18 pm @fairyrings Depends what the problem is with the gears. Are they changing OK? Do they
slip out?

Wednesday 28th
08:33 pm Excellent interview with David Toop http://shar.es/m5iqt

Thursday 29th
03:22 pm @fairyrings I got the drilling hamsters for three days, like the flu. Broke through and felt so
good afterward. Have stuck to tea since

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May

Saturday 1st
09:46 am And now, intertextuality as implying response in digitally mediated narratives...Happy 1
May!

Sunday 2nd
12:33 pm I am going to #ir11 in Gothenberg in October :-) part of a panel presentation from #HUMlab
http://aoir.org/

Tuesday 4th
09:40 am T.L. Taylor's Guide to MMO Culture
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/124161-t.l.-taylors-guide-to-mmo-culture/
09:41 am @StephSong Congrats!
09:45 am Suicide performance on Chatroulette
http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/nofun/index.html
12:41 pm Free film in HUMlab Thursday 6 May 17:15 http://sf.humlab.umu.se/ Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind
02:16 pm @GardnerCampbell Interesting. I think the concept of shared spaces reemphasizes the
mutual commitment rather than the delivery in learning.

Thursday 6th
10:56 am #HUMlab and Twitter http://www.infotechumea.se/twitter-prat-forandrar-konferenser in
the news (in Swedish)
03:01 pm Just integrated Spotify and Facebook. Could be interesting
http://open.spotify.com/user/didgebaba
11:58 pm History of South African punk rock
http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/punk_in_africa_documentary/

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Friday 7th
09:11 am #HUMlab X http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=2059 is going to be hot.....
10:08 am Beginnings r the most difficult. First line, opening stanza, brush's first touch on canvas, an
opening note. Can't we move on to the middle?
10:39 am @stefangelfgren Doing it.....
10:40 am I have the middle...and the end...the start is the hardest part. Pluck the readers brain out
the air and send it to the middle. Not easy.
02:07 pm Moved on from being bound to an office at university, So I am now using dropbox to
coordinate files. So happy I have https://www.dropbox.com
02:33 pm @daniel_skog Congratulations Dr Daniel Skog!
http://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:315964

Sunday 9th
09:09 am A Discourse on Discourse: An Archaeological History of an Intellectual
Concepthttp://bit.ly/9AkgIi Ahhh, Sunday morning reading.
09:38 am "Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays" download whole text free
http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/LPOE70NB.html
09:24 pm Neil Young's Ohio was the culmination of an era of political songwriting
http://bit.ly/b924hG
09:26 pm http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x88hm_neil-young-ohio_music "What if you knew her
and found her dead on the ground?"
09:28 pm "Four Dead in Ohio" http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ohio.htm

Monday 10th
12:26 pm Patti Smith at PEN http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/4733/prmID/1984 video.

Wednesday 12th
09:18 am Choice of place to write today: home, office, public space. decisions decisions, Need more
Jimi Hendrix to help with it http://bit.ly/9A0zys
09:29 am Yesterday in #HUMlab (Kvällspasset) http://bit.ly/beYpqz (Swedish)
09:00 pm Need machinima films for upcoming doco. professional release See: http://bit.ly/93ygi9
09:07 pm Just joined http://mag-category-lib.ning.com Machinima Artists Gallery
09:51 pm Aspen no. 3, item 11 The Plastic Exploding Inevitable
http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen3/plastic.html

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Thursday 13th
05:08 pm Next week in #HUMlab Ken Wissoker http://bit.ly/bTDqFL 19 May 2010 kl. 13:00
05:26 pm Masturbators of Chatroulette.com, the means of production is in your hands!

Friday 14th
10:27 am Writing at home amid a tumble of washed clothes, children, cleaning implements (mop,
broom) musical instruments, food and magazines. Nice.
11:41 am @stefangelfgren Twitter is like a confessional...the voice comes back from the
darkness...focus! :-)

Saturday 15th
08:51 am Weather is excellent. Think to make sounds in town today. First of the season.

Monday 17th
07:39 am Amazing storms off Sydney
http://images.smh.com.au/2010/05/17/1457264/spout2-420-420x0.jpg
07:43 am Today I start a new job...well sort of an old job that has new bits to it. Thesis time is out but
the thesis lives on. Defense by Xmas!
05:26 pm Guests in #HUMlab reflect on the people and space
http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/hastachumlab-umea-sweden

Tuesday 18th
07:26 am Faked entry to Harvard and then applied for Rhodes and Fulbright http://bit.ly/cPFAlf and
was found out.
08:12 am Starting the day right...'come up to the lab and see what's on the slab' http://bit.ly/d7MTUd

Wednesday 19th
05:53 pm I am gong to listen to Fela Kuti all summer
http://open.spotify.com/album/3WKF57uug7hheZAgPfmgFy Spotify: Fela Kuti – Everything
Scatter
07:08 pm Music for Change http://www.musicforchange.org/

Thursday 20th
09:07 am Australian customs officials now had an unfettered right to examine travellers' electronic
devices http://bit.ly/aPcgfv
12:39 pm Sheldon Brown and the U of Colorado
http://www.researchchannel.org/asx/cu_wf_brn_250k.asx video worth watching

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Friday 21st
09:04 am @leesawatego Dreaming Stories are not myths and fables. You may find this interesting
http://bit.ly/asVg4a from page 15.
09:33 am Images for presentation today: what #HUMlab has done with Second Life over the past two
years http://bit.ly/cF7HLG not social but textual
11:56 am Thursday 27th May 17:15 ALIEN (1979) screened in #HUMlab http://sf.humlab.umu.se/

Sunday 23rd
10:22 pm Digitality, Subjectivity, and Suture seminar in #HUMlab http://bit.ly/apCTBX Tuesday 25/5
13:15
10:28 pm The secret life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange http://bit.ly/cKs7Bg
10:45 pm 10:15 pm the sun dips behind the horizon and rises again at 3am....summer in the north of
Sweden.

Monday 24th
10:51 am New Project in #HUMlab YO=shi-kA+Ze http://bit.ly/aHxOJf Artist residencies in Second
Life. Alan Sondheim
10:52 am Alan Sondheim artist in residence for 3 months on #HUMlab Island in
SLhttp://slurl.com/secondlife/HUMlab/105/200/25

Tuesday 25th
07:57 am I saw 'In the Valley of Elah' (2007) last night. I wish I could write a film like that. Or anything
like that..a shopping list would be enuf
12:03 pm A book I am in is now online http://bit.ly/dl00Eq Learning and Teaching in the Virtual Online
World of Second Life
12:04 pm Live stream for seminar Digitality, Subjectivity, and Suture http://live.humlab.umu.se/ starts
in 10 mins

Wednesday 26th
07:34 am In my blog stats: "giant boat terrorizes outback in 1984 australian film" of course it was
Razorback http://bit.ly/cHbvOw a giant boar.
08:39 am @fairyrings Hotel Des Arts in Montmartre http://www.arts-hotel-paris.com/ wonderful
spot.
10:42 am If you can muddy the waters enough you can walk on it......
09:53 pm Investigating the Linden Lab Official:Snapshot and machinima policy http://bit.ly/aqnpZU
10:16 pm stylish augmented reality app from the Iphone
http://gizmodo.com/5547236/strolling-through-19th-century-london-today

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Thursday 27th
08:27 am Total awe. UBUWEB creates blog that explains how the archive develops
http://archivingubu.wordpress.com/
08:52 am www.smartaresor.nu - No more löjliga bilresor!: http://bit.ly/aBd04h via @addthis

Saturday 29th
02:40 pm the passing of Gary Coleman casts my mind back to Disturbing Strokes
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80606211/

Sunday 30th
04:34 pm 79 mins Grateful Dead mix from Arthur
http://www.arthurmag.com/2010/05/07/grateful-dead-mix-volume-2-by-greg-davis/ its
good....

Monday 31st
12:06 pm the Oxford citation system for endnotes sucks. Its official.

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June

Tuesday 1st
10:17 am @stefangelfgren Try this
http://open.spotify.com/user/didgebaba/playlist/5Oxjsff1HOrCMzIXg8QFFY

Wednesday 2nd
11:05 am @stefangelfgren go for röd solhatt extrakt. in English Echinacea. It really works...Sells as
Echinagard in Sweden på apoteket
01:53 pm Observations on how the space affects teaching and learning
http://www.soulsphincter.com/2010/06/observing-three-learning-situations.html
02:21 pm RT @HUMlab Waiting for SF film evening to start http://bit.ly/bSvhKx This is where I
work....a spaceship.
09:42 pm "The story of Sweden over the last 50 years has been one of a steady loss of
exceptionalism." http://bit.ly/9Xx8V8 We're All Swedes Now

Friday 4th
11:07 am I will be at Research workshop: Making Sense of Virtual Worlds and User Driven Innovation
next week http://worlds.ruc.dk/archives/1618 HAPPY
11:08 am Welcome @knittedgardens to Twitter. Sure to be an interesting feed.

Saturday 5th
07:07 am FlicKer: a film about Bryan Gysin can be seen here
http://www.ubu.com/film/gysin_flicker.html dream machines and just dreams
07:21 am Peter Orlovsky is dead http://www.shambhalasun.com/sunspace/?p=16901
10:20 am Working on book chapter Engineering pedagogy – virtual worlds and simulation based
learning. Writing abstract for my Thesis 2.0 and more.

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Sunday 6th
05:05 pm Each summer every Europen airport eats its own weight in passengers.
11:37 pm Arrived @ ‘Making Sense of Virtual Worlds and User Driven Innovation” in Copenhagen
http://bit.ly/4RyzIA shall begin twitter/blogging 9am

Monday 7th
08:54 am A train is out of commission so conference is delayed as people arrive for #VWworkshop in
Copenhagen
08:57 am Participants in #VWworkshop include Sheldon Brown, Edward Castranova, Jay David Bolter
and Mia Consalvo
09:53 am We start with a reflection session at #VWworkshop: business, design, art, education, use
10:10 am The monologue begins #VWworkshop. "When I role play I always play as a woman"
10:21 am Second monologue #VWworkshop: At what point does art exist, variations on lone artist
and businesswoman in Second Life
10:22 am Third monologue at #VWworkshop; doing the PhD in virtual worlds. Ask the group or study
them? Ethics of research in a creative presentation
10:29 am Fourth monologue at #VWworkshop; PowerPoint makes my skin crawl. The media theories
of VWs and the media that is not.
10:33 am Parody is alive and well at #VWworkshop. Is there a right way? right left up and down
ways+
11:36 am There will be live streaming of presentations from #VWworkshop from somewhere near
here. http://worlds.ruc.dk/video-and-sound
11:37 am Correction: Live streaming from #VWworkshop http://worlds.ruc.dk/live-event
12:46 pm Back and intense at #VWworkshop Understanding Machnima Applying a Dialogic Approach
12:48 pm Machinima at #VWworkshop machinima group: http://the-do-group.com/
12:52 pm Lisbeth Frolunde at #VWworkshop on Machinima and dialogic meaning
http://www.dpu.dk/site.aspx?p=6604=lif〈=eng
01:02 pm Machnima at #VWworkshop some people are turned on by the technology on the other
end you have the story tellers "how do the two then meet"
01:09 pm Now presenting at #VWworkshop Denise Doyle from school of art and design
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=11538
01:10 pm Phenomenologies of Practice; a framework for the imagination in virtual world use
01:17 pm Different experiences in time or sense of space and embodiment and relationship to self for
art in SL. Denise Doyle at #VWworkshop
01:27 pm SL is a "world that is living that is constantly changing" as a persistent world Denise Doyle at
#VWworkshop
01:30 pm the emergent imagination from transitional spaces, phenomenology of practice and effect
of artwork. Denis Doyle @#VWworkshop
01:34 pm Edward S. Casey Imagining: A Phenomenological Study http://bit.ly/d6Ghpb cited at
#VWworkshop
01:43 pm Edward Castronova at #VWworkshop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Castronova

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01:45 pm How big are virtual worlds: External economy twenty times bigger than internal economy
Castronova at #VWworkshop
01:47 pm Eyeballs in "serious applications" do not match in any way the numbers in "non-serious
applications" Castronova @ #VWworkshop
01:48 pm You have to pay attention to the users in VW applications. A world without people is not a
world. Castronova @ #VWworkshop
01:52 pm "I blew a lot of money on a start-up from Silicon Valley..I can't remember its
name.....Multiverse." Castronova at #VWworkshop
01:55 pm "can we use VW to discover knowledge about the real world" if it crosses boundary of
history it will cross the boundary of VW #VWworkshop
01:55 pm VW: small cheap repeated experiments produce shared understanding. Castronova at
#VWworkshop
01:57 pm But there are many pitfalls: don't forget the game, ignore the user, the social participation,
tone down the vision. #VWworkshop Castronova
01:59 pm the point is to have a good experiential goal and a project that comes up with that goal
#VWworkshop Castronova
02:01 pm "A good future in middleware" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleware Castronova at
#VWworkshop
03:40 pm Back @ #VWworkshop Jeremy Hunsinger Frames and Fields: An overview of the field and
the Im/possibilities of innovation
03:41 pm Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.tmttlt.com/ presentation streamed
http://worlds.ruc.dk/live-event on right now.
03:47 pm Hunsinger @ #VWworkshop affordances defined by the cultural milieu from the contexts of
the thing, Affordances have certain normal aspects.

JimBarrett @fanficforensics hippocampus (??) is a major component of the brains of humans. Could it be?

04:19 pm Bhopal trial: Eight convicted over India gas disaster

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8725140.stm
04:21 pm I wonder about 'threats' and mutations from with them e.g. copybot http://bit.ly/9d4bi7 as
a means for change. Mutate or die! #VWworkshop
04:24 pm Tomorrow 1pm #HUMlab Jeffrey Bardzell Machinimatic Realism: Capturing and Presenting
the "Real World" of Video Games http://bit.ly/duyVqr
04:42 pm Fishbowl at #VWworkshop is debating how not if the market will decide. Innovation and
use and how they work together. Art as well in the mix
04:46 pm Industrial model different from market. Something that is popular operates in a time scale.
What people allocate resources to. #VWworkshop
04:47 pm Human nature exists, It may operate in a virtual environment. #VWworkshop Economy is
present in VWs. There are many kinds. Social attention.
04:51 pm the state is actively initiating work, R in relation to VWs. Singapore and Denmark putting
money into VWs #VWworkshop
04:52 pm USA looks at proprietary arrangements for solutions to VW issues; use, popularity, function
#VWworkshop
04:58 pm The Booms of Skin in SL http://bit.ly/bTIkq6 video and info http://bit.ly/aLwF2F at
#VWworkshop

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08:45 am Back at #VWworkshop: Exploring the changing landscape of virtual worlds and online
games http://worlds.ruc.dk/live-event LIVE NOW
08:45 am Mia Consalvo on the changing landscape of virtual worlds and online games at
#VWworkshop
08:47 am Consalvo: the cultural implications of cheating in game play. at #VWworkshop.
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary society today.
09:11 am Consalvo at #VWworkshop: Ravenhearst downloads are anticipated in a way that reminds
me of the concert line up and sleep outs of my youth.
09:20 am Consalvo at #VWworkshop: is Farmville a virtual world?
09:33 am Jay Bolter at #VWworkshop: Consalvo calls into questions the procedures centered on
game play across cultures. Uses cultural + tech + play
09:37 am Mitchell Harrop @ #VWworkshop: Australia in Asian time zone. Play with Asian gamers.
Cross cultural exchange result? More research needed
10:32 am Maria Bäcke: Leadership in the role-playing community Midian City in Second Life
presenting on live power struggles in world #VWworkshop
10:32 am Mikala Hansbøl: Researching processes of agentizations and emerging circulations of
Mingoville.com at #VWworkshop
10:34 am what is the phenomena of technology? Mikala Hansbøl at #VWworkshop tech as
entanglements: passages, movements, partial dis-connections
10:35 am tech as framing the engagements. shifting platformations: moving contexts of knowledges
and engagements
10:44 am Simon Bignell: Developing Innovative Problem-based Teaching in Virtual Worlds at
#VWworkshop simulations for teaching psychologists
10:45 am Informed teacms travel in the house, meet the manikins with scripts and conduct a
program
10:47 am http://previewpsych.org/BPD2.0.pdf Best Practices in Virtual World Learning
10:48 am Ates Gürsimsek: An analysis of collaborative co-design processes of interactive virtual
environments in social virtual worlds #VWworkshop
10:49 am Ates Gürsimsek design of Metrotopia city #VWworkshop collaboration between researchers
and designers
10:55 am Damon Hernandez: The Building Industry of the 21 Century at #VWworkshop how builders
are using VWs
10:56 am Damon Hernandez at #VWworkshop if we can design everything we can decide the costs
10:56 am architectural renderings, fly thurs, panoramic spheres at #VWworkshop
10:57 am thermal dynamics, bridging and acoustics in VWs at #VWworkshop
10:58 am pre-sells are huge in building at #VWworkshop VWs to present buildings before the build
10:59 am Leverage existing technologies for building industry applications and needs at
#VWworkshop
11:00 am From the digital to the real Computerated manufacturing: Robot at #VWworkshop
12:27 pm Simultaneously witness to poster session @ #VWworkshop and watching
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01:20 pm Videos from first two keynotes from #VWworkshop, Mia Casalvo and Jeremy Hunsinger
available from http://worlds.ruc.dk/
02:04 pm Ulf explains the Swedish game industry in his thesis http://bit.ly/aC0x96 (English translation
of Swedish article)
07:08 pm At #VWworkhop New Market Dynamics: Metanomics Mixed Reality Broadcast
http://bit.ly/9x89sk Now in Second Life
07:48 pm At #VWworkhop New Market Dynamics: Metanomics Mixed Reality Broadcast
http://bit.ly/9x89sk Now in Second Life http://twitpic.com/1v36t6
07:56 pm "we always research narrowly and think broadly" Tom Boellstorff How to come up with a
focused topic. Make it doable and pitch it broadly.
08:06 pm My summary of day one at the #VWworkshop on the #HUMlab blog
http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=2213
10:32 pm WOODEN VEIL 木のベール are brilliant and I love them http://www.woodenveil.com/ goodnight

Wednesday 9th
08:10 am Mitchell Harrop, U of Melbourne AUS, Innovative Frames of Play at #VWworkshop
08:15 am Harrop http://bit.ly/cQTJnn works with DoTA http://bit.ly/abbwT and uses Goffman frame
analysis at #VWworkshop
08:17 am The narratives that users are telling themselves counters the non-persistent nature of DoTA
#VWworkshop
08:29 am Amazing image from Guatamala
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3b2dvfMkd1qz9m0ho1_500.jpg sinkhole following
landslide
08:33 am Sheldon Brown: Typecasting Virtual Experience at #VWworkshop
08:38 am Is it useful to think about the different forms of virtual reality as types? Sheldon Brown at
#VWworkshop
08:43 am Phillip K Dick provided the psychological framework for much of the depiction of VR in film
from the 80s and 90s Sheldon Brown @ #VWworkshop
08:53 am Sheldon Brown and Experimental Game Lab working on Scalable City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvsAudGTsGY
08:55 am Scalable City creates an urban/suburban/rural environment via a data visualization pipeline.
http://scalablecity.net/ #VWworkshop
09:03 am Amazing demonstration of Scalable City by Sheldon Brown at #VWworkshop
09:07 am Yesha Sivan: State of Virtual Worlds Standards in Q3-2010 (SOS) at #VWworkshop
09:09 am Metaverse 1 is the main project for the search for standardization in VWs from @Yesha at
#VWworkshop http://www.dryesha.com/
09:11 am Standardization for VW has been a major theme here at #VWworkshop I started out as
sceptical but am convinced now it is important
09:15 am "If you want to do good engineering you should follow art" Yesha Sivan at #VWworkshop
video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blgxu0HyoEk
09:17 am Metaverse 1 http://www.metaverse1.org/ is pushing the MPEGV standard for virtual
worlds at #VWworkshop

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09:22 am Avatar human definition. a language to define the body. Present in the MPEGV standard
#VWworkshop
09:23 am Vwrap is a technical standard for the transfer of information in virtual worlds in MPEGV
#VWworkshop
12:04 pm Test broadcast for machinima project at Virtual Worlds Workshop #VWworkshop
http://screenr.com/JSK
12:19 pm http://worlds.ruc.dk/live-event Looking out a window at #VWworkshop the green fields of
Denmark Live video

Thursday 10th
08:56 am "We are creating a crisis of relevance" Bean #eden10
08:57 am Relevance is a term used to describe how pertinent, connected, or applicable something is
to a given matter. From Wikipedia at #eden10
09:06 am iTunes U: lectures, language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours http://bit.ly/5bZJT3
Bean at #eden10
11:13 am If anyone want an invite to Spotify, https://www.spotify.com I have a few I do not need.
Message me

Friday 11th
06:29 pm Reading with the Body: Interpreting Three Dimensional Media as Narrative
http://bit.ly/cwDCcR

Saturday 12th
02:37 pm Making Sense of Virtual Worlds and User Driven Innovation’ Day Two http://bit.ly/aP6Y8A
#VWworkshop

Sunday 13th
09:43 am Interesting visualization: Replay Twitter for Eng-USA match
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/world-cup-match-replay
12:23 pm Back in thesis land...will return after the summer.
01:58 pm "No question of writing to Wild Children. They think in images - prose is for them a code not
yet fully digested and ossified." Hakim Bey

Monday 14th
08:26 am Have a problem with my laptop. It will not start. Could be serious.Off to seek the advice of
experts. So grateful for backups. Dropbox..
06:13 pm Back on the air after a day of no mobile digital device. Seem to have lost 1200 tweets. Is
something afoot?

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11:08 pm Installing Firefox I noticed the promise that it is "100% Organic Software". 'Organic' is used
in an ameliorative sense here maybe.

Tuesday 15th
08:13 am On narrative address and the ways it can force you respond to a text
05:24 pm And now Second-person point of view in narrative....Do You know what I mean?
06:33 pm Life on earth may seem expensive but it does include an annual free ride around the sun.

Wednesday 16th
03:21 pm Band name of the week: Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hjr8FgplOM I like it........

Thursday 17th
07:35 pm Stereotypes in narrative address consist of highly stylized examples of language, which
reflect particular cultural preconceptions. Thesis.

Friday 18th
09:03 am RT @mikael108 HUMlab-X utvecklar universit: interaktiva golv, sensorer, levande
arkitektritningar http://bit.ly/9DmELv
01:02 pm @stefangelfgren Friday soundtrack. I recommend Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound
http://open.spotify.com/album/3vylgsMCwrawrNyKdY86nA
10:05 pm Watched England football team dance and sway for 90 mins with the Algerian football
team. It was kind of painful.

Saturday 19th
09:35 am @RobinTeigland Is this a paid position?

Sunday 20th
12:40 pm Miss my MacBook which is being repaired. Now using a computer that seems to have slow
motion installed. Who would create such an app?

Thursday 24th
08:28 am At last, a real Australian accent on the world stage. Julia Gillard is the PM http://bit.ly/c4fz1I

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Saturday 26th
11:43 am Due to this radio piece http://bit.ly/98RwQU (Swedish/English) I was yesterday mistaken
for David Theo Goldberg at a party. Flattery Xteme.
01:22 pm One book that should be read by many: Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques
Attali http://bit.ly/c8xLOO Online.
08:56 pm Kickstarter - The Art of Collaboration: http://kck.st/cgDUK6

Monday 28th
08:18 am Bright day. Admin and then writing all day. All is good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Au_CrUAlk
08:23 am A Llama is loose in my neighborhood http://www.vk.se/Article.jsp?article=360104
08:25 am The lama is a quadruped http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbwkkXGmFrI
11:53 am As crude oil devastates coastlines and communities in the Gulf of Mexico, BP executives
enjoy a cocktail reception http://bit.ly/d4PKgs
02:36 pm A lot of ideas for playing didgeridoo from listening to remixes of Depeche Mode
http://bit.ly/k1Xbr Its breath music.
02:40 pm Thanks to @Kesomackan How to rip Youtube video to Mp3 audio
http://www.listentoyoutube.com/

Tuesday 29th
12:06 pm Colonial Nostalgia includes “a desire to re-create and recover the world of late Victorian
and Edwardian colonialism" http://bit.ly/cbA09I
12:21 pm Teaching a short course on machinima in the Fall
http://hulken.humlab.umu.se/humlab/node/1333 Come one come all!!!!
04:58 pm PhD candidate position in Language Studies at Umeå University http://bit.ly/bw6W85
Modern Language and Literature. English section.
09:40 pm McDonald's - 'I'm sick of it' by Billboard Liberation Front http://bit.ly/9CVm8Z
09:54 pm Stately, plump Buck Mulligan by Lance Wakeling is a Web 2.0-friendly version of James
Joyce’s Ulysses. http://statelyplumpbuckmulligan.com/

Wednesday 30th
03:41 pm Just found a great Literature Review for Place Studies
http://www.placeandliterature.com/node/217 heaps of online texts
04:27 pm Just prettied up my video blog http://www.soulvlog.com/ it holds a wide selection of
worthy moving images..check it out.

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Thursday 1st
08:51 am Going back over Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day by M. D. Coverley. http://califia.us/
Thesis turning into a historical study.
12:43 pm The Secret Annex of Anne Frank. 2D rendering of the hiding place of the Frank family
http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/ Evocative.
05:29 pm God bless the Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
http://www.soulvlog.com/2008/05/what-would-jesus-buy.html
08:12 pm A question. Is a map an image?

Friday 2nd
10:38 am Have been publishing on Scribd. The pamphlet press of the 21st century
http://www.scribd.com/didgebaba
04:42 pm The USA is at last starting to recognize the genius that was Brion Gysin
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/arts/design/27gysin.html?_r=2
04:43 pm @stefangelfgren treasure the request for leg. It will only last a few more years dude.
04:59 pm The cheers from Am*dam can be heard in Lapland.
09:10 pm "Sabotage will set you free. Throw a ston in the machine". Local graffiti that needs spell
check.
09:34 pm Are we there yet?
10:04 pm Patti Smith speaks on Swedish news
http://svtplay.se/v/2065225/rapport/patti_smith___jag_alskar_opera_

Saturday 3rd
07:04 am The sun shines eternal on the 65th parallel. Up early and working on my summer playlist
from Youtube Mp3 rips. Post it as a .zip DL in Aug.
07:11 am Best news story this morning. Naomi Campbell does war crimes trial http://bit.ly/bB09fm
Maybe?

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Sunday 4th
12:02 pm Witnessed the Beastmaster last night.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beastmaster_%28film%29 I feel changed.
06:21 pm "The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it is not the most
interesting" Doctor Who

Monday 5th
10:50 am Facebook bans doll nipples http://bit.ly/9xfn85
01:18 pm Planck telescope reveals ancient cosmic light
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10501154.stm startling
01:21 pm Chromoscope: explore Milky Way and the distant Universe in a range of wavelengths from
X-rays 2 radio waves http://www.chromoscope.net/
10:33 pm When I was young and noise was art http://soundclick.com/share?songid=2304561

Tuesday 6th
09:20 am @JohnBirmingham More wood for social media: http://stream.humlab.umu.se/ 100+
streamed seminars on digital media in theory and practice.
03:16 pm RT @tweetmeme summer of digital humanities http://bit.ly/b2qPys #HUMlab
04:42 pm James Barrett and 23 others recommend this.http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/66997/
Gysin and the dreammachine.

Wednesday 7th
09:14 am NASA releases free online moon base simulation http://www.moonbasealphagame.com/
06:31 pm MacBook back from repair. Fly to London tomorrow. Last there in 1997. H-A-P-P-Y

Thursday 8th
07:25 pm London is HOT
07:39 pm London is overun with Australians. Goin 2 have dinner with one now.

Wednesday 14th
08:09 am London is filled with dead air.

Friday 16th
01:06 pm A cup of tea, the original social medium.

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Saturday 17th
10:38 am Magical coincidences Nö. 101: Whenever I get in the shower the phone rings.
10:18 pm Nathanial Hawthorne on the demise of the open hearth as the downfall of civilization
(1843) http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/3003/
10:49 pm Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction @ Oxford Univers..
http://bit.ly/ax7udY

Sunday 18th
12:57 pm @stefangelfgren :-) multi-channel call out- I have seen the mails, the SMS and the Tweet.
But I need to get a copy of the text.
06:58 pm Chapter corrections for American publication this evening. Thesis this morning. The night
brings more writing no doubt http://bit.ly/JhCHb
07:04 pm House of George Harrison, of The Beatles, circa 1968. http://twitpic.com/26jzme

Tuesday 20th
10:43 am Bowie, Hunky Dory and another day of writing FREEEEEEEEEEEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCN6IvtoWj8
11:01 am "Breath is a raga" Pandit Pran Nath http://www.ubu.com/film/nath_notes.html
09:38 pm THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS http://freud.org.uk/exhibitions/online/dreams/
09:46 pm Aristotle 'On Dreams'
http://www.greektexts.com/library/Aristotle/On_Dreams/eng/662.html
09:58 pm Need sources for theory on digital/electronic literature and audio/sound. Little online. Back
to 'Noise Water Meat' by Doug Kahn, Others?
10:00 pm Found a wonderful page of works on the ELD
http://directory.eliterature.org/taxonomy/term/23
11:16 pm Cyberwarrior shortage in the USA threatens the holding of the next war
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128574055

Wednesday 21st
11:28 am http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVRpXGGS8DQ Bruce Haack was an intresting
guy......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Haack
01:00 pm Tuli Kupferberg - born September 28, 1923, died July 12, 2010 Another of the greats is gone
http://bit.ly/b7w0wb
11:29 pm Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise - 60 Minutes video documentary online
http://www.ubu.com/film/ra_joyful.html

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Thursday 22nd
11:39 am One day on earth as a user generated video installation
http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday and feature film (directed by Ridley Scott)
05:08 pm Koroway officially recognised as 'tree-dwellers' http://bit.ly/cVIXpt

Saturday 24th
12:29 am Composer Luc Ferrari http://bit.ly/cqZuxb is the subject of a film http://bit.ly/chEz0V
online. His music is great.
06:21 pm Reacquainting myself with the divine tones of Stag Hare
http://www.myspace.com/staghare CD jumped out at me this evening.

Sunday 25th
10:29 am @stefangelfgren Link available for #ek10 stream?
10:31 am Leaders debate Oz election was a Q session with spin #ausvotes #debates

Monday 26th
08:22 am RT @HUMlab Adventures Down Under (Part 1) http://bit.ly/d72W6O
12:51 pm taking a break from thesis to go and help organize a street performance troupe to do some
stuff in Umeå in August.
06:27 pm @BryanAlexander video from the 26C3 conference in Berlin reveals how Wikileaks works
http://bit.ly/8wed2S video. Routine to contact news.

Tuesday 27th
08:37 am Foursquare and privacy
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/how-i-became-a-foursquare-cyberstalker-20100727-10t3e.html
03:53 pm Reincarnated McMansion http://www.reincarnatedmcmansion.com/ hallelujah!!

Wednesday 28th
12:07 am A blog post of collected material about Wikileaks
http://www.soulsphincter.com/2010/07/wikileaks.html

Thursday 29th
09:30 am @rasmusfleischer sorgligt om katten. Har haft samma sak hande till mig. Också bil fritt.
Hata dem.
10:00 am Contemporary English novel is "profoundly disappointing – a poor relation of its
ground-breaking modernist forebears". http://bit.ly/caJc5T

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Friday 30th
07:24 pm I love north Indian classical sitar music!!!!!
07:26 pm “Do not read J. D. Salinger on a Kindle,”
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/29/salinger-like-you-ve-never-seen-him.html
07:34 pm Spotify is good but far from perfect No Ed Kuepper, no Spaceman 3, no Stag Hare, no Jack
Rose, no Pelt. Sure the list of quality could go on

Saturday 31st
09:03 pm is having wicked ideas.

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Sunday 1st
09:55 am Dangerous Minds | ‘Never Tear Us Apart’: St. Vincent Covers INXS http://bit.ly/aA80w6
03:07 pm Approaching 1000 words written today. Brain feels like a blister beneath my skull. Thesis
death. 2011 is going to be a year of such joy.

Monday 2nd
07:52 am Brody Condon has a new project http://lvl5.org/ Looking for LARP players in September
09:14 am What point aberrance for its own sake? It must be grounded in the thing resisted for
change to be effective. The dialectic has spoken.
09:46 pm Seems I will be publishing 2 articles + 1 chapter this Fall. One dating from May 2009. Then
thesis in winter. It never rains but it pours.

Tuesday 3rd
06:23 am Swedish Pirate Party launches 'direct advertising' on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/piratpartiet for upcoming election
07:12 am This is good morning music http://bit.ly/dhRucB Jóhann Jóhannsson Live from (Le) Poisson
Rouge
07:41 am The Australian attempts to come to terms with Wikileaks; "a turning point for the new
media" http://bit.ly/aaRa9n as Vigilantes?
09:49 am Prepare to have your concepts challenged http://bit.ly/bxWYSD Augmented Reality apps
from AR-media (cool videos)
11:29 am Why Australian tourism fails http://bit.ly/adxE2a "We only seem to want to sell bogan
Australia"

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Wednesday 4th
05:45 am "The research could pave the way for advanced methods of enraging monkeys."
http://bit.ly/aNdM44 Will never doubt my own research relevance.
10:54 am Listening to Can - Soundtracks http://bit.ly/bIH0s3 and proofreading thesis chapter. Did I
actually write some of this crap?
12:08 pm If you are local and are serious about a house pet consider saving a life
http://djurskyddet.umea.com/

Thursday 5th
07:53 am Here's some nice shot of my home town: http://bit.ly/b9TNqA Toowoomba, Australia.
02:31 pm There is no home like place.

Friday 6th
06:38 am Tony Abbott as a SU union president 1979 wanted cuts to education, "nonsense" courses
like political economy http://bit.ly/cZ5LMF

Saturday 7th
06:15 am Has disconnected Facebook from Twitter and will now begin a serious conversation

Sunday 8th
11:56 am The glacier continues on its way to the sea, PhD thesis in the bag. First I have to weave the
bag.
07:23 pm Ten hours of writing - feeling strange. Time to stop. Back to the desk tomorrow......

Monday 9th
11:10 am Just returned from a morning at workplace. Everything seems to be in place for a term of
high tomfoolery fun and creation. Bring it on.
03:42 pm Yesha Sivan -Three Top Trends in Virtual Worlds
http://www.dryesha.com/2010/08/yesha-sivan-trends-in-virtual-worlds.html Video
05:10 pm Have dined and return to the dissertation. It shall be beaten and formed according to my
will...
07:01 pm @BryanAlexander I actually just broke the link myself between Tweet and Face. I am seeing
profound differences between the two.
07:24 pm Recommend 'Genre' by John Frow. Power reading for thesis, even through supervisor says
stop reading and finish writing.
11:03 pm My neighborhood is getting busy again. Means students are returning. Means work is going
to hit me hard soon. Goodnight. POW!

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03:58 pm Bizarre insight into the world of N Korean propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oLIXKqtVFw in English, life of great leader.
04:01 pm "What he heard on the back of his mother was not lullaby but the screaming gunshot of the
battlefield" http://bit.ly/d4DPil

Wednesday 11th
11:58 am @simon_lindgren You may find these links useful
http://delicious.com/didgebaba/Hacktivism
09:13 pm Alan Ginsberg on a life of poetry and freedom
http://www.ubu.com/film/ginsberg_face.html

Thursday 12th
09:13 am Have moved on to the next thesis chapter. Now have a complete analytical manuscript: 4
chapters. Need conclusion and intro.

Friday 13th
01:23 pm Time of "digital drugs" apprently has arrived http://bit.ly/c8H5mk as "idoses". 'binaural
beats'.

Saturday 14th
02:41 pm 78 Strangest Buildings Around The World http://bit.ly/1128Ux

Sunday 15th
11:28 am Sunday is Thesisday. Johh Lee Hooker understands the blues like no other. He shares my
burden http://bit.ly/kISy0
01:59 pm Thesis chapter two has been dissected and now awaits a rebuild.
02:00 pm Before rebuilding chapter two, I am going fishing.

Monday 16th
05:40 am worldwide MMO market will grow to $8 billion in 2010 http://bit.ly/dhMHqo

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Tuesday 17th
09:08 pm Just watched Funny Games US, Like Buñuel does The Shining. http://bit.ly/vQSto not fun
but V good. Capitalism and the right to die.

Wednesday 18th
06:46 am Taken to swimming lengths in the mornings. Such a great way to start the day!

Thursday 19th
06:45 am There is a sadness experienced upon the finishing of a cup of tea. #ILoveTea
10:51 am Medal of Honor Afghanistan getting flak in Oz for allowing players to fight with the Taliban
http://bit.ly/abTPq5

Saturday 21st
06:33 am Taking a short break from thesis by writing a paper of #AoIR11. Seems deadline for PhDs
has been extended but may make it by 2day anyway
07:55 am @simon_lindgren Seems like most of #HUMlab will be at #AoIR11 as well
09:23 am Pt Nikhil Banerjee was possessed by God: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT_BVK_Q6i8
02:05 pm Found some online live news from Oz, Election looks very close
http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/
02:26 pm Possible 73 all for #AUSVOTES, The next parliament of Oz will be loving the Greens.

Sunday 22nd
03:30 pm AoIR paper finished......ahhhhhhhhhh
03:46 pm as a reward for being so good I am now going to watch Tarkovsky's Stalker :-) for the first
time. http://bit.ly/HEEnM
09:26 pm Tarkovsky blows my mind once again. http://bit.ly/4Czfmc entire of 'Stalker' online

Tuesday 24th
10:41 am "Fronter is a platform for collaboration and learning via Internet" here we go again......
05:53 pm RT @tweetmeme The First HUMlab Yoshikazi Up-in-the-air Residency Completed
http://bit.ly/b0Nj1s
06:05 pm Finally worked out the difference between RSS and Alerts. I feel like I have turned a corner.
08:52 pm Last night atop the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again tonight.
Tomorrow I will charge him rent.

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Wednesday 25th
04:53 am PhD position in Circus Oz, Living Archive research project http://bit.ly/cvkRK4 Looks very
cool.
05:02 am Crop circles are beautiful http://bit.ly/dwRzwk

Thursday 26th
07:35 am @GreatDismal the boat journey down the Thames during the Great Fire, Charles II stepping
in dog crap on arrival in Eng. Pepys is great!
01:12 pm Lost a good pen today. Annoyed.
01:13 pm To put some true perspective in your life, I suggest Bonnie "Prince" Billy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzOIw-NsG9M Death to Everyone
03:35 pm All the music I am listening to today is not available on Spotify: Palace Brothers, Palace
Music, Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Slint.
04:11 pm And now Ed Kuepper, also not on Spotify. Ingenuity is dying due to mass clusters of culture.
Ease is not necessarily good for us.
06:29 pm Nice journal collection on learning in virtual worlds
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g926174999

Friday 27th
06:47 am And now we open up Chapter Two to some dramatic alterations.....

Saturday 28th
09:12 am Have 5 albums by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy on rotation and the thesis is coming along. I think
have found my writing method.

Monday 30th
04:54 pm A my friend Cambro, I see an upgrade over the summer has made little difference to your
sour and mean personality.
08:33 pm Today the students came back to university and suddenly amount of work picked up by
about 40%. My head is spinning and I feel ill.

Tuesday 31st
07:40 am New analogy for thesis: like pulling all the skin out from inside your nose and making a bag
out of it.....stitched together with the hairs.
09:40 am I'm officially Twitter user No 35 in Sweden! http://uris.us/OaQN Check out Your Number at
http://uris.us/iOYq #fun #Sweden
06:49 pm day two of term was better than day one. Good feedback on thesis, student situation under
control.

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September

Wednesday 1st
06:45 pm European Union Commissions Virtual World http://bit.ly/aWRInb Citzalia

Thursday 2nd
01:14 pm Published in 'Working Papers in Education'
http://www.use.umu.se/digitalAssets/49/49226_working-papers-in-no7rev.pdf

Monday 6th
10:14 am One meeting down, now thesis, a machinima film and teaching culture studies this
afternoon. #Monday
04:45 pm First lecture of the course ended with applause, I can tell right away I am going to get along
with this group of students.
09:06 pm What do you get if you cross a Surrealist with the Godfather? An offer you don't
understand.
09:19 pm And before sleeping; Xavier: Renegade Angel - The 6th Teat of Good Intentions
http://bit.ly/bsamCg

Wednesday 8th
07:37 am Heading north from the 65th parallel. Autumn already started. Teaching in Lulea.
06:34 pm No cafes in Luleå with wireless internet! Take note world.

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Saturday 11th
12:05 pm is watching Australia play New Zealand in the rugby...and the Wallabies are doing well
http://www.iraqgoals.tv/ch5.html
12:49 pm 23-22 New Zealand are a Rugby machine

Sunday 12th
05:41 am RT @tweetmeme materials for digital humanities workshop/seminar http://bit.ly/bUm5DD
07:56 am Today is such a day I wish I had a fireplace, and a couple of Wolf Hounds sleeping beside it,
as I call for my cup and my minstrels three

Tuesday 14th
05:49 am Struggling on with thesis following a dramatic turn yesterday. I beginning to think I am
more of a live event.
10:06 am I know the PhD has made a difference to me; I watch Terence Mckenna videos now and
think he is a great story teller and not a prophet.
10:34 am Curating a show in my spare time http://rhizome.org/announce/view/55926 Yoshikaze
presents Alan Sondheim
10:35 am #HUMlab and digital art http://rhizome.org/announce/view/55926 show opens tomorrow
12:04 pm Aurukun Art on show at UQ art gallery
http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=120228
12:57 pm Spotted this early this morning outside my apartment building. Did a plane go down in the
night? http://twitpic.com/2oc0v0
05:37 pm RT @tweetmeme Alan Sondheim Exhibition in HUMlab http://bit.ly/bSB0xP
05:49 pm Bloglines will officially shut down on October 1, 2010. OMG!!
06:13 pm @fairyrings My webmail is working fine.....wonder what it can be.
08:02 pm Have exported all of my feeds from Bloglines to Netvibes. May not be the best solution but
have archived the 206 feeds. Need to sort it out

Wednesday 15th
05:53 pm Great opening of Alan Sondheim's work in #HUMlab today. Will run for a week. All welcome

Thursday 16th
12:29 pm @RobinTeigland will there be anything online from Nokia and Virtual Worlds Tomorrow?
01:23 pm Luleå Technical University, Sweden is a nice set up.
01:25 pm Times Higher Ed. Top 100 Universities 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/sep/16/top-100-universities-times-higher-education

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Friday 17th
09:08 am Open source Social networking; http://www.joindiaspora.com/index.html could be big.
09:11 am Time to get back on the bus.....

Saturday 18th
10:39 pm Robot warfare: campaigners call for tighter controls of deadly drones http://bit.ly/dhQkjg

Monday 20th
07:48 am And then Monday morning WHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHHHHH
10:32 am Teaching a short course in #HUMlab on Creating a Life in Second Life
http://realmixed.blogspot.com/2010/09/creating-life-in-second-life.html

Thursday 23rd
12:33 pm An accurate account of the world to come. China is only just beginning to economically flex.
http://bit.ly/9XFGPx
12:38 pm More cars are sold in China now than the US. BUT car ownership penetration is only 3 per
cent, 80% are first-ever car and 90% pay cash. WTF!
01:05 pm 30 per cent of the world's children live in India
04:22 pm For a technical university. LTU Luleå library has very few books on digital culture and
literature

Saturday 25th
09:13 pm I tweet since 18 Mar 2007. My #first5 followers: @PROMOpinion @daniel_skog
@tomselleck @grahamstanley @fairyrings. http://bit.ly/first5

Monday 27th
09:44 am Just gave a presentation on Virtual Architecture for the new Umeå School of Architecture
http://bit.ly/c4P36c in #HUMlab

Tuesday 28th
03:23 pm digital ecology is a current of thought that posits the fusion or union of the virtual (digital
information) and the real (basic life forms)

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Wednesday 29th
07:57 pm @nileshc I would give an appendage (not sure which) to see Josephine Foster perform..
10:25 pm Sweden, Finland and Austria leading a push that would let rich countries cut down as many
trees as they want http://bit.ly/cte9KI

Thursday 30th
03:27 pm Tony curtis dead: i watched Houdini http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeSHzGOXyRE as a
child; was fascinated by the scene under the ice

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October

Friday 1st
10:47 am Post-supervisor meeting exhalation....1, 2. 3, ahhhh.... and I now return to the ongoing
trauma that is a doctoral thesis. Getting there but
10:59 am Read The James Barrett Daily ▸ today's top stories are contributed by @lessig
@GreatDismal and @zephoria ▸ http://t.co/df3944b
11:39 am @stefangelfgren Shouldn't language be the world's best idea ever.....like really, it is. Well
that's my opinion.
11:46 am Meanwhile at the funeral the mourners threw books, filling the dark pit. All atop the casket
and the solo piano played. http://bit.ly/6bEgvG
04:27 pm instant art
http://www.soulsphincter.com/2010/10/new-ways-of-meeting-people-chatroulette.html

Sunday 3rd
07:44 am October 12, radical academic and cult figure Noam Chomsky will appear in Second Life, on
the Metanomics show http://www.metanomics.net/
12:16 pm Cambro "learning" platform makes it all so much more difficult.
12:18 pm Peter Greenaway Expert Panel Select 48 Hour #Machinima Contest Winners -- Here's the
Three Winners http://bit.ly/c1nTHK
11:01 pm Just joined http://rezedhub.ning.com

Monday 4th
08:24 am Teaching on social stratification and virtual worlds today and here are the lecture notes;
http://bit.ly/9KAgOV
02:03 pm Entering a Colosseum-like lecture theater to deliver 90mins on the common cultures of the
Commonwealth...lots of Cs

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Tuesday 5th
09:16 am Some thoughts on learning and virtual worlds
http://realmixed.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-virtual-world-in-learning.html #HUMlab 4
teachers
12:27 pm The TV series on John Berger's Ways of Seeing is online :-)
http://www.ubu.com/film/berger_seeing.html Blessings on UBUWEB
01:25 pm Started listening to Linkin Park just to see if I like em. Went back to Fudge Tunnel after one
song. Original and best http://bit.ly/uaWrb

Wednesday 6th
01:50 pm Branded Experiences in Digital Channels: Looking back and Looking Forward David Eriksson,
VD North Kingdom @ #HUMlab live in 10mins
01:53 pm Live stream for Branded Experiences in Digital Channels: Looking back and Looking Forward
David Eriksson http://live.humlab.umu.se/ #HUMlab
02:12 pm Watching the show reel from North Kingdom at #HUMlab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JjD3WSZIgc
02:28 pm Interactivity sends a signal back "you need to be able to handle what people think about
your signal" David E fr North Kingdom @ #HUMlab
02:28 pm "the future comes so much faster than you think it will" North Kingdom at #HUMlab
02:31 pm "The new digital channels are becoming a playground" North Kingdom at #HUMlab
05:27 pm Conjuring Sound: Arcana V: Music, Magic and Mysticism, Edited by John Zorn
http://t.co/4o0FUbt

Thursday 7th
12:44 pm @stefangelfgren @fairyrings stream not working here in Luleå Just a still image of Ben. Will
wait and see
12:47 pm @stefangelfgren @fairyrings stream totally dead now with message "No live event
streaming at the moment" on the screen
12:51 pm @fairyrings everytime I reload the page now I get a new still image of Ben but nothing else.
No sound no movement..very weird
12:52 pm @fairyrings stream working now :-)
12:58 pm A sound network could be the way mantras work in Hinduism and Buddhism:
http://bit.ly/ISmEg #BenPeters @ #HUMlab
01:03 pm "A network is a map minus the territory" #BenPeters @ #HUMlab,
01:06 pm #BenPeters at #HUMlab reminds me of the 1927 film "Using a Dial Telephone"
http://www.archive.org/details/HowtoUse1927 tool and practice
01:08 pm @fairyrings I think of the Borges story "Maps no longer satisfied" language is a network but
art is not. maybe?
01:09 pm @fairyrings stream just died again
01:10 pm @fairyrings and we are back again now :-)

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01:19 pm "What would history look like in the eternal now mode?" #BenPeters - good question and
suggests a multiplicity vision/sound/body. #HUMlab
01:27 pm Congratulation Vargas Llosa!!
01:29 pm Off to teach a class on Law and Government in the British Empire and Commonwealth of
Nations http://bit.ly/actJN1
04:50 pm "None of us wanted to go back to the gray, chill, militaristic silence, intellective void – to the
land without poetry" http://bit.ly/a9xRON
05:21 pm 6 lectures in 5 days. Number 6 is in the morning on Globalisation and the Commonwealth
x.html http://bit.ly/9uI1PP

Friday 8th
08:00 am Good morning world. Weather is pretty in the Arctic today.

Saturday 9th
01:14 pm A meme that passed me by the other day
http://www.soulvlog.com/2010/10/greek-meme.html
07:16 pm Playlist for a rainy Saturday night: groove funk and psychedelia from the 80s 90s
http://bit.ly/ba6egU
08:53 pm @IPTower I wish...peace as mind and peace as way

Monday 11th
09:19 am Off to have morning tea with Jessica Pressman http://jessicapressman.commons.yale.edu/
in #HUMlab
11:30 am Slowly transferring all saved numbers from mobile to Skype account. I wish there was a
program for this. My comp in soon my phone
01:35 pm Early morning by the lake Fjällnora in Uppsala Sweden http://vimeo.com/15486292 let it
reign......
01:51 pm Getting ready to attend a discussion session on digital humanities
http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=2507 in #HUMlab
03:30 pm Listening to a fascinating conversation in #HUMlab on what are, is, and can be the digital
humanities.
03:45 pm There is life before and life after @dropbox.
10:50 pm The next artist in residence on the #HUMlab Second Life island has been announced
http://bit.ly/dsLNwt

Tuesday 12th
09:48 am Today: attend seminar by Jessica Pressman http://admin.humlab.umu.se/node/1369 and
give lecture on VWs http://bit.ly/al4ghp
12:18 pm Jessica Pressman @ #HUMlab starting now live @ http://live.humlab.umu.se/ Digital
Modernism: Making it New in New Media

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Thursday 14th
12:03 am Virtuality and Virtual Worlds yesterday http://bit.ly/al4ghp Today HUMlab planning
Tomorrow 48 hours isolation in Luleå for thesis/Teaching
01:02 pm Have made it to Luleå thru sunshine and snow.....
01:06 pm Piteå bus station, northern Sweden 11:45am today- good bye sun. http://twitpic.com/2xii0s
01:33 pm Now doing Popular Culture in the Commonwealth http://bit.ly/bSEV1J how the mix has
made us.
04:42 pm Have landed at Hotel in Luleå, now for some hours of work. Nice room with desk and view
of water.
04:45 pm Music to think to
http://open.spotify.com/user/didgebaba/playlist/65wNSNaBl8ZU2azitl7aiD
04:52 pm For those without Spotify. Music 2 think 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EaybTneTIs
a pavin by Captain Tobias Hume
05:18 pm Bob Dylan and the Witmark demos; http://nyti.ms/cENLVG short film prior to bootleg series
release
07:48 pm Sitting in a hotel room in northern Sweden writing my thesis. I feel like Pink from The Wall
but without the fun bits; http://bit.ly/1JDyq
08:54 pm Who is writing the history of the future if we are all too busy arguing about the past?

Friday 15th
09:24 am Hope to have time for SLanguages 2day + 2morrow http://tinyurl.com/3845h22 but not
sure. Was supposed to present but not on program. Glad
07:20 pm Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play: The Center for Digital Discourse
and Culture http://www.cddc.vt.edu/10th-book/

Sunday 17th
11:18 am Still sleepy but gathering what is needed to complete another chapter section. Revisiting K
Hayles, Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep. Still good

Monday 18th
12:18 pm Seminar in #HUMlab now Konst, Kreativitet och Jämställdhet (Art, Creativity and Equality)
for #DINO with Vanja Hermele http://hermele.se/
12:21 pm Equality builds on the polarity of male and female while gender perspectives build on more
complex classifications Vanja Hermele in #HUMlab
12:22 pm What hiders the creative arts from being gender equal? Vanja Hermele in #HUMlab

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Tuesday 19th
02:52 pm The sound of the real Sweden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv759wmsSFk the crowd
of many faces, the chorus of many musics.

Wednesday 20th
06:43 am Flight to Gothenberg now and AoIR 11 full prog 25pages http://bit.ly/cemZfj #ir11 It is
looking good
02:58 pm Have taken up a position in a cafe in Gothenberg. Will remain here until a bar is made
available for the #HUMlab crew at #ir11. 8 persons.
07:01 pm Professor at umea uni who had 10 years of work returned on a USB stick (???) after laptop
was stolen http://bit.ly/bvwKhW needs #Dropbox

Thursday 21st
10:56 am Listening to a presentation on http://internetresearchethics.org/ at #ir11 on resources,
archive, commons, social web but I have questions.
10:57 am wondering about prescriptive ethics as distinguished from descriptive ethics in relation to
digitalmediaethics @ #ir11
10:59 am "We are a group of scholars and we are trying to keep information in here" - we want to get
discussions started. digitalmediaethics @#ir11
03:05 pm Lisbeth Klastrup at #ir11 on classical music communities online, sharing performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs

Friday 22nd
12:22 am I think I was here tonight.... http://twitpic.com/2zmbej
10:45 am Beginning to detect a ludological subcutaneous layer to #ir11: games and social media seem
to dominate much of the aether.
10:52 am Escaped crocodile caused aircraft crash that killed Brit pilot Chris Wilson
http://bit.ly/9wvJOQ (just to change the subject)
10:53 am @snurb_dot_info there are Australian here at #ir11 who no longer call Australia home as
well :-)
10:01 pm Back at hotel as have a presentation for #ir11 at 9am in Scania room. Visuals here
http://bit.ly/buwVkt panel on virtual worlds + everything

Saturday 23rd
11:12 am My presentation at #ir11 as a rough video and the Prezi presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRV-Eaej3dY
12:41 pm In response 2 Byam at #ir11 - Good Copy Bad Copy film gives a picture of global kultur prod
http://bit.ly/avSqXM
03:22 pm These documents reveal six years of the Iraq war at a ground level detail
http://wikileaks.org/

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03:34 pm 21966 free downloads
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator:%22Jim%20Barrett%22 Lovin It!

Monday 25th
04:52 pm #Inception is good. Freudian and Judeo-Christian and too dependent on logic but still good
plus Nolan re-reads Lewis Carroll and Escher.

Tuesday 26th
09:25 am A long weekend in Gothenberg comes to an end. First the World Culture Museum
http://bit.ly/ab3mSy and then home.

Wednesday 27th
09:31 am A digital text that includes the songs of Om Kalthoum is worth writing about, Egypt: The
Book of Going Forth by Day by M. D. Coverley
09:35 am And in case you are wondering who Om Kalthoum is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FusV28xVr4 witness the power.
04:08 pm Welcome 200th follower...the steady climb to world domination thru Twitter continues ;-)
04:13 pm Late Autumnal tune as ice crusts puddles and sky remains gun metal gray
http://open.spotify.com/track/6gwPxZx8450DDd6dsS2vAJ

Thursday 28th
01:43 pm Marking exams. It is a joy when they are good. I hate it when they are not. Teachers want
students to succeed and when they don't it hurts.
03:26 pm Just witnessed a 3 bicycle collision with one bike having a baby wagon attached. Child
unhurt but wagon crushed...amazing.
08:23 pm Just back from #HUMlab House of Horror (?); saw: http://bit.ly/TwYV3,
http://www.stabbincabinfilm.com/ and http://vimeo.com/m11
10:21 pm Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid
http://www.soulvlog.com/2010/10/meshes-of-afternoon.html
10:23 pm Horror films have always straddled the line between sex and violence. ...
http://bit.ly/9CqYw5 from @aquadrunkard was just talking about it.

Friday 29th
10:40 am The #HUMlab AoIR11 conference playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/cyxos/playlist/56Ylw2vHstbCUbnVWuU6lV #ir11
11:20 am If you speak Swedish and think, prepare to be disturbed http://bit.ly/cXnvxK Intervju med
SverigeDemokrat
01:22 pm Allegories of Space: The Question of Spatiality in Computer Games, by Espen Aarseth
http://bit.ly/btdLuQ worth reading

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01:23 pm Along with Towards a Theory of Space in Narrative by Gabriel Zoran
http://danm.ucsc.edu/~abtollef/Physical_Poetry/narritive%20space.pdf
01:26 pm While laboring with my thesis keep thinking of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREJV--VHSw Hitler Digital Humanities/Critical
Commons
01:34 pm Time travelers as an emerging Net meme; Chaplin film http://huff.to/aJgGcK and museum
photo http://bit.ly/9vYoxi
01:47 pm as to the PhD thesis, I am not giving up until they have to take the keyboard “from my cold,
dead hands.”
03:23 pm Watching Toby present about cross-over OS, http://www.vmware.com/,
http://bit.ly/d5A0ey and http://openartisthq.org/
03:27 pm Connextions http://cnx.org/ share educational material made of small knowledge chunks
called modules as courses, books, reports, etc.
03:29 pm http://www.csiss.org/ CSISS recognizes the growing significance of space, spatiality,
location, and place in social science research.
03:31 pm The joys of EverNote are now being testified by the #HUMLab research Tools group
http://www.evernote.com/
03:34 pm Google Analytics track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications
http://www.google.com/analytics/
03:41 pm Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you
organize your research http://www.mendeley.com/
03:50 pm So who loves Prezi? http://prezi.com/ and who doesn't?
03:53 pm CiteULike Search, organize, and share scholarly papers. http://www.citeulike.org/
03:55 pm Consensus is that Mendeley rules as a text editing, notation, reference system.
03:56 pm New tools, apps, programs http://www.makeuseof.com/
04:02 pm Online Mind Mapping: MindMeister http://www.mindmeister.com/
04:44 pm Am I the last person to be using TweetDeck or not? This is going to make an already
obsessive more so... http://twitpic.com/31wn7w
04:45 pm As I once said to a rickshaw wallah in a Calcutta backstreet at 7am; "I am so glad to be
here!"
05:33 pm @mattermorph Is Audiodraft a development of SoundCloud?
11:25 pm Tried to convince someone that Baraka is a great film. Did not manage to do so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYZ8RWqqicQ

Saturday 30th
03:21 pm After 26 months and 10 straight defeats the Wallabies have beaten the All Blacks 26-24
http://bit.ly/bNBdCf :-) it was magnificent
06:51 pm First edition of The Ticket that Exploded by William S. Burroughs $30000!!
http://bit.ly/aJJ36E If Bill was alive to see that.

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Sunday 31st
01:01 pm 964 downloads of experimental and global sound music visuals and text
http://bit.ly/92HStZ

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November

Monday 1st
05:01 pm see what digital dreams people where having in 1992
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Wt16PnqeY
10:59 pm @StephenFry is a couple of chips short of a Happy Meal.

Tuesday 2nd
09:42 am Morning music http://soundcloud.com/mini/cycling by Goto Kimihiro, Yokohama, Japan
09:47 am Visiting Soundcloud again for the first time in a while and it is great The future of music
production has arrived http://soundcloud.com
09:50 am Amazing music from friends of mine
http://soundcloud.com/hashram/terracid-who-where-you
01:43 pm I took this picture traveling north from Umeå to Luleå in the north of Sweden
http://bit.ly/cRrzzc last month. I like it.
09:26 pm Ahhh November in the far north of Sweden...and I see darkness;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYBVAfvRpps
09:39 pm Hope previous tweet did not make me seem dour or drear for I am rather happy, just as
busy as hell and sitting in the dark Arctic winter.
10:11 pm @finnarne So true....

Wednesday 3rd
05:51 pm Teaching tomorrow on the history of education in the USA. The notes: http://bit.ly/apVKCJ
will use Adobe Connect for the first time.
09:04 pm What if... William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/40270058/Two-Gentlemen-of-Lebowski-by-Adam-Bertocci

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Thursday 4th
08:41 am Sad to hear The Models singer has gone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7dnvxvcGRc
the sounds of my youth.

Friday 5th
06:32 pm One of the greatest sacrifices that one makes as a parent is going to the cinema and seeing
films that are so bad they defy description.
07:21 pm Group from HUMlab, Umeå University about to give a panel discussion at #AoIR11
http://twitpic.com/345lxf
07:23 pm Another reason to be glad about living in Sweden http://www.fylkingen.se/about
08:54 pm It is the weekend at last. I will begin by sleeping. Right after this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7huh5Egew
08:56 pm Just watched 'Roadsworth: Crossing the Line' doco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-zj4N1MfQM Street art in Montreal and beyond

Saturday 6th
08:28 am We live in strange times http://bit.ly/cHbixv an unbelievable case of concealment
03:22 pm @mattermorph and to you too...and I am in Sweden or Norrland, depending on whose
history we read :-)

Sunday 7th
05:01 pm Ask.com is going to save Bloglines, which is great. But now I have Net Vibes, Google Reader
and Bloglines as RSS. Need to review...
05:03 pm @rasmusfleischer Used to go and SEE/HEAR/WITNESS Oren's first band Phlegm in Sydney in
1994-96. Amazing and Oren is a genius.

Monday 8th
09:57 am Yesterday in my local supermarket they were playing Black Lung
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtB7gRENo2c I <3 Ålidhem
12:04 pm Rutgers Law professor Greg Lastowka's free book Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online
Worlds http://www.chaihana.com/virtualjustice.pdf
12:53 pm Out to Lunch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmHhB9zV_rQ
11:34 pm Found my copy of 'Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French
Thought' by Martin Jay today. Happy to have it back.

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Tuesday 9th
12:11 am I would like to read Peter Singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer critique
Battlestar Galactica
08:24 am Sleep....The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's
second course
03:27 pm Article published in Swedish journal virtuella världar som pedagogiskt verktyg (Virtual
Worlds as Pedagogical Tool) http://bit.ly/bXRW7F p59
03:29 pm @fairyrings may I direct you to my blog post
http://www.soulsphincter.com/2010/07/wikileaks.html video, texts, audio
03:54 pm Have been listening to this for 2 days
http://www.discogs.com/Love-Love-Story/release/382620 Lush, Sophisticated and
Dreaming: LOVE
04:19 pm Notes on Love's FOREVER CHANGES
http://www.rhino.com/article/notes-loves-forever-changes
04:42 pm @charlottefrost I think the term is discursive
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discursive That's meaning 3 not 1a ;-)
05:38 pm @mattermorph yes...the territory is contested;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_revolt_in_Guovdageaidnu as a film http://bit.ly/blzh0t
11:22 pm FCC has failed to move forward with a plan for reclassifying broadband access as a
telecommunications service http://bit.ly/cROjol

Wednesday 10th
10:12 pm teaching tomorrow; Mass Media in the USA, an overview:
http://realmixed.blogspot.com/2010/11/media-in-united-states-of-america.html notes.

Thursday 11th
06:59 am I am awake and the snow is deep.

Saturday 13th
01:16 pm Findings suggest that it is modern lifestyles and pollution levels caused by industry that are
the main cause of cancer http://bit.ly/cx0Qts
01:23 pm To get my dander up for another day in the Great Society; "what did you do in the eco-war
daddy?" http://bit.ly/cxaQCP

Sunday 14th
12:30 am Poetry should be lived and not made. http://twitpic.com/36loae

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Monday 15th
09:48 am pithy bellicose perturbed tangential exonerated - some of the words I want to use today.
10:08 am Before PowerPoint and Prezi there was the Chalk Talk
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Cartoonschalk33.jpg
01:28 pm @deepwarren I see romance is alive and well in your world Shazza.....are ya feeling a bit
jaded dear......so cynical ;-)
02:06 pm @deepwarren ha ha....marriage, now there is a dangerous path....
03:04 pm Archive and memory in virtual worlds by Michael Shanks
http://documents.stanford.edu/michaelshanks/302 great stuff....
03:34 pm Short PP on HUMlab and the possibilities of 3D world digital archives; Thanks to @fairyrings
and @archaeographer http://slidesha.re/9fdxGa
10:05 pm Just saw When Your Strange. Jim Morrison should have quit when he was ahead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMMo3EmIfJw good doco.

Tuesday 16th
04:16 pm Future Docs: Creating Documentaries Across Platforms
http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/blog/106776664.html Great works
07:05 pm Planet Michael; http://bit.ly/cgGxhE The Michael Jackson virtual world has arrived.
08:01 pm New photo and I hope for new eyedeas

Wednesday 17th
08:13 am The planet shifts, oceans rise, the moon ellipses, stars spin in the firmament a minor sun
rises upon our blue disk and Twitter rolls on
06:05 pm Second Life in a browser http://interest.secondlife.com/beta have yet to try it as there is a
stiff selection process, after video no admit.
06:14 pm Got into Second Life web browser, easy access, looks fine, will develop
06:55 pm Will be presenting at Educa Berlin 2010
http://www.online-educa.com/pre-conference-events in Virtual Pedagogies in Practice in
SL

Thursday 18th
05:05 pm 2 part seminar notes on The Art and Practice of Machnima; Theory and History
http://bit.ly/9X9pur and Practice; http://bit.ly/b4E5cR #HUMlab
05:31 pm My last engagement with Cambro for the year begins now. Please let something change
with the %%€### program and 2011 be different.....
05:52 pm "The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request." #Cambro I hate you
05:53 pm @finnarne I don't even get angry anymore. I just expect it when 30 mins of work disappears
in an error message.

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06:13 pm "inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may
have caused the error" - like using #Cambro
06:22 pm Student project from machinima course; had not been in SL or made machinima before;
done in 1 hr; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DktT7YWVBA

Friday 19th
11:17 pm Just watched Sozchou River, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou_River_%28film%29 8 out
of 10.

Saturday 20th
10:46 am Perhaps the most interesting Mp3 blog around at the moment
http://holywarbles.blogspot.com/ pure gold.
06:17 pm Great documentary on Fela Kuti
http://www.soulvlog.com/2010/11/fela-kuti-documentary.html Music is the weapon.

Sunday 21st
11:27 am New Five Dials out now http://bit.ly/cbyvOr an excellent collection of writing and reviews
and its free
11:48 am Augmented Reality books http://bit.ly/c9BhbJ
12:38 pm @marousia there are more than twice as many slaves in Modern Africa as in Pre-Civil war
America
05:51 pm My world on Flickriver http://www.flickriver.com/photos/didgebaba/popular-interesting/

Monday 22nd
12:59 pm Beginning to dawn on me, yet again, how much I have to do
05:53 pm Welcome to Sweden Outernational http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYy2Y_hTwRo
10:53 pm My previous (re)tweet is in honor of the Indian ambassador who is visiting #HUMlab
tomorrow, will ask him about secret room in Nat. library

Tuesday 23rd
08:32 am Good morning, Here's Jimi Hendrix on npr music
http://www.npr.org/artists/15696782/jimi-hendrix
11:39 am Where I go for music: http://www.soulsphincter.com/2010/11/where-i-go-for-music.html
online, Mp3 blogs, radio stations, delicious downloads
02:10 pm Watching the reality particles collide around me and it is just amazing......

arthurmagazine Today's University of CA students appear to be the most docile in history. *

http://lat.ms/fWzVTU

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06:03 pm THE SURRE(GION)ALIST MANIFESTO by Max Cafard
http://www.arthurmag.com/2010/11/23/when-reality-is-the-waste-land-we-must-say-no-to-reality/
09:25 pm People, visiting Humanities fellowships at ANU are now open for applications
http://hrc.anu.edu.au/2012visitingfellowshipforms

Wednesday 24th
09:44 am Holding a cold at bay. Working at home today with Vitamin C, tea, and a warm computer.
11:11 am Recent gems on UBUWEB http://bit.ly/431J6z http://bit.ly/c26ezQ http://bit.ly/avUUXP
http://bit.ly/apw22X Burroughs, Gysin, Crowley
12:47 pm @caravia158 glad to see you on Twitter. Look forward to reading you.
05:10 pm @mattermorph so some people do actually go outside in this weather ;-)
09:24 pm While I was not looking someone filled my head with cold porridge....

Thursday 25th
10:32 am Saw the word 'outernational' the other day and liked it. I am outernational and does UK
govt. realize it exists? http://on.wsj.com/hyj19S
05:53 pm Dreamed of @warrenellis last night, he was showing me a map of the island he lives on off
the Cornish coast, A "rocky crag with bad women"?
05:55 pm My god, Peter Christopherson is dead..........no more TG

Friday 26th
10:05 am RT @HUMlab Media Places 9-11 December http://bit.ly/edPVh2
01:28 pm In the midst of a wild snowstorm that threatens to obliterate vision and all conception of up
and down.....

Saturday 27th
12:49 pm Heavy snowfall, has been falling for 3 days without stop http://webcam.educ.umu.se/ 10
inches against the window
01:14 pm Getting ready for Educa 2010 Berlin, part of a panel presenting a workshop on Machinima
and Learning. Work pack here; http://bit.ly/gTXoXW

Sunday 28th
03:31 pm Have just experienced the IKSU Snow Fair. http://bit.ly/f1DaK2 Amazing and truly feel the
rush of unbridled consumption.
03:52 pm Hoder, sentenced to 19 years jail in Iran http://bit.ly/bZIQBY for "managing obscene
websites and co-operating with “enemy states"= blogging
03:54 pm Video of Hoder in #HUMlab http://bit.ly/9QKImY Reform Youth and Technology in Iran.
#FreeHoder

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11:42 pm Seems Cornwall has CornwallTube and its good http://bit.ly/huxrwP if u r interested in
counter culture and protest videos

Monday 29th
12:28 pm RT @HUMlab New Artist on HUMlab Island http://bit.ly/eQEEuP
07:14 pm RT @HUMlab Online Educa Berlin (2010) http://bit.ly/eVs2U6
10:29 pm Dreamed: xtra cheap flight to Indo. Last leg, throw u out of plane into ocean, with raft kit.
Assemble raft in water. Airline of the future.
10:31 pm Find myself listening to christian psychedelic rock this evening http://bit.ly/gPwq6E and
liking it. #StrangeDays

Tuesday 30th
10:02 am The future of journalism continues to happen today; @vozdacomunidade the Rio favela
conflicts http://bit.ly/hVL2kN

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Wednesday 1st
08:43 pm Mr Assange's mum, who operates a puppet theatre, said ''He's my son and I love him and
obviously I don't want him hunted down and jailed''

Thursday 2nd
11:37 am Lecture today using Adobe Connect, topic Law in the United States and its Depiction in
Popular Culture. Readings; http://bit.ly/fxAd1C
12:36 pm @heikephilp @gillysalmon USQ is my old uni. Toowoomba is my home town (will be there
this Xmas). Let me know if I can be of any assistance.
09:58 pm What I did yesterday; conducting interviews in Second Life on avatars as aspects of self
http://bit.ly/f3VxIk

Friday 3rd
11:33 am Wherever Julian Assange is, I hope he has a copy of the RSFs Handbook for Bloggers and
Cyber-Dissidents with him http://bit.ly/fpgk9H
04:07 pm Trying to poach materials from the Australian NSW HSC support materials
http://bit.ly/dCX9t but it seems literature is no longer taught?
04:09 pm Instead we have "English to enhance their personal, social and vocational lives". So we are
teaching students how to speak?
04:11 pm Please, any suggestions for Australian short stories or novellas that reflect contemporary
Australian society, mores and attitudes?
06:10 pm Does Julian Assange now have a stylist? http://bit.ly/g4eq75 judge for yourself.
06:11 pm @stefangelfgren I did the same thing two weeks ago. Cheaper ticket with a long stay in
Kuala Lumpur. Silas learns a 3rd culture.
06:17 pm @stefangelfgren @wollongong_nsw How long for?
06:25 pm "Free Julian Assange!" - just getting in early ;-)

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06:34 pm @stefangelfgren @wollongong_nsw check here http://bit.ly/gZFZUp and
http://bit.ly/3mK1K4
06:36 pm @stefangelfgren @wollongong_nsw sorry try http://www.touristaustralia.com.au/
06:51 pm Avatar Experimentation: Human Subjects Research in Virtual Worlds
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1717057
06:53 pm @stefangelfgren @wollongong_nsw This may help http://www.stayz.com.au/
06:55 pm @stefangelfgren @wollongong_nsw more specifically
http://www.stayz.com.au/accommodation/nsw/illawarra
06:58 pm @stefangelfgren @wollongong_nsw this as well http://bit.ly/efC5es
06:59 pm Happy moment today, my Iranian friend gets the chance to do higher study in Sweden!!!

Saturday 4th
12:35 am Unearthing Five Lost Gems From Psychedelic India
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130588826
02:33 pm Google failing to locate the present #Wikileaks site, here it is http://wikileaks.ch/
02:38 pm How the Arab world reacts to #Wikileaks in cartoon
http://www.thememriblog.org/image/19080.JPG
11:20 pm Just realized that the UN climate conference in Cancún is on now.
http://unfccc.int/2860.php So little news about it.

Sunday 5th
12:45 am @stefangelfgren few sites; http://www.ozfreeonline.com/ http://www.locanto.com.au/
http://www.olx.com.au/ http://geo.craigslist.org/iso/au
06:39 pm Getting ready for Media Places in #HUMlab, 9-11 December
http://www.culturetech.se/mediaplaces/ (site being updated all the time)
11:22 pm Flickr Hack Makes 3D Model of Any City in a Day
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flickr_rome_3d_double-time.php

Monday 6th
12:58 pm My sister suspects my 14 yr old niece is in on the #Wikileaks plot. "What does she do on the
comp for so many hours?" Assange is everywhere.
02:19 pm Rather than #Wikileaks recommend use of #cablegate instead so it can trend and spread.
11:10 pm "Men are pedaling in the dark, plastic bags tied to their handlebars, windbreakers zipped
tight" http://bit.ly/ctlR3W Night riders.
11:23 pm Just joined the Machinima Respawn App on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/machinimarespawn I wonder how this will end.....

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Wednesday 8th
09:16 am Brazilian State Lays Foundation for Nature-Based Economy http://bit.ly/gVkMiC
04:41 pm Preparing the magnificence that will be Media Places 2010
http://www.culturetech.se/mediaplaces/ #HUMlab #MediaPlaces
04:46 pm "absence of clear-cut legal case against Assange means any attempt to prosecute him will
reek of a political agenda" http://bit.ly/hshjLG
08:33 pm Philosophy of Wikileaks; http://bit.ly/9JbR6w "Conspirators who have this technology are
able to out conspire conspirators without it."
08:40 pm 100 links tagged with 'Consciousness': http://www.delicious.com/didgebaba/Consciousness
08:44 pm Is the Johnny Cash song One Piece at a Time a clever critique of commodification and the
market? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIuo0KIqD_E

Thursday 9th
01:11 pm Chandra Mukerji at #Media Places #HUMlab; The Versailles Gardens as a Media Place
01:14 pm What are #mediaplaces; environment, place of narratives, embedded stories, a place to get
lost, a memory p(a)lace, a place of collection,
01:15 pm #MediaPlaces as a site of performances, a displace, designed, a virtual world of political
demonstration.
01:16 pm Versailles as a #MediaPlace, it demonstrates a kind of mastery of natural forces and natural
things. Power is implicit in media places
01:18 pm Power not unitary @ Versailles, Structured authority includes power of personal rule,
structuring of environments, networked, #MediaPlaces
01:19 pm Order of hierarchies at Versailles as #MediaPlaces: "experiments with and dramatizes
political power" - power is present in forms.
01:20 pm Versailles was developed as a virtual world of territorial governance #MediaPlaces
01:22 pm Versailles became an experiment in impersonal governance; "a religious spiritual" element
in geometries of control. #MediaPlaces
01:23 pm Logistical power had a logistical power, "an opportunity to experience something of the
plan of God" but beyond comprehension #MediaPlaces
01:25 pm Versailles has a moral formation and displayed military capacity, sunken gardens with
battle-style walls, cast river statues, #MediaPlaces
01:26 pm Surveillance a part of the gardens at Versailles, Terraces created points of oversight.
creating controlled and infinite vistas #MediaPlaces
01:27 pm Creating unnatural effects with natural materials, nature as obedient at Versailles, "nature
before the fall" #MediaPlaces
01:29 pm Versailles shows revolt against the order as impossible, Slave statue tries to rise above his
station, sucked into the earth #MediaPlaces
01:31 pm Heroic engineering (the 'great build' of today's VWs) and participatory dramas enacted by
the court were part of Versailles #MediaPlaces
01:32 pm Garden beds were dressed to at Versailles, mirroring the dress of the court players.
#MediaPlaces
01:33 pm Costumes were sanctioned and therefor a parallel demonstration of obedience at Versailles
#MediaPlaces

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01:35 pm Battlement walls defined gardens @ Versailles, terraces shaped like dragons teeth (symbols
4 soldiers) + military engineering #MediaPlaces
01:37 pm Move thru the gardens @ Versailles meant moving through tactical problems of distance,
trajectory, estimation maths #MediaPlaces simulations
01:38 pm Serious play was made at Versailles, "the possibilities of the world are considered and
understood in this space" #MediaPlaces
01:39 pm Representation is easier to counter with counter representation but demonstrations are
not so easy to counter #MediaPlaces
01:40 pm Techniques of logistical power are often hidden, the articular muteness of demonstration
present in Versailles #MediaPlaces
02:00 pm Jesus De Francisco at #MediaPlaces Complex Narrative and Effects Across Media, Director
at Motion Theory http://bit.ly/96tGfL
02:09 pm The role of metaphor is space, as used by the advertising done by Motion Theory, at
#MediaPlaces The car as factory, imagery from childhood
02:11 pm Sound plays a central role in the advertising from Motion Theory. "The National Game of
Ireland Never Looked So Dark" #MediaPlaces
02:13 pm Geological collage, back to the body, superhuman interaction, the body as user interface,
inhabit someone else's body #MediaPlaces EA Sports
02:17 pm Energy as Place, Black Eyed Peas, Boom Boom Pow, made by Motion Thoery, a chance to
play #MediaPlaces http://bit.ly/5TlVyq
02:20 pm Sound everywhere makes spaces and bodies 2 inhabit them. Boom Boom Pow at
#MediaPlaces Time repeats but progressing "So 2008 U so 2000 late"

Friday 10th
09:16 am Listening to Lynn Spigel at #MediaPlaces http://bit.ly/fGsEls and preparing to teach on VWs
and business http://bit.ly/dKlXQM
03:15 pm Carter Emmart @ #MediaPlaces makes one feel like a part of something so big that it's
almost beyond representation, but he gets it down.
03:25 pm Synergy; while Carter Emmart speaks on the universe at #MediaPlaces Neil Armstrong
writes to NPR about 1st moon walk: http://goo.gl/4hFO8
03:27 pm CAVE environments are single user; #MediaPlaces. CAVE in 1992
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKL0urEdtPU with Dan Sandin
03:31 pm Constructing the Orion Nebula from data. CAN YOU DIG IT? at #MediaPlaces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCp-XKeSvSY similar images.
03:32 pm The Known Universe by Carter Emmart and crew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U
03:42 pm 10 yr old at #MediaPlaces, has been playing computer games all the time, is now totally
wrapped in Carter Emmart's presentation.
03:44 pm We are not final, we are not bordered, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbfhSHVm2Fc
(music) We are all looking at the stars. #MediaPlaces.
11:46 pm The global nomad and the nation state it appears we are living through what may come to
be a defining moment in history http://bit.ly/e1TKdu

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Saturday 11th
09:20 am Taking in Erica Robles on mediation of space in the megachurch movement at
#MediaPlaces. Excellent reading of architecture, networks and use
05:59 pm Where is Global South in relation to #Wikileaks? No representatives from socialist
democracies of S. America, the nations of Africa in WLs

Sunday 12th
01:56 pm "either they learn to live in a WikiLeakable world or they shut down the internet. Over to
them.” http://bit.ly/euFgL6
01:59 pm "The Web server has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and
your browsing computer is on this list." ??????
02:12 pm My slides from presentation yesterday at #MediaPlaces, Media Places/ Virtual Worlds
http://slidesha.re/eHFoZ3
10:44 pm Video: #Wikileaks as matrix breaker http://vimeo.com/17739095

Monday 13th
09:36 am RT @HUMlab Media Places – use of space 1 http://bit.ly/iez1OM
11:06 am Back to thesis. Feels like an oasis of calm after teaching and conference work. Like a
conversation with an agreeable stranger on a train.
12:08 pm Next Worldwide Didj Meditation approaching. I will be in transit on 22 December but if you
play, join the tone wave. http://bit.ly/a6560Y
05:01 pm media places: from the gardens of versailles to spatial robots http://bit.ly/hPg47c

Tuesday 14th
09:10 am "White House finds itself in the position of a homeowner who has been burgled after
leaving front and back doors open" http://bit.ly/hEcKyC
01:59 pm Lord Beauchamp was said to have “exquisite taste in footmen” http://bit.ly/xxmdH The
roaring 20s and the world behind Brideshead Revisited
02:31 pm Why #Wikileaks Is Good for Democracy By Bill Quigley
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/why-wikileaks-is-good
03:20 pm #Wikileaks: "the only thing unavailable is red ink"
03:22 pm The lack of red ink means that the terms we use to designate our struggles, are false terms
http://bit.ly/hZyo5S #Wikileaks
03:30 pm John Pilger's The War You Don't See http://bit.ly/eMLRl2 why disclosure is important and
that means #Wikileaks
03:55 pm Good flow of information from #Wikileaks extradition hearing for #Assange from
http://www.support-julian-assange.com/
05:02 pm A Forum: The University We Are For http://bit.ly/hHnXHg created by David Theo Goldberg
and Wendy Brown (Podcast)

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07:00 pm Journalism in the first Gulf War (Cue EBN http://bit.ly/QbjEt) has been revitalized in the
past decade, C MediaHeroes http://bit.ly/6OUYWB

Wednesday 15th
03:09 pm Soon I shall be inhabiting the space of my background: http://bit.ly/gH5ZSv
04:45 pm A society reveals its values in its edifices; Zuckerberg

Thursday 16th
09:39 am Heavy weather http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1dIbar6vTY
11:38 am Making plans (for Nigel) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C6bVckO_CM

Friday 17th
12:30 pm Iron Sky is coming; space Nazis attack from their secret base on the moon
http://www.ironsky.net/site/film/about/
12:34 pm Snow on the Colosseum http://www.ilmessaggero.it/aprifoto.php?id=130989
01:48 pm 134 links on anarchy http://www.delicious.com/didgebaba/Anarchy
01:53 pm Leaked Slide Shows Yahoo Is Killing Delicious Other Web Apps http://on.mash.to/i2nG5n
OMG!!
11:53 pm Just learned that Don Van Vliet passed today. Captain Beefheart is dead. Trawling through
Troutmask and having a drink. RIP genius.

Saturday 18th
01:06 am The Odyssey of Captain Beefheart: Rolling Stone's 1970 Cover Story http://bit.ly/fqEd2v

Monday 20th

bruces http://bit.ly/ecYH8H *My, this card from Banksy is even better than those Soviet ones

06:04 pm Have begun my tribute to Beefheart, installed 5 CD Grow Fins box set on mobile phone, will
listen to them for the next month.

Tuesday 21st
09:30 am Planning day with Language Studies Department as my last day of attending the work place
for 2010. Tomorrow an attempt to leave Sweden.
06:34 pm 5.5 million crowns for a professorship in digital humanities at Umeå University
http://bit.ly/dQScVJ First in Sweden

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Wednesday 22nd
03:12 pm RT @HUMlab Exciting times at HUMlab http://bit.ly/eDGluU

Thursday 23rd
10:39 pm Am part of the mad migration, Currently in Kuala Lumpur and Five Dials has done an Xmas
issue http://fivedials.com/files/fivedials_no16.pdf

Sunday 26th
08:30 pm In very wet Australia. Seeing friends, watching the madness of post-Xmas consumption,
reading Geoffrey Blainey and wondering WTF happened?

Monday 27th
10:45 pm The weather and the spirit of adventure from where I originate http://bit.ly/fQ3xJo

Wednesday 29th
04:42 am Australia in shopping frenzy. I have been swept along. Purchased 1950s suit pants from
opshop for $3. The satisfied customer.
10:12 pm Amazing things happening in #HUMlab, 18 million crowns to research on Media Places
http://bit.ly/ibiVfS between Stanford and UMU

Thursday 30th

jenterysayers I get frustrated when scholars use the word "affordance" to imply an action inherent in an
object, ignoring the competencies of audiences.

Friday 31st
10:29 pm 2011 is underway here in Australia. Hope it is filled with growth and inspiration, peace and
excitement, progress and wisdom for all! Yehaaa
10:33 pm #2011in3words: Consolidation. Discovery. Expansion.
11:55 pm Where I am at the moment is Labyrinth City http://www.labyrinthcity.com/ enjoying the
company of the creatively disturbed.
11:59 pm For my Swedish followers; Gott nytt år!

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Saturday 1st
01:49 am Fresh mangoes, croissants, baked chicken, cheeses, and white Russians; first breakfast for
2011.
11:43 pm Music as determined by space and arrangement; Isle of Tune http://isleoftune.com/
11:47 pm In the same vein (no pun intended) as Isle of Tune; DJ SMALLCOCK’S VINYL ARCADE
http://bit.ly/eJk2zc slot car stylus on vinyl record track

Thursday 6th
12:22 pm Microsoft Avatar Kinect captures your body movements as well as your facial expressions
and your avatar will mimic them http://bit.ly/fxVbnV
10:17 pm Leaving Australia tomorrow. Will take 2 days to get home. I wish there was a shortcut,
could come back more often.
10:47 pm Journal of Virtual Worlds and Education is now published http://www.cvwer.org/

Monday 10th
06:14 am Returning to Sweden from the wild creativity of Brisbane. Check out
http://eternalsoundcheck.blogspot.com/ for video evidence of sonic life.
01:57 pm In Arlanda waiting for flight to Umeå. Missed this Australian flooding http://bit.ly/ecVXBx
by 48 hours. Pics from my hometown #Toowoomba
02:02 pm @katecrawford @mdieter to ublock ABC Australia overseas go for Hotspot Shield or
Ultrasurf
02:15 pm Amazing images from #Toowoomba #qldfloods http://bit.ly/eLP6jU seems the whole center
of town is under water.

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11:49 am Back to work. Working at home today; Australian Studies course, Article touch ups for
Oxford publication, Thesis chapter, Culture studies.
11:50 am Tony Abbot is fundamentally flawed http://bit.ly/epQrip #qldfloods
12:19 pm New music from me http://soundcloud.com/didgebaba/vision-living
12:36 pm @charlottefrost @smannion Thanks!!
01:21 pm @charlottefrost Luggage has been found, in Kuala Lumpur!! Should have it by the
weekend....

Wednesday 12th

JohnBirmingham Seems wrong to pimp it out, but ppl been askin. My #qldfloods story.
http://tinyurl.com/4qz5agh

06:04 am Its 6am here and Dangerous Minds rocks http://www.dangerousminds.net/

06:10 am Unbelievable stories from my home country
http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2011/01/12/grantham-resembles-war-zone/
06:22 am For #Toowoomba, Qld Australia the average rainfall for Jan is 65.5mm in 10.6 days. The
total for 2011 has been 401.2mm in10 days
06:53 am OM HA SVA HA KSHA MA LA VA RA YAM adventurous and experimental soundscapes
http://omhasva.blogspot.com/ is alve
07:08 am Music to alleviate reality http://www.mediafire.com/?6w7nanxfo13bv4m 6majik9 at Burst
City, full set and solid.
12:48 pm I love it how Australians can find humour even in the bleakest times
http://yfrog.com/hsa35zrj Queens Street shoe store #qldfloods
12:56 pm Humour No 2 in #qldfloods http://twitpic.com/3pbkz3/full King Wally ready for the water
03:42 pm RT @tweetmeme Seminar with Jan Schmidt http://bit.ly/eaeTqM
03:47 pm RT @tweetmeme HUMlab bloggers and tweeters http://bit.ly/dMeb03
10:03 pm Australian Education Review 58, The Arts and Australian Education: Realising potential
http://www.acer.edu.au/documents/AER-58.pdf

Thursday 13th
05:03 am My 2 cents worth on #qldfloods in Swedish
http://www.folkbladet.nu/224421/2011/01/13/undkom-flodvagen-med-nod-och-nappe
12:30 pm My luggage has arrived!!
01:15 pm Listening to museum studies students present term projects with Second Life in #HUMlab
01:19 pm Museum studies in #HUMLab; 1. ethnicity, gender, class, place in a school environment.
Inspired by film The Breakfast Club. Yaahhh!
01:23 pm Place: who we are depending on where we are. Place is physical, a point one can stand in.
School is a place. It makes you. #HUMlab museums
01:25 pm Class: creates groups based on power. Claire is the rich girl in The Breakfast Club, John is the
working class kid, Brian is middle class

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01:27 pm Gender "to have a child requires a man and a woman, therefore people think that there are
only two forms of gender" #HUMlab museum studies
01:29 pm Alison in The Breakfast Club is made-up to be "a real woman" and have Andrew like her;
http://bit.ly/i6KoZw gender is confined by this
01:31 pm The Breakfast Club does not present any alternative images of ethnicity other than white
American #HUMlab museum studies.
01:40 pm Student presentation in #HUMlab. Identity in place, gender, ethnicity and class in The
Breakfast Club as a 3D essa http://twitpic.com/3pmjzv
01:45 pm The freedom that comes with not having to make real things. Working in virtual worlds
mean not having to worry about the rain. #HUMlab
01:48 pm #HUMlab museum studies project no. 2 The Future of Nature: ecology and how we
represent nature as preserved.
01:52 pm The Future of Nature; student presentation in #HUMlab for museum studies course in
Second Life. http://twitpic.com/3pmn79
01:57 pm "The angel cried with a loud voice, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the
trees" Revelation 7:3
01:59 pm They who can't pay: ecology is a commodity and nature is only pictures. asphalt and
rubbish. #HUMlab museum studies presentations
02:02 pm @charlottefrost I had an imaginary brother (before I got a real one) but i killed him with
dish-washing liquid. Does this mean something?
02:04 pm Third zone of the Future of Nature is an awareness of older cultures. Are these to be
museums? #HUMlab museum studies
02:06 pm Free and Wild Forest is the final zone for The Future of Nature. The chaos of nature is not
easily transposed in SL #HUMlab museums
02:13 pm Video in The Future of Nature museum studies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgdZw9d3zSY #HUMlab
02:51 pm Presentation of Gender is the 3rd group project for museum students in #HUMlab.
02:52 pm The Beautiful Boxer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IuEAP_6CJU transgendered Thai
boxer
03:04 pm Changing gender politics, Beware the Homosexual (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijbovskICjk a film from another (now humorous) age.
03:07 pm Transsexuals in Iran http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ac9_1244928041 do not have the
difficulties and dangers that gay men do #HUMlab museums
03:12 pm Interesting that a topic such as HBT identities can be presented in a museum context using
virtual worlds #HUMlab museum studies.
03:15 pm Thinking of Paris is Burning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydA7-qCv570 drag realness
from the 80s. The young today have short memories.
03:21 pm Final museum studies project presentation in #HUMlab on disco and gender class ethnicity
and place.
03:30 pm Museum students presenting the class issues behind the "paradise resort" for package
tours; prostitution, loss of habitat, culture conflict
03:34 pm European bartender school, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkx8OLRQQRQ a reason for
the revolution as far as I am concerned
07:48 pm @astridmager yes, flood expert, musician, I even do a PhD in my spare time ;-)
07:50 pm @charlottefrost I would go for the Chelsea.....I wonder how much it costs

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Friday 14th
03:58 pm Making friends with Moodle.

Saturday 15th
05:33 am Anyone with horses in #qldfloods needing stables. Can take 15 to 20 horses. Caboulture.
041838577. Please RT
07:42 am Rose. Nourishing Terrains. Australian Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness (PDF
Book) http://bit.ly/eW0Nqd Reflective re #qldflood
04:38 pm Watching The First Australians, http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/index/index/epid/2
a horrific tale of dispossession, murder and lies

Sunday 16th
08:19 pm Heard today that Greece is building a wall to keep immigrants out. How long will it be B4
they are keeping Greeks in? http://bit.ly/eLUpga

Monday 17th
09:35 am "Tell my pastor that I have WILLED 14.258M usd to you by quoting my personal reference
number LLP/953/900//316US/UK.I am mrs mellisa Lewis"?
09:36 am and apparently mrs Lewis is going for an operation later today.....I AM RICH!!!
10:50 am Welcome video to students on an Australian Studies Net course
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvVY0V_QrzI starts today.
10:51 am @charlottefrost landkod for UK is 44, and good luck with the 'magic' money.
12:01 pm Listening to The Seeds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSn3UJU1lzI groovy hey!
01:28 pm Short meeting about digital art and how to make it happen here and now in #HUMlab
03:31 pm Burroughs The Movie http://www.ubu.com/film/burroughs_movie.html the future that no
ones wants but everybody watches.

Tuesday 18th
09:00 am @deepwarren already have http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM1Ahn0Osjo
02:50 pm 121 links about sound http://www.delicious.com/didgebaba/Sound
03:25 pm Australian William Barak should be commemorated with a statue or on a dollar bill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barak a brave man
10:40 pm Just survived my first snowboarding experience. Three hours of steep learning curve. Sore
in a couple of place but have tasted the flow.

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Wednesday 19th
01:34 pm "the individual is interpellated as a (free) subject in order that he shall submit freely to the
commandments of the Subject" (Althusser).
01:35 pm "Your tweet was over 140 characters. You'll have to be more clever" Twitter
01:40 pm To distinguish ISAs from the SA, Althusser offers a number of examples http://bit.ly/i14frc
03:40 pm Paper for Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction done and
sent. Course up to date and thesis ongoing.

Thursday 20th
09:34 am email is really starting to take up a lot of time in my life....
01:54 pm Nice Before/After visualization for Brisbane in the #qldfloods
http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics/qld-floods/beforeafter.htm
04:25 pm The new Rhizome website looks amazing http://rhizome.org/

Friday 21st
04:15 pm Australia did the final wave of punk long before Seattle snubbed its grubby nose to the big
labels http://bit.ly/gmMPVw

Saturday 22nd
12:05 am Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In the cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry
On the bat's back I do fly
10:45 am Putting extracts from my thesis on my blog
http://www.soulsphincter.com/2011/01/thesis-extract-place-and-class-as.html read and
weep.
06:13 pm Aussie in UK greeted with G'day, sport, Is your girlfriend called Sheila? throw another
shrimp on the barbie + jokes about kangaroos, sues
06:14 pm Australian feels the comments he has endured while doing his job are ''race-inspired''
http://bit.ly/i70QxK
06:14 pm He is now on a "cocktail of antidepressant medications"
06:15 pm @charlottefrost Neighbours is a high point for Australian culture when compared to Bazza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2V1OE-yIzA
06:18 pm Australians still live with the legacy of chundering blokes and beaut sheilas; Chunder in the
Old Pacific Sea, myself, I like poetry.
06:18 pm Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea - Barry Crocker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1W0pP6A8BE
06:22 pm @charlottefrost The stereotypes are still alive, try passing the Australian Culture Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PfDro1UGUo

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Monday 24th
01:16 pm 4 those PhD folk: 5 ways to kill your darlings
http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/5-ways-to-kill-your-darlings/ Just Do
It!

Tuesday 25th
11:49 am How to roll-your-own e-payment and delivery system for selling your books comics
http://bit.ly/bRCZcu
12:00 pm Tin Tin; Breaking Free, everyone's favorite Belgian journalist joins the anarchists
http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/pages/image001.html
12:37 pm The companion website for Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic
Workshop by Louis Niebur http://bit.ly/hVuwll
12:38 pm @finnarne would you like to sell TT paper version? I have seen it before. Have you seen;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/didgebaba/sets/671958/
01:17 pm @finnarne excellent...let me know if u find it
01:29 pm Long live syncopated beats.....

Wednesday 26th
02:59 pm Rafiki Records http://www.rafikirecords.com/ are recording amazing music in Rwanda. Lots
online to listen to.
03:01 pm Rafiki Sampler - Rafiki Records http://bt.io/GcT5 (via @backtype)
03:09 pm And here are another 53 interesting recording labels as well
http://www.delicious.com/didgebaba/MusicLabels
10:42 pm "We regarded Assange throughout as a source, not as a partner or collaborator" NYT
http://nyti.ms/fIAHKt bodes badly for a future US trial.

Thursday 27th
12:24 pm Excellent radio doco on Einstürzende Neubauten
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2098=4309170 in Swedish
02:29 pm "people of Tunisia shouldn't have had to wait for Wikileaks to learn that the U.S. saw their
country just as they did" http://bit.ly/ftZ3sQ
02:34 pm yet another killer Mp3 blog appears on the horizon http://experimentaletc.blogspot.com/
sounds to live and dream by

Friday 28th
10:50 am Openleaks is now online http://openleaks.org/ and waiting for information

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Saturday 29th
12:17 am F-I-R-E in C-A-I-R-O http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iGHgjOHyN8 (1980) Robert Smith
was a political commentator ahead of his time.
12:20 am George Eliot produced her own translation of Spinoza's Ethics, the first known English
translation of it
12:24 am There is a free audio version of Spinoza's Ethics
http://librivox.org/the-ethics-by-spinoza-benedict-de/ we do live in a redeemable age
12:47 am White House press sec. Robert Gibbs "describes internet access as a basic right" #jan25
11:33 am Amazing collection of Burroughs material for sale. A nice website worth trawling thru
http://lopezbooks.com/archive/wsb/ images an notes.

Monday 31st
10:16 am Return to thesis after a Sunday spent recording sounds for upcoming Ukrainian psychedelic
music compilation....serious.
11:27 am Wikipedia's book function, that produces a good PDF on the subject. Here is John Lennon:
The Complete Guide http://bit.ly/hKntQz (288 pages)
11:30 am The page for the John Lennon Wikipedia book, and info for other books is here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:John_Lennon
04:49 pm One step forward, two steps backward Down inna Babylon One step forward, two steps
backward Down inna Babylon / http://bit.ly/erHPG #Thesis
05:19 pm @charlottefrost Machinima is a technique more than a tool. Have u seen Scratch
http://scratch.mit.edu/ ?
05:24 pm @charlottefrost Scratch is designed 4 children of primary age, so it should be fairly
straightforward. Have not used it myself (disclaimer)
05:30 pm RT @openculture: Werner Herzog, one of our great film directors, spends an evening in
conversation with Pico Iyer. Video: http://cultr.m ...
05:35 pm @charlottefrost ahh those words "too little time to pull this together"..is there an echo in
this room ;-)

mikefrangos RT @jgrossnas Indie Rock Embraces an African Invasion http://nyti.ms/icuGGo

07:58 pm Previous NYT post is behind a registration wall. Solution is http://www.bugmenot.com/

bypass it all.
09:02 pm Recording of Africa meets Australia in northern Sweden
http://soundcloud.com/didgebaba/total-groove Live beats from 2009
09:31 pm Reading 2011 Digital Trends on Scribd http://scr.bi/fpYSfs #readcast

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February

Tuesday 1st
10:09 am Saw 'An Education' (2009) last night: http://imdb.to/2VyizC Wonderful soundtrack, for
example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_ODg0FmzQ

openculture 1994: Bryant Gumbel Katie Couric (The Today Show) trying to figure out new thing called the
Internet: http://j.mp/fcsNBK

knittedgardens Fantastic conversation yesterday with @mikefrangos over coffee (thx!) - my blog post on
Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go http://bit.ly/g0ibPr

Wednesday 2nd
12:39 am Two articles about our next #HUMlab exhibition in Second Life http://bit.ly/gRCgwe +
http://konsten.net/?p=3483 one in French one in Swedish
12:56 am Thinking of my friends in Far North Qld with #TCYasi bearing down on them. It looks like it is
going to be a bruiser.
10:38 am Dealing with sound as element of narrative in digital texts; does diegesis apply? See
Jørgensen (no) and Grimshaw (yes). Barrett is unsure
11:32 am @ulul Hotel Des Arts in Montmartre: http://www.arts-hotel-paris.com/ wonderful
12:26 pm What's the altitude? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS5TklbuKvM

ABC_NewsRadio Geoblock lifted on ABC News24 for Cyclone coverage - let expats know they can watch at
http://bit.ly/e9EUc0 #tcYasi

05:13 pm @knittedgardens Happy New year!!!

scribd Everyone has a favorite teacher: one that left a lasting impression on you. Who was yours what made
them special? http://scr.bi/i2CQLU

scribd Everyone has a favorite teacher: one that left a lasting impression on you. Who was yours what made
them special? http://scr.bi/i2CQLU

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Thursday 3rd
09:49 am a US report concluded that space was so littered with rubbish that a collision could set off
an "uncontrolled chain reaction" Good morning!
11:54 am The Second #HUMlab YoshiKaze “Up-In-The-Air” Residency http://bit.ly/fB0Ccu

parisreview I think that’s what turns young men and women into writers—the happiness you discover living
in books. – Paul Auster (birthday today)

06:17 pm Confession: A Roman Catholic App for iPhones and iPads

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/confession-a-roman-catholic/id416019676?mt=8
07:03 pm Spotify doesn't have a bio 4 Jimi Hendrix attached to the long list of his music streamed.
Like you are supposed to just know or something.

Friday 4th
12:03 am @charlottefrost so the rumours are unfounded
then???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
11:05 am Has anyone tried out http://www.guubes.com/ free augmented reality tool? I would like to
experiment with it.
11:07 am @leesawatego Have you seen Bride and Prejudice; fake Bollywood version. Maybe better
for kids. Has song and dance +++
11:30 am Jokkmokk revisited http://bit.ly/fuJF7K

flicknews Swedish actress Lena Nyman dies at 66: I Am Curious (Yellow) star dies. http://bit.ly/gVY0Sb
#movies @screendaily

12:32 pm Garrett Lynch Live and Augmented in #HUMlab 8/2/11 3pm. http://twitpic.com/3wd7bj
05:54 pm Uluru http://petercarroll.visualsociety.com/?p=936 amazing images of the great rock. Just
stunning.
06:00 pm The people I Tweet for @knittedgardens @fairyrings @stefangelfgren @charlottefrost
@mattermorph @finnarne @jeanburgess @RobinTeigland

Saturday 5th
10:30 pm Interactive map for Aboriginal languages http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/ includes
sound samples.

Sunday 6th
09:13 am Uploaded 2 op source vids to UTube http://bit.ly/hpplLv http://bit.ly/hp2r80 from Aus
Screen http://aso.gov.au/ 4 teaching Xcellent resource
05:16 pm Pic of tracking moose in the woods about 1km from my flat with my kids
http://twitpic.com/3x4tkd
07:45 pm I am teaching an Australian Studies online course- found out today that national poet Henry
Lawson was deaf. Teaching teaches so much.

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HarisAlisic EXECUTION! Mubarak's police executes protester in Alexandria. THIS IS MUBARAK'S STABILITY!:
http://bit.ly/fwGCMi PLEASE RT!!!

Monday 7th

wikileaks US Behind Swedish Internet Surveillance: Cablegate http://is.gd/oKNE2P

10:14 am Artist book from Garrett Lynch for exhibition in #HUMlab tomorrow
http://tinyurl.com/garrettlynch-yoshikaze
09:33 pm Only took three days to chronicle 150 years of Australian history in digital form for Oz
Studies online students. I <3 #Moodle.

Tuesday 8th
11:56 am #HUMlab postdocs go wild. Journey to Jokkmokk beyond the polar circle
http://student.humlab.umu.se/jokkmokkrevisited/
11:56 am @stefangelfgren and so begins gender......
01:12 pm #HUMlab performance and exhibition by Garrett Lynch in 40 mins Come on down!

Wednesday 9th

leesawatego A Healthy Reminder of an Unhealthy Race: A blog post by young Murri blogger @carlyjwallace
http://bit.ly/f7r3wi

08:43 am There was movement at the station/for the word had passed around/that a thesis does not
write itself...........
07:49 pm Can recommend "The acoustic ecology of the First-Person Shooter." by Mark Grimshaw
(PhD Thesis) http://bit.ly/g6llrc
08:52 pm Just picked up 'Behind the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and
Genres' - must not read more must write thesis!

mkirschenbaum The 2nd volume of the widely used Electronic Literature Collection is out: http://bit.ly/f6rFiK
VERY exciting, for everyone in #elit.

10:07 pm Notice Facade is included in Electronic Lit Coll. Vol 2

http://collection.eliterature.org/2/works/mateas_facade.html thesis remains relevant

Thursday 10th
09:51 am Good morning! This is radio hyena...searching the plains for delicious scraps and disguarded
morsels. http://bit.ly/9PK5cB Fela! Fela! Fela!

stefangelfgren RT @kesomackan: Det nya Afrika: Mobiltelefoner förändrar livet i Ghana.

http://bit.ly/dNMMWG //Otroligt intressant litet inslag!

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12:15 pm I am falling in love with Dropbox all over again......worked out how to combine two
accounts and sync files to both of them....Yaaahhhh
02:42 pm @fairyrings https://www.dropbox.com/help/25 followed this but combined solution 1 with
solution 2: had to empty folder and restart dropbox
04:13 pm Music as time machine. Listening 2 The Doors: same feeling when 18 years old. Sensation of
freedom and possibility (will pass soon no doubt)

Friday 11th
12:55 am Swam tonight at the gym Arabic speakers have lost that wounded look they have had since
9/11. #Egypt #Tunisia #Jordan, Murbarak has no idea.
12:58 am the comic book that helped inspire Egyptian revolutionaries http://bit.ly/htRxZ4 Martin
Luther King and the Montgomery Story
01:07 am From the Blogosphere to the Street; The Role of Social Media in the Egyptian Uprising
http://bit.ly/fUyCjp
11:47 am Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit? | Slavoj Žižek http://t.co/Akr9lxJ via @guardian
Thanks to @rasmusfleischer
12:11 pm Incredible images from Cairo #Egypt. Hundreds of thousands moving in the streets. Just
chanting "Invalid". http://twitpic.com/3yltq7
02:47 pm Blog post on the visual economy of the #egypt revolution http://bit.ly/dJRRfH as
constructed by Al Jazeera
06:44 pm @maximolly I dont think the twitterverse is interested in murbarak's regime now. Its the
masses of #egypt people that fill our imaginations

Saturday 12th
10:56 am For the sound track to the new #Egypt I recommend dj mutamassik. Girl turntablist from
Cairo http://www.myspace.com/djmutamassik
11:26 am Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique (Routl...
http://t.co/0eutUHy via @amazon
11:23 pm Watching Flicker http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/flicker/ use
http://www.ultrareach.com/ for region blocks
11:28 pm "Art does not stop when you close your eyes" Lee Renaldo FLickER
http://www.alivemindmedia.com/film-info/flicker-reviews/

Sunday 13th
12:34 am After #Egypt I think the next popular revolution should be Italy
01:35 pm Assange attempts to give perspective on Wikileaks http://bit.ly/fg3382 a new journalism, a
new media ecology, and a great ego.
03:29 pm Worries me I am starting to see evidence of right wing extreme politics in the city I live in. 4
incidents over the weekend of personal ex.

khaoid Alexander Galloway – Piracy, control practices, and alternatives of control http://bit.ly/dVxIPX

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monstris @spacehijackers ..... i know i know http://is.gd/JXmpdj

Monday 14th
09:30 am Bread with Omega-3 oil in it tastes weird but sure gives one an energy jolt....
12:37 pm What the USA wants with Julian Assange and #Wikileaks http://bit.ly/gbSVJ8 detailed
report from Four Corners. Australian TV at its best.
12:55 pm Video The Guardian’s David Leigh Talks About Julian Assange and Wikileaks
http://tcrn.ch/gCz7ZM
08:07 pm Don't think "underground" — think "space is the place" http://bit.ly/e2RMBY amazing
sounds global experiment psych Me included (Nada Baba).
08:26 pm Better link for music comp WHNZ:18:COMI
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Various_Artists/WHNZ18COMI/ fresh sounds 4 night
flight
10:02 pm Current temperature outside is -26°C (that's -15F)...don't want to go outside.
10:50 pm Chapter four done 13921 words, 35.5 pp. proof reading, corrections and citations
tomorrow. Started work at 7, swam 1 hour, finished 22:40.
11:08 pm As well..video of what I did last week, managed Garrett Lynch Performance in #HUMlab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HFbRg4boho
11:10 pm Thanks to @fairyrings for the Garrett Lynch
video....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HFbRg4boho

Tuesday 15th
07:24 am The Hitchcock and Truffaut Tapes
http://www.filmdetail.com/2011/02/14/the-hitchcock-and-truffaut-tapes/ Mp3 downloads
08:33 am It may be -26 degrees outside but here I have music and what more does one need as the
earth freezes about me...
08:46 am WHNZ:18:COMI released two days ago and already almost 500 downloads
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Various_Artists/WHNZ18COMI
11:56 am New artist in residence on the #HUMlab SL island for the Yoshikaze residency...more details
shortly.

kfitz RT @Criterion: Big news! Criterion library available on @Hulu; 150 films to watch now, hundreds more
to come: http://t.co/6FYboQs // HUGE.

05:32 pm China's Mighty Telecom Footprint in Africa

http://www.elearning-africa.com/newsportal/english/news270.php
05:35 pm Upcoming seminar series in #HUMlab looks hot hot hot http://bit.ly/fmXMnQ (program)
speakers include Alan Liu and Rita Raley
05:45 pm Google crowd-sourcing aggregation against content farms http://bit.ly/fXS6h2

briancroxall I'm glad to see Shakespeare Quarterly taking a second round of open review with
MediaCommons: http://bit.ly/hN1EX2.

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astridmager me :) #HUMlab seminar..

09:54 pm Has anyone ever died of PhD?

Wednesday 16th
08:09 am http://greatgatsbygame.com/ avoid the drinks waiters and collect the gold, if Fitzgerald had
only had this advice.
08:54 am Oh God, its the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers...how I feel the weight of
your subject.

HumanioraUmu Vernissage på Bildmuseet på lördag! Missa inte chansen att få en visning av Walid Raad
själv, kl 13.30 och kl 15. Föranmälan 090-7865227 #fb

05:44 pm When the people protest in Tehran and the police attack, households leave their doors
open so the 'politicals' can hide - Swedish radio.

CoppelieC Real and imagined places in Sámi identity discourse on Internet http://t.co/oLE3VHm

11:14 pm @JohnBirmingham The answer lies in vegetarianism my friend.

Thursday 17th
10:04 am Turning attention 2 article Reading with the Body: Interpreting Three Dimensional Media as
Narrative, finishing 4 publication then thesis.
01:28 pm Search #Bahrain and see what horror humanity is capable of......
03:47 pm @charlottefrost Reminds me of: I went to India to find myself, but forgot to exchange
addresses.....

klang67 Beautiful! Student at Umeå creates physical Spotify player http://bit.ly/dKKp0h

Friday 18th
12:22 pm 22 000 bats to be evicted from the Botanical Gardens http://bit.ly/i8nccu real estate is
getting ridiculous in Sydney...
03:26 pm 19/1 16:00 Folkets Hus Umeå I am performing with Kontaktimprovisation as part of the
Beat Meet festival http://www.beatmeet.se/ -starts 2day

Saturday 19th
11:14 am "Cloud streaming the future for music" http://bit.ly/gZit3l business seems to be catching
on, even in Australia.

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11:10 am Being bilingual may delay Alzheimer's and boost brain power http://bit.ly/f7uIza I känna
mig bättre already
11:20 am Jag vill vara med på http://twittoppen.se! #twittoppen

ubuweb An in-depth, one-hour, career-spanning, video interview with Marcel Duchamp from 1963:
http://is.gd/AqIPaR

stefangeens Direct link to PDF of Gene Sharp's book "From Dictatorship to Democracy". A must-read classic
now http://ow.ly/40jLR

03:08 pm "Increasingly, though, texts take the form of worlds as much as words." MATTHEW
KIRSCHENBAUM http://bit.ly/gilyE3 was just talking bout this
09:12 pm @fairyrings @Simon_Lindgren congrats on "first 'real' publication".
09:17 pm @fairyrings @Simon_Lindgren of course...I just like the use of the term 'real' - we could
discuss it at length...
09:38 pm To blow my own horn;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Multi-user-Virtual-Environments-Classroom-Approaches/dp/1609605454
out soon
09:42 pm @finnarne just saw this and it seems u r right I am not on the Sweden list. Realized 2day I
am number 213 of total twitter users 2007-03-18
09:47 pm changed my photo; the eyepatch+unkept hair may scared people. Am not at all dangerous.
Nor a pirate. Present image taken by my son hence :-)

Tuesday 22nd
09:22 am To start the day; Cambodia before Pol Pot
http://www.youtube.com/user/jeffmagic32#p/u/2/tDA5ym1_THQ psychedelic Khmer
classics YYEEHAAA!

AJELive Hacktivist group #Anonymous issues statement in solidarity with #Libya protesters:
http://j.mp/g1dtCj

holychic RT @Erica_Jane_MP: David Cameron arrives in Kuwait - with 8 arms dealers. WTEverlovingF!??
http://gu.com/p/2n9t6/ip

10:44 pm @jilltxt Another Aussie makes good in the big world. Congratulations Professor Walker
Rettberg!

Wednesday 23rd
09:03 am Two Postdoctoral Positions in Participatory Digital Media and Digital Humanities
http://bit.ly/hqBcu4
09:43 am Final composition of thesis chapter 3 'Restricting Forms: design and space in the reading of
selected digital narratives' has been commenced

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09:45 am Good morning
http://www.soulsphincter.com/2011/02/morning-view-from-kitchen-window.html
11:02 am Scottish and Swedish artists meet in Umeå this weekend http://bit.ly/eBoGih part of
umea2014 and the 4 Corners project http://bit.ly/f7Kvap
11:17 am Qaddafi sons spent millions of dollars to engage singers like Mariah Carey, Usher and
Beyonce to sing at their banquets http://bit.ly/gUXUIK
01:11 pm re-reading Ian Bogost Persuasive Games, some of which is free and online
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262026147chap1.pdf
02:19 pm Urbanspacesbecamebattlefields, signifiershavebeeninvaded, newstruc-
tureshavebeenestablished http://bit.ly/egaTQb
02:22 pm #Tunisia #Egypt #Libya and I watch Surplus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AEiwOM4fAY and wonder if it could ever happen
here? Maybe not.

Thursday 24th
09:00 am Old sounds made new. Album I play on from 2005 is now streamed online:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/6majik9/The_Human_Hand/

katecrawford There's 200 new postdoc fellowships being funded in Oz, and the guidelines look good:
http://j.mp/f6U6Ij #DECRA

12:08 pm Waiting 4 a book. Sthing not done 4 while thanx 2 Google this1 is so new it's nowhere
Reading Moving Letters: Digital Literature in Research
12:10 pm Welcome back to Sweden Julian #Assange. May it be free fair and unbaised
03:36 pm A film i truly want to see http://www.iamsecretlyanimportantman.com/about.php Steven
Jesse Bernstein, poet and immortal.
07:00 pm I wonder if the final scene in the uprising of #Libya will be Gaddafi re-enacting the last
scene from Scarface? http://bit.ly/cZTWzc

medeamalmo Apply now for a PhD position in Media and communication studies at Malmö University,
Sweden http://t.co/0WlwlzP

Friday 25th

Routledge_Comms Feminist Media Studies is publishing online ahead of print: http://bit.ly/hxF5i9 and
accepting online submissions! http://bit.ly/gKOmht

03:00 pm So this is what I wrote yesterday

http://www.soulsphincter.com/2011/02/thesis-extract-layering.html 4 thesis. Still have 9
hours of 2day
03:02 pm Yippppeee HUMlab blog coding problems seem to be fixed so I can now access it off
campus http://blog.humlab.umu.se/
03:03 pm A visionary scope of the digital humanities http://bit.ly/gOtRFa

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jamesriggall Reading: Virtual reality needs real writers. http://bit.ly/exM7mg (Related video:
http://bit.ly/hmtMWp)

05:32 pm Just went back 2 the DH Comp http://digitalhumanities.org/companion/ (2008) after a 2

years. Seems a bit dated today but still a monument.

Saturday 26th

ubuweb Hans Namuth's film, "Pollock Painting" (1951), with a soundtrack by Morton Feldman [color, 10
min]: http://is.gd/3Zl2vW

Monday 28th
08:54 am Getting some feedback on final draft of thesis chapter 4 and it looks good. The end is in
sight!
09:35 am Final proof for Learning Places: A Case Study of Collaborative Pedagogy Using Online Virtual
Worlds sent off for the book. Good feeling.
03:55 pm Where exactly did today go?
10:46 pm signature line for an email of job notices from Michigan State; Live without dead
time.-graffitti Paris 1968. A warning?
10:50 pm Academia.edu profiles, papers, links return very high on Google searches. Way ahead of my
University published database or work website.

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Tuesday 1st

Joi Blog post: Japanese free download of The Cove -

http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2011/03/01/the-cove-releas.html

11:05 am First thought 2day: Temporal and spatial perspectives based on first-person relations with
virtual objects. Haptics in Digital Fiction.
12:51 pm 48% of British people are in favor of a new far-right party if it avoids using “fascist imagery”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/167624.html

CoppelieC Vad betyder naturen för dig?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4769546/DAUM%20Fr%C3%A5gelista%2019%20Naturen.pdf

12:56 pm "The correct political tendency of a work includes its literary quality because it includes its
literary tendency." W. Benjamin, 1934
03:10 pm @JPBarlow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBgewcFh-cg Zombie no go go, unless you
tell em to go (Zombie)
05:14 pm The Author as Producer by Walter Benjamin
http://roundtable.kein.org/files/roundtable/Walter%20Benjamin_%20The%20Author%20as%20Producer.pdf
05:24 pm "The revolutionary force of Dadaism lay in the fact that it put the authenticity of art to the
test." W. Benjamin

Wednesday 2nd
12:16 am Climbed a large hill in darkness and saw this:
http://www2.vk.se/galleri/norrsken/IMG_0607_2.jpg
12:05 pm "most of the Franco-Cantabrian cave art, by far the most thoroughly studied such corpus,
was made by children or youths"
12:08 pm @mattermorph Welcome to the amazing knowledge base of the original Australians
http://www.delicious.com/didgebaba/Aboriginal

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12:45 pm @mattermorph very much so. I work with narrative and the systems used by the Aborigines
is the most advanced I have found.
05:49 pm #HUMlab screening SF Film series begins next week: Inception http://bit.ly/bDznL7 March 9
@ 17:15 in HUMlab. Admission free.

openculture Sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick would have turned 82 today. The documentary, "A Day in the
Afterlife," revisits his life: http://j.mp/b5fqRL

ubuweb "Sound Sculpture" A collection of essays by artists surveying the directions of sound sculpture.
(1975): http://is.gd/Utin0Z

08:58 pm Have sufficiently flagellated my mind 4 the day. 12 hours of writing is sufficient to atone 4
thesis guilt, Some pages closer to salvation

Thursday 3rd
12:32 pm The iconic sign “partakes of some more or less overt character of its object” (Peirce 4.531)

VersoBooksUK Calling psychogeographers! London sound walks - download free and walk
http://www.memoryscape.org.uk/ Interview: http://bit.ly/fe6l44

Friday 4th
12:07 pm RIP Chris Dale, who has died aged 49. Chris was a 6ft 6in mountaineer and enthusiastic
cross dresser http://bit.ly/euF59M fascinating man.

Saturday 5th
05:19 pm Institute's Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills initiative
http://www.imls.gov/about/21stCSkills.shtm
06:54 pm Current issue of Bamse does a cover based on "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around
a Pomegranate" by Dali (1 http://twitpic.com/46gi80

Sunday 6th
12:34 am détournement:
deflection/diversion/rerouting/distortion/misuse/misappropriation/hijacking/turning aside
from its normal course or purpose

ubuweb "The World of R. Buckminster Fuller," a documentary from 1974 (color, 85 min.):
http://is.gd/g54A5Y

11:11 pm http://bit.ly/gtckw 'Why We Fight'. Eugene Jarecki's film about the anatomy of the
American war machine

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Monday 7th
09:44 am I wonder if @charliesheen knows the meaning of logocentrism? When he comes down he is
going to need more than just a lawyer.

evgenymorozov Interesting historical perspective on Web activism and revolutions http://goo.gl/Z4h2L

Tuesday 8th
12:11 am Uni of NSW "they've turned the library into a kind of a Starbucks" http://bit.ly/dTJNO8
50000 books thrown out + newspapers from 1850s 1860s

openculture Jane McGonigal, author of "Reality is Broken," on why alternate realities of video gaming can
solve real-world problems: http://j.mp/hh8Wyw

christydena "If I speak, I create futures. If I keep quiet, the present is eternal" ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky trans
in @killscreenmag http://bit.ly/i1kk6Q

09:19 am Got my new neural.it yesterday http://neural.it/ very happy with it.
01:14 pm 144 page PDF explaining media art in Flanders
http://www.ibknet.be/files/Mediaartanddigitalcultureinflanders_small.pdf (Eng) 100+
artists
03:01 pm Three words; Procedurality, Repetition, Layering. By these shall I see this thesis chapter
done.

drunken_boat happy international women's day! have some women's fiction. http://bit.ly/eJY5vT
http://bit.ly/eIh2ym #fiction

08:16 pm Sudanese riot police arrest more than 40 women minutes after they start a protest against
rape #internationalwomensday http://bit.ly/gYZcdk

dhnow Want to Reach Students? Let Them Build Stuff, by @jbj [Pedagogy] http://bit.ly/hRWTz0

11:34 pm The people of Zawiyah are fighting for their lives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkaAXDTLhsw Right now.

Wednesday 9th
08:50 am Did spring cleaning originate from only being able to see the dust when the sun returns
following the darkness of winter? Need to clean.
09:36 am Interesting discussion begun by Cate Blanchett on Sydney as cultural city
http://bit.ly/gw0BlV

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Thursday 10th
10:03 am @JPBarlow In the Country of the Blind the one eyed wo/man would be in jail.

simon_lindgren I wrote on my blog: A copy of a copy of a copy

http://www.simonlindgren.com/2011/03/10/a-copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy/

dmlcentral Street kids in Bangladesh use digital media to document the nature of their lives, "Through our
own eyes." http://bit.ly/dGxOl9

openculture RT @matthiasrascher: Virtual tour of a Mark Rothko exhibition at Tate Modern.

http://bit.ly/fSVchN #modern #art #Tate

hrheingold New studies: Is virtual world good for the real world?
http://dmlcentral.net/blog/joseph-kahne/virtual-world-good-real-one

Friday 11th

umea2014 Ny bussterminal söker konstnärer - Umeå http://t.co/MrDTc61

03:16 pm Take heed Europe; Nuclear reactors are sensitive beasts.

04:05 pm Sent in chapter draft for research seminar in #HUMlab next week. Friday 18 March
11:00am. Ask me for a copy if you want to come along.
11:13 pm The home of The Great Gatsby is up for sale
http://www.jenrossphoto.com/#Portfolio/Spaces/East%20Egg/1

Saturday 12th
04:12 pm Sheening: (adverb) to make incoherent statement/s via social media.
10:53 pm Have been at an Xbox Kinect party. Great possibilities but how does one write for the haptic
enabled augmented space?

Sunday 13th
01:49 pm Some of my past and the cultural fun park that was inner-city Sydney circa 1995
http://bit.ly/eFCADd
01:59 pm The Electronic Revolution by William Burroughs http://tumblr.com/xoa1rbzilu PDF
02:00 pm Sound Time and the prevention of the future
http://www.directorslive.com/channels/action/spin/ Spin
08:10 pm Poetry as memorable speech: "birth, death, the Beatific Vision, the abysses of hatred and
fear, the awards and miseries of desire" W H Auden

volcanictongue Tip Of The Tongue: Christina Carter - Texas Blues Working 2xLP on Blackest Rainbow
Recordings http://www.volcanictongue.com/tips

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08:37 pm More Christina Carter http://www.manybreaths.com/ ahhhhhhhhh
09:19 pm Straight from the kosmische musik centrum http://www.soulvlog.com/2011/03/can.html
CAN videos

Monday 14th
05:18 pm My 10-year-old son tells me "all day I have had 'She Came in Through the Bathroom
Window' in my head" http://bit.ly/cxQdxM Could be worse.

Tuesday 15th
10:36 am Another day at the wordface. Each syllable scrapped back from chaos of eternity. Language
is the skin in which we wrap reality. So poorly.
10:41 am New edition of The Group http://groupmag.blogspot.com/2011/03/group-7.html The best
in new Australian writing.
12:19 pm The civilized world (not sure where that is actually) will come to regret watching the events
in Libya unfold. #Gaddafi retakes power. OMG
12:21 pm Let us recap who we are dealing with in Libya. If dress sense is any indication #Gaddafi
should be in care http://bit.ly/105aFX
02:58 pm There is something squeamishly painful about revisiting old #thesis drafts. Could I have
actually written something so bad?
03:23 pm Will it still be an English village without Brian True-May http://bit.ly/gPhldN The absence of
ethnic diversity in Midsomer Murders may end
06:06 pm Step away from the keyboard for a while. Bathe, eat and attend to the wisdom of vanity. It
was I who first seduced them to that foul revolt.

Wednesday 16th
10:54 am Is it just me or has the intensity of existence exellarated in the past weeks?

BryanAlexander The White House is advancing more intellectual property measures,

http://1.usa.gov/fOm55G No CreativeCommons in them.

freemusicarchiv Download free legal mp3's from 125+ #sxsw artists! http://bit.ly/13lJn

Thursday 17th
08:34 am Back on. Today teaching high school students in #HUMlab about machinima. Should be a
blast. Notes here: http://bit.ly/gEWdI8

openculture Eerily Beautiful Mug Shots From 1920s Australia | http://t.co/0mQeRRL

patriksv Deadline approaching for 2 postdoc positions in #digitalhumanities /participatory digital media at
Umeå/ #HUMlab. http://bit.ly/e22kC4

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11:08 am Getting ready to meet the students behind NORR-MAL? Är du normal här i NORR?
http://bit.ly/f6maj7 in #HUMlab

fairyrings Student part of YAPA begins today (part 3). Machinima, the other, and expanded notion of text.
For info, go here http://t.co/U6qvBhu.

10:11 pm UN Security Council votes in an hour on #Libya no-fly zone , and 'extensions' (could mean
bombing 2morrow)- no veto only abstaining allowed
10:15 pm Source for previous tweet on #Libya is Hans Blix on Swedish news tonight.

RVAREGal Live stream of UN Sec Council mtg: http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/index.html Vote

to be taken on no fly zone #Libya

11:15 pm Waiting for the UN Security Council to vote on #Libya

11:34 pm 10 votes in favor, 0 votes against, 5 abstentions. Resolution adopted.
11:39 pm Colonel Qaddafi is going to have a hell of a morning tomorrow.

Friday 18th
08:52 am We speak about web identities. This is a web non-identity. The negative space of the hacker
http://bit.ly/hwnr6X Anonymous
01:40 pm #HUMlab graduate seminar completed with some good advice and no damage. Chapter 4 is
basically done. Chapter 3 still putting up a struggle.
05:44 pm An hour of writing and then to Galleri Verkligheten http://www.verkligheten.net/ for
Rasmus http://rasmusalbertsen.dk/

Saturday 19th
05:25 pm Swedish RadioLeaks opens; an encrypted service for people to provide information
http://bit.ly/fx0gF7 Just in time for Assange's return.
05:30 pm Benghazi Media center and mohammad nabbous, shot and killed earlier today
http://bit.ly/fVuTL8

Sunday 20th
04:36 pm Just spent the afternoon wandering around the neighborhood with my son, tossing a coin
to decide where we go and what we do. He loved it.
06:03 pm @stefangelfgren I do now http://www.acva.net.au/
06:22 pm The relationship between technology and cultural institutions are entering their "second
generation,” http://www.googleartproject.com/
10:39 pm Just finished watching all 8 episodes of The Beatles Anthology DVD. Amazing story and I
have been led to believe it was all true.
11:44 pm @stefangelfgren yes...looks very good. They are showing work in Europe this summer. Have
passed their name on to Sachiko

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11:55 pm @stefangelfgren Don't know jokaydia. Will look into it. Off to bed now...suppose you are
just getting ready for work...Down Under.

Monday 21st

khaoid RT @FromTheMorning: Tattoos from Russian prisons: an interactive guide. Click the body to learn.
http://bit.ly/em7zQt @AnnaNimh

06:07 pm Reading Hare Krishna recipes for possible dinner ideas.http://bit.ly/5qt4Mt.I think I need to
work on it a bit..noodles instead maybe.

parisreview Every morning I tell myself, Today has to be productive—and then something happens that
prevents me from writing. – Italo Calvino

09:06 pm http://open.spotify.com/user/didgebaba/playlist/4FRAkH4CREz5PvPeCRsGmd French Dub

Freaks
10:04 pm #HUMlab short course 7 April: Artistic Expressions and Copyright: The theory and practice
of remix culture Register http://bit.ly/esV1TU

ubuweb Walter Benjamin Essay Collection: http://is.gd/FJgr4e

Tuesday 22nd
09:57 am see things heating up on all channels; writing work to do, teaching work to do, virtual world
work to do. Currently making avatars.
11:34 am Looks like London will be closed on Saturday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/22/cuts-protests-why-marching
11:45 am At least 4,743 people were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 of
them black, 73 percent of them in the South
11:47 am the U.S. Postal Service banned the sending of lynching images as post cards in 1908,
however the cards still sold well door to door.
11:49 am Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (2000) by Hilton Als and James Allen
http://withoutsanctuary.org/
12:09 pm Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129025516 Radio Diaries
12:12 pm Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs
05:54 pm @mattermorph The economies of Africa have finally begun to reach a level that warrants
US intervention. Voilà "Odyssey Dawn".
05:58 pm To honor 80th birthday boy William Shatner; Shatner Of The Mount by Fall On Your Sword
http://bit.ly/19Et4l "Kirk and the mountain"
11:10 pm #HUMlab Sci-Fi film screening: GATTACA (30 March, 17:30) http://bit.ly/h7cfUX

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09:28 am Today 1:15 PM Jonathan Westin Uni of Gothenburg in #HUMlab “Displa[y/c]ing Science –
Culture in the making” live: http://live.humlab.umu.se/
02:42 pm Very few people can act like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nInE5TITzE8 Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Getting Angry, Baby? RIP Liz
03:22 pm Strange sounds from far away places http://culturalflow.com/

openculture The Third Man, great noir classic starring Orson Welles, voted the best British film of 20th
century. Now online. http://j.mp/fB2RFu

ubuweb A series of remarkable photos of Ginsberg Beat Fellows, 1969-1997: http://is.gd/59bsaY

11:30 pm "She and Chip had grown up together. They had met at a birthday party in Toowoomba
when they were still at school." D Malouf on my hometown

Thursday 24th
09:03 am Interesting story this morning; Google Books is rejected by Federal Court
http://nyti.ms/eyIk2Y Other need to begin work on book commons
09:36 am Erickson Sweden laying off 450 in sales and management but needs 250 research and
development engineers. Sign of the future of Euro economy
02:35 pm Meetings

Friday 25th
11:54 am Water is my favorite medium.

Madhviuk We're going to be crowd sourcing videos from anyone at the protest on Saturday for @guardian.
Very excited about the results.

03:40 pm Gould's Books is still going

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/novel-character-who-knows-every-trick-in-the-book-20110325-1c9yn.html
03:42 pm 'You're unlikely to see it in the Twitter regime; that kind of intellectual development is hard
to imagine,'' Bob Gould, Sydney Book Fiend
04:41 pm LOL, FYI, IMHO, OMG, and <3 have made it into the Oxford English Dictionary
http://bit.ly/h8zfeI

Saturday 26th
10:01 am Two Post doc positions at Umeå University in Culture and Media Dept in International
Studies in the Humanities http://bit.ly/gpk3iz
10:20 am Material left out of the #thesis;
http://www.soulsphincter.com/2011/02/thesis-extract-layering.html Killing my Darlings on
a Saturday.

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guardian The #cuts get personal - our new blog series http://bit.ly/gdiY2R

01:16 pm High point in the life of a parent; My son is starting a band! 10 members, only one can play
anything. Needs 12 songs by Monday for the CD.
02:32 pm If Syria goes everything is up from grabs.

ubuweb The classic documentary of Picasso painting on glass from 1950. Mesmerizing. 'Visite à Picasso'
(20min b): http://is.gd/YhQMNt

Sunday 27th
09:31 am Summer time just threw the household into 5 mins of timeless wonder. We were neither
here nor there.
01:27 pm I follow @JPBarlow because his opinions reflect my own, he reads good things and RTs
them and he knows cool people and mentions them.

Monday 28th
10:23 am Staff meeting my home department http://www.sprak.umu.se/ cheers me no end. Nice
people to work + and great cake too Thanks @knittedgardens

knittedgardens RT @HUMlab Sci-Fi film screening: GATTACA (30 March, 17:30) http://bit.ly/h7cfUX

12:16 pm http://bit.ly/gsbXwD Online book about the computer underground. From a literary
perspective through the eyes of numerous computer hackers.
12:31 pm Origins #Wikileaks c.1997 "individual but interconnected stories, bound by links to
international computer underground" http://bit.ly/gsbXwD
12:53 pm We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan, In accents most forlorn, http://bit.ly/bnj69k - Poem
from my childhood appears
02:46 pm I want 'Yes Is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution' by Bjarke Ingels..I just
ordered it...God I am so weak....WHY?
06:36 pm Here's to the memory of the Sydney Push http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Push in light
of today's sad inner city; http://bit.ly/hkxtuH

freemusicarchiv "online archives are increasingly how people encounter recordings of experimental
avant-garde music" -David Grubbs http://bit.ly/hD7d4h

geetadayal Satyajit Ray's masterful 1961 documentary on Rabindranath Tagore, posted in full on Vimeo:
http://bit.ly/i7F302

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manovich digital humanities++ | syllabus for Lev Manovich ’s spring 2009 course at UCSD: digital
humanities++ | syllabus http://bit.ly/fKvGqi

07:54 am Virtual worlds as a way to launder money http://bit.ly/hkUXbr I have thought about this
before. Tax avoidance as well an issue.
12:41 pm @jeanburgess "The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger."
Jacques Derrida
05:25 pm Local prison bans its inmates from reading a magazine called Skurk (Villain in Swedish)
http://www.skurk.com/, promises the red or blue pill
09:42 pm Just found Hardt and Negri Empire online
http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/negri/HAREMI_unprintable.pdf info economy and class.

Wednesday 30th
12:13 pm Preparing an online course with The Complete Short Stories by David Malouf for students.
Brilliant stories: http://bit.ly/e0hZhG
12:35 pm @fairyrings samhällsinformation ?
12:41 pm David Malouf Man International Booker finalist http://bit.ly/fUFwoM
12:49 pm I suppose I am sharing the World Cup feed with most of the subcontinent hence is it slow
http://bit.ly/huxwsX India 194-5

Thursday 31st
10:53 am Met colleague to plan teaching who did not make backups of teaching materials.
Recomended http://www.dropbox.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/
03:55 pm Brought bottle of wine in Sweden with a label painted by someone I used to know in
Sydney Toby Richardson's Shiraz Queen http://bit.ly/liH32
05:01 pm "Restricting Reader Freedom: A study of the techniques employed in four digital works" -
sound like something u could read? #Thesis

nytimesbooks ArtsBeat: Ferdinand the Bull Turns 75 http://nyti.ms/haIkhG

05:15 pm Plagiarism in the Digital Age: Voices from the Front Lines: What’s Happening on College
Campuses Today? http://bit.ly/dY8LIG
11:23 pm This is truly unbelievable. The Moomins are the minions of Satan, who would have guessed:
http://bit.ly/hcvZlh

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Friday 1st
08:31 am @simon_lindgren ahhh. I am trying to get a single link to all the returns from a HUMlab
search on DIVA. It may not be possible
08:35 am Pedagogy seminar this afternoon on teaching pharmacists and teaching Sámi language and
culture in Second Life with Language Studies Dept umu

RobinTeigland Today is big day for BT Flåten!! Defending his thesis on extended virtual teams:
http://bit.ly/ifk7Y3 #NVWN

09:08 am Final - India v Sri Lanka, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 11am CET......Tomorrow.

spacehijackers In case you missed the @resonancefm #march26 interview with us, here it is for your aural
pleasure http://is.gd/AeNVjb

02:51 pm Just picked up my copy of Yes is More

http://english.dac.dk/visArtikel.uk.asp?artikelID=4737 Hapi
04:35 pm Actually submitting something at 5:30pm on a Friday is a great feeling. Feels like the
working week is done, of course this is not true.
09:15 pm My local Red Cross shop has a couple of mammoth teeth for sale;
http://vk.se/Article.jsp?article=432706

FSG_Books You can now read Seamus Heaney, Les Murray, Paul Muldoon, @poetryfound's Christian Wiman
on @Scribd: http://scr.bi/h4Rk77

09:24 pm BLEED explores the newest trends in literature and the arts through vodcasts
http://jadedibisproductions.com/BLEED.html

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LarryButtrose Fukushima 'much bigger than Chernobyl' http://t.co/efODRuZ via @smh_news

04:26 pm Tarzan lives http://bit.ly/hqcfSP

Sunday 3rd
01:55 pm The realites of modern higher learning? Jersey Shore's Snooki paid 32K to appear at Rutgers
Uni event http://bit.ly/gB1J19. wtf?

ubuweb The new John Cage bio, "Begin Again" by Kenneth Silverman, as a free Epub: http://is.gd/y2JjwM

02:42 pm Remix Art Culture and Copyright short course in #HUMlab Thursday 7 April 13:13-16:00
http://admin.humlab.umu.se/node/1488 register now.
11:02 pm Art Copyright and Remix http://bit.ly/hsWQmy

Monday 4th
08:04 am @finnarne Sorry to hear Finn Arne. I grew up close to my grandparents and learnt a lot
from them. The world was v different in their youth.
08:19 am Many "The Asians in the Library" parodies on YouTube http://bit.ly/eUAoP7 + Asians
Sleeping in the Library http://bit.ly/gz263c meme is born
05:45 pm Does who you are outweigh how often you tweet in regards to how many followers you
have? popular+access=numbers vs nobody+access=nothing
09:44 pm After my #thesis I will write about remix theory, mad Australian poets, the myth of privacy,
machinima film, and any goddam thing I please..

Wednesday 6th
07:33 am Last night I dreamed I had a barbaloot suit. It fitted perfectly.
01:28 pm Warning: Will be tweeting a major event in #HUMlab shortly, prepare for minute coverage
of cutting edge digital humanities
02:25 pm Welcoming our regional governor and invited guests from the province (Vasterbötten)
administration to #HUMlab, Umeå University
02:51 pm Guests from Vasterbotten's administration in #HUMlab, Umeå University for presentations
on digital humanities+more http://twitpic.com/4hlfhv
02:53 pm Guests #HUMlab mingle w coffee + cup cakes prior to presentations on digital humanities,
business, and education http://twitpic.com/4hlg3s
02:55 pm Guests in #HUMlab mingle from Vasterbötten Province admin, Umeå Creative Industries,
Umeå University http://twitpic.com/4hlgu3
02:57 pm Guests from Sweden's Västerbotten Province administration, Umeå creative, Umeå
University at #HUMlab for dialogue http://twitpic.com/4hlhx4
03:02 pm Patrik Svensson, Director of #HUMlab welcomes guests from Västerbotten admin to Umeå
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03:05 pm Västerbotten's Governor Chris Heister http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Heister presents
highlevel group on demographic challenges #HUMlab
03:07 pm Göran Sandberg Karin Isrealsson Lennart Evrell Roger Stighäll Birgitta Heijer Eva Nygren
research demongraphic change Västerbotten #HUMlab
03:08 pm "Västerbotten is the same size as Denmark" Province Governor in #HUMlab
03:10 pm Three universities in Västerbotten: Umeå University, University of Agricultural Sciences and
Luleå University of Technology #HUMlab
03:11 pm The Virtual Cluster in Västerbotten mentioned by Province Governor in #HUMlab
03:12 pm Young entrepreneurs in Västerbotten are important, Västerbotten Governor in #HUMlab
03:13 pm Director of #HUMLab Patrik Svensson introduces lab as a meeting, research, and digital
media place. Innovation place. 6 postdoc researchers
03:14 pm Kempe and Wallenberg Foundations are very supportive of #HUMlab
http://www.wallenberg.com/ http://www.kempe.com/index_start.html
03:16 pm Indiespellkväll in #HUMlab http://admin.humlab.umu.se/files/INDIE1.pdf
http://on.fb.me/hWxCWV
03:19 pm Miss Baltazar's Lab, DOHI Sweden http://www.dohi.se/, in #HUMlab
03:19 pm Ohh, by the way, this is Patrik http://patrik.humlab.umu.se/?page_id=124 in #HUMlab
03:20 pm Postsecret http://www.postsecret.com/ researched by Stephanie Hendricks in #HUMlab
03:22 pm Digital mapping in #HUMlab, screenscapes, a changed city space, dynamic maps, research
Media Places with Stanford Uni (for 19.5 million SEK)
03:28 pm Media Places Conference at #HUMlab higlights a major theme for the work in the lab
http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?cat=229
03:29 pm New Arts Campus at Umeå University
http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/our-campuses/umea-arts-campus will have
#HUMlab
03:31 pm Eva Nygren http://www.arkitekt.se/s20940 presenting at #HUMlab on sustainable
architecture
03:32 pm "Culture is social cultivation" and Umeå is a garden; Eva Nygren at #HUMlab
03:33 pm "When one speaks on architecture and sustainable building we ask what is the area we live
in What will we have as an environment?" #HUMlab
03:35 pm Umeå is a center for Västerbotten, a culturally rich community, Eva Nygren at #HUMlab
03:36 pm A sustainable society operates holistically, 70% of Vasterbötten's energy use is renewable.
Eva Nygren at #HUMlab
03:38 pm Smaller counties need to work more closely with business community to attract sustainable
projects Analysis must begin early -Nygren #HUMlab
03:39 pm Dialogue with all interested parties should begin early with development in regions - what
does this mean for the community? Nygren #HUMlab
03:41 pm Åre Sweden http://bit.ly/eqG1Tx has created a model where dialgue, anaylsis and
development around sustainability is norm, Nygren @ #HUMlab
03:45 pm Passive House http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house needs to be adapted to the far
north, such as Vasterbotten. Nygren in #HUMlab
03:46 pm förmåga och vilja (ability and willingness) required for innovative and sustianable
development e.g. http://bit.ly/gU9lqs #HUMlab

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03:47 pm Investment is gained from marketing, to promote the knowledge and ideas. Nygren in
#HUMlab
03:48 pm Sweden must improve low energy building, SWECO works towards this
http://www.sweco.se/sv/Sweden/ Nygren in #HUMlab
03:49 pm Delegation for Sustainable Cities - a national arena for sustainable urban development
http://bit.ly/iejFDS Eva Nygren (SWECO) in #HUMlab
03:52 pm The arena is a city for meeting, between people, with nature, ideas and more. Eva Nygren
at #HUMlab
03:54 pm Result and Feedback, - local meetings in Västerbotten - Birgitta Heijer and Helena Österlind,
meetings with business and counties #HUMlab

PhilosophersEye Free Nietzsche Virtual Issue: The European Journal of Philosophy is delighted to bring you
this Vi... http://bit.ly/gEk509

03:59 pm @ #HUMlab Choose features unique and work with them as brands. Västerbotten - "Top of
Europe" http://helsinkidesignlab.org/dossiers/uid
04:03 pm Västerbotten Tourism http://www.vasterbottensturism.se/ at #HUMlab
04:06 pm Creative environment and economy; Virtual cluster, creative economy, Umeå Institute of
Design http://www.dh.umu.se/, Creative Campus #HUMlab
04:08 pm Skellefteå Creative Summit 2011 June 15th http://www.creativesummit.se/ make
Västerbotten a creative environment and economy #HUMlab
04:10 pm Sustainable resources: create a university course for the development of technology, cycle
analysis, green accounting #HUMlab
04:12 pm Nordic Factories, taking concrete examples and developing them between the economic,
education and administrative #HUMlab
04:20 pm Iris and Anya at #HUMlab performing cello and video installation
http://twitpic.com/4hmgek
04:36 pm Patrik Svensson on the Virtual Cluster, a many sided project, involving Umeå Creative
Industry Association (CIA) 40 members at #HUMlab
04:37 pm Umeå CIA http://www.umeacreative.com/ working closely with #HUMlab in the frame of
Västerbotten
04:38 pm Computer game design at Skellefteå an Luleå, plus the new Arts Campus at Umeå
University, includes #HUMlab X
04:39 pm "Share your success" Patrik Svensson, Director of #HUMlab
04:41 pm Leading international "hot spot", connected creative environments, lots of companies
stronger network, Patrik Svensson at #HUMlab
04:42 pm Creative energy in a creative environment that is focused. Work with the best in the world,
make big promises and keep them, respect #HUMlab
04:48 pm Andreas Sundgren from Toontrack at #HUMlab
http://www.toontrack.com/products.asp?item=7
04:50 pm The history of Toontrack as a creative enterprise at #HUMlab http://bit.ly/aO1QeU "Umeå
is small but big" with a fine cultural life.
04:53 pm Johanna Högberg R-chef and owner of Codemill http://www.codemill.se/ at #HUMlab:
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04:54 pm CodeMill AB offers system development of complex IT systems at #HUMlab, began four
years ago, now has 20 working
04:55 pm "If you cannot compete on price you have to compete on quality" Johanna Högberg R-chef
and owner of Codemill #HUMlab
04:56 pm A source of well trained university grads in Umeå #HUMlab Johanna Högberg R-chef and
owner of Codemill
04:59 pm tomas westermark skellefteå dreamfields http://www.dreamfield.se/ post production and
concept development house located in north Sweden.
04:59 pm tomas westermark skellefteå dreamfields http://www.dreamfield.se/ post production and
concept development house in north Sweden #HUMlab
05:01 pm Dreamfield is part of The Lodge a creative hub within the digital communication industry.
http://creativelodge.se/ #HUMlab
05:05 pm HUMlab experiments as does the Interactive Institute Daniel Fällman. Studio Director
http://daniel.fallman.org/invigning.html
05:06 pm Interactive Institute Umeå http://www.tii.se/groups/umea interaction design and digital
products at #HUMlab
05:07 pm Interactive Institute Umeå does extreme interactions environments and users at #HUMlab
05:08 pm ABB Corporate Research is the partner for the Interactive Institute http://bit.ly/fpDFiC at
#HUMlab
05:11 pm Woodbot Pilots http://www.woodbotpilots.com/ project from Interactive Institute at
#HUMlab
05:12 pm Astrid Mager at #HUMlab http://www.notesfromastridmager.tk/ researching "Opening the
Black Box of Search Engines"
05:13 pm Bing may be the next Google...but at the moment "the Googleization of everything" applies
Astrid Mager researching at #HUMlab
05:13 pm Bing may be the next Google...but at the moment "the Googleization of everything" applies
Astrid Mager researching at #HUMlab
05:14 pm Google uses searches to gather information, supplies service for free but makes money
from gathering information #HUMlab
05:15 pm Astrid Mager uses core actor-network/economic logic model to understand the search
engine ecology #HUMlab
05:17 pm Users r consumers that feed back data to search engine, to optimize the engine but also to
make money; provide good service? #HUMlab
05:21 pm Skogstekniska Klustret (Technical Forest Cluster) http://bit.ly/gytU8M is a forum for
companies in the forestry technologies at #HUMlab
05:21 pm Västerbotten is an area for the Forest Cluster; for research, researchers, development and
cooperation at #HUMlab
05:23 pm 2.1 billion SEK and 1000 workers are involved in the Skogstekniska Klustret (Technical
Forest Cluster) presenting at #HUMlab
05:24 pm It is important for women to feel at home working with forestry Skogstekniska Klustret
(Technical Forest Cluster) at #HUMlab
05:25 pm Oryx Simulations http://www.oryx.se/ working with Umeå University in high tech forestry
at #HUMlab
05:27 pm Martin Servin at #HUMlab on the UMIT Research lab http://www.org.umu.se/umit/english/
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05:28 pm development of hardware architectures with multiple cores, parallel computing,
visualization, elastic IT infrastructure at UMIT #HUMlab
05:31 pm Forestry, technique and science: SLU http://www.slu.se/, UMU http://www.umu.se/
presented at #HUMlab
05:34 pm Algoryx Boliden DLR Eurocon FOI Komatsu LKAB M-Real. Orynx SAP, SCA Sveaskog SKF
Södra skogsärgarna Valutek Vimek Volvo CE with UMIT #HUMlab
05:36 pm Using Xbox Kinekt style movement trackers we can see the forest machinery operators of
the future #HUMlab
05:37 pm Algoryx Simulation http://www.algoryx.se/ a spin off from Umeå University 2007 at
#HUMlab

fairyrings @JimBarrett tweeting in #HUMlab, http://t.co/UKY7G6s

05:39 pm High performance reali time simulations AgX Multiphysics Toolkit; produced by Algoryx
Simulation #HUMlab
05:40 pm Simulations from Algoryx Simulation used in film as a CGI physics engine #HUMlab
05:40 pm Algodoo http://www.algodoo.com/wiki/Home A program that gives you the opportunity to
play with physics at #HUMlab
05:46 pm I just purchased Algodoo after hearing presentation at #HUMlab
05:47 pm Province Governor closing presentation at #HUMlab; Together we can make it sustainable
and possible.
05:52 pm 6 work areas for regional development and Brand Västerbotten; RV, Umeå city, Pondus
County, Brännland Cider, Västerbottens Cheese #HUMlab
05:54 pm 6 work areas for regional development and Tourism and food; Norrmejerier
http://www.norrmejerier.se/, Västerbotten Tourism, RV at #HUMlab
05:55 pm 6 work areas for regional development and creative environments and economy: Umeå
CIA, Umeå Universitet, Nolia, at #HUMlab
05:56 pm 6 work areas for regional development and architecture and sustainable building; Umeå
Green Building Council http://www.sgbc.se/, at #HUMlab
06:00 pm 6 work areas for regional development and sustainable use of natural resources: Spacetime
http://www.space-time.se/ at #HUMlab
06:02 pm 6 work areas for regional development and Nordic Factories: skogstekniska klustret, Umeå
institute of design, at #HUMlab
06:04 pm Thank you everyone who participated in the event in #HUMlab today. It has been inspiring
and impressive

Thursday 7th

openculture How Slavery Really Ended in America - http://nyti.ms/feGWKF

08:45 am HUMlab event http://bit.ly/fXTayz

10:11 am "Kuchar's films are overtly insane. Anyone who lived in such a world would be mad inside
an hour." http://www.ubu.com/film/kuchar.html

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11:16 am Preparing for 'Artistic Expressions and Copyright: The theory and practice of Remix Culture'
in #HUMlab. Notes here: http://bit.ly/g60BAH
11:50 am Finns are as surprised as much as anyone else that they have recently emerged as the new
rock stars of global education. http://ti.me/euQbj0

FrostDavis We need to replace "what is your major?" with "how will you make a difference in the world?"
#NITLE Summit

aquadrunkard Psychedelic Aliens :: Psycho African Beat: Speaking of western Africa…here’s a set I’ve been
sitting on since De... http://bit.ly/eZMDaD

10:14 pm Doco this evening on Swedish National TV http://bit.ly/h3ud97 on Julian Assange. Defends
SW judicial system, provides interesting contexts.

Friday 8th

ubuweb La Monte Young, John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus Maclise, Jon Hassell. Theater of Eternal Music
Bootleg LP: http://is.gd/JE1qrR

02:30 pm I think my 5 year old's habit of swinging off my arms to do tumble turns has attracted the
attention of my back..may have to stop doing it.

Sunday 10th

knittedgardens RT @HUMlab The HUMLab blog: http://bit.ly/ey0g0q HUMlab sci-fic film screening REPO
MEN (13 April 2011, 17:30) - admission FREE -pls retweet

01:14 pm RT @HUMlab The HUMLab blog : http://bit.ly/ey0g0q

Monday 11th
08:40 am I spent Sunday with the Cat People
http://neo.vk.se/galleri/bjorkstakatt2011/IMG_5106.jpg, a radical crowd of individualists.

stefangelfgren RT @juliapennlert: seminarium imorgon på HUMLab om "Språkteknologi som

litteraturvetenskapligt forskningsredskap" - förbereder! /Lycka till!

10:37 am Moodle makes the ashes of Cambro taste sweet. Just exported a student assessment list
into Excel and now filling it in. http://bit.ly/hmZJgP
02:35 pm @fairyrings and where is Dropbox amidst this disaster?
02:36 pm I have finally gotten my online course under control. #computersdonotsavetime
05:06 pm Social Linguistics research Masters project using avatars http://recordings.pbworks.com/
please participate.
05:07 pm It only takes a few minutes http://recordings.pbworks.com/ and is much appreciated
05:12 pm @fairyrings oh dear. Does anyone else have access to your folders?

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05:20 pm Please RT http://recordings.pbworks.com/ a social linguistics research project using
#Avatars needs people to fill in a short survey online.
05:30 pm Still good; Finding and Evaluating Code by David Shepard
http://newhorizons.eliterature.org/essay.php@id=12.html back at #thesis Haazaa!

Tuesday 12th
08:58 am Real estate in virtual worlds now written about in the reality sections of newspapers
http://bit.ly/ijMqZ1

JournTweet Cambridge study finds tweeters are highly politicised Left-leaning the platform breaks down
barriers http://bit.ly/grOF6H (H/T @empatt)

patriksv Seminar today at 1.15 pm in #HUMlab - Empiri och analysmetoder i projektet Poesiprocesser på
nätet http://bit.ly/ffO4dJ

10:50 am Screen capture software 4 @Arevarnfilm Camtasia CamStudio Fraaps Snapz Pro X Leadtek
Winfast PVR (TV card for PC) GameCam AviScreen Classic
11:47 am Off to see/hear/play a seminar with @juliapennlert in #HUMlab today at 1.15pm
http://bit.ly/fqauKI will be live http://live.humlab.umu.se/

Wednesday 13th

patriksv Seminar tomorrow in #HUMlab with Anders Ekström: Performing Publics at the Early
Twentieth-Century Fun Fair http://bit.ly/fDO91v

01:23 pm Disturbed that the guy in the record shop asked my if the name of the band was Revolver
when I brought The Beatles CD for my son.
02:49 pm Le scaphandre et le papillon: "written by Bauby blinking his left eyelid, which took ten
months (four hours a day)" #thesis a piece of cake.
05:50 pm And the Lord said let there be banana vanilla muffins and there was and he was pleased.....
http://twitpic.com/4kf55e
07:51 pm Frank Sinatra's best role, Frankie Machine in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
http://bit.ly/gNNKcF online entire and free.

Thursday 14th
09:11 am Oh to be in NYC in May
http://www.boo-hooray.com/dreamweapon/the-art--life-of-angus-maclise-1938-1979/
10:13 am Ikväll, torsdagen den 14 april, klockan 21.00 sänder Soundofmusic sitt första
webbradioprogram http://www.soundofmusic.nu/
10:55 am #HUMlab takes part in an ongoing Artist in Residency program working in Second Life. U
can read about it here http://yoshikaze.blogspot.com/
11:06 am I am tho thick of my #thesis

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11:23 am I brought http://www.twitterature.us/ last time I was in Oz. It is funny. Examples
http://www.twitterature.us/us/ex.htm
11:28 am Twitterscribe is backing up my tweets so I can search and print them later. My life is now
complete. http://twitterscribe.com (@tscribe)
12:08 pm Laugh until I cried http://xrl.us/beowo7 Franz Kafka International is a very alienating
airport. (old but still good)

ubuweb The soundtrack to Tarkovsky's "Solaris," composed in 1972 on a Russian ANS Synthesizer [MP3]:
http://is.gd/BH194O (@rootstrata)

08:51 pm "Now I know how Joan of Arc felt. As the flames rose to her Roman nose. And her Walkman
started to melt" http://youtu.be/XLtFlKn7N90

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