Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
WordPress 2.2 came out five days ago and I am still deciding if I should upgrade or not. Why upgrade: I like being up-to-date Integrated widgets instead of a separate plugin A plugin sandbox that will test all the plugins before actually running them. Previously, if a plugin wasn’t installed correctly or was incompatible with… Read more To upgrade or not to upgrade
University Of Chicago Press, USA 2005 288 pp. Paperback, $16.50 USD ISBN 0226321487 Buy at Amazon My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts is Hayles’ final book of her trilogy on the binary opposition between embodiment and information through an engagement with the materiality of literary texts. She continues where she has… Read more My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts – N. Katherine Hayles
Several services allow you to create graphs from search results within blogs. The first one is created by Nielsen BuzzMetrics’ BlogPulse and graphs “I’m sorry blog” over a period of six months. “I’m sorry blog” as graphed on May 12, 2007 by BlogPulse. A few things about this graph: BlogPulse gives 177 results for “I’m… Read more “I’m sorry blog” visualized
Twan recently apologized to his blog instead of his blog audience for not blogging and I am wondering if this is a common thing to do. A search on “I’m sorry blog” provided the following results: Google: 3,730 Technorati: 1,889 INACCURATE results (despite defining the EXACT phrase) Live Search: 915 A9: 912 Blogpulse: 177 Yahoo:… Read more I’m sorry blog excuses
I look at my blog daily, maybe even several times a day. I don’t visit it to check if it’s still there. I am quite sure it is still where I put it and I have enough confidence in my hosting company that it is there for anyone to see. I do it because it… Read more Daily blogging routine and the perceived freshness fetish
I just passed the thousand bookmarks on my del.icio.us account and the winner of the number 1000 entry is: Semapedia.org as recommended in a comment by Erik. Close candidates were: number 999: Quickeo – Private file sharing with a simple email! and number 1001: Code bloat – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I started using del.icio.us… Read more A thousand del.icio.us bookmarks