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my house 4 This is was what it looked like in the final stages...and this is just to say that I haven't completely gone from the blogos...

my house 1 Reading Benwell and Stokoe (see sidebar) is confirming my view that identity is constituted and performed through discursive prac...

sad princess We’ve been experimenting again with blogs and wikis on our Masters course. Yesterday we had 14 students with little previous ex...

lilly flower Blogging seems to be as buoyant as ever in the UK. This article reports that 'of Britain's web population of 26 millio...

verichip This report , from 2005, on the rfid-tagging of school students in California (as if they were criminals) caused a minor storm, but...

caged in La fracture numerique (digital divide) is exposed in a survey of young adults in the US. The survey looked at patterns of use with ...

favourite shop This is a favourite amongst my most recent photographs. There is something about the juxtaposition of the pro-anarchy spaycan...

hospital bed I came across a reference to electronic paper and tried to work out what this might actually be. For once the wikipedia entry...

Hannah and Amy Here’s Hannah and her flatmate Amy who came up to visit last weekend. They’re very polite and wait until us old-timers start ...

Here’s a clip of Mongolian c-walking. C-walking (short for clown-walking or crip-walking) is a worldwide phenomenon, drawing on combinations...

I remember a few years ago taking a good friend to see a unicursal turf maze I’d recently found out about. It was on a beautiful hilltop ov...

liquid lunch You always get interesting stuff on the Digital Ethnography blog, and a recent post profiles ‘the student of today’. I didn’t ...

SFstreet1 Will Self is a middle-aged flaneur. He sometimes calls his art psychogeography, but whatever the label, he’s a self-confessed twil...

This video made me laugh because it came up as being about women gamers and the first two segments are so male-orientated that I thought it...

Autumn walk Social networking sites provide rich examples of what Giddens describes as the ‘trajectory of the self’. My daughter, Emma descr...

more graffiti I’ve watched this writing on the wall growing over the last few days. I’m not sure whether you can say that the crane is a wri...

Hot metal Looking at the Byron review, one of the key questions is “What are the benefits and opportunities that new technologies offer for ...

we electric The government is clearly worried about vulnerable technosubjects. The DCFS has commissioned the Byron Review to look into “th...

old sticker There’s a lot of change in my life at the moment, moving offices, moving house (and more, too). So I find myself very pressed fo...

bright kids There’s now quite compelling evidence to suggest that British mobile phone owners just love to text. Even though mobile phone ow...