Last week, we finally finished our Interaction Design project, complete with mockups, report and everything. It is generally quite gratifying to do projects at the IT-university since they usually turn out to be a lot more tangible than what I’ve done at Comparative Literature and Anthropology. For this course, I was in a group with [...]
After having mucked with this “mystory” assignment for ages, including tackling the dreaded browser compatibility issue, I’ve finally decided that enough is enough – and that it is time to show it off. The project is called Qmail, and as the attached “about” page states, it is “a remix, rehash or remake of my life [...]
This week, the Economist has a quite interesting survey on the future for Intellectual Property and Patents in the technology industry. Definitely worth a look. Particularly, I found the article on why Big Business are supporting Open Source initiatives quite worthwhile.
My Digital Rhetorics course is progressing. And the deadlines for the assignments attached are moving closer. We are expected to create (rather than merely write) a mystory – a rather esoteric genre of digital rhetoric invented by the postmodernist academic Greg Ulmer. A mystory is, well, a good question. But answered. At first it seemed [...]
Today, I read the book “The Soul of a New Machine“. Written by journalist Tracy Kidder, it describes a group of engineers’ and computer scientists’ intense race to design and produce a 32-bit minicomputer in just one year from 1978 to 1979. The book is a good diachronic description of this year and a half [...]
Last Friday, I participated in a symposium on computer games as Public Service. Given the luring title Gaming for the People, the symposium was a jointly arranged by Danish National TV (the Danish equivalent of the BBC) and the IT-university of Copenhagen – specifically their Games department. It was a great day with lots of [...]
As part of my Digital Rhetorics course, we’ll be expected to undertake several “Depth Probes”, exploring the dank deeps of internet, maybe, hopefully, finding something of interest. As a starting point, the lecturer has added a few links to our online schedule. These can be considered doors, each opening into a different part of a [...]
As part of my Digital Rhetorics course at the IT University of Copenhagen, I’ve written this little assignment on my personal goals for the course. Since it is a Digital Rhetorics class, I thought it best to do it proper blogging style with lots of hyperlinks. Fast forward to January 2006, the Digital Rhetorics course [...]
Seeing as how the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG for short) World of Warcraft has been the biggest hit computer game of the year so far, and that the genre as such seem to become ever more popular with gamers, I thought that this would be a nice chance to offer my own idea [...]