I spent the first days of my easter holidays in compagny of children who were coughing and sneasing, also on me. And I was duely "rewarded": some days later came down with vicious cold, which I havent defeated completely yet. Add to this a migraine attach which on-off has lasted for a couple of days now, and you get a researcher who so much wants to trade her body with somebody elses. Just for a few days or something.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 12:18 (0) comments

As of yesterday and until next monday, I'm away on easter holiday. I'll be spending most of the time making up for all the time, I havent spent lately with my friends, family, boyfriend etc. I've already started doing the rounds - enjoying it. I just sent my last "workrelated" email and so now I'm now also off email, basically off my computer for the rest of the week, if I can help it.

And we booked a holiday at this place in April.
And I'll step down as head around June 1st.

Life is looking good :)

Happy Easter Holidays to you!
# posted by Lisbeth at: 14:25 (2) comments

The Faculty of Art and Design, at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK is hosting a small conference titled: Show & Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image. The discussion of the relationship between and use of images, text and narrative is something I like to put on the course plan of the "Communication of the Internet" course which I have been orchestrating 3 times by now. But I have always found it really difficult to find good and relevant literature to support the lectures. McCloud is a classic, and so is Kress & Leeuwen, but it would be cool to present more "on the spot" literature. It seems like this conference could be the kind of event which generated some real interesting papers.

I finally realised that the Blogtalk 2.0 papers are now online - and that the proceedings can also be ordered as a book. I was supposed to have a paper in there as well, but just havent been able to find the time to write it. I havent forgotten about it though, so hopefully sometime during the next couple of months I'll upload the final version of the paper I presented at the Blogtalk 2 conference about Blogging as Livewriting.

P.S. My conference list in the lower right corner of this page is now updated...
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:55 (0) comments

An ex-chief scientist at Amazon.com, Andreas Weigend, has just visited Copenhagen and gave a talk in which he declared the personalisation as idea is dead because looking at a user's earlier behaviour will not help you predict her needs and wishes. Amongst other ways to aid the user, interesting enough Weigend pointed to social technology like Flickr as examples of how other users can give useful insights in a person's interest.Summary of the talk here (in Danish).
# posted by Lisbeth at: 10:53 (0) comments

I just updated my publication list.

Now the article "Forsker og blogger: webbloggen som forsknings- og fællesskabsværktøj" is available on the UNEV website (in Danish only - the title translates as: "Researcher and Blogger - the weblog as a research - and communitytool") //This article is very much a account and history of how I personally have used the weblog in my research//

And I finally uploaded Susana Tosca's and my article Transmedial Worlds - Rethinking Cyberworld Design to the ITU server. // This article is not really that much about cyberworld design, but I think we've done something interesting with the transmedial world concept and the analytical definition of it//

Oh, and my ph.d. thesis is offline again, but available on request.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 17:56 (0) comments

as an international research or visiting Artist in Residence is not easy! Here are some links if you are considering going here....
Work in Denmark
Denmark.dk
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:26 (0) comments

I went to the Blog´n Beer II event yesterday, with Rasmus of Acutecut and Kammeret as the gracious host. It was nice to again meet some of the people I met at the "Gilmore meets Danish Bloggers" event last year, and to be able to couple familiar blogs with some real new faces. It's a nice and fun bunch of people with, I should add, quite a few current and ex-ITU students amongst them. But going home at 2am-ish and waking up with hangovers after not that much beer makes me feel OLD. No brilliant blogging to be expected in this post.

At the event were two eager (male) photographers with _very_ potent cameras, so there will probably be photos around from the event soon. I thought that by now I would have gotten used to constantly have people with cameras around at events like this (digital, mobile, etc) but I still feel somewhat intimated when the big black eye is pointing at me. I wonder if the generation of kids growing up now will have a different relation to being photographed, if being "flashed" is going to be a thing as natural as having music playing, the phone ringing, the tv on, a form of media intrusion you stop paying attention to because it is always there.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:38 (1) comments

In my supervision, Im moving more and more into supervising projects that are about branding on the internet in some form. Here is a good basic article from Kommunikationforum on corporate branding (in Danish): Corporate Branding Basics.


# posted by Lisbeth at: 11:50 (0) comments

The Black Rose Trick is a performance taking place on a hotel in Malmø, Sweden, from March 4th - 14th. Artists and actors will be living there 24-7 and as audience you can check in and stay for a shorter or longer while, visiting all the rooms to see which dramas unfold. For unknown reason, the hotel also hosts a medical lab and a military unit....and a shop with desirable objects.

There is a webpage where you can read about the concept, and here it is also possible to "enter" the hotel and watch the webcams positioned in all rooms. In addition, apparently objects from the hotel could be/can be found in the streets of Malmø and Copenhagen with clues leading to the hotel, the story and the webpage.

In its entirety, the concept seems pretty much in line with the pervasive reality games. Action taking place all the time, blurring of fact and fiction, clues dispersed over a variety of media, the potential underlying conspiracy theory etc.

Should see if I can make it to Malmø!
# posted by Lisbeth at: 12:16 (0) comments

...in the photoblog.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 21:30 (0) comments

There's something funky going on in Danish TV2's reallife.log initiative. On weekdays, in the tv show reallife.log (with the subtitle "Youth without filter"), you can watch 20 mins of short videos of young people talking about their life for 2 mins. The watchers vote on the video they like the most, and the person appears next day again (I think). The people appearing in the videos are paid 300 kr. per day of appearance.

On TV2's website the reallife.log is closely linked to TV2's moblog section. Hence, on the linked website, below a presentation of the current reallife.loggers there is a heading which says: "meet all the other bloggers" - combined with search criteria which allows you to find a moblog with people blogging about your interests.

As is, not all people in "reallife.log" has a moblog, but the reallife.log clearly seems to be an attempt to mimick the blog in a video format. I don't really know what to think about it, and I'm wondering to which degree this experiment is also a way to make users moblog more. But it is definitely interesting.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 12:06 (0) comments