RCCS moved
The RCCS (Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies), the site with the great bookreviews that is in large part David Silver's doing, moved to a new address: http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/, so I updated the General Resources page.
In the mean time I've been thinking about a different organization of the links on the pages: relevance instead of alphabet. It would be nice to be able to sort the links yourself... maybe I should start to think about PHP and MySQL a bit more... hmmm.
Sep 3, 2001 @ 09:14 » no comments » Research
HP buys Compaq
HP buys Compaq... for $25 billion. Wow. I keep an eye on tech-news, but I never saw this one coming. The new company will be about as big as IBM. More news at Tweakers.net, CNN.com and News.com.
Sep 4, 2001 @ 10:01 » no comments » General
Blogs linking
Funny to see how this blog got linked up through other bloggers around the world. I told Lisbeth Klastrup in Denmark I also started blogging. Then I think Jill Walker picked up my site from Lisbeth's. Then Fahim, the author of Blog added a reference and hits came in through that. Then I noticed some hits coming in from the Singapore (.sg) domain and yes, some days later a visitor was referred from Winston's blog, a student at the National University of Singapore. Well, to add a link of a blog that I visit regularly: www.ludology.org.
Sep 4, 2001 @ 18:52 » no comments » General
Conference
An interesting conference announcement just came in through the Computergamestudies mailinglist. It's for a conference called "Playing by the rules: The cultural policy challenges of video games" and it's organised by the University of Chicago Cultural Policy Center. More info here .
Sep 4, 2001 @ 23:18 » no comments » Research
Search terms
The logs of my website show which search terms sent people to my site. These are the 15 top search terms/phrases for the first 4 days of september:
[search terms edited out because they generated way too much traffic. why? see my orignal remarks below]
Mindboggling. One third to half of these phrases could be classified as more or less sexually explicit. The other half is fairly topical. Not too shabby, but I guess the different search engines (Google seems favorite) could use some more sophistication... or maybe it's the users that could do with some more sophistication ;-)
Sep 4, 2001 @ 23:42 » no comments » General
New links added
Check it out in the Online Articles section of the Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources
LaPin, Gianna (1999) Shapeshifters: Why Women Must Adapt in the Computer World to Succeed.
Schippers, Guido (1998) Afstudeerscriptie Guido Schippers. [MA thesis in Dutch about The Digital City (De Digitale Stad)]
Erickson, Thomas (1999) Making Sense of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC): Conversations as Genres, CMC Systems as Genre Ecologies
Rang, Lloyd W. (n.d.) The Bungled and the Botched: Cyborgs, Rape and Generative Anthropology.
Rutter, Jason (1999) Professional-Stranger@Ethno.org: Presence & Absence in Virtual Ethnography.
Rutter, Jason & Greg Smith (1999) Ritual Aspects of CMC Sociability.
Rutter, Jason & Greg Smith (n.d.) Presenting the off-line self in an everyday, online environment.
Sep 5, 2001 @ 20:47 » no comments » Research
Big Bad Chinese Mama
Welcome to the home of the Big Bad Chinese Mama!
"Inside are contained the "demure lotus blossoms," the "geishas," the "oriental sluts"-- whatever you had imagined in your patriarchal, colonialist longings. These women will take you by storm (and will kick your ass). Yeah, you've seen mail order bride sites before, you may have even surfed over to an Asian porn site, but never in your wildest culturally commodifying sick sexual desires, have you been schooled by women (womyn) like this! So, go ahead Mr. Smartypants. Come on in! After all, us "Orientals" are known for our hospitality and genteel demeanor. We aim to please..."
Great site attempting to pervert various stereotypes. Don't forget to check out the the prank calls, they're simply hilarious.
Sep 7, 2001 @ 13:04 » no comments » General
Cosign 2001
Well, I'm off to an interesting 3 day conference, Cosign 2001. It's here in Amsterdam, so I'll be sleeping in my own bed, but don't expect any updates till thursday.
Sep 10, 2001 @ 08:09 » no comments » Research
Smiley
Someone asked how to type a crying 'smiley'. I figure this is how:
)-;
Sep 14, 2001 @ 09:27 » no comments » General
Books
I received two books I ordered yesterday, Internet Communication and Qualitative Research: A Handbook for Researching Online by Chris Mann and Fiona Stewart and Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net edited by Steve Jones, and I two things really caught my attention. 1) Why is it that books dealing with methodology of research always have to have such completely dull, utterly boring and austere covers? 2) Why is it that methodology books always have to cost about two or three times what other books in that field cost?
Sep 16, 2001 @ 15:44 » no comments » Research
With a deep Brooklyn accent
Through a story on Wired News I landed on this personal account of the NY attacks. Usman Farman fell to the ground as one of the towers collapsed and his story, in a moving and bitterly ironic way, captures the insanity of the attacks and the grave mistake of the American government to declare a war on the perpetrators and their aides instead of vowing to bring them to justice...
"I was on my back, facing this massive cloud that was approaching, it must have been 600 feet off, everything was already dark. I normally wear a pendant around my neck, inscribed with an Arabic prayer for safety; similar to the cross. A hesidic Jewish man came up to me and held the pendant in his hand, and looked at it. He read the Arabic out loud for a second. What he said next, I will never forget. With a deep Brooklyn accent he said “Brother, if you don’t mind, there is a cloud of glass coming at us, grab my hand, lets get the hell out of here”. He helped me stand up, and we ran for what seemed like forever without looking back. He was the last person I would ever have thought, who would help me. If it weren’t for him, I probably would have been engulfed in shattered glass and debris."
Sep 16, 2001 @ 16:20 » no comments » General
New links added
Oops. For some reason I never included this bunch of papers in the Online Articles section of the Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources.
Miller, Hugh (1995) The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life: Goffman on the Internet
Miller, Hugh & Russel Mather (1998) The Presentation of Self in WWW Home Pages
Arnold, Jill & Hugh Miller (1999) Gender and Web Home Pages
Miller, Hugh (1999) The Hypertext Home: images and metaphors of home on World Wide Web home pages
Arnold, Jill & Hugh Miller (2000) Same Old Gender Plot? Women Academics' Identities on the Web
Sep 17, 2001 @ 09:38 » no comments » Research
Quiet
It's been quiet here. I'm preparing for the AoIR Internet Research 2.0 conference. There might be some short comments before I leave on October 4th, but it's going to be fairly quiet here for a bit longer.
Sep 24, 2001 @ 09:20 » no comments » General
Two interesting sites
NYCASD.com - see for yourself
Nooface.org - "In search of the Post-PC interface"
Sep 25, 2001 @ 08:43 » no comments » General
Discontinued
This keeps annoying me: you manage to find a pair of pants that really fit you well and after a year or so you need new pants, so you go to the store and ask for that brand + model, and then comes the dreaded answer, "No, sorry, they don't make that model anymore." And I mean, it's not just some flakey, el cheapo brand... it's Levi's darnit. A couple of years ago they discontinued the seven hundred-something model that really fit me well and now they don't make the 590 any more either... or at least they're not selling it anymore in the Levi's shops over here. I can get most everything, anywhere, anytime in this 24/7 networked world, but it seems to be asking too much of companies to keep making a good product... everything always has to be new, newer, newest. I don't want new. I want good, old, regular.
Sep 28, 2001 @ 07:42 » 1 comment » General
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