Belatedly, I want to mention a least a bit about the great conference that I participated in two weekends ago in New York: The Internet as Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor. The gathering was organized by Trebor Scholz and took...

Thriller: Smooth Criminal: Something to give thanks for and dance your way into turkey comas. Happy Thanksgiving!

On Monday (November 30) at 6pm in MIT’s room 14E-310, The Purple Blurb series of readings and presentations on digital writing will present a talk by Marina Bers associate professor at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development and adjunct...

That’s an interview with Alan DeNiro now up at Grinding to Valhalla. DeNiro is author of the just-published Total Oblivion, More or Less, in which Minnesota, and then the rest of the US, is invaded by ancient European tribes. DeNiro also wrote and...

Piksel, a festival for free-software-creating and -using artists and developers, has begun in Bergen, Norway. If you can’t drop by, at least visit the festival on the Web and check out the brilliant hackery on display at the main exhibition.