in the photoblog. Still figuring out how to juxtapose pictures nicely, so forgive me for the layout.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 12:13 (0) comments

Slides from Blogtalk 2.0
So, whilst somebody might still remember my talk, here are Ms. Klastrup's slides from the Blogtalk 2.0 conference.

Btw, interesting experiment at the conference with online note taking. Check the notes (via Joi Ito's Wiki) out.

There were some good presentations at the conference, especially day 2, and a lot of food for thought regarding the start-up of conferences in the digital media field. More to follow at some point, but I'm on holiday and cannot really be bothered by either blogging, webbing or mailing extensively at the moment. Plus I have started reading the Da Vinci Code and it's a highly addictive book...(and it even has a web quest!)

Holiday ends on July 27th. Have fun meanwhile!

P.S. News from the mailbox was that Susana's and my paper for the Cyberworlds conference (CW2004) has been accepted. Looks like Tokyo might be on the travel agenda for the fall!
# posted by Lisbeth at: 16:36 (4) comments

"Im blogging this..." - LIVE from Blogtalk 2.0 Day 2
The second day of the conference is just about to begin and since Im wearing my "Im blogging this" t-shirt, Jon kindly let me borrow his computer (lovely little MAC), so I could actually have my first go at live blogging a conference. In fact, the chair of the first session just told us not to overuse the net, because it kept crashing all the time yesterday.

And not surprising, I have NEVER seen so many portable computers at one conference (we are around 80+ people and at least 1/3 were actively doing something with their machines. All day yesterday the room was filled with the sound of quiet typing, slightly distracting, just like the sound of rain falling on a tin roof....at some point the constant tap-tap-tap starts getting on your nerves.

Here or there? But the sound of typing is the least of the distractions which comes with this new era of conferencing. It is really unsettling not knowing if people are with you or somewhere else: are they listening to your talk or are they blogging about the previous talk, or checking their email, or preparing their own paper, or reading other blogs to see if someone else have posted something on the previous post etc. It´s like teaching in a classroom where all the students are sitting behind a computer screen - you never know if you have their full concentration or not - and experience tells me that it is definitely not an optimal learning situation. I dont believe the conferencing context is much different. Let people blog, by all means, but let them do it OUTSIDE the lecture halls.

OK - now the founders of Moveable Type are speaking so Im logging off so I can listen!
# posted by Lisbeth at: 09:36 (1) comments

Food for thought
perhaps the main difference between being a student and being a "grown-up" academic, is that as a student, you use academic literature to teach yourself (and be taught) what to think and how to think in an academic way. As a researcher, you use academic literature and books as objects to think with - as resevoirs of ideas you connect to your own and then expand. Hmmh.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:25 (0) comments

MY ACADEMIC LIFE IN 24 BOXES, then VIENNA & HOLIDAY!
When I left work yesterday, I left behind me 26 moving boxes: 24 boxes with academic material mostly, and 2 boxes with computer equipment (it took me some 7 hours to pack all - sigh). They contain all the material I have gathered during my almost 5 years at the IT University + several of the articles and books I brought with me from my days as a student of Comparative Literature - I dare not think of how many boxes I will have after another 5 years...

Today, "Adam" the removal compagny will take them and all the other boxes belonging to all the other employees at the IT University and move them to our new domicile in the "Ørestaden" region - a short walk from University of Copenhagen Faculty of Humanities and right next to the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's (DR) new building (to be completed in 2005).There is a webcam of our building here. And some photos here.

Apart from the fact that we no longer will have a carate training center and a hair dresser's school as the nearest neighbours, the new house is much bigger, much more "university like" (we now have proper auditoriums and real lecture rooms) and there is a new and bigger canteen and a small book store even. The departments will be sitting much more closely together (especially DIAC have in the old house been distributed all over the place), so hopefully there will also be more social life in the departments once people get back from holiday and move into their offices.

So our move to Rued Langgaardsvej is definitely a move for the better in many ways. However, I will miss being able to easily talk to people from all over the faculty, and never having more than a 2 min walk to get hold of someone important. I'll miss sitting next to people from other departments and from their conversations learning a lot about what goes on in the house. In the new house it will mostly require longish walks, through many doors, to get to other departments and the people I need to talk to once in a while, especially as head. For that reason, I fear that communication patterns will change in the new house: there will be much more email and less face-to-face talk and that worries me a bit. Yet, we have to live in the new house for some while before really knowing what living in it is really like.

Regarding the near future, today, I'm frantically preparing my Blogtalk presentation and then tomorrow I'm off to Vienna for the Blogtalk 2.0 conference - looking much forward to that - meeting up with both old and new friends. I'll be speaking monday afternoon, btw, if you happen to be in Vienna. After the conference finishes, I will hang around in Vienna for a few days, playing tourist and hopefully getting to see some art museums and then it's back home for my SUMMER HOLIDAY - which will be spent in Denmark in as relaxing way as possible!

I'll be back at work - and blogging - around July 27th. Might post some photos from Vienna when I get back, but that you'll see. Meanwhile - have a nice summer :)
# posted by Lisbeth at: 11:38 (0) comments

The joys of a career woman
I now have a dishwasher and a cleaning lady, and for what it's worth, it has just made my life so much easier. *grin* One thing I won't waste my time on is having a guilty conscience about not being the perfect housewife!!
# posted by Lisbeth at: 12:36 (3) comments