Tomorrow (wednesday) I'm leaving the Denmark and for a pretty hectic extended hectic week, including two full-day seminars, a couple of exams, a lot of supervision of students, and several meetings. After that it's back to Atlanta to drop of my luggage and breathe for a day, and then onwards to Chicago for the AoIR 6.0 conference. So don't expect much writing from me in the next weeks to come, but know that I'm alive and well;).

Have been pretty busy with the DAC conference, notifications had to be handled - and then resent, because the conference system apparently didn't forward the notification mails. In general, the OCS conference system really really sucks, especially if you have no one handy to tweak it, so I can only recommend NOT using it, never. You'll end up having to spend a lot of extra people time making up for all its flaws.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 00:12 (0) comments

I had counted on the AoIR conference being one of the more laid back conference experiences, using it as an opportunity to kick back and get some interesting input.
Now it seems like I'll be presenting on a workshop, serving on a grad panel, having a long working lunch on an new anthology I've got myself involved in - and then the paper presentation of course; so in the end it appears that the AoIR conf this year will be even more hectic than usual, but also giving some interesting opportunities to socialise with a lot of new people. Looking forward to that. Should mention though, that Im presenting the paper with a master student's of mine, who has done some really great work, so I'm lucky in that regard.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 00:06 (0) comments

The entry about blogs in the English language wikipedia is quite impressive. And the list of blog types tells you a lot about the current development of blog genres, I think. For some reason, research blogs aren't in there, but I don't have time to write an entry. Anyone up for grabs?
# posted by Lisbeth at: 21:36 (0) comments

[the blog search thingie should actually have been posted yesterday, but Blogger and I wasn't on speaking terms at all]

Ever market-expanding google (who owns Blogger, so who am I to complain), has now launched a blog search. Nifty!

Oh, and via Jill: Zoominfo - "People information summarised"

And I finally found a way into Google's Gmail, if anyone wants invitations...However, I'm not sure I really like their "thread-structuring" of mail, but Im probably just growing old and conservative.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 17:14 (1) comments

If you need to find some new interactive sites to play with/show in class/write about...go look at the winners in theInteractive Design Room of VIDFEST (Vancouver International Digital Festival).
# posted by Lisbeth at: 04:51 (0) comments

This article in the free Atlanta weekly entertainment mag Creative Loafing is one of the better US based articles I have read about the aftermath of Katrina, expressing some of the opinions which never seem to be fully developped or voiced on CNN and FOX, and perhaps presenting some perspectives on what has happened, that you won't get to read in Danish media.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 02:28 (0) comments

I got a mail yesterday from a person that I don't really know but have been mailing with professionally. She wrote me:
"your blog was a curious experience, I understand it is some sort of experiment, but it felt so, "private" somehow [..]"

It got me started thinking (again) about the entire public/private/in-between space of blogs (and moblogs!) which keeps confusing me; the lure of publishing so easily that it sometimes tempts you to tell things to strangers, you wouldn't even tell your close friends. I know that I have an actual audience that reads me; comments like this is a testament to it, and that's what makes blogging so much more satisfying than writing for nobody. Yet at the same time, you just keep forgetting, that A LOT of people might read you; also people you'd prefer not to know anything about yourself as a private person. It's the paradox of blogging: you want to be read and not read at the same time. It's the same damn thing that I haven't been able to explain properly to journalists yet, when they keep asking me why people tell so intimate stories about themselves online. I wonder if I will ever really get it - I definitely fall victim to the lure of exposure myself sometimes.

...But, at least, one of the undoubtedly nice things about blogging is, that unlike human to human conversations, you can actually go back in time and delete your outbursts when you (as often happens in life) end up regretting what you said in the past.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 04:57 (0) comments

It just took the filling out of a few forms and my Gtech ID card, and I got access to Georgia Techs fairly big library. It turns out that through the library I can actually borrow books from all the university libraries in the northern part of Georgia (or something to that effect) and have it delivered to GTech's Library which is situated just across from my office building. ITU hasn't gotten a library up and going yet, so this is indeed pure bliss; being able to
a) go to a real library ON CAMPUS
b) actually find the books I need
c) or book them and have them delivered within a week
c) AND be allowed to keep them for up to 5 months.

Clapping in my small hands here, I am, enjoying my newfound system identity as VISITING LISBETH KLASTRUP. It's nice to be visiting!
# posted by Lisbeth at: 22:15 (2) comments

Updating my schedule for september, trying to schedule some deadlines, in private calendar. Got to the middle of month before I noted that I had made all the entries in English without even thinking about it, even though noone else will be reading this. Hmmh.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 01:05 (1) comments

...should be the right explanation of what this is:Memorable movie moments. Reenact and capture your favourite movie moment with your mobcamera. Sponsored by Sony and moblog.co.uk.

I like the Matrix guy on the site. I wonder however, what is so special by shooting this with a mobile camera rather than a normal camera? (apart from the fact that you can upload to the site pretty quickly). Handheld self portraits? Grainy image quality?...
# posted by Lisbeth at: 19:02 (0) comments

More than 200 students from Tulane University at New Orleans have now been evacuated to Georgia Tech campus. We got a mail yesterday from the president of the university, asking us to receive them well. Some will use the stay to contact their families and relocate to them, others will likely stay with GTech till they can return to their home campus. The GTech students are raising money for them.

It appears that in general quite a few people from the areas afflicted by the storm have seeken refuge in Atlanta. See for instance this article from one of the local newspapers. It's a very strange feeling being in a state just north of where Katrina ravaged so much, it is warm and sunny here and everything looks normal when you look out the window. So far the reports on CNN has seemed as surreal to me as they probably have to people in Denmark. But now it suddenly seems much more real.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 15:34 (0) comments