Ooh, this looks like a very interesting write-up of a thoughtful SXSW session. Marked as something I need to follow up on.

"The dissertation builds on available sociological approaches to understanding everyday life in the networked city to show that emergent technologies reshape our experiences of spatiality, temporality and embodiment. It contributes to methodological innovation through the use of data bricolage and research blogging 1, which are presented through experimental and recombinant textual strategies; and it contributes to the field of science and technology studies by bringing together actor-network theory with the sociology of expectations in order to empirically evaluate an area of cutting-edge design." Anne Galloway's PhD thesis, now online.

"Toread represents the idea that we can be the sum of the knowledge of everyone who’s ever preceded us, that given enough time we can absorb the cumulative learnings of humanity."

Clifford Nass on human-computer interactions and relations.

According to many critics of his time, Shakespeare was vulgar, provincial and overrated. So how did he become the supreme deity of poetry, drama and high culture itself, asks Jonathan Bate.

Eat food. Though in our current state of confusion, this is much easier said than done. So try this: Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

"Are smart people overrated?"

Jesper Juul on "goal-less" games, sandbox or otherwise.

"Newspapers must win online, or face a future of painful contraction." Need to read this at some point.

Lots of lovely free IxD pdfs. Better read them, then.

In reponse to Roger Ebert; apparently it's journalists to blame...