This page is the starting page for a thesis that proposes the design of a new tool, embodying visual knowledge building techniques as well as linear narrative, to facilitate learner-directed education in a digital age: an age in which the gaps between production and consumption are breaking down, as are the supposed gaps between education and entertainment.

If a mimi is a personal data-space that can last a lifetime and acts, at minimum, as a journal, an archive and a set of references then a logical question arises. Why would you ever write anything anywhere else?

According to the BBC news site, Sweden is opening an embassy in Second Life.

The OpenID scheme is something that I need to consider incorporating into the mimi specification that will become my MA thesis.

Today I found links to two posts by Vitaly Friedman, containing a total of forty four free, professional quality fonts.

In today’s online version of The Independent Ian Burrell interviewed Jamie Oliver. Most of the discussion was about his television plans but there was a small snippet about his website.

Sometimes I look around and see things, and I am not sure what to say. This is one of those times.

This month’s Uncut has a review of Hellzapoppin’, possibly the funniest film every made.

I read an interesting article this afternoon about the recent round of hype around the Second Life economy at Capitalism 2.0, a blog written by Randolph Harrison.

Today I upgraded this site to WordPress 2.1. I was planning to delay this for some time but I needed to try out the new features for a project we are completing.