A working tool
This website is a working tool. Nearly everything I write in a
professional capacity is "published" here: course plans,
lecture notes, articles, travel reports, comments.
You will find early drafts and informal comments as well as full
text versions of papers that have been published in print. The whole
web contains a couple of thousand pages.
I remain fascinated by the web as medium. On the web site I try
out different ways of using the site in teaching and for professional
communication. You will also find more informal stuff: my personal
web discoveries, comments, grievances and hobbyhorses.
I want to experiment with the web - and am encouraged
by the rise of blogging. As a literary form, these "shareable
diaries on the web" are fun, flexible and attuned to the medium.
More about blogs ... |
Language policy
Many of the top level pages are bilingual (no/en) - or in English
only. Deeper down, most are in Norwegian. But I am steadily increasing
the English share.
What does PS mean?
The initials PS carry a double meaning. På sporet
is Norwegian and means "tracking" or "on the right
track".
Post Scriptum is Latin (of course) and is used
to indicate addendas and afterthoughts - below the signature - in
letters. But its literal meaning is "that which follows after
the written message". Which could also be used to describe
hypertext - which developed after ordinary writing.
History
In 2000, I dropped Word and decided to use the web as my archive
and FrontPage as my regular word processor. In 2002 I switched from
FrontPage to Dreamweaver. I wanted to learn about the new medium
through the routine of daily use. More about this in the essay Enter
the dragon.
Design and structure have varied substantially over time. Hopefully
to the better. |