Transit
Yesterday I caught a cab, a train, a bus, a plane, a bus, another bus and then another train. At the end I had made it from Oslo to Tampere, which has a cool looking cathedral amongst the smokestacks and shopping centres outside my tiny hotel window. It’s either ham or cake for breakfast in [...]
Some workplace affects, 2007
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“Sure, networking is more focused in its intentions than merely hanging out with one’s friends, but that doesn’t make it crassly utilitarian. I may say to myself, “Self, you really need to increase your visibility in Sub-Subspeciality A.” But I don’t go and find all the Important People in that field and try to [...]
Burnout babies
There was some great feedback from the last post - thanks. I’m still interested in pursuing some of the bigger questions in it, especially since I think they got a bit sidelined in the Brisbanalia. I particularly want to hear more thoughts on the structures of support available for those many people in Australia who [...]
Waiting ’til the cows come home
Today is the day I can put the away message on my email that says “I may not write back to you until February.” The amount of joy this is giving me is hard to describe adequately. This year has felt like one never ending battle with Microsoft Word, my inbox and these two keyboards [...]
Wireless workshop
Now everything’s in place, I can finally let you in on a little pet project I’ve been working on…
Wireless Cultures & Technologies Workshop
Convened by Dr Gerard Goggin (USyd) and Dr Melissa Gregg (UQ)
Sponsored by the ARC Cultural Research Network Cultural Technologies Node
The University of Sydney, Friday 1 December, 1.30-5.00pm
Wireless technologies and cultures could be said [...]
It’s about working smarter
If only it was. This latest campaign from Optus, ‘for small business customers only’, typifies the distinct lack of interest amongst Australian mobile technology marketers in changing the culture of ICT-dependent workplaces. We should be in no doubt which particular group is ‘mobile’ in this vision of the mobile society. And whether it’s the recent [...]
Dear Australian Research Council
Thank you very much for giving me another three years of getting paid.
DP0770241: “Working from home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of domesticity” has been funded. You can see the full list of grants here.
Thanks to all of you who have wished me well and tried to keep me sane [...]
More notes on cool
It’s taken me a long time to get my notes together from Alan Liu’s The Laws of Cool, but I want to share some of them here given how much use I’ve made of them in the conference papers and grant applications currently occupying my time. I didn’t realise how fitting Geert’s description was going [...]
Work in progress seminar
The details for my ‘Working From Home’ seminar on Friday week are now available here, complete with a suitable illustration…
Working from Home
Actually, I’m not today… leaving my new flatmate (!!) some room to move in and hopefully not catch my Splendour in the Grass-induced headcold. However, I have just sent off my first ever paper on the ‘working from home’ project for peer review, having finally finished it in time for the masterclass yesterday. I’m keen [...]
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