Launch of Ubiwar new blog

Posting has been sporadic (again) of late, due to the coupling of the setting up of my new blog Ubiwar with a holiday in Barcelona. The mission statement of the new venture is as follows:
Ubiwar posits that as technology becomes ubiquitous, the means available to people – which may eventually include all of us – [...]

Blogroll: neWMW and reBang

Two blogs I’ve been following for a long time:
neW Media Wanderings by Twan Eikelenboom:
blogging thoughts on New Media perception, alternatives and everything related. My current research focuses on incompatibility between spaces in locative media, more specifically in navigation systems.
And reBang by C. Sven Johnson, one of the hardest-corest blogs out there; a man who simply [...]

Blogroll: The Toynbee Covector

I’ve been meaning to sort this one out for while, but I’m not still not sure quite what to make of it. The Toynbee Convector uses the words of the great British historian, Arnold Toynbee, to illustrate, er … stuff that interests the writer of the blog, David Derrick. Perhaps. I haven’t picked out the [...]

Blogroll: Mick Farren, aka Doc 40

Woah, this is a turn up for the books. Mick Farren of the almighty Deviants is alive and well and blogging as Doc 40. As the band page at Alive Records says,
The Deviants were winding up the hippy establishment a decade before punk. Kafka, Burroughs, Quatermass movies, Maxfield Parrish, LSD 25, riots and amphetamines were [...]

Blogroll: Ghosts of Alexander

I’ve added the Ghosts of Alexander blog to my links. It’s subtitled ‘The Afghan Campaign, 2001 to Whenever’, which is pretty self-explanatory, and the most recent post is a decent review of Antonio Giustozzi’s Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan. I’ve seen Giustozzi speak a couple of times and although not the [...]