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. This is what I wrote in my previous follow-up blog post half a year ago: " Ongoing or long-term projects usually generate follow-up blog posts. A submission to a conference will (if accepted) later generate a blog post about that conference. An ongoing research project will generate a new blog post some three, six or twelve months later. But [...] some blog posts don't generate follow-up blog posts even when they "should". " From having written general follow-up blog posts about this-and-that, my previous (July 2016) follow-up was exclusively concerned with following up the status of various academic texts (" the name of the game has been a constant and hectic production of academic texts reaching almost-hysterical levels of text production in May and June "). This blog post will do the same. This year has been very productive in terms of the output of academic texts but there's a high probability next year " will go to eleven ". Thi...

. I regularly write blog posts about "books I've read recently", and   just like two years ago , this blog post is a summary of all books I read during the last two years (2015-2016). This is the third time I do this and just a last year I top this blog post off with my top recommendations for books I suggest you should read. Just as before, this blog post doesn't actually summarize the books that I  read  during 2015 and 2016, but rather the books that I  wrote about having read on the blog during 2015 and 2016 and I'm more or less one year behind in writing about books I have read, i.e. if I write a January 2017 blog post about books I have read "lately", I will then in fact write about books I read a year ago, in January 2016! This blog post more specifically covers books that I read between November 2014 and December 2015 and during that period (14 months) I read altogether 39 non-fiction books: January - John Michael Greer , " Decline and fall...

. This is the fourth time I compilate annual statistics about the blog. As with many other things, that just didn't happen last year ( due to my blog absence ) but I have done it three times in a row before that ( here are the blog statistics from 2014 ).  Two years ago I had published 320 blog posts, one year ago I had published less than 30 additional blog posts, but now I'm closing in on 440 blog posts and I suppose blog post #500 will be published sometime this coming summer. The number of visitors shrank last year for natural reasons (little activity on the blog), but 2016 would have been "up there" if not for the abysmal Q1. The huge uptick in December is due to the fact that I published a massively popular blog post just a few days  before Christmas (my 3rd most popular blog post ever). Despite the slow start (zero blog posts in Jan-Feb and 4 in March), the tempo has picked up and I have, during Q4, for the first time ever had to publish more than two blog po...

. I have once before (in Oct 2013) declared a " Blog week " where I wrote seven blog posts in as many days to "catch up", and, I did it again in the beginning of november. I did however know that I needed to write a lot more than seven blog posts to catch up so I declared it " Blog week/Blog mania " instead. I then proceeded to write eleven blog posts in as many days (Nov 7 - Nov 17) before I had an involuntary eight-day hiatus due to a temporarily heightened work load. I have since Nov 25 however for the most part written three blog posts per week and this is a considerably higher tempo than the one to two blog posts per week that I have consistently aimed for ever since I started to blog back in September 2010 . One reason for the increase in the number of blog posts is due to the fact that a substantial part of the blog posts written this year (>40%) relates to texts (articles, conference papers) that I have submitted left and right. Each text usual...

. This blog post is unusual in that it's not about my personal academic activities, nor musings that stem from (for examples) from a seminar of from an academic book I have read. It is instead an analysis of current events and it's written against the backdrop of Donal Trump becoming the 45th US president less than four weeks from now Before I started this blog, I had another non-academic (but in fact much more analytical ) blog where I wrote about (peak) oil, energy, geopolitics, sustainability, economy etc. This blog post is in fact much more in line with the kind of blog post I wrote on my previous blog and I also use blog posts from that blog as the starting point of this analysis. ---------- When the Arab Spring started in Tunisia in December 2010, I naturally took an interest. The "unrest" later spread to Egypt where protests began at the end of January 2011 and where Hosni Mubarak was quickly forced away from power after having rules Egypt for 30 years. After ...

. Three months ago  I wrote a blog post  about an abstract we had just submitted to  the 9th [Swedish] Pedagogical Inspiration Conference . The abstract was accepted, we wrote up the short paper and submitted it in the beginning of November. My colleague, Björn Hedin (first author) presented it last week. I'm the second author and the third author is Olle Bälter. We had a discussion already at the time when we submitted the paper and came to the conclusion that the old title ("Dummerjöns"/"Blockhead Hans") should be changed. The title was problematic as it might sound demeaning even though it really isn't - but you might only know that if you go back and read the original H.C. Andersen fairy tale . The new title of the paper is " Sagan om examensringen – en akademisk tragedi " [Lord of the graduation ring - an academic tragedy] and the paper is already available online ( pdf file ). The paper treats two different phenomena: 1. A student who had zer...

. I try to publish complete lists of (guest) lectures in mine and Elina Eriksson's course DM2573 Sustainability and Media Technology and I managed to do that two years ago but didn't last year (due to my extended blog absence ). This blog does contain the line-up of this year's course as well as some reflections about giving the course (see further below). The course has moved around a little since last year and it is now given during the second rather than the first half of the autumn term (from Sept-Oct to Nov-Dec). The course ended last week and below is the 2016 line-up for our course (15 lectures + 1 panel). ------------ DM2573 - Sustainability and Media Technology - lectures ------------ -  Daniel Pargman  (Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Media Technology, KTH/MID) " Course introduction " " Sustainability and Sustainable Development - On concepts and issues " -  Elina Eriksson , Ph.D., Researcher at KTH/Media Technology and Interaction Design (MID)...