Dear friends and readers – huge apologies for my lack of frequent updates on this blog this fall! As I told you some months ago, I’ve moved back to Norway, Oslo, and I’ve started a new job as communication advisor at Origo, a social network and publishing platform. I love, love, love it, but when … Continue reading »
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New city, new job – Oslo, Origo
I’m leaving Brussels this weekend, as I’m moving back to Oslo after three years in Belgium. It is not easy to leave a place after so many good years here, just as it was hard to leave Washington DC after three years there in 2002. But it’s time to go back to Norway and start … Continue reading »
An excellent movie about Iranian bloggers
I will recommend everyone to watch this video about the Iranian blogosphere. It vizualizes what I wrote about in my previous blog post about Iranian bloggers. (via the Daily Dish and this Wired article about hacking in Iran)
This is what I’m writing about – my Wordle cloud
This is what this blog is all about. I was surprised to see I’m that obsessed about copyrights, but that’s just how it is these days. You can also try Wordle for Twitter or any other web site with a RSS or Atom feed (via Tim O’Reilly Radar).
Waterboarded 183 times and the blogger who uncovered the exact number
On April 19, we could read in the New York Times that Khaled Sheik Mohammed (self-described planner of September 11) was waterboarded 183 times in one month. I think waterboarding is horrible torture, but that is not the point here. The point is that NYTimes reporters were not the ones who uncovered the exact number … Continue reading »
Moltemyr skole and some very interesting social media cases
What does Internet Explorer 6, Moltemyr skole (school), Twestival and a couple of Norwegian bloggers who are testing political impact through social media have in common? Not much necessarily, except for mostly a Norway connection and new digital tools. Well, I’ll give you the red thread. And I’ll start with the most recent case, Moltemyr … Continue reading »
March 12 Online Free Expression day – support Amnesty’s campaign
I do of course support it. Last year, Reporters without Borders launched the first Online Free Expression day on March 12. This year, Amnesty Norway has launched a huge freedom of speech-campaign (only Norwegian) and they give you a list of 12 different things you can do on March 12 (several of them social media … Continue reading »
The confusing future of journalism
Every day now, there seems to be news about journalists being sacked. The financial crisis is one obvious reason, but the changing and unstable business models for media companies are other reasons for worries. Journalists are struggling with the same questions as musicians, filmmaker, writers, photographers, i.e. how to spread your work digitally, but at … Continue reading »
Blogging at Europabloggen and OJB.com
This is the week of multitasking – not too unusual in my world. I’ve started blogging at Europabloggen, a blog about Europe and EU, from a Norwegian perspective (sounds like a contradiction, you say?). Oslo/Berlin-based journalists Olav Anders Øvrebø and Dag Yngland are the two other contributors. As you can see, Europabloggen is just at … Continue reading »
Heading for Berlin – Re-publica´09 and half marathon
Since I’m a fan of deliberative democracy, I’ll follow my readers’ advice in a previous blog post: I have signed up for the Berlin Half Marathon on April 5! And later this weekend I will also sign up for the Brussels 20k on May 31. Thanks for all your encouragement and advices! At this point … Continue reading »
An old friend with a new blog, a marathon and a poll
I’m always happy when I come across old friends that have started blogging or suddenly has a profile on Twitter (here is mine). Two days ago, I received a link from Ingvild Wedaa Tennfjord, a profiled Norwegian feature journalist in Dagbladet (portraits is her speciality) and at the Norwegian Broadcast Corporation, NRK. She is always … Continue reading »
Blogging brunettes (and some blondes)
Lately, I’ve considered whether I should become a blond blogger. Well, not exactly. But it’s been interesting (and a bit sad, I must admit) to read about some of the most highprofiled girls lately. Swedish blogger Blondinbella has more than 300 000 unique vistors a week. Isabella “Blondinbella” Löwengrip’s blog has more visitors than the … Continue reading »
Finding EU blogs with the Bloggingportal.eu
How many EU bloggers are there? What are they writing about? What pisses them off? Why are they passionate about the EU? Find out by visting bloggingportal.eu, a blog aggregator built by some friends of mine, Stefan, Jon and Kosmopolito. The EU blog aggregator is following 281 blogs at the moment (if you know of … Continue reading »
Standing out in the blogosphere – according to Belgian blogging star
Clo Willaerts has figured it out and she is funny! I saw her yesterday at the launch of Think About It – the European blogging competition organized by European Journalism Centre. I hope some of the aspiring political bloggers I met yesterday will follow her suggestions, then we can expect some really colourful blogs about … Continue reading »
Norwegian blogging politicians – some tendencies
Blogging competition
European Journalism Centre has launched a blogging competition, “Think About It”. The goal is to get Europeans to THINK ABOUT IT and to express their views on Europe through an online blogging competition. More info here.
More on the Belgian Defense Minister
Bruno Waterfield in the Daily Telegraph (who also has a blog – thanks for the link, Bruno) has written an article about the incredible story of the drinking Belgian Defense minister Pieter de Crem on a cancelled meeting in New York and the blogging barmaid (I wrote about it here). (Via Linda_Margaret on Twitter) If … Continue reading »
The Belgian Minister of Defense’s encounter with a “dangerous” blogger
A drunk Belgian minister in New York on a cancelled meeting, a blogging waitress, a phone call, a lost job, a Facebook group – blogging is “dangerous”. It is a really fascinating story that has been unfolding in the Belgian blogosphere lately, and it is quite juicy since it involves the Belgian Minister of Defense, … Continue reading »
Why I love Twitter and the readers of this blog
Have your communication patterns changed for the past year? Mine have. Enormously. And it’s an amazing ride. I got interested in the internet (and in technology in general) as I realized all the new communication possibilities, and how that would impact media and politics. This was back in 1996 (yeah, I know, I was quite … Continue reading »
Time for linklove
I just wanted to say thanks to some kind souls out there for linking/recommending my blog. I got a friendly email from a group of Canadian digital culture students from the University of Lethbridge some days ago. Apparently, they like my blog and has started linking to it, here is their Digi-Cult blog. And a … Continue reading »
