As the night was approaching and the last votes were counted on June 7, the final day of the European Parliament ( EP) election, you could read Twitter updates in 22 different languages from EP’s official Twitter accounts. Or debate the outcome with people from all over Europe on EPs Facebook page. (This text is … Continue reading »
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If in Brussels, come to the Technobriefing at the Norwegian Mission
I will be there, hope you will be there too! The Norwegian Mission to the EU invites you to a briefing Tuesday June 2 How is new technology shaping modern politics? Examples from the election campaigns for the European Parlament and the Norwegian Storting. We are hosting a lunch brief Tuesday June 2 at 13:00 … Continue reading »
My search for a good collaborative tool for ideas
I asked my Twitter followers today if they could suggest a good collaborative tool where people can submit ideas, and later on, vote on the best of the ideas. For me, this kind of interation is among the most promising, both in a political and a journalistic context. Give both the inititive and the power … Continue reading »
Babelic mockery of the EU
Having spent too much time in Brussels, I do think this is funny: ‘The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room … 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 »
Artist poking fun at EU
Finally some fun controversy in the EU. All created by a huge installation in the EC Council, called Entropa, made by the Czech artist David Cerny (warning: Crazy website). The idea was to portray stereotypes of the 27 different member countries, made by 27 different artist from each of the member countries. Apparently, Cerny changed … Continue reading »
Dirt and beauty in Mexico City – and why EU should care about the the dirty parts
Christmas in Mexico is quite something. Instead of listening to Norwegian choir boys and watching the white landscape, which I normally do, we listened to an incredible loud parrot and watched neon lit palms in the mild evening breeze. The occasion was a family wedding in Mexico city, and what better excuse to visit one … Continue reading »
Did Iceland receive an ice cold shoulder?
It is chilly in Reykjavik, only 6 degrees right now. And as all of us know, the Icelandic economy has frozen up, badly. It is so bad that even the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso sent out a statement regarding Iceland tonight (I can’t find it online yet, I got it through … Continue reading »
Sarkozy’s “three-strikes-and-out” is OUT in EU
Good news for internet users – bad news for content providers (ex. IFPI and the recording industry). The French internet proposal to create a class of digital outcast, also called “three-strikes” (or graduated response) has been turned down by the EU, both the commission (Wednesday this week), and the parliament (September 24th). According to the … Continue reading »
Help me update the list of Norwegian EU bloggers
These last few days, I’ve come across a few interesting Scandinavian EU blogs. Recently, Percy Westerlund (who is Swedish) , ambassador for the European Commission in Norway, started his own blog, which I think is a great idea. He writes in his first blog post (in Norwegian) that the blog is a way for him … Continue reading »
The Icelandic love for the Euro
When everyone is turning their eyes toward the global economic crisis unfolding with epicentre in the US, a little earthquake is shaking things up on Iceland. A warned earthquake, though. I’ve been interested in the euro/EU discussion on Iceland for quite some time, and now, new Euro events are getting attention on the saga island. … Continue reading »
Google Chrome, sceptic Irish media, Banksy and copyrights
Good links for you! Everybody (eh, not my mother) talks about the new Google browser Chrome these days. I will download it today, ars technica has a thorough review of it, if you prefer to get your Chrome info in a cartoon, a guy called Scott McCloud has already done the job. Ireland’s media have … Continue reading »
The Kosovo/South Ossetia rethoric and old Europe
Problems for EU – right now and in the near future: EUobserver has a good article today about how EU and Moscow have switched sides in the retoric regarding independence in recent cases such as Kosovo, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Do you have recommendations for good readings on the principle of “territorial integrity”? The European … Continue reading »
Norwegian EU bloggers
The Norwegian EU delegation has a good article (in Norwegian) about Norwegian bloggers who are blogging about EU. When reading Norwegian newspapers, you get the impression that the EU debate is completly dead, but a little flame is still burning – online. Frode Dal Fjeldavli has also interviewed me for the article. The article gives … Continue reading »
Norway according to Margot Wallström
For those of you interested in EU, gender equality, Norway, blogging (what a strange mix, kind of like me…), you have to read Vice-president in the European Commission, Margot Wallström’s blog post, and even more importantly, take a look at the comments. She went to Norway a few weeks ago to participate in the debate … Continue reading »
Why there are no .eu domains in the “land of otherness” (Norway)
Last week, we could read that 300 000 .eu web domains were created in 2007, two years after the domain was created. According to the European Commission, .eu is the fourth most popular Top Level Domain (TLD) in Europe (after .de and .uk) and the ninth most popular TLD worldwide (after .com, .net, and .org, … Continue reading »
Report about EU’s ICT policy
I got myself some a nice piece of bureaucratic reading this evening. Today, the Norwegian EU Delegation published a report about EU’s ICT policy. I’ll get back when I’ve done some further reading – just one quick observation – why is this report published in Word, instead of PDF?
Who do I call if I want to call Europe?
I’m at the European Council meeting in Brussels right now, and have a draft of the presidency conclusions in front of me. Since almost all publications report on the big political issues such as Eu’s ambitious environmental goals, I thought it could be good to look at some other issues, such as my personal favorite … Continue reading »
About EIT, the Koran movie and dirty editors
Some quick but good links is all I got time for today: The European Parliament has approved the establishment of EIT – the European equivalent of MIT. Commission President José Manuel Barroso says that “EIT is set to become an important feature of Europe’s innovation landscape”. I’m curious to see how this EIT invention will … Continue reading »
8th of March for IT-girls
Living in Brussels, there are different ways to celebrate the International Womens Day, depending on your interests. Power Women attend this conference today, such as Condoleezza Rice, American Minister of Foreign Affairs. Women with less fancy titles and less abilities to start a war, such as myself, attend a “power lunch” with these people tomorrow. … Continue reading »
