Det er mye vi kan si om politikernes internettinnsats, men la oss glemme det nå. (Denne artikkelen står på trykk i dagens utgave av Morgenbladet. Fordi man ikke kan diskutere på Morgenbladets sider, legger jeg den ut for kommentarer her. Apology to my international readers, this is an article I’ve written for the weekly Morgenbladet … Continue reading »
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Norway says – share, but don’t steal?
A new initiativ by 2300 Norwegian artists and 37 organizations called Dele – ikke stjele (Share - Do not steal, more info in English at TorrentFreak) is creating new fuzz. And I’m asking myself: Does that mean upload, but don’t download? Their main argument is to respect the copyrights. Legal filesharing is good. Piracy is … Continue reading »
The European Parliament’s experience with social media – a post election reflection
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 »
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)
My article from 2005 about Iranian bloggers
It has been incredible to follow the developments in Iran over the internet the last few days. Iran’s disputed presidental election has fired up one of the wildest social media protests I’ve ever seen. Within minutes, thousands of tweets are posted on the #iranelection and earlier tonight, I came across these amazing images from the … Continue reading »
98 days before the Norwegian election – some social media tendencies
Social media is the big buzz word in the Norwegian election campaign. 2005 was the election year when the parties competed on having the coolest, flashiest website, 2009 is the year when the parties are competing about being everywhere (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Nettby, Origo, etc), communicating. We’ve seen it on TV, read about … Continue reading »
Tech, EP election and Norwegian politics – a presentation
Jon Worth and I just finished a presentation at the Norwegian EU delegation about how new technology is shaping modern politics, with a special focus on the upcoming European Parliament election (June 4-7) and the Norwegian election campaign (national election on September 14). The slides are below, at the bottom of the blog post. Here … Continue reading »
Frp mangler nettkoden
Frp har ikke knekket internettkoden. Vil internett ta knekken på tv-partiet Frp? Siv Jensen. Foto: Bård Gudim, Frp (Sorry to my international readers, but this is an article I’ve written for the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet, about the Progress Party, the second largest party in Norway, and their paradoxical use of the internet in the election … Continue reading »
Lovely links – about Twingly, Obarometer and stinky numbers
Hectic days, tons of ideas about stuff I would like to blog about, but not too much time. Still, I would like to point you to a few interesting things I’ve come across lately. I would like to see more of this - a Swedish political party, Folkpartiet, is using Twingly to link to the … 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 »
Academia: How to loose control of your message and feel fine about it
I recently gave a seminar about blogging basics in Norway for a bunch of academic communication people, organized by forskning.no. They represented all kinds of academic institutions in Norway, such as the University of Oslo, Bergen University College, BI, Bioforsk, Oslo Cancer Cluster, etc . One of the issues several of the participants brought forward … Continue reading »
Obama, the tech candidate
Several of my friends have walked the walk from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama for the past few months, and Anne Juel Jørgensen has a very interesting revelation of her process. Obama clearly emerges as a different leader, who has not only inspired the West Wing (Olav Anders Øvrebø has a great video and analysis), … Continue reading »
Obama in the West Wing
Several times, I have wished the reality was more like the West Wing. Apparently, the borders are blurring. In this article in the Guardian, the scriptwriter says he got inspired by Barack Obama after his great speech at the Democratic National Convention for John Kerry in 2004. “I drew inspiration from him in drawing this … Continue reading »
