Bellona’s advice regarding food and CO2 footprints

Recently, I wrote about The moral dilemma of eating pumpkin outside the season, and since I encountered some tricky questions while dealing with this topic, I contacted the Norwegian environmental organization Bellona for a follow-up question. I asked: Is there any food we (meaning living in Europe) should totally avoid because of the environmental costs … Continue reading →

When everyone is a reporter – even donors

If your interested in journalism, citizen journalism and the future of media, here is an article you have to read (via eJour). Blogger and professor in Journalism, Jeff Jarvis and Michael Tomasky, Guardian’s USA editor, “clash” in this piece on the topic of citizen journalism/bloggers and what to expect from the new reporters. The backdrop … Continue reading →

If in Oslo next week, go to this seminar

I wished I could go to this seminar in Oslo next week, Monday 5: (How free is the Internet?) Hvor fritt er internett? Grunnleggeren av Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, skal innlede når Nobels Fredssenter og Teknologirådet inviterer til konferanse 5. mai. Temaet er ytringsfrihet og sensur på internett. Møtet holdes mandag 5. mai fra 09.00 til … Continue reading →

Time for gin, elves and press freedom – according to Mugabe

Let’s start the day with some well-written stories: Fantastic article about “the architecture of participation” or how we find time to produce Wikipedia articles – but also about gin, sitcomes and grown men sitting in their basement pretending to be elves. (Via Welcome to the Revolution and Tversover). Do you think Robert Mugabe has heard … Continue reading →

The moral dilemma of eating pumpkin outside the season

Yesterday evening I served my girlfriends pumpkin soup at my house. So what, why do you have to write a blog post about that, you might ask. Good point. Nothing sensational happened, no one died from soup poisoning, as far as I know, but the pumpkin soup got me thinking. Because the pumpkin had travelled … Continue reading →

This is going on at the Pearl Project

I wrote a post about the Pearl Project recently, and I got so happy when I received a replay from Jackie Sanders, the director of the Journalism program at Georgetown University, regarding the progress of the project. Here is what she wrote: “I am the Director of the Journalism program at Georgetown University where the Pearl … Continue reading →

Mash up the environment

I’ve been looking at some environmental mashups today, several from this site, and they give some pretty stark images, either on the present situation or the future. Here is a site that is dedicated to the consequence of rising sea level on American coastal cities. Take for example a look at this image from Manhattan … Continue reading →

What happened to the Pearl Project?

This weekend I watched “A Mighty Heart”, the movie about the horrible kidnapping and search for Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. I had already read the book, written by his courageous (and pregnant!) French wife, Marjane Pearl, who is also a journalist. I thought the movie, with Angeline Jolie and Dan Futterman in … Continue reading →

Blogging the Japanese way

I just watched this very interesting video at the Washington Post, about Blogging Japanese Style. Very nicely done, and it gives us a good comparison between the Japanese way (more modest, audience – your friends) of blogging vs. the American (more bragging, selling yourself, audience – the world). I was also surprised to learn that … Continue reading →

About Baywords, Obama as Muslim and a Norwegian EU blog

What a hectic week! Now, it’s the weekend, and time to lower the shoulders. And do some blogging. But before I log out (for a few hours), here are some neat stories I enjoyed today: The people behind The Pirate Bay has started an blog service, Baywords, in order to protect freedom of speach (Via … Continue reading →

Following the Downing Street on Twitter

Gosh, this is fun. I started following Downing Street on Twitter yesterday, and I’m postively surprised that Gordon Brown and his crew have heard about this application, and actually is using it in their communication with the world. 9 minutes ago I got this twit: “The PM has left the building for a few days … 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 →

Killed by blogging

Have you felt some chest pain lately? Sleep deprived? A numbness in your arm? Gained or lost a lot of weight? And you are blogging? Then you should take a look at this article in the New York Times about the dangers bloggers confront.

Internet safety, online gaming and how to avoid becoming a serial killer

I seem to bury myself in reports these days. One report I have to read, but haven’t had time to look properly yet is the so called Byron Reveiw in the UK – Tanya Byron’s report “Safer Children in a Digital World”. According to the cool game blogger at Guardian, Aleks Krotoski, the report says … Continue reading →

Cool computers on Iceland

What do you get if you mix low temperatures, cheap biothermal energy and multinational computer companies? Iceland’s new growth potential. I just came across this neat article about Iceland, and how they are trying to convince Google and Microsoft and several other giants about the advantages of establishing data centers on the saga island: It’s … Continue reading →

Blogging and SMSing – the Finnish way

 Finland’s new foreign minister is quite a character – judging from his blog. I’m especially fascinated by his pictures. Alexander Stub has been a MEP of the European Parliament until now, but he was hastily appointed new foreign minister after the previous minister texted himself into a SMS-sex scandale involving an exotic dancer, her sister, … 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?