16 technology books you should read

If books can remove the fear and prejudices, this is my attempt to help people understand and cope with the technological changes taking place within politics, media, academia, law, etc. Fear of openness, fear of collaboration, fear of “the people, formerly known as the audience” is something I hear quite frequently. I was asked to … 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 →

You still think the information revolution is exaggerated? Watch this

Did you know? The sound at the end was my brain exploding. (via Kristine)

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 →

If in Brussels, mark February 12 in your calendar!

That is the day for the Brussels’ Twestival – a festival for Twitter users in Belgium in support of charity: water, an organization that works to provide safe drinking water in developing countries. The idea is to gather Twitter users, meet face to face, not only avatar to avatar, chat, drink, listen to good music, … Continue reading →

25 years with Mac

“On January 1984, Apple Computer  will introduce the Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like “1984”. Those were the words Apple used to introduce their now world famous Macintosh 128K in this video by Ridley Scott: I was never the owner of this little beige treasure, back in 1984 I had very little … Continue reading →

What they have figured out at the digital Downing Street

Number 10.gov.uk, the British Prime Minister’s website, is apparently doing something right, but what? The reason why I’ve started to look closer at the Number 10 is that this particular website has been mentioned by a few Norwegians involved in politics I’ve talked to lately as an example of a political site that is modern … Continue reading →

Congratulations America!

Finally, Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States. The incredible long Bush years are over. This can only become better. I’ve celebrated the inauguration by wearing my nice Obama t-shirt from my trip to DC , made by Chris Bishop. Here’s a few good articles and websites about digital government – will … 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 →

The Gaza tragedy – and some online tools

The horror in Gaza continues. I’ve written about Gaza and EU’s inability to get anything done in my column for the next issue of Morgenbladet (out this Friday), and as I was writing the piece, I looked around online for different ways to offer some help to the trapped civilians in the warzone and get … Continue reading →

Lovely links

Lovely links for you – here is some of the stuff I’ve read lately: I’ve been amazed by all my new Twitter followers I’ve received lately (you find me here at Twitter), Twitter is clearly going mainstream. Here are 5 ways to discover new Twitter applications. SocialToo is another useful Twitter tool  (follow/unfollow stats, surveys … Continue reading →

The atheist buses stir debate

800 atheist buses are rolling in the UK, I’ve written an article about the campaign in Dagbladet (Norwegian). The debate after the article is quite intense, one of the commentators argues “Down with religion!”, another one shouts “Do you think there is a God in 2009?” One persons says that “this kind of campaigns send … Continue reading →

Norwegian blogging politicians – some tendencies

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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 →