Huffington Post’s new Investigative Fund

This is exciting! Huffington Post launched a new experiment yesterday- an Investigative Fund for journalism. The idea is that “This nonprofit Fund will produce a wide-range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers”. As Arianna Huffinton writes: For too long, whether it’s coverage of the war in Iraq or the economic … Continue reading →

How political are political Facebook groups?

Another blog in my little mini-series, Social media for social change.The two previous were about the Twitter storm that hit Moltemyr skole and the social media/fundraising event Twestival. We do know that people use Facebook for all kinds of activities, raising money to cancer sick children (started by the sister of a friend of mine), … Continue reading →

Revealing my oh so very secret Twitter network

Here are my Twitter friends and their connections to me, via Mailena. People are moving in and out of circles all the time, depending on how much we talk to each other. By double-clicking on other people’s graphs, you can see their networks. Neat! (Via Kristine Lowe). I also like some of the other features: … Continue reading →

Follow politicians on Twitter – in Sweden, Denmark, UK and US

Isn’t it amazing how fast ideas spread these days? Someone comes up with a good solution in one country, days or weeks later, you’ll find a similar solution in another country. In this specific case I’m talking about websites that allows you to follow tweet from politicians. Here are the four I’ve heard about so … Continue reading →

My Ada Lovelace hero – guess who?

As you may have heard of, it is Ada Lovelace day today, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Several months ago (via jill txt, who has written a lovely blog about her tech mum), I pledged I would “publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a … Continue reading →

Lessons learned from the Twestival

Another blog in my little mini-series, Social media for social change. The first blog post was about the Twitter storm that hit a small Norwegian school, Moltemyr skole, after some Norwegian Twitter users became aware of some anti-Darwin articles written by one of the school’s science teachers. Social media for social change (or if you … 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 →

Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW 20 years later – some images

“Vague, but exciting”. Those were the words Mike Sendhall, Tim Berners-Lee’s boss, used when he commented on Berner-Lee’s proposal for the  World Wide Web back in 1989. Well, the celebration of the 20 years old web on Friday at CERN, Geneva/Switzerland was clearly not vague, exciting is a very appropriate word to describe the anniversary. … 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 →

Girl Geek Dinners to Oslo?

I’m a feminist, in case you wondered. And I think it’s time Norway brings home the Girl Geek Dinners concept. I’ll explain, but first, some background. Normally, I celebrate International Women’s day by going to a party (which has become a tradition in Oslo. This year, Ladyfest is celebrating women for 9 days!), but  I … 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 →

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 →