The war against the kids

I’ve written about the complicated relationship between copyrights and creativity for Morgenbladet. The text is in Norwegian, but you can try Google Translate if you are interested. One remark – in the original article I wrote that the European Parliament had voted to extend copyrights for music from 50 to 95 years.  The result is … Continue reading →

European Parliament – music copyright extended to 70 years

I’m disappointed, but not surprised. The EP has voted to extend music copyrights 20 more years compared to today (50 years). The original suggestion was an extension from 50 to 95 year, but that got changed during the voting in Strasbourg today. I’ve written an article about copyrights vs. creativity that will appear in tomorrow’s … Continue reading →

Waterboarded 183 times and the blogger who uncovered the exact number

On April 19, we could read in the New York Times that Khaled Sheik Mohammed (self-described planner of September 11)  was waterboarded 183 times in one month. I think waterboarding is horrible torture, but that is not the point here. The point is that NYTimes reporters were not the ones who uncovered the exact number … Continue reading →

Pirate Bay reading list

“The most important is that my music reaches out to people. Just take it.” – Håkan Hellström (Det viktigaste är att min musik når ut till folk. Ta den bara. Hellström is a Swedish artist) I found this quote at the chat site for the Swedish Pirate Party. I’m just wondering, how long can you … Continue reading →

Smell my Twitter farts or follow my campaign – different ways of using Twitter

What is the point of Twitter? To get updates when this guy farts? Or when the baby of this woman kicks? Okay, I laughed, that’s how simple I am. But seriously, this Eastern, Norwegian blogs have been filled with well-written posts about how Twitter can be useful, in a political context. All of these are … Continue reading →

New site for Europatweets

I wrote recently about how you can follow tweets from politicians in the American Congress, British politicians at Westminister, Swedish politicians at Riksdagen and Danish politicians at Folketinget. Now, you can also follow tweets from MEPs, Members of the European Parliament, created by Belgian Xavier, whom I recently met, and two others. The German politician … Continue reading →

Ich bin eine schnelle Berlinerin

1:52: 09. Place 6470 out of about 25 000 runners, and place 141 among women in my age group. That’s my numbers from the Berliner Halbmaraton this weekend. And just like last year, when I participated in my first proper race, Brussels 20k, I was very proud. Also when I did my second race, the … Continue reading →

Running with a pink ribbon

I’m participating in the Berliner Halbmarathon this weekend (decided upon here), and I will run with a pink ribbon on my shoulder. I’ve made a donation to the Norwegian Cancer Society online, and have made my own bright pink ribbon for the occation. A friend of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer some months ago, … Continue reading →

Concerned optimism among online journalists

I’m not very surprised: “Journalists who work online are more optimistic about the future of their profession than are news people tied to more traditional media platforms”, according to a new report from the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism A few more findings: These online news people also believe that the Internet is changing … Continue reading →

Don’t we just love the spring?

Shot in Brussels with my iPhone, while I was biking over to the brilliant bookstore  Cook and Book (with free WiFi).