Knocked out by the sun

This was just not my day. It started with me dreaming that I forgot my start number and chip as I was about to start the race, and ended up with me quitting the Brussels 20K, far away from the finishing line. The sun sucked all the energy out of my body, and it felt … 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 →

If in Brussels, come to the Technobriefing at the Norwegian Mission

I will be there, hope you will be there too! The Norwegian Mission to the EU invites you to a briefing Tuesday June 2 How is new technology shaping modern politics? Examples from the election campaigns for the European Parlament and the Norwegian Storting. We are hosting a lunch brief Tuesday June 2 at 13:00 … Continue reading →

Naughty, naughty

Once in awhile I get contacted by companies or organizations that have discovered my blog because stuff I’ve written about, and they want me to write about what all the wonderful things they do. Most often I don’t. But yesterday I got an email from a French store, Locher’s that caught my attention. They probably … Continue reading →

Masculine Facebook and feminin Twitter – or was it the other way around?

Are there any gender differences in online behaviour and why so? That’s the topic in an article at CNNMoney, even though it never discusses gender differences on Twitter and Facebook (annoying when the title is “Men are from Facebook, women are from Twitter?”). However, I forgot that when I saw that my good friend Mary … Continue reading →

My review of different collaborative tools.

A couple of day ago I wrote about my search for a good collaborative tool for idea/argument sharing. I’m looking for a tool which makes it easy to contribute yes and no arguments (without having to login) and later on, vote on the best arguments. I was recommended four different tools and here are my … Continue reading →

My search for a good collaborative tool for ideas

I asked my Twitter followers today if they could suggest a good collaborative tool where people can submit ideas, and later on, vote on the best of the ideas. For me, this kind of interation is among the most promising, both in a political and a journalistic context. Give both the inititive and the power … 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 →

Break a leg @jensstoltenberg!

Today, a tweeting Prime Minister made me happy. Not because of something political he wrote, but because Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian Prime Minister was about to go out running, in a public race (Holmenkollenstaffetten). He is part of the team at the Prime Minister’s Office, and he’s running the last leg of the relay race. … Continue reading →

Behind the sceenes with the eGov geeks at FarmSubsidy

It’s been fascinating to get a peek into the word of the geeks behind (and connected) to FarmSubsidy the last few days. They’ve been running the European Open Data Summit here in Brussels, headed by Jack Thurston, and later today they will arrange a press conference with the tempting title “Who wants to be a … Continue reading →

Surveillance, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall

Have you ever been to a political prison? It’s a chilling experience, I can tell you. Luckily, I’ve only been to one as a visitor, but that was scary enough. The weekend I went to Berlin to run the half marathon, I also went to the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen in East-Berlin, one of 17 political prisons in … Continue reading →

This is what I’m writing about – my Wordle cloud

This is what this blog is all about. I was surprised to see I’m that obsessed about copyrights, but that’s just how it is these days. You can also try Wordle for Twitter or any other web site with a RSS or Atom feed (via Tim O’Reilly Radar).