Basic elements of techpolitics

So many try to reinvent the wheel when it comes to techpolitics in Europe – we need to get better at learning from each other, across borders! I will explain more eventually, but here is my attempt to visualize (in a pretty nitty-gritty way) some of the basic elements of techpolitics. These elements are in … Continue reading →

Stuff I’m doing these days

Dear friends and readers – huge apologies for my lack of  frequent updates on this blog this fall! As I told you some months ago, I’ve moved back to Norway, Oslo, and I’ve started a new job as communication advisor at Origo, a social network and publishing platform. I love, love, love  it, but when … Continue reading →

The pleasures of the gift economy and a Communist typewriter

It was so much fun to see people coming “out” of the internet and into Underskog‘s (translated under wood or underground, a popular Norwegian social calendar) market this Sunday. It was gift economy in practise and lots of happy faces and good bargains. And I just loved this Communist type writer with the owner’s description: … Continue reading →

New city, new job – Oslo, Origo

I’m leaving Brussels this weekend, as I’m moving back to Oslo after three years in Belgium. It is not easy to leave a place after so many good years here, just as it was hard to leave Washington DC after three years there in 2002. But it’s time to go back to Norway and start … 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 →