Blogging
As a side note to the discussion of bloggers acting as journalists: Gawker, the New York celebrity gossip blog, has put its Gawker Stalker feature, also hailed as a pioneering example of citizen journalism, into map form. It works on the formula that zealous readers report sightings of celebrities around
Blogging
The Media Guardian says companies have awakened to the potential marketing value the blogosphere can add to their PR-strategy: How big business barged in on the bloggers. My friend and blog prophet Adriana has been telling me for years and years that this invetably would happen, so I guess this
Personal
Last Monday I only got a black screen and an error message when I turned on my laptop. Stuck without a PC for weeks I could see myself missing all my deadlines, loosing all future contracts, my livelihood, friends in faraway places... well, I steadied myself and called the computer
Blogging
While lunching with an old friend of mine in Pimlico, London, the other week, he expressed curiosity about how Norwegian bloggers dealt with the infamous cartoon wars. Here’s a peak at the most recent developments: “If the threats against the president of the Norwegian journalists union, Per E. Kokkvold,
Travel
Travel
On Monday morning I found myself standing in the middle of scenic Belgian countryside: the only sounds to be heard were those of cows mooing. The problem with this idyllic scene was that I was supposed to have been on Brussels airport, checking in for my flight back to Oslo,
Media
As Danish and Norwegian flags were set ablaze, and militant Muslim demonstrators were shouting “death to all Westerners” in several capitals of the world last week, the Norwegian foreign department initially reacted by sending out a memo to its Middle East embassies widely perceived as kowtowing to the militants. The
Personal
”Do you remember the time when we danced on the tables in that place in the Reeperbahn in Germany?” my aunt H’s best friend E asked my aunt H at the 90-year-birthday-bash we threw for her. “Yes…” my aunt H smiled, and, as they were about to delve further