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It was the morning after the worst day in Oslo's recent history, and these are the frontpages we woke up to. It must be said that VG, Norway's largest newspaper and also my main employer, was right across the street from the governement headquarters where the
Books
I was ill this last weekend and spent it in the company of ghosts. Fictional ones, that is. As it happened, I’d been fighting flu for quite some time. But I had just finished some big, important assignments, could finally allow myself to be ill and it was raining
SocialWeb
Here's an excellent observation from a talk I've just been convinced I would have loved to listen to (thanks to Adam for liveblogging it): "Highly technical people are dictating how we communicate with each other. The least social people are dictating how we interact. They
Media
An issue of a media magazine I wrote the lead story for just won a prize for front page of the year during the Nordic Media Festival in Bergen. I had absolutely nothing to do with that front page but I love how it alludes to some of the paradoxes
Media
"Publishers are finally saying yes to Apple's terms because ...it turns out their fear that Apple’s policies would deny them the consumer data they need to do business was unfounded". So writes Jeff Bercovici on his Forbes-blog. His post reminds me of two things, well
Personal
"You're the girl whose dog saved your life, aren't you?" It's sometimes strange how people from different parts of your life remember you, the things they associate with you. Last night, attending a reunion for junior high school, one of the girls
Media
Do you remember how "stickiness" used to be considered a virtue online? I can recall it being praised as such in a newsroom I worked as late as 2007. However, a story from 1997 about this very same "virtue" really leapt at me when reading Steven
Journalism
With all the hullabaloo over content farms, Google, and whether Huffington Post really is a content farm, as of late, two contrary perspectives struck me last week. First, I attended Robert Picard's talk on media business models, as mentioned here. What I didn't mention was some
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I've been following the Wikileaks story intensly for a good long time, and writing a bit of commenteray on it here (in Norwegian), so I couldn't help but laugh reading this story on it over at Brian's blog just now. In his usual understated
Media
What if it's that endless routine of trying to create some sort of order out chaos, minute by minute, day by day, that's to blame for the media's challenges in coping with change? I've been listening to Robert Picard, currently director of
Blogging
Erm... well, actually I never did. So when someone asked me this question at a conference, where I was giving a talk about the state of digital media, recently, I thought it was about time I'd deliver on my promise to myself to start blogging more here again
Personal
2010 was a rollercoaster year for me professionally – busy, trying yet rewarding – but as it was coming to an end, most all I could think about was how lucky I am to be alive. As I start 2011 it's with an immense feeling of gratitude to all the