Journalism
There are now more mobile devices than people on earth: What does that mean for journalism, for digital design and for our lives? For one, «print newspapers might outlast websites in their current form because websites are changing so fast», David Ho, Wall Street Journal’s Executive Mobile Editor, predicted
Social Networks
Negative emotions are the most powerful inner trigger for habit-forming actions: «When we're depressed we go to Facebook. When we’re bored we go to YouTube. When we’re stuck, we Google it – these are all responses to internal triggers.» So, how can we design for it? The
Current Affairs
- Don’t let Anders Behring Breivik become an excuse to encroach on human rights, said Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Since the twin terror attacks on Utöya and Oslo 22/7 last year, Norway has seen demands to censor and monitor web communications grow stronger as people have looked for ways
Web/Tech
"I think we’re beginning to see the fragmentation of the Internet into numerous state-controlled intranets." The words belong to author and investigative journalist Misha Glenny whom I interviewed about his new book, «Dark Market: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You», when he was in Oslo to talk at an
Web/Tech
I have so much I want to blog about from last year and for this, but I guess I'm suffering from a bit of a blogger's block. In the meantime, here's wishing you all a happy and prosperous new year and a link to
Web/Tech
Writing about Steve Jobs and his philosophy of life for work today I was reminded about liberation management. I was really struck by this video (which must have travelled all over the web by now), Jobs 2005 Stanford commencement speech, and how it gels with the other things we know
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
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
Epistemology
"Oh, I don't read HER. It's not that I don't like her, it's just that she makes me think too much," a journalist friend told me back when I had just graduated from City. He'd been in news
Media
The iPad is a premium product for premium content. It’s a lean-back device most used in the evenings, and it provides a new chance for photo- and long-form journalism. Since its launch earlier this year, the media industry has been abuzz with talk on how the iPad will change
Media
Danish regional newspaper company Fynske Medier unveiled plans to invest another two million pounds (20m DK) in developing technology such as e-readers and mobile platforms this week. The media group has already had some success selling online systems, and I'm assuming we're talking about content management
Ald09post
Danish IT-journalist Dorte Toft used her blog to help reveal one of the country’s biggest business scandals in modern time. It won her both acclaim and criticism. Today is Ada Lovelace Day, and, answering UK software consultant Suw Charman-Anderson’s call, over 1,500 blogger worldwide have pledged to