Month: October 2007

forced entertainment playing in Bergen this weekend

Remember Surrender Control? The SMS piece back in 2001 where you “surrendered control” to your mobile and received SMSes telling you what to do for three days? Tim Etchells, the author of that, has no doubt done many other things since, but […]

journalists can publish

Bj¯rge actually emailed Datatilsynet to ask whether the video database of all the participants in the Stoltzekleiven Opp race was legal. They say no, it wouldn’t normally be unless all participants had agreed to it beforehand (which they may have – maybe […]

Norwegian internet history

This Wednesday at 2.15 pm, Unn Kristin Daling from the Norwegian Internet History project will be giving a guest lecture at our department, discussing methodological issues that arise when dealing with source material for such a project. She will address questions such […]

big brother sees you – running up Stoltzekleiven

Yikes. Our local newspaper has video taped everyone who participated in Stoltzekleiven opp, a race where crazy Bergeners run up a local mountain. You can type in someone’s name, and if they participated, you see their start number and their finishing time […]