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code of conduct for blogging

Some of you have followed the fuss about bullying in blogs in the aftermass of the death threats to Kathy Sierra from the meankids blog (now shut down). Tim O’Reilly has suggested a Blogger’s Code of Conduct, which is pretty over the […]

international digital literature competition

Scott notes the 3rd Ciutat de VinarÚs International Prize for Digital Literature, with quite substantial prizes: Ä2500 each for best narrative and best poetry, and Ä1000 for best work of digital literature in Catalan. They’ll accept works in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, […]

google’s maps, my maps

Google maps just released My Maps, which lets you annotate maps with location points, lines, descriptions and HTML (allowing you to include images and links, for instance). You can save your maps and make them private or public. The Google Maps Mania […]

bembo’s zoo

Bembo’s Zoo is an animated alphabet book (or, uh, website) where each letter spells the name of an animal – until the letters drift off and become the animal! Oh, and it’s all done in the font Bembo. I adore it and […]

privacy campaign targeting teens

Via the Norwegian YouTubeBlogg (which seems a good way to track Norway-related YouTube content) I found this video, posted by Datatilsynet as part of a campaign where they’re trying to make teens more aware of their privacy rights and of surveillance in […]

facebook in norway

A journalist from Aftenposten’s jobs and education supplement is about to call me to interview me about Facebook, so I’m checking up on some stats and such. And I had a geek at the interview about Facebook Bergen Student TV did with […]

sognefjorden

Amazing how suddenly one can just not blog for a whole week, after blogging many times a day for a while. Most of the reason I didn’t blog was that we just spent three and a half days up at Hilde and […]

where I was yesterday

Yesterday I got to be one of the parents to accompany my daughter’s class on their annual skidag or ski day. It was amazing. Norway is so beautiful, and skiing is so calmly pleasant, and kids are so happy and nice to […]