Aw…. A little girl lost her doll a week or two ago at Disney on Ice in Oslo, and her parents set up a website and started an email chain to help find it – I haven’t seen the doll, but perhaps you have?
I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, author and professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. I co-direct the Center for Digital Narrative, a 10-year Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence, and I lead the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life. This site started as my blog in October 2000.
Eirik
I got that mail as well, and my immediate reaction was scepticism and disbelief. That’s what years of spam, virii, net hoaxes and suchlike does to us, I guess. 🙁
Jill
Sure, it might be a hoax – but I can too vividly imagine my own daughter losing her favourite toy and the catastrophe that would be for the whole family….
Actually once she did lose it. On holiday in Denmark with her father. She and her dad drove several hours back to pick it up and thank goodness, they found it.
Jorunn
Anyone else reminded of that Swedish television series – “R‰dda Joppe, dˆd eller levande”? 🙂
Ghani
It’s really funny, when I visited that page, I didn’t have to understand a bit of Swedish to figure out that they found her doll. I’m glad!
Jill
Oh look! They found it! Thanks, Ghani!
🙂
Elin
I am not surprised you didn’t have to understand a bit of Swedish to understand that they found the doll , Ghani:-)
E.
Ghani
Uh oh, now i’m paranoid — was that not swedish? Did i just make a fool of myself? 😉
Elin
That was 100% Norwegian, you see.
But that’s ok. Norwegians survive worse insults:-)
Ghani
Oh dear. I apologize! ::slinks into a corner::
Frizzante
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