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hiding behind a blog

Exhibitionism and mental masturbation? Nonsense. Blogging is about hiding. It’s about partial truths and a voice that is binding as well as freeing. When my partner tells me he’s unsure about our relationship I write about protesters rallying for peace. When I […]

peaceblogs

I prefer peaceblogs to warblogs 🙂

how many versions of the war are there?

When one side has a thousand times more casulties than the other, it’s not a war, writes Sven Egil Omdal. He repeats what Europeans have been hearing since the war began: in the US, the war is reported uncritically. Iraqi civilian victims […]

women, copying, sharing

Today’s meeting about copyright and copying at Bergen Kunsthall (“deledagen”) has been critisised for only having male presenters (in the BB mailing list today, archives are subscribers only). The organisers answer that they asked two women who couldn’t come, and they pull […]

demo

I’m in Trondheim now, showing people here how to blog 🙂

hooray!

Lisbeth has finished her PhD and she’s got a job! I’m so happy for her 🙂

talking about blogs in trondheim

Ruth and Finn have invited me to Trondheim on Monday, and so I’ve been surfing around to put my links together. I’ve discovered if I have more than enough links talking is easy. Writing talks as link-dense summaries is much faster than […]

not good

In the USA, one in ten black men between the ages of 25 and 35 are in prison, according to the Human Rights Watch. (via Eirik)

social software

Liz provides a really good annotated list of people blogging about social software and socialtext. I don’t think I’ve ever really used these words but perhaps this is indeed what I’m working on these days? Well, apart from the thesis that is. […]

a real blogging ex-prime minister

My god. It would appear that Poul Nyrup, the previous Prime Minister of Denmark has started blogging. When Jesper sent me the link I assumed it wass a joke, like John Howard’s blog. But it appears to be authentic. No overt parody […]