A new mobile phone service for kids, Bipper, has just been released in Norway, and one of the features, the possibility of localising your kid, is raising some debate. According to Bipper’s founder Silje Vallestad, this is only an extra feature that […]

As one of the very few official blog researchers in Norway I get a lot of phone calls and emails from journalists. Often this is how I find out what the big issue of the moment is in blogging, or at least […]

This is my first week back at work after a half year’s maternity leave, and I’m lucky to be able to attend a few sessions of the Education and Technology summer research school that’s being organised by my colleagues in Digital Culture […]

The Colony is a TV series about a very serious pandemic that devastates our civilisation. As a teaser, Discovery Channel has set up a “personal simulation” using your Facebook data to show you how such an outbreak would affect “those closest to […]

I spied this somewhat different map of Bergen pasted up by Lille LungegÂrdsvann. I’m not sure what all the icons mean, but I like it.

I tried out Foursquare as we were showing Rod around North Hordaland a couple of days ago. Foursquare is a location-aware social network and game – you use your GPS-enabled phone to “check in” at interesting places, you can leave tips about […]

I gave a talk on social media this morning for Vestnorsk personalforum, an organisation for Human Resources professionals. Although I’ve not blogged much since Benjamin was born (he’s three months old and giggles!) I’ve been reading and thinking and I really enjoyed […]

A YouTube Bibliography – “documents scholarly articles and books that are substantially about YouTube and online video.” I asked our University Library to buy the books on this list, and our friendly research librarian answered “of course”! I love our library.

Sara Kjellberg is doing her PhD on research blogging and has written several very interesting looking articles about this, listed on her website at Lund University. She also blogs now and then at SAKJ.

When Demi Moore posted photos of herself at the dentist with one of her front teeth missing, she made the paparazzis superfluous. When Salam Pax blogged from Bagdad and US soldiers blogged their experiences of fighting in Iraq we were excited to […]