Why does it cost less to mail a letter from the USA to Norway ($0.82 or 5,12 kr) than it costs to mail a letter from Bergen to Oslo (6,50 kr or $1.03)? For those prices, you can even put more in […]

Ooooh! I went through my inbox at the office and I’m getting a whole YEAR’S sabbatical from July 2007 through June 2008! Isn’t that totally awesome? I applied for a full year, and of course I deserve it, but I honestly only […]

While clearing the comments my spam filter thought I should moderate personally after my break, I found a dozen or so with the following sentence, followed of course by the obligatory links to poker sites: webmaster,your blog is google ! Is this […]

No posting lately. Hardly even checked my pet blog. Way too many things to do…but soon I’m on holidays, and then there are a couple of weeks of writing and then more holiday. It’s conceivable I’ll blog in there somewhere – or […]

Is it normal to check one’s own blog several times a day just in case it’s updated – even though one knows one hasn’t done a thing? I could pretend it was to see if there were any comments. But I already […]

While looking for a reading list for a student who might be doing some work on social software I came across this interesting-looking site, H2O Playlists: An H20 playlist is a shared list of readings and other content about a topic of […]

Ragnhild reminded me that the Norwegian Medieforskningskonferanse (media researcher conference) is in Bergen this year, and that the deadline for sending in abstracts is next week – June 15. The conference sounds rather useful in that it’s set up as a bunch […]

Liz Lawley told me I had to meet Rich Ling, who’s a researcher at Telenor here in Norway – and indeed I very briefly met him last year when Howard Rheingold was here for Digital og sosial. So of course I’m at […]

I love reading between the lines of blogs – though sometimes I’m completely wrong about things! So it was fun to see an interpreted and confirmed version of what went on behind the scenes of Jason Kottke’s and Meg Hourihan’s blogs in […]

The next iteration of the Digital Arts and Culture conference series is in Perth!! My family’s from Perth – it’s got to be one of the most beautiful and friendly cities on Earth, and of course I can say that with absolute […]