On 25 Dec. 2009, Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in jail. That is 5 years ago. His fellony was “ to subvert state power”, mainly through coauthoring Charter08, a call for democratic reforms. Liu Xiaobo is currently the only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Norwegian Amnesty International1 has a petition calling for his […]
Oh, Tannenbaum
I går pynta vi treet. Etter å ha kjøpt og bragt treet hjem, blitt møtt av jublende døtre i trappa og dekket busken i bling, kjente jeg en viss overraskelse over følelsene som kom. Hvorfor betyr denne grana så mye? Der og da var det ingen av oss som kunne klart forklare buskens historie, hvor […]
Det hender Jeff Bezos sier noe lurt
Jeff Bezos, sjef for «interessante, men også skumle»-Amazon: Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life. We all have a limited amount of time, and where you spend it and how you spend it is just an incredibly levered […]
People don’t read instructions
Ever since I started working in a museum 7 years ago I’ve become increasingly aware that people are not that good at taking written instructions. Signs to closed areas, the bathrooms, ticket booths, what have you. Sometimes I’d ask myself and my colleagues whether there might be something wrong with the signs? The lettertype. The […]
Byword til WordPress? Eller teppefall?
Her vil jeg ha et bilde. Dette er fra Cinemateket og lørdagens Halloweenfeiring, og er tematisk ikke koblet mot denne posten på annen måte enn at jeg måtte teste å publisere rett fra Byword til notatene her, og at det kanskje er et slags teppefall. Om ikke for et nytt liv som blogger, så ihvertfall […]
Clay Shirky on Ello (and other new social services)
«These services aren’t a new way of creating FB-like value. They’re a new way of being valuable in a world that already has Facebook.» From Clay Shirky’s Ello
#Online
Marco Arment har krangla med noen på nett (igjen), og påpeker kanskje noe helt banalt enkelt men samtidig høyst foruroligende jeg aldri har tenkt over før: When we were kids, almost nobody was on the internet. No matter how bad you had it in school, socially, you could go home every afternoon and have a […]