Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-22
February 22, 2010 by Twitter
- Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -George Bernard Shaw #
- Live dinosaur alert! Universal CEO believes the CD is the way of the future. http://bit.ly/9NqhL3 #cd #future #music #dinosaur #
- I Skah-saken synes forsvarsministeren å prioritere rask respons fremfor riktig respons. #
- Norsk politikk preges av mer pisk og mindre gulrot. Nå rives P-hus, foreslår tvungen P-betaling fremfor å gjøre kollektivtrafikk attraktiv. #
- Bekkelaget rundt på jakt etter vann. Endte med 2l Voss fra Jacobs etter et par timer i tomme butikker.. #vann #
- Hadde vi vært like kritiske til gjennomføringen av selve OL-arrangementet hvis Norge hadde fått flere medaljer? #ol #fiasko #
- Hugely disappointing that #google does not support multiple calendars in #GoogleApps on #android 2.1. Need separate private & work events!! #
- Got my head in the clouds. More precisely in Amazon and Google's clouds.. #
- Forbereder overgangen til Apple MacOSX #
- Snowed in. Again. #
- Why people pirate movies – http://bit.ly/96B5jh #
- Reise å besøke sne kan være OK. Å få anmeldt besøk av sne er _IKKE_ OK. Innesnedd igjen. Teller ned til vår. #
- Crap. Forecasted snow and cold throughout weekend. Why did I ever move from Dubai, oh why!?!? #
- Sadly giving up desktop Linux after 5 years use, getting a MacBook Pro tomorrow. #linux #mac #osx #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-15
February 15, 2010 by Twitter
- Pepsi skips Super Bowl ad for first time in 25 years, prioritizing social media. Google advertise first time. Hello future! #google #pepsi #
- RT @jgronbech: reading from @time http://bit.ly/9CdIxo Morro med TV reklame, en gang i blandt… #
- Congratulations KDE on beautiful new website and release of KDE SC 4.4 – http://kde.org/ #kde #linux #
- Now on Google Buzz – buzz.Google.com #
- Google chooses "Scandinavian" Open Access model for disruptive super speed FTTH rollout: http://bit.ly/aU2f51 #google #ftth #openaccess #
- Norge dømmer 4 års fengsel for overfallsvoldtekt, 3.5 år for skattesnyt. Trygdemisbrukende stortingspolitikere går fri. #fail #norge #falitt #
- Waving goodbye to Google Buzz until they sort out major privacy flaws as evident here: http://bit.ly/dh5fAA #google #buzz #fail #privacy #
- Overraskende naivt av @Orjas om boligskatt. Forutsetter at det evnes å redusere andre skatter, noe man er notorisk dårlige til. in reply to Orjas #
- Ønsker meg en dedikert NRK Sport slik at de kunne holdt OL og fotballen der og latt de andre kanalene i fred. #nrk #sport #OL #
- Love Google's Nexus One for its features, usability and speed. Hate the oversensitive virtual kkkeyboard. #google #nexusone #android #
Digital news – the downside
February 13, 2010 by Gunnar
All through 2010 I have avoided printed news alltogether in favour of online news, as part of one of my more experimental new year’s resolutions. I wanted to see benefits and challenges of living a digital yet normal life, and as part of this I’ve shunned printed newspapers, magazines and the likes in favour of targeted news feeds delivered to my eBook reader (for reading while having breakfast and on public transport), to my smartphone and on my laptop.
The Good
The upside is nothing short of fantastic – I’ve set up my newsfeeds from a mix of local, national, international and technical news feeds so that I get only the news that are relevant to me. Thanks to some clever filters, I’ve completely purged celebrity gossip, sports and trivia from my news. Instead I’ve been introduced to interesting in-depth articles from Time Magazine, commentary from Dagsavisen and drooled over new gadgets from Engadget, none of which I would have found had I stayed with only Aftenposten.
The Bad
Until Friday night, I was in online media nirvana. However, half an hour of watching the Skavlan talkshow on NRK changed that ever so slightly. As mentioned before I’m no sports buff, and have thus nuked everything sports related from my news. So while I knew the Olympics were due some time this winter, I didn’t know they started last night until it was brought up on Skavlan.. There I also learned who won the Norwegian Eurovision Song contest a week ago and heard the song for the first time… Clearly, my closest colleagues and friends must share my likes and dislikes, as these things haven’t come up during lunch or small talk. So much for going from a large company with large cantina to a small start-up..
The Verdict
I’ve kept my paper subscription to Aftenposten during my experiment, and starting today I’ve re-included it in my morning breakfast-and-tea-routine. No matter how good e-Ink gets, it can never replace the feeling of enjoying a real newspaper in front of the fireplace. And more importantly, even though I still have no interest of Eurovision Song Contest or the Olympics, I’m still missing out not knowing anything about them…
As always, the best way forward seems to be the middle path.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-08
February 8, 2010 by Twitter
- Bibelbeltet går til frontalangrep på KrFs Inger Lise Hansen. Er KrF sørlandet forbeholdt heterofile krigsforbryter-venner? #KrF #palestina #
- RT @TeleplanConsult #Cloud has moved from no 16 to top 2 spot in CIOs' mind, according to Gartner. Virtualization is no 1. #
- The Jonas Gahr Støre Reality Distortion Field – http://bit.ly/8YN0f6 #humor #
- State of the Internet summary image, Norway #1 om internet penetration! – http://bit.ly/duk23q #norway #norge #internet #
- Where did all the battery power go? #
- Dubai strikes more oil – lucky timing? #
- Obama big believer in net neutrality – http://bit.ly/bDL6Uc #netneutrality #broadband #
- Yankee Group White paper: "Network Intelligence Technology Across the Revenue Value Chain" available from http://www.qosmos.com (via @bjoernr) #
- Replace snail mail address with twitter link and URL to contact web page on next generation business cards? Thoughts? #twitter #future #
- US Airforce goes cloud computing with IBM to engineer secure cloud solution. http://bit.ly/bfa4eb #ibm #cloud #saas #
- Experimenting with Google Adwords promo #
- Goodbye Twidroid, hello Seesmic for Android! A paradigm shift in user friendliness. #twitter #seesmic #twidroid #android #
- Can barely remember life before smartphones, PVR and internet. Will be exciting to see what my daughter will take for granted growing up. #
