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.
Bokorm
January 26, 2010 by Gunnar
Leser om Ludde og Hasses togtur. Full fart forover!
Troll i eske
January 14, 2010 by Gunnar
Mens faren leker seg med ny telefon og tester kameraet, leker datteren med emballasjen.
Spennende 2010!
January 14, 2010 by Gunnar
2010 ligger an til å bli et godt år! Ny jobb i et relativt nytt firma med et hav av muligheter og utfordringer som står foran oss. Fra 1.1.2010 har jeg gått inn som Partner i Nexteq Advisory Group, et rådgivingsselskap innen teknologisk kompetanse og utvikling. Det er et velrenommért team med lang erfaring fra bransjen, og responsen fra markedet har vært svært god den første uken skal man dømme etter henvendelser per telefon og epost, og ikke minst besøk på websider og facebook.
Vil du vite mer – besøk Nexteq Advisory Group !
Liten kremmer
December 30, 2009 by Gunnar
Stor moro med kassaapparat og lekegrønnsaker. Alt er til salgs i 2. etasje 
Happy Holidays – an e-ChristmasCard
December 22, 2009 by Gunnar
Happy Holidays! This year we seriously considered saving a fraction of a tree to send out an e-ChristmasCard rather than going through the “order-it-late, type-like-crazy and rush-to-the-postoffice” routine.
Then we realised that while technology has made some interesting advances this year, we still haven’t fully figured out how to make an e-ChristmasCard fit in our nice ChristmasCard bag next to the fireplace and most likely neither have you.. So the moral of the story seems to be that while we’ve got eBooks, digital music and movies, we’d better not mess with the Christmas card (or any other Christmas) tradition.
That still doesn’t rule out sending out this eCard-blog-post as an addition to the printed ones though – so Merry Christmas, and make sure to make it a fantastic New Year!!
Trial and Error..
August 23, 2008 by Gunnar
Someone is just learning how to walk, and what better way than with a small push trolley to help keep the balance.
Now, the first attempt did not go quite as planned, as the darn thing would not move no matter how hard she pushed. (see picture)
Better get down, walk around, and try again to see if we have better luck second time around…
Yeah – that’s so much better – now we’re making some real progress along the floor
Home, sweet (new) home!
July 2, 2008 by Gunnar
I guess it’s impossible for anyone even remotely familiar with us to have missed that we finally moved into our new home on Tuesday July 1st. Amazing to move into a new place and feel right at home already the first night.
Summer of ‘08
June 14, 2008 by Gunnar
So we finally got around to uploading some more pictures – considering we’re homeless at the moment we have no illusions as to getting homely tasks such as picture taking done…
Login required for the Julia album – I know – we’re paranoid, but somehow we doubt that the number of sickos online is shrinking…
Digestive Boarding Passes
May 25, 2008 by Gunnar
Just sent the girls out West while I finish up the last week of work before the summer holidays. Julia takes after both parents and really likes traveling by airplane so no worries so far she’ll turn out to be an environmentalist… She needs to improve her work on not eating her boarding card though.. Next time I’m flying with them I’ll fill out one of those customer comment cards and suggest the introduction of digestive boarding passes and see if they follow through on their promise to address each suggestion individually… maybe…
She’s a happy camper though – almost to the point we’re worrying that some complete stranger will come up to us asking what we mix in her food
