A Politician on Blogging
As Jill has also noted, our ex-prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen has started to blog - and apparently he loves it. Now it furthermore seems, he might be the person to bring the concept of blogging to the wide Danish radio public. He was interviewed on the nationwide radiochannel P3 this morning - I quote from memory. "Yes, I write a weblog" says Poul. "Can you tell the people out there what it is?" says the journalist. "Oh, yes, it is a diary on the internet!" announces Poul gladly. "Why do you write a webdiary, Poul?" asks the journalist. "I really like it", says Poul. "I find it has sharpened my awareness of everyday occurrences, the way I look at things". "It is a question of putting form to emotion - like art and artists have always done - even if this is on a smaller scale".

It also turned out, that Poul also writes a more voluminous offline diary, which he intends to use for future bookprojects (confirming his rumoured workaholic habits). He also told the journalist why he likes to sing so much (Poul N R became infamous as prime minister for always asking people to sing along with old Danish soft socialist songs at the party meetings). "I love singing. People in Denmark should sing some more", he replied. Hmmh, I'm definitely like him more in the role of blogger than in his role as a somewhat publicly ackward prime minister. Judging from statements like these and the "tone" of his blog, there seems to be a life-embracing person hidden inside of him which really takes pleasure in the small things in life. Would I ever had known that without his blog - or would I have cared to find out? I doubt it.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 12:58