The article in Magisterbladet about weblogs and networking, including a brief interview with me, came out in print this weekend. They didn't have time to photograph me (the interview was done over phone) so instead of a photo of me, they brought two screenshots from this page. It was a little spooky seeing this page "stuck" to a journal page like that - in a weird way it's like the page is developing a life of its own, even when I'm not there... (Note to self: yet another incentive to do something about the layout).

This weekend I also read some newspapers and a ladies magazine. In Politiken, they had a nice pointer to a recent report of the use of IT-money in public institutions. The researchers has evaluated the "IT-maturity" of 110 public institutions by looking at their webpages. Apparently too few of the IT-resources are actually used to make the public webpages user-friendly and informative - several of the websites get a thumb down (60%). You can find the report on CBS's website.

The ladies magazine Søndag is one I normally don't buy because it is clearly targeted at an older audience than me. This week, however, one of their main articles was announced with the catchy title "Women and the Internet - these women make the net lively". So I bought it just to check out what was behind this article. It turned out that the article was about Danish women who had started their own e-compagnies online - many of them because they thought online shopping saved them a lot of time. Interesting that a magazine with a target audience consisting of women between 39-59 (whose interests according to the linked page apparently center on human interest stories, health, cooking, home and gardening) is starting to write about women entrepreneurs and IT - even if they have to use quite a lot of article space telling the readers that it is (still) not dangerous to shop on the net. One of the women mentioned has put together a huge portal listing the e-shops where busy women can shop when they don't have time to do it in real life: www.e-damer.dk. The magazine itself don't have a webpage (yet).

# posted by Lisbeth at: 19:30