Category — Danish blogs

Sounds meta? I guess it is. DK librarian Bodil Christensen is writing a very interesting project aboutDanish research blogs, which includes interviews with people who work with research blogs professionally. She’s blogging those interviews and I feature in one of them (fyi, Trine-Maria Kristensen is another interviewee). So if you want to read a blogpost in which I talk about blogging about blogging and researcher blogging, take a look at Street Credit i Blogosfæren (in Danish only).

Today the Danish primeminister called for election for the Danish Parliament, even though the sitting government could have stayed in their seats for yet another 1½ years. Just like in 2005, the election campaign period is extremely short - elections will be held on November 13th.

With the help of a brilliant research assistant and MA thesis student, Pia Svejgaard Pedersen, I did an extensive study of how the Danish politicians used weblogs during the last election. This time around I would like to follow more closely the Danish political parties’ use of social network sites & blogs. This year, a quick overview indicates that most of the parties have some form of presence on sites like Youtube, Myspace, Facebook and Flickr, and several of them have integrated videocasts on their own websites. Thus, a lot of material to look into to, and extremely exiting questions to figure out: will the internet actitivities online have any/some/a huge impact on the choices of voters this time - will the social network profiles and content actually be visited and used? Will politicians blog more or less this time? Etc. 

Im covering what Im able to discover and look into over at my blog Walgblog (in Danish) that I also used during the last election campaign and which I have kept alive sporadically ever since. Since there is so little time and so much to do, dont expect many postings here meanwhile…but if you’re Danish (or read it), go take a look at my preliminary findings of today, if you are interested…

It’s been some busy weeks, and last week was no exception (hence the slow posting rate here), as Im preparing to take off to the Digital Arts & Cultures conference in Perth this week.

One of the more interesting (and time-consuming) tasks of last week was serving as an “expert” in a panel established by the Danish news magazine Mandag Morgen that asked us to look at the main homepages of the Danish Political Parties and grade them according to a number of criteria, such as userfriendliness, rhetorics, debate possibilities etc. We were not too impressed, so they mostly got below average - some parties in some areas even flunked.  The results are published today, but since I dont subscribe to Mandag Morgen, I cant link to the article that talks about the analysis. But DR has a news item about it, where you can see the average grade for each party and in which Im quoted for saying (and truly believing) that the political parties need to move away from the traditional sender-to-receiver view of communication to a more interactive, user-activating form of communication. 

PS. Sadly, a similar review of the homepages back in November 2004 brought about the exact same conclusions from a similar panel.

Happy new year everyone
- I havent done much reading or surfing or thinking lately and hence no blogging either - apparently a bout of bronchitis has been santa’s new year’s gift for me.

Amidst the coughing, as passtime, I’m now surfing for travels to hot places, and on the site where I normally calculate exchange rates, I suddenly discovered that they have blogs too.

So for Danes interested in stock markets, and the buying and trading of stocks, here’s a little list of Danish stock blogs (danske blogs om aktier) on the Euroinvestor site…