Today, the frontpage of the culture section of the Danish newspaper Politiken features a day-to-day "blog" by journalist Erik Jensen who is blogging about himself writing an article about blogs. I'm quoted a couple of times under "Thursday", and cast, I guess, in the role of blog "sceptic" or "realist". Not perfectly happy about the quotes, since I sound more sceptic than I was and am, but the poor journalist lost his entire article just before deadline and therefore didn't have time to check quotes with me. So it goes. He's got an additional article online, btw, about the boom of Danish blogs (in Danish): Antallet af danske bloggere vokser vildt.

Fyi, the article features a link to my ITU website (did the journalist not have time to find my blog either??), so perhaps some readers will find the way to my blog this way? Så hej til jer, der måske kommer til denne blog via mit ITU website og artikel i Politiken - hvis I undrer jer over hvorfor jeg ikke skriver på dansk, men på engelsk, så er det altså fordi så mange af mine kollegaer er udenlandske - hovedparten af denne blogs læsere kommer fra USA. Og skulle I være i tvivl, så tror jeg faktisk på at blogs kan gøre en forskel - de er bare lidt vel hypede i de danske medier lige for øjeblikket.
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Websites my Webdesign & Communication students recommended:
Ikea's interactive kitchen site (in Swedish).
The Issey Miyake website (the women's collection is amazing)
Triumph underwear (total retro design w nice music)

Other websites to remember
www.albinogorilla.dk/sommerfugle (useful use of moblog)
Mobile Media Conference website (Sydney, juli 2007, abstract due September 10)
www.mobilmarathon.dk (stories participants at the Roskilde Festival told, in a mobile marathon competition)
Public Service Festival (3 days of electronic music on the doorstep of ITU)
IGDA White Paper on Casual Games
Sam Lewis (gamedesigner) website and his hierarchy of pain note (death penalty)
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First day back at work. Sorting stuff. In the beginning of the holidays, I went to London, and brought back a number of novels that I came across. They have kept me company during long lazy wonderful days of reading...As part of the sorting process, here goes some of the quotes, that I marked for remembrance, not necessarily because they say very much about the book, but often because of their poignant wit or beauty.

"His short, stiff hair was thinning at the crown, and an ageing bachelor smell clung to him - like newspaper that had been stored in a drawer with cough drops. She had a bachelor uncle who smelled like that" (Haruki Murakami, short story "Birthday Girl")

"And then a thought came into my brain that wasn't like the other thoughts. It was closer to me, and louder. I didn't know where it came from, or what it meant, or if I loved it or hated it. It opened up like a fist, or a flower." (Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. This book is really a moblog!)

"'There are two things, you can't tell about a new man', Eva was saying. 'How drunk he is, and when he is about to come. Wouldn't you say, Crispin?'" (Emma Darwin, The Mathematics of Love)

"But as the golden days cooled and shortened, such tasks as might work my body and mind into a peaceful exhaustion grew fewer..." (Emma Darwin, The Mathematics of Love - the 18th century character of the book writes exquisite English)

"I felt irritated and claustrophobic, as though I had inadvertently been corralled into a club or competition in which everyone imbibed identical cultural information for a surprise exam." (Joanna Briscoe, Sleep with me)

"It was Theo who found me my current job at FeetUpTV!, the world's worst cable channel. He has a degree in Comparative Religion, and he's a published poet. I suspect that he plays his football for Allboys United, if you get my drift, althought that's neither here nor there. He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale." (Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down)
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