Darlah er en scifi-ungdomsroman om månen, NASA, markedsføring og dobbeltgjengere. Boken er skrevet av Johan Harstad som blant annet er kjent for bøkene Hässelby og Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i all mylderet? Boka starter med at NASA, den amerikanske romfartsorganisasjonen, ønsker å starte med et nytt måneeksperiment og for å finansiere turen kommer de opp med en god idé. De bestemmer seg for å lyse ut en konkurranse der tre ungdommer skal få være med på et…
As the hypervisuality from the 90’s went over in the overflow of information of the 00’s something happend. The traditionaly trend that things changes more often and that things last shorter went into warpdrive. In the 60’s and 70’s the television-planning was buildt into big groups of programs. The variety was limited and so was also the offers of different television channels. In the eighties something happend, the national regulations, controlling the broadcasting sector, were loosened up and more and…
Years ago I saw the movie “The nightmare before christmas” produced and written by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick. I thought it was great. The atmosphere, the soundrack and also the stop-motion animations were all done with exellence and precition. Now Henry Selick has been working on a new movie, based on a book by Neil Gailman. In this movie we meet the young girl Coraline, which is moving to a house in the countryside along with her…
The Norwegian band Katzenjammer was the first band to play on the stage Pavilion, and they opened it great. Katzenjammer mixes up several types of music to a balkan-inspirated folk thing. This together with a large amount of energy and entusiasm on the stage makes them a band that its worth listening to and great to see at a consert. The four girls in the band plays several instrument each and seems to have a lot of fun doing the…
Today the ministry of government administration and reform published their new book about digital medias and sharing culture through the Internet. The meeting was hold at their offices, but also through media channels like their homepage and twitter. The book raises different problems and questions which are actual for a society, in which more and more information is spread in other untraditional ways. Some of the questions the book raises is if its right to criminalize music downloading and if…
Today in the evening the european song contest is going to be held. This year the event is broadcasted from Moscow and there are down to 25 European contries (from a larger definition of Europe) in the final. The competition is decided through telephone/SMS voting and jury which are giving points to the other participants. The next year the national broadcasting company of the winning country is responsible for hosting the event again. The event is one of the oldest…
For some time now I´ve been using the new online music service Spotify. The program is to other popular music players. It has a volume controll, possibility for playlists and, a timeline and buttons to change between tracks. So nothing revolutionary about that. The big difference is the music library. Where my others music players are using my local storage to play songs is Spotify connected to a huge internet library. Here is the whole deal about Spotify, its using…
One laptop per Child is a project lead by a coallision of known and unknown computer experts, science labs and companies. Their mission is to provide children with a low-power, low-cost computer to improve the computer knowledge in the third world. Its design for children with simple educational software that should stimulate and getting children familiar with computers. Some of the educational software is a grapical programming interface, in where the children can learn to program snapping together colorful pieces…
Doing a semester in one and a half month sure is exhausting, but its also interesting. I´ve allready delivered my exam in popular medias and now its time for the other course media-usage, power and society. This course count 20 ECTS and has a lot of litterature, including much sosiology and jounalism. (So far.) A little, but also interesting part of the literature covers the so called media events. Typical examples on media events are the first moon landing, the…
Friday two weeks ago, April 17th, the Swedish Stockholm district court decided to sentence the four operators of the site to one year prison and to pay 30 millions SEK in fines and damages. The defendants lawyers have appealed the case to Svea Court of Appeal and at the same time asked for a retrial since there were suspicions to one of the jugdes in the districts court. The accused were found guilty on helping to infrigde the copyright law….