Download now or watch on posterous p110.mov (25869 KB) Lidingö, Sweden, December 12, 2010
Category: General
Review: Posterous
This is intended as a review (and test) of Posterous, a service making it possible to post to blogs and social media from mobile devices via e-mail. It looks good, wasn’t that hard to configure for my WordPress-blog, Facebook, Twitter,…
Social Media as Career Opportunity
Has the BBC Changed Its Podcast Policy?
One of my favorite radio programs is the BBC’s “In Our Time”. Every Thursday, except for a summer break, Melvyn Bragg and three varying and eloquent academic experts discuss what in Swedish would be called “idéhistoria”. Besides pure history, the…
eBookstores Not Ready for Primetime? No Nobel
Often when the Nobel Literature Prize is announced, I run down to the fairly large bookstore near work to see if they have anything by the new laureate in English. Sometimes they do, often the don’t. So I was looking…
Transcending the Kindle
Are eReaders the savior of newspapers? In the latest issue of “Wired” Steven Levy argues for the usefulness and more serious role of the Kindle compared to the iPad: “But longer, deeper plunges into literature—what the critic Victor Nell calls “ludic…
The Ra II at the Kon-Tiki Museum
Thor Heyerdahl travelled aboard this raft from Morocco to the Caribbean.
Kon-tiki
Kon-tiki, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. The Kon-tiki raft, which in 1947 took Thor Heyerdahl and six companions from Peru to Polynesia in 110 days.
A good year for California poppies
A good year for California poppies, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. Lidingö, Sweden, September 24, 2010