See and download the full gallery on posterous A long time before bbq season returns…
Author: George Wood
I was born in California, but have lived in Sweden since 1975, working at Radio Sweden. I spent many years writing and presenting our program for shortwave listeners, “Sweden Calling DXers”. With the gradual phase-out of shortwave in favor of the Internet, I’ve since moved on to being our webmaster. My big claim to web fame has been that I was the first person in Sweden to post a radio program on the Internet, in 1994…the first person in Europe to post a radio program in English.
Winter Arrives in Stockholm
They’ve put up the Christmas tree at Karlaplan (and it snowed)!
Winter arrives in Stockholm
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,…
Speeches at San Francisco City Hall After the Giants’ Victory Parade
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Social Media as Career Opportunity
Why Do They Buy Buses Everyone Hates?
Stockholm has a great mass transit system, called SL, despite the annual problems when subway trains can’t handle the snow or the leaves on the tracks are the wrong kind for the commuter trains. But a few years ago, when…
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…