Why twitter should support multiple languages for one account
It’s become more and more common for tweeps in countries with a different native language than English to create two twitter accounts. One for their native tweets, and one for their English tweets. They do this to reduce the noise for followers who do not understand their native language. However, right now two accounts isn’t [...]
Norwegian Warner Music Executive Terje Pedersen calls blogger a “brat” on Twitter
Today the record labels war on illegal downloads of music took a new low. The norwegian student Even (18) shared his frustration with his Twitter followers about iTunes not letting him download the newest album from Dave Matthews Band saying something like: I’m pissed! iTunes is only allowing downloads of the new Dave Matthews Band [...]
Does the Norway initiated IE6-campaign work?
Very many of you have by now noticed the national and international campaign against Internet explorer 6. Several major sites (wired, the register, digg, slashdot) picked up the story, and the word spread at an amazing speed. The interesting question is, does it have any effect? Pål Nedregotten, Channel Manager at API, which has 50 [...]
Current international web sites warning against Internet Explorer 6
As mentioned earlier, there is a national collaboration amongst Norwegian web sites to make people upgrade their IE6 installation to something better; where better is anything from IE7 to Safari. Being on a Mac, I have no easy way to actually see these warnings. I thought it would be cool to see, so I started [...]
Current Web sites in Norway warning against Internet Explorer 6
As mentioned earlier, there is a national collaboration amongst Norwegian web sites to make people upgrade their IE6 installation to something better; where better is anything from IE7 to Safari. Being on a Mac, I have no easy way to actually see these warnings. I thought it would be cool to see, so I started [...]
National collaboration to push out Internet Explorer 6
Today is a big day, both from a national and an international point of view. From just a tiny message on the microblogging community twitter, now almost all Norwegian news papers online show a message to their users still using Internet explorer 6, telling them to upgrade to IE7 or another more secure and standards [...]
Norwegian political party uses welding scientist as global warming expert
FRP is one of the biggest political parties in Norway. This weekend they’re holding a conference about the ongoing global warming debate and whether or not humans are to blame. For expert witness, they got hold of a Swedish scientist, but they seemingly forgot to mention that welding was his field of interest.