Newseum, the interactive museum of news, has a dandy little application: Today’s Front Pages Map. It gives you maps of regions of the world, dotted by cities. Drag your cursor over the city to see today’s front page of that…
Expatriate Life
I was perusing The New Republic today (as Captain Queeg once noted, “these silly little habits have a way of paying off”) & was horrified by a little story (sub required, sorry) announcing that the United States passport has been,…
Last night, some of the local social media crowd got to chow down with Eric Schwartzman, PR guy, podcaster and blogger. Eric was in town with his client Andre Lawless after a hectic few days working in the Danish countryside….
Gchart is a semi-cool, semi-useful GoogleMaps mashup. Hit a place on the map, and up pops a list of local blogs, flickr photos, and the local time. It’s not foolproof. If you hit South Carolina, Columbia seems to be the…
Copenhagen Geek Dinner tomorrow night… about 30 of us: journalists, programmers, designers — but mostly polymaths with a great touch of geek. “If truth-in-advertising laws were enforced, “sushi” would be called “cold dead fish”.
On Monday afternoon the first in a series of three debates hosted by the European Parliament on the implications of the information society highlighted a number of issues in the use of so-called weblogs. Major concerns were the accountability of…
A couple of years ago, I was with an American tourist in a Danish supermarket. He was gape-jawed for a while, then turned to me: “No wonder you don’t miss home. You’ve got all the same stuff here!” Since we…
I’m often asked why I moved to Denmark. Kudzu is the real reason. I figure I’m far enough away to die of natural causes before it gets me. You think I’m joking? Find the house in the photo below.
