Posts, November 2005:

Bli en politikkblogger på 1-2-3: Jeg begynte å lese aviser igjen i forrige uke, fordi jeg får høre at jeg er en politikkblogger, og en politikkblogger som ikke leser aviser er som en fotballfan som ikke følger med på landskamper. Hvordan skal man ellers kunne [...]

Alt man går glipp av når man ikke følger med: Nå som jeg har blitt nominert til Ullbloggen må jeg kanskje begynne å lese aviser igjen .. eller *hutre* plugge inn TV-antenna. Eller kanskje ikke. Hele ideen bak blogging er jo at mens det tidligere kun var skriveføre eiere av [...]

Fooled by randomness: I came across Nassim Nicholas Taleb while writing this entry, and I've been reading his book Fooled by Randomness. Taleb is a financial trader who has become a philosopher of randomness, of how our world is shaped by random events. [...]

Why we need professional encyclopedias: When I discovered Wikipedia I was impressed. I was impressed because I had low expectations. "Look how much these amateurs have accomplished!" I think it's been much the same with other amateur media, like blogs. We first met them with [...]

Opinions about the unknowable: In my last post I wrote about how amateurs aren't magically going to make the media good. Better, sure, but that's not much of a standard, is it? If your goal is to be a little better than newspaper average, [...]