Archive for September, 2007

MA program in free software development

Friday, September 21st, 2007

So, I am back in Toronto - have been for about two weeks, but am still busy finding my bearings. I have a busy year ahead of me, preparing to write my thesis on community libraries in Indonesia (I might blog more about that later), TAing for a course on international communications and international development, [...]

Political TV debates in Norway

Monday, September 10th, 2007

In a few days Norwegians will vote for local and county representatives, and of course the newspapers and TV channels are full of debates and analysis. Today I watched the equivalent of a town hall meeting with mostly representatives from the national parties in Northern Norway on our state television channel (link in Norwegian). The [...]

Multicultural television in Norway

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

This entire summer, NRK2, one of the state TV channels in Norway, have been broadcasting Bollywood movies every Friday night. To me, this was a real treat. Although I don’t enjoy every singly Bollywood movie (how could I, when they produce over 900 per year?), I seem to me more receptive to them than many [...]