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  • Dublin & Wicklow: Avinet study trip 2007

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim
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    Above: My colleagues in Asplan Viak Internet at the top of Great Sugarloaf Mountain, County Wicklow, Ireland during our annual study trip. The sixth in the line of Avinet study trips was successfully executed from the 24th to the 28th of August 2007 with Dublin as a base for our activities. In addition to our…

  • Where to spend your energy and creativity as an Internet writer

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim
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    Above: the planet Earth, and with it; the Internet, as seen from the moon (“Earth-Rise” image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre web site) A question I have pondered on quite a bit since I first took an interest in the World Wide Web is where to put my energy and creativity as a writer to…

  • Google search: 24 300 hates, 11 200 loves Facebook (August 2007)

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim
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    Back in May I posted my Google search results for people’s feelings towards Facebook following a heated discussion with an old friend. Just to test out the use of Google as a poll tool I decided to repeat the search today – here are the results: 1 – 10 of about 11 200 for “i…

  • The slow death of the public pay-phone

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim
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    One would think, with the massive uptake of mobile technologies, that the public pay-phone would already have been made extinct in 2007. Why isn’t that so? I believe that one of the major contributing factors is the prepaid phone card industry. This industry largely targets people who wants to call long distance and can’t or…

  • Google search: 8 470 hates, 543 loves Facebook

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim
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    Having spent the better part of the evening debating with my good friend Anders A Fitje on the topic of Facebook, I decided to round off the evening posting a small observation on my web page blog. I conducted two searches on the internet, one for ‘i love facebook’ and another for ‘i hate facebook’.…

  • My first mobile-Internet-enabled camera

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim

    Back in 1999 my “mobile computing platform” consisted of a Palm Pilot with a grayscale screen and a larger-than-life Nokia mobile phone with an onboard modem. These were communicating via an infrared link. As I was about to go on holiday one summer I found that it was possible to get a camera adapter to…

  • Why I do not trust FaceBook (and its relatives)!

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim

    The last few weeks FaceBook has spread like a wild fire througout Norway. The major newspapers have started to pick up on the trend and having read their many articles to the praise of FaceBook, I feel like reflecting a little. Back in 1999/2000 a social networking site called eCircles was on the rise. A…

  • Prague: One day of PSI and spring

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim
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    Acting upon an invite from friends and colleagues Olga and Rob of MDR partners I decided to make a detour to Prague for one day. The occasion was a workshop on the PSI directive and its consequence for reuse and creation of value added services in the private sector (or at least outside its original…

  • London: Business and Black Metal

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim
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    During Easter week I had to go to London on a meeting to prepare a project proposal for the 7th framework programme. Simultaneously Avinet colleague and Vreid lead singer, Sture, was kicking off a mini-tour to launch their new CD “I Krig”. To my deep regret I had never heard Vreid play live before, despite…

  • Mor Asgjerd på nett

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim
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    Mi kjære mor har teke steget ut på verdsveven i ein alder av sytti-noko. Det er kanskje ikkje så uvanleg i våre dagar men eg vil likevel gratulere ho med framsteget og oppmuntre ho til å halde fram å skrive i bloggen sin. Følgjande er saksa frå bloggen hennar: … Asgjerd vart hekta på bruk…