Interesting post from Kjetil Manheim about blogs [Norwegian]. I sometimes use blogs as CMS system for clients, and I teach about them at Khio. But its always hard to convince or explain the advantages that lies within. Blog as a word somewhat gets in the way, and the real power of this simple publishing tool is sometimes missed because of a preconceived attitude towards the word blog and/or a preconceived attitude about how a real homepage should look like.

It’s so much power in blog as a publishing tool and it can be used in so many different ways. It’s just a pity blog has gained a reputation of being an online diary-tool for teens to explore (…not a bad word about teens and their feelings).

The buz has been around for a long time, but in many areas blog as a concept is still in its youth, and within lies possibilities not yet explored.

More about blogs check out Jill Walker Rettberg’s blog here! It’s not “Dummies guide to blogs”, but still alot of interesting material.

And of course, this post is backtrack’ed to Kjetils post.

From Thursday I’ll do a longer project with students at Khio. It’ll run for 5 weeks and surley be much fun – as always.

Students: Our project page can be found here.

Back teaching at Khio for 3-4 weeks.

We’ll be focusing on TIME. Time as a communication tool and as theme for the project. Time as a communication tool is the most importante aspect of our project.

Project page here! (password needed)

Project assesment(end) at the 21st of May 2007.

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A very interesting talk at the TED conference by Hans Rosling.
See the video here!