Tag Archives: Politics

Do Norwegian Politicians Understand The Internet?

By Espen | Published: September 11, 2007
At the very moment I’m writing this, the election results from the local elections in Norway are about to be finalized. The election results do not interest me too much right now. What I am disappointed about is the fact that although most of the parties have tripled the daily hit-rate on their [...]
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Iran Releases Anti US/ Anti Israel Game

By Jens | Published: July 21, 2007
The Iranian government recently introduced the propaganda PC game Rescue the Nuke Scientist (the kind of name only a totalitarian regime can come up with…). Reports Gamepolitics: The PC game was created by the Union of Islamic Student Societies, a radical student group. It is said to be a riposte to Kuma Games’ Assault on Iran mission for its reality-based [...]
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Subject: Greetings from New Zealand

By Jens | Published: July 18, 2007
From: Jens Schroeder Subject: Greetings from New Zealand To: Espen, Parker Hi guys,greetings from New Zealand. I’m having an awesome time here – despite freezing my a** off. Coming from Germany I should actually be able to withstand minus five degrees but I guess living in tropical conditions for the last two years kind of affected my ability [...]
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Two New Blogs

By Parker Mason | Published: July 18, 2007
Two great blogs that I’ve come across in the past few days: My friend Jim has just launched his first blog, T Zero, and it’s all about Toronto. And I’ve also just checked out Katie’s blog, The Al Party. I’m not really into politics, but this is some good reading. -Parker
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Low-tech Campaigning in Japan – Use Second Life Break the Law

By Jens | Published: June 14, 2007
If someone asked you to freely associate things with Japan you’d probably think of futuristic high-tech, bullet trains, cyberpunk, anime and all the fancy gadgets we always seem to get years later. But of all countries it’s Japan that campaign wise is still stuck in the middle-ages: It’s a first for Japanese politicians — and perhaps [...]
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News Feed: The Caucus on Politics and Cyberspace

By Espen | Published: June 12, 2007
The New York Times’ political blog, The Caucus, reports: We caught up the other day with a conference about campaign politics and the Internet, where Joe Trippi took time out from baking, er, burning pies with the Edwards campaign to trace the arc of the influence of politics on cyberspace, and vice versa. A few [...]
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