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I was quite surprised when I was ready to board the Säfflebuss from Copenhagen to Oslo and saw the sign saying “Free wi-fi on board”. So here I am, checking up on google reader and posting here on the first hour of my trip to Bergen for Christmas.

The only thing I miss now is an electricity socket - but hey, I am already impressed, Safflebussen!

I brought two books which I am hoping to finish during the next week: Nighttrain to Lissabon by Pascal Mercier, and Kill kill faster faster by Joel Rose.

I have not been to Bergen in ages, it seems. Did I ever go last year? Hmm.

I hear there is no snow in Bergen, which is a shame.

I watched Cheryl’s video, and read the comments, and wanted to write a comment myself, but then I withdrew from it. What had started as an attempt of an organic conversation (great term by Jeffrey Taylor - i haven’t heard it used by others, but then again, it is pretty generic), became a series of “oh, these accusations” and attempts to defend oneself. I don’t know, I will respond in video I think. Cheryl has some good questions there, and the question is NOT whether epic fu have been transparent or not. Yes, she singled them out, and pointed out a few things, but they were not really the issue.

It is obvious - to me at least - that there are more things than meet the eye in a lot of cases of “social media”. There is a lot of transparency going around, but there is also a lot of stories or parts of stories which are Not told. No, I will Not mention names, duh!

Mainstream media will continue their assault on this new medium, and many of us who claim to have this geniune interest in giving other people voices will end up doing consultancy gigs and dealing the deals (like I hope to do more of myself). And besides all of this, a million new outlets will appear. The saturation of media will continue, and I am positively thrilled by the prospect of some of these opportunities.

I will read some in the Joel Rose book now.