Jul 1, 2009
Off to Bardufoss
I am off to Bardufoss today to meet Roar Sollied, the 1st candidate for Venstre in Troms. We will shoot some video, and I will teach him some web2.0 things. Of course, we all know that not every politician does well on Twitter or Facebook. Sometimes, it is quite hard for them to get used to the new conversational media. But we will try to get Roar to be more comfortable with this. He is an enthusiastic person and he is interested in visualizing politics, so that is a promising start. You can follow him on twitter here – although he tweets in Norwegian.
I have 6 days left in Tromsø for now, then I go back to Oslo. These weeks I have spent here in Tromsø have been good on several levels. Most importantly, I have actually learned to really like this city. Before I have had such a negative view of Tromsø – seen it as some backward city filled with alkiser. Yeah, yeah, I know. I guess the truth is more simple – I am not very good at standing the cold, and Tromsø is not the warmest city on earth.
I have begun looking for a job in Tromsø as well as Oslo, and I will also look for a new job in Copenhagen once I get there at about the middle of the month. I now basically have three options for where I want to live: Copenhagen (where I have lived since 2006 and where my girlfriend will continue living for the next two years, studying), Oslo (capital of Norway, lots of interesting organizations active there – but I dislike the city for some Oslophobiac reason), or Tromsø – the city in the far North of Norway where there are quite a lot of cultural activities going on, and where I wont be drowning among the masses of people.
I really want to work with sharing information. Not so that organizations or companies will make more money, but so that individuals will be more able to navigate systems of information as well as sharing their own perspectives. One of my old dreams is to help people who suffer from mental illness to explore the world through social media. Of course, that is a beehive of issues, but it is something that I have been thinking about for quite a while.
Anyway, I am off to Bardufoss now. I will be back in Tromsø tomorrow, and I will try to stay to blogging at least once in a while. It becomes so boring when a blog isn’t updated for months 