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I went treasure hunting at the library, looking for some non-specific book on the topic of social media for the course I'm taking. Instead I found this book about the Internet Revolution in Sweden, and it turns out that my teacher is playing a major part of it. I haven't jet been started to reed it, but I am looking forward to do so.

Since i originaly posted this blogpost about Twitter, Facebooks new design have caused much ado, and that design in combination with the escalated speed of changing status message in email & IM clients and today I feel compleatly surrunded by tweets & pseudo tweets. 

I just begun to wonder -whats the social thing about that? Of cause it may work as an icebreaker, but face it, its about as social as printing a T-shirt : "been there, done that, wrote a tweet about it" -sounds familiar?

"I'm ideling in front of the computer, cause I have nothing else to do" would be the accurate phrase in 99% of the cases..

I have been using twitter sporadic the past weeks, at first I received error messages when registering my cellphone number, when this is working it s kind of easy to text on the go, when I'm actually doing something, it's nice! And TweetDeck, fantastic! A classmate told me it was God, and maybe thats kind of true, the one eyed god Oden in anicent nordic mythologi had two corps, Hugin & Munin who flyed across the world collecting information, and then returned and twitterd in Odens ears about what was going on in the world. I like TweetDeck, its kind of cool to play god from time to time..

This blog have existed in 3 days and six hours. So far I have done absolutely nothing to generate traffic to this site, and only one unique user has been registered. Me.
 
-Is the blog then a part of the public sphere or more of a private one before the word gets out there and people are able to find their way here? And then what? I'll believe most blogs are mainly visited by personal friends of the writer, even do they are reacheble for all of the online population. Is it the possibility of reaching out to readers more than to actually do so that makes something "public"?

Min sambos födelsedag närmar sig obarmhärtigt. Vilken i ordningen är hemligstämplat. Självklart vill jag överaska honom med en fantastisk, gärna romantisk födelsedagspresent.

Igår såg jag först någonting han verkligen behöver, en väckarklocka! Sedan någonting jag själv är lite sugen på, en jättesnygg spikmatta. Toppar man det sen bara med en näshårstrimmer så är tortyrkammarkittet näst intill komplett!

Eftersom jag är lite förtjust i han den där föll jag dock inte för frestelsen utan funderade vidare. Vad det blev får ni veta på tisdag.

There is this game called "viskleken" it might be translated into "the whispergame". A message is whispered in the ear of one person, who is whispering the same message to somebody else, and so on. Somehow the message that the last person receives has transformed into something completely different than  message that was sent out in the beginning of the game.

 

This blogpost is a part of an communication experiment: all students in my class is supposed to blogg about what we think our tasks in the course are. As communication work, there is no guaranties that we hear or understand the same things even as we were told the same thing, at the same time in that classroum.

I think our tasks are to:

• Post at least 1 blogpost/week about social media and a summary of my academic work during the past week
• read a book and write a review
• read a classmates review and review it
• Write (or make in any media) an essay about networking, digitalisation and public sphere.

One of my favourites at tv is the Sci-Fi serie Eureka, taking place in the city of genius, "Eureka". In an episode this brilliant and slightly over ambitious student takes her homework a bit to serious and creates a complete and working solar system in her playhouse, well it´s working until the sun escapes and threathens to burn the whole city to ashes.

 

This blog is starting of partly as an task for school. I´m trying to go for brightness, but to avoid burnout.