I am rather fascinated by this method of organizing books.
I have to admit that when I sorted my books… I went with the true and tried… the alphabet after much deliberation. I do like sorting the books by color, I also want to find the books again.
Tag: youtube
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Video: Medieval helpdesk
This one is rather amusing. It is in Norwegian, but subtitled in English. Essentially, its about making the technical transition from scroll to book.
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Video: Manic Monday
Growing up, my Dad had some summer tapes from the late 80s, maybe early 90s, in the car. I grew up listening to those, to the degree when there was a popular music poll in my 6th grade class, Manic Monday was on my favourite-list. This in a time when Gangsta’s Paradise and Boombastic were topping the hit list in Norway…
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Video: Robin Sparkles
I love How I Met Your Mother, and Robin Sparkles is a good part of the show’s backstory. It’s very 80s, but then it is meant to be just that. Enjoy.
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Til Ungdommen
This is probably the song that has been used the most in memorials across the country. It is written by Nordahl Grieg in 1936.
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Norwegian royals with own YouTube channel
On Tuesday, the Norwegian royal house established their own YouTube channel, following in the footsteps of the British monarchy. The URL
The Crown Prince and Crown Princess have had a presence on social web sites, such as Twitter and Facebook a while. And even though joining YouTube is a rather new step for the family, they have long been involved in sharing videos of themselves on the royal home page, for example of Ingrid Alexandra’s birthdays. The couple also recently shared a video of the family on their Facebook page, promoting the involvement of young people in making decisions for the future.
Crown Prince Haakon is also sharing his impressions from the first days in Davos on YouTube.
And the Assisting Communications manager promises that there will not only come videos from the current history: “We will be adding more clips, among other things snippets from the history of the Royal House.”
Carl-Erik Grimstad, the royal expert that the Norwegian media like to run to for bitter quotes, comments to NRK that “this type of exploitation of social media has become a way of elongating this tradition [the royal court not answering questions]. This is good old-fashioned information, which some would call propaganda.”
Or is it merely elongating the tradition the Norwegian court has established through their website and media presence already, by stepping outside their own website and closing up on the people?