For the love of gadgets
I’ve just returned my iPhone to my employer. It’s my last day at Lärarnas tidning and of course I need to return my gadgets. There will be no mac and no iPhone in my...
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Automated storytelling
Narrative Science is a company that provides automated storytelling from big data. For instance it has partnered with ProPublica to give easy access to information about the nation’s high schools. The automated narrative motor,...
Covering China through social media
I just spent an hour watching David Wertime of Tea Leaf Nation talk about China and how to cover it through social media. The speach, “Redefining the Quote: Using the Social Web to Gauge...
Skating premiere
Today L wore skates for the first time (thanks to our kind neighbours who had an extra pair). K and I don’t have any, but we walked him round the ice anyway. Keeping the...
Mindbogglingly big, infinitessimally small
”Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to...
Digital art journal
I’ve been playing around with the iPad app Brushes for a couple of days. It’s lots of fun, and the fact that two covers for the New Yorker have been made using it (actually...
Book of poems: Solitary Journey
I’ve collected some of my English poems into a book, illustrated by some of my photos, mostly from travels. If you like you can browse through it or even order your own copy.
A House of One’s Own
Almost a century ago, Virginia Woolf pointed out that for a woman to write, and write well, she needs a steady income, time on her hands and a room of her own. One might...
Portraits of strangers
The photography class I’m taking is quite challenging, which I guess is a good thing. The first week our assignments were to take photos of moving vehicles with different shutter speeds and then to...
Photos from our wedding
It’s here! The slideshow with talented wedding photographer Anna Roström/Smallpigart‘s portraits of Kalle and me, taken just before the wedding ceremony on July 3. Here’s the slideshow. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a...
IPhone photo contest – help me pick a pic
Yesterday I got invited to join the staff of Lärarnas tidning on a visit to the new photo museum in Stockholm – Fotografiska. We got a guided tour of the museum and the two...
On Citizen Media Watch
I’ve incorporated my posts from Citizen Media Watch, a blog on citizen journalism/citizen media I started in November 2006, into lottaholmstrom.se. You can find them under “CMW Archives” in the menu, and of course...
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