Although many people think that Finns are unavoidably wacky as a result of cultural artifacts like The Leningrad Cowboys and the record-breaking Eurovision entry that was Lordi’s Hard Rock Hallelujah, the cultural climate is quite often conservative. We saw this quite clearly tonight in the televised finals to choose this year’s entry for the contest that will be held in Oslo sometime in summer.

I am in London for a one-day conference at the London Knowledge Labs. I have been staying in a hotel in Clapham, where I have been surprised by the stuffy heat of the room, and the sheer amount of people available to bump into me.

When I first looked at e-books several years ago there was a format war going on to no very great effect. Today, as e-readers seem poised to finally go mainstream, it looks as though there are two formats that are becoming standard: pdf and epub. This article begins looking at the epub format.

The pupose of an online portfolio is to enable you to point future employers or clients to one single site on the web where they can make a preliminary assessment of you.

You will need to find (or create) a Wordpress theme that allows you to display yourself as clearly and stylishly as possible. The look and feel of the site will be as important as the actual content in determining the first impression that users get. If the site looks messy, or is difficult to naviagte, potential clients or employers may not even bother to dig into the site to find the content that you know is fantastic.

Yesterday Lego revealed some more about their long-delayed multiplayer online world. It is now promised to launch “sometime in 2010″. What’s more, they have released a series of screenshots, and a very impressive trailer, so there are reasons to believe that it will actually launch this year.

The official opening ceremonies for Helsinki’s new Aalto University are being held today at Finlanditalo, and they are being broadcast in Second Life.

Over Christmas my eight year old daughter decided that she wanted “her own web site”, which turned out to mean her own virtual clubhouse, where she and her friends can meet, hang out, play games, and live the kind of life they live when they hook up their DS Lite Pokemon or Nintendogs games.

In 2008 I decided to take a photograph every day of the year. This became a project called One Place At A Time. Last year I didn’t do this, and half way through the year I regretted it. The 2008 project had been a neat way of keeping a photographic diary, even though that had not been its original intention. I therefore decided to do just that for the entire next decade.

This is a photographic diary of 2010: one photograph per day with a small or large caption, depending on this and/or that.

At some time every day I take a photograph of wherever I happen to be, and then make some short notes about it. Its a visual diary with written clues for the time when memory loss kicks in.

I began…