Global Viking – Culture blog

The Swedes have a special relationship to Bruce Springsteen. All his concerts are always sold out very fast and people are quening for days for buy tickets and also the days before a concert, to come as close as possible to the stage.
The leader for the Swedish Socialdemocratic Party – Mona Sahlin – has seen [...]

I am so angry at Twitter. So sorry and so disappointed. And scared. Today, when I wanted to login I got the message I was suspended.
This account is currently suspended and is being investigated due to strange activity. If we have suspended your account mistakenly, please let us know. See Suspended Accounts for more information.
That´s [...]

Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody’s doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series, American media report.
From Salon:
Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody’s doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series.
The social-networking site has teamed with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to develop an unscripted series [...]

The University of Michigan has become the first library to amend its book scanning deal with Google, following a proposed settlement that Google reached last year with authors and publishers that sued it.
As part of the amended deal, other institutions can pay a subscription to access the University of Michigan’s digitized books. Since Google will [...]

Today 1.861.489 Danish people are active in Facebook. That makes the small Scandinavian country the biggest nation in Facebook, ackording to a lot of Scandinavian reports.
According to figures from Statistics Denmark, on January 1, 2007, 91,1 percent of Denmark’s population of over 5.4 million was of Danish descent. Denmark is the second-most visited destination in [...]