Anna Lindh had two young kids. They have now lost their mother, because she worked as a publically visible person, as a politician. The most publical sphere, the agora, meets the most personal sphere.
Will this affect the future recruitment of politicians?
When I cycled home from work - I find it hard to work at the moment - the euro campaign activities on Stortorget, the main square of Lund, were closed.
Turning on the TV I find that PM Göran Persson says that the parliament’s parties have decided to go ahead with the euro referendum on Sunday. The campaign activities will, however, cease.
At two o’clock, in a quarter’s time, there will be a press conference from the hospital where Anna Lindh was treated.
Anna Lindh, the foreign minister, died 5.29 this morning. She was stabbed yesterday afternoon while shopping in central Stockholm. She was rushed to hospital but internal injuries were so severe that her life could not be saved.
The killer left the scene running and is still at large. Police have heard a number of witnesses and found the knife that probably was used.
On Sunday, Swedish voters will take part in a referendum on whether Sweden should change the krona to the euro, thus taking the third step in the EMU collaboration. Anna Lindh was one of the leading forces in the yes campaign.
Comments in Swedish media wednesday evening and this morning goes along a number of themes. One of the most important is the freedom of politicians. In Sweden, many politicians move about quite freely, without security personnel. After the assassination of PM Olof Palme, in 1986, security was discussed and the PM has since then been accompanied by security personnel. Should other ministers in the government have the same kind of security, is one of the questions discussed.
Most Swedish weblogs are written in Swedish, but a number are written in English or mixed English/Swedish; if you want to follow what happens via blogs follow, for example, Johan Anglemark, Stefan Geens, Tomas Jogin, Peter Lindberg, Steffanie Müller, Torgny Bjers, Bengt O. Karlsson, and Francis Strand.
Yesterday morning, our third child was born, a boy at 4.4 kilograms who peed and opened his eyes almost immediately. Tove, my wife, was heroic and marvellous! The staff at the hospital has been great as well.
At the moment, the kids and I are home for a couple of hours; will return to the hospital soon.
On reading Ryan J. Huxtable’s review of J.L. Heilbron ed., The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, Nature 3 July 2003, 17-18, I found it a bit strange. For example, it did not even attempt to position the articles in the book in relation to current debates within the field of history of science / STS.
Professor emeritus Huxtable is at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Arizona and his speciality is “pyrrolizidines and the lung/liver axis”, not history of science.
I have for some time now been thinking of doing a survey of reviews of STS / history of science literature in high-profile scientific journals like Nature and Science. In how many cases are people from the field doing reviews, how often is the author more like Huxtable? What kind of boundary work is going on here? How are the reviewers chosen?
One could contrast with reviews in other places. Take TLS, for example, which had Andrew Pickering review Galison’s Image and logic …
The paper is still in embryonic form, I don’t even have a first-draft yet. Comments are welcome!
Epistemographer is a new blog by Josh Greenberg (STS, Cornell), recently added to the STS blog index. Read it!
Among the things he is doing is a cool web-based oral history of the video tape industry: The Video Store Project.
Talks about the presidential election in 2000, 9/11, Trent Lott, shuttle accident. Things are changing.
Old school journalism: a lecture.
New journalism: more like a seminar or a conversation.
Your readers, your audience, know more about the world than what you know. When journalists grasp this and builds on this, things are going to happen.
Assembling an amateur newsroom. Amateurs send photos to NASA. NASA understands the new landscape better than many news organizations.
Phonecams - we get pictures from new places.
Bob Woodward interviews D. Rumsfeld 9/11 and the Pentagon publishes the transcript on the web. New sense of openness that we will see more of in the future.
Three scenarios:
1. Copyright cartel + the state = total control. Not a likely outcome.
2. Total anarchy. Old/big media goes away. Not really a good solution. Truth/trust are a problem here.
3. Melding of new and old media. His favourite. It can be done; it’s not simple. He’s working on a book, making a case for it.
Used to be always men on tech conferences; she’s trying to speak at conferences as much as possible.
She is working for the Lafayette project and asks for suggestions for a better name for the project.
What makes weblogs unique is the chronologically ordered stuff, with timestamps.
Distributed discussions. Important distinction before and after weblogs; the permalink is the key.
She is very positive to Typepad. On the writing side, we’ve had great evolution of tools.
RSS doesn’t scale well: millions of blogs and millions of aggregators, could perhaps clog the net.
Lafaytte 1.0 will be an RSS reader for the web. Release: july. We want to build on top of that, recommendation engine. We want feedback and want to build from that.
Metablogs - multiple people taking about similar stuff.
Scott Heiferman talks about meetup. Its being used for political activism &c (besides trekkies and bloggers meeting). Habermas2.0.
He was inspired by Putnam’s Bowling alone and tried to use the net to counter that evolution of sparser social webs.
The Internet is a network of people.
Space + time.
What is blogging? Blogging introduces chronology, chronological order whole lot of great invention yet to be done on the net by combining time and space.
The importance of meeting people in real life.
He did not mention geourl.
Semantic web.
RDF data makes it possible to do real powerful searches. More and more apps produce data with semantic web data markup. The thing now is to do apps with good user interfaces to make it possible for ordinary humans doing searches.
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