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Hello world!

My name is Anders Brenna. I’m a Norwegian technology journalist and editor working at digi.no, Norway’s biggest newssite for professional IT-news.

Before joining digi.no, I worked several jobs in the IT-industry. I have worked on IT-infrastructure projects, as a programmer, courseinstructor, pre-sales, project manager and as a founder of some smaller projects.

I really enjoy being a technology journalist, as it gives me the opportunity to look into a lot of subjects in this industry.

Sometimes I get to do stories that I feel should be exposed to a larger audience than the small part of the world speaking Norwegian, and I therefore want to write a little in English as well. I’m not yet sure if I’ll publish them here in this blog, or in a separate magazine type blog with a different URL.

I started blogging on the 11.th of May 2003, but I have almost exclusively written in my native Norwegian language. My Norwgian blog at abrenna.blogspot.com has been up all the time, but I have had several blogging breaks.

It is not always easy to motivate oneself to write a personal blog everyday, when your fulltime job consist of writing stories regularly. After picking up on blogging this easter, I found that I really missed bogging, and decided to have a new go at it. This time I will also write in english here, as well as write a couple of Norwegian blog-articles. I’ll commit to publishing at least once a week at both blogs.

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4 Responses to “Hello world!”

  1. Runa Says:
    March 24th, 2008 at 9:06 am

    “I’m not yet sure if I’ll publish them here in this blog, or in a separate magazine type blog with a different URL.” — depends if you want us to see both the personal and the professional side of you on the same page :)

  2. admin Says:
    March 24th, 2008 at 9:22 am

    Good point!

    I’m actually not sure. People can read my professional work at digi.no, so I don’t really need my blog to write those kinds of articles.

    I think perhaps that I’ll start of by writing comments on the blog, and perhaps create a separate URL with a magazine theme where I’ll put the actual stories.

    Those will perhaps be translated articles from digi.no, but it might also be articles from my course in culture journalism at NKS/HiO. I have written some unpublished articles on roleplaing games and norwegian bloggers during that course.

    First, however, I need to get mye new blogs up and running properly. They work, but they don’t look quite like I want tthem to yet.

  3. Martin Bekkelund Says:
    March 29th, 2008 at 4:42 am

    Congrats on a new weblog, Anders! :-)

  4. abrenna Says:
    March 30th, 2008 at 5:01 am

    Thanks!

    Hopefully I’ll be able to develop it further, so that it looks better. My first priority however, is to fill it with content.

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