I got curious the other day about whether it would be tricky to parse a long text into tweet-form and automatically publish it to Twitter every hour. The answer turned out to be ‘no, not particularly’, but this write-up is for those who want to do something similar, or who are merely curious about how an afternoon project like this takes form.

I first took an interest in information security when studying Journalism in London. Wikileaks has just made a splash thanks to Chelsea Manning and with her arrest it became clear that if I wanted to be a journalist, I had to find ways to keep sources safe.

This section of the blog will contain mainly data-driven journalism, where statics and other open data are used as a central part of journalistic storytelling. The photograph used to illustrate this post is from a press event at Electronic Arts in Sweden a few years ago.

An autumn leaf stuck in a fence. Took this when walking to work a few years ago in Oslo.

I came across this intimate mural of two women in a vibrant part of Stavanger – the 'oil capital' of Norway – right next to a gay bar. Note the crack in the wall, which cuts accross one lover's arm.

More than one quarter of Norwegian businesses - 412 out of 1500, or 27% - have experienced undesirable security incidents in the past year. The The Norwegian Computer Crime and Data Breach Survey 2016, which I helped write, found that these incidents led to a loss of productivity in 4 out of 10 cases (in the form of lost work hours), but only 2 out of companies 10 report that there have been costs incurred by these incidents.

Ava flung herself at her mother and waited for Dad to shoot the dog. 'I won't let bad people get near you.