Susanno?

In many of the Swedish blogs I read, one theme of discussion lately has been blind men and the always attentive women. The question why men don’t see that the trash needs to be taken out, or that the laundry needs to be done while the female part of the household drudges on as a martyr without any help has been pondered.

I’m not sure whether I should be affended, as the above description of the Man suits me perfectly. I rarely see and thus attend to the layers of dust on the shelves; neither do I realize that the flowers need watering until all that’s left in the pot are beige straws (happened last night to my pot of chives… I’ll try some first aid after writing this.). To prevent this, I figured I’d have my pda calendar notify me for instance every Sunday night that the green lives in our household could do with some attention. I wonder if that would help.

The answer of one female blogger to why men don’t see things as well as women do, is that way back, men hunted and women nested. Our ways of thinking are fundamentally different, strictly biologically. This is pretty much saying that I, since I’m obviously blind when it comes to householding matters, am not a woman but rather a femalish man. That does not match my own view.

I guess these bloggers write in a provocative or light, entertaining manner, and the only thing proven here is that I absolutely lack a sense of humor. But still, wondering why men as a group don’t see things that need to be done in a household (and thereby why women as a group do see them) is a bit single-tracked.

Research results on iTV

The press conference we had yesterday regarding our 77-pages long report on the first digital interactive tv-format in Finland, Enigma, caught gladly enough attention. Our results are cited in many papers and radio news broadcasts. I hope to get the time to translate the summary into English some time soon, as I believe the results could interest many. I noticed there's an ongoing discussion about the future of mobile iTV on the aoir-mailing list. I'll definitely write an article about the study of iTV and the results I got to the EuroITV conference in Athens next spring.

News

We were in the news last night, regarding the drama series NDA that was shot here in our tv-studio at MediaCity. The first episode aired last night on YLE, the public service broadcaster in Finland. The news clip is found here (in Finnish only). As a note, I'll mention that YLE is not airing any radio or tv-shows between 2 pm and midnight today. The staff is protesting against the plans on dismissing about 200 workers.

While I'm at it, I'll point you to a blog by the company DirectNIC. The blog's become known as "The survival of New Orleans blog", according to the author Michael Barnett, writing from New Orleans.