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Finnish gaming industry has got lots of publicity recently after successes by Rovio and Supercell. But this is not about the gaming - this is about other great Finnish applications which have somehow affected my life and working in digital world. My personal history of digital drawing I have drawn comics and illustrations commercially since I was fifteen. Already early in the home computer era I nomaded in to the digital drawing and I am still on that journey. During the past 20-30 years I have used the most graphical tools there are and many times desperately seeked free solutions to do the basic graphics stuff when the expensive proprieraty solutions were out of reach. Sumopaint is in the cloud Some years ago I was on the road and needed to have an graphics application for my digital illustrations. I like to keep my presentations visual and I hate to snatch and use images which are made by someone else than by me. So what to do? I did not want to use the crappy Paint in the...

Are we making a disservice to our children when they call us when they have a normal real world problem instead of trying to solve them by themselves? Everyday mishaps like missing the bus, getting to the school in time, informing what to eat from the fridge or getting lost from parents in a shop. I claim we do. Instead of getting our children to use their own brains what to do, we solve the problem for them. Kids should learn to handle such situation without parental control or guidance. We prevent a great learning and growing experiences. This phenomena is commonly known as a helicopter parenthood (also known as curling parenthood) Today I realised that there is more and more technology and applications available for helicopter parents. Helicopter parenting is made easy. I read an article on Norwegian inventor Sten Kirkbak who presented a new device in CES 2013. He had loist sight for his 3.5 year old son in a shopping centre in Oslo for 20 minutes. Instead of teaching [in advan...

Last weekend I was searching some statistical data for my lecture on social media. I popped in to many so interesting sites and news stories about the internet that I got an inspiration to create my second Infograph ever. The major sources I used were AllTwitter, AllFacebook, Wikipedia, Techcrunch & The Huffington Post which I judge to be relatively trustworthy sources in the subject matter. The figures mirror the status in the internet in December 2012. This is what happens in internet. In every minute. If you wish to use the image in your presentation you might find the high resolution image of it helpful. You'll find it in my Flickr-account . If you want to have this also in Finnish, just leave a commentary below. It does not take much time since all the bits and pieces are in place.