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You have reached the blog of Morten Skogly, passionate lover of internet and maker of websites, and avid DIYer. I work for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, but the views expressed on these pages are my own, and should not be assosiated with my employer.

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I love thinking and talking about, well, just about anything, so don’t be shy. I sometimes do speaking engagements, but what I enjoy the most is developing and talking about new ideas. And making, of cource.

E-mail: morten.skogly@gmail.com
Twitter: @mskogly (english) and @hesttroa7 (norwegian). Follow both, no crossposting, just different languages.
Phone / SMS: (+47) 41545931
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mskogly/
Last.fm : http://www.last.fm/user/mskogly
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/7/215/4bb
Tip: You will find me as mskogly on almost any social network.

About this website:

I started this blog in 2001, and it was previously hosted at pappmaskin.blogspot.com. It is in transition at the moment, I need to clean up many of the posts after importing them from Blogger.com (quite a few lack titles, and are uncategorized, but feel free to roam around. I recommend starting with the Featured category if you are new here.

I love learning new things, and as can be seen from my delicious tagcloud, my interests vary a great deal. But the things I am most passionate about, are DIY (coding, electronics, mechanics, farting around in the house and garden etc), environment, architecture, and of course social media in any form (lucky for me, since that is also my job :). You will find that reflected on this site, often in open source form. Almost all my images are CC Non-commercial attribution or better, and I also provide source code for some of my projects.

About me

I am self taught, and picked apart my first webpage in 1993. I’ve touched base with various academic institutions, but had job offers that was more interesting, and I’ve been doing new media journalism + producing, web user experience designing and research and development as a living since 1996 or so. I’ve been with NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) since 1997. Oh, and I REALLY wanted to become a librarian once upon a time. But I guess these days, we are all librarians.

I have 3 cute kids, a wife, and live on the outskirts of Trondheim, Norway.

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  • Lisa Garoon

    Mr. Skogly:

    I discovered your wind-triggered lantern in “Make” magazine. I am writing to solicit your assistance with the design and development of the Gateway to Science, an outdoor, hands-on children’s science museum currently set for construction on a two acre site in Lake Zurich, Illinois. We would very much like your collaboration on an exhibit for inclusion in the museum. Please contact me at your earliest convenience.

  • Danielle and Richard

    Just repaired my iphone 3Gs screen in a very long lunchbreak using your superbly detailed step-by-step tutorial. Simply fabulous! All is working fine again.
    One tip to add may be to show on a picture how the LCD screen splits from the mainframe as I managed to break mine not knowing where it is meant to come apart (ordered a new one and installed it already though). I found it helped to carefully lift the little steel bit that protrudes on the bottom left of the metal back plate of LCD…anyway, fantastic work, thank you SO much for making the effort!

    • http://pappmaskin.no Morten Skogly

      Thanks! I’m sorry to hear about the LCD, and thanks for the tip. I never quite found the perfect way to describe how to do this step, or where to lift, that’s why I simply said “be careful”. The LCD is quite sturdy, mine has survived two glass changes now.