New Media Provides a Window for Sámi Culture

A window into the world of the Sámi people of northern Scandinavia will be opened on the internet this coming weekend when a live mobile weblog (moblog) broadcasts images, sounds, and text from the 399th Jokkmokk Sámi Winter Market from the 5th to the 8th February 2004.
Organized by the HUMlab at Umea University the moblog is a new utilization of the weblog (blog) medium as live cultural documentary and will be also interactive with comments possible from readers. There will be guest bloggers, video and still images, sound bites, and on Saturday 7th Feb 2004 at 8pm (20:00) Central European Time there will be a live broadcast in streamed video of the concert by an international band LIVJA (it includes musicians from the UK, the USA, Sweden and Sápmi) in which the Australian member of the blog team will be playing didgeridoo.
But the websites for the project are:

Web address: http://www.humlab.umu.se/jokkmokk2004/
Blog: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/jokkmokk2004/
Map: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/europe/sweden/sweden.htm
The website for the market is http://www.jokkmokksmarknad.com/

We believe this is the first time a live mobile blogg (all wireless technology is being used in this technomad action) has been used in this way. It will be a historic moment in the bloggosphere and an interesting thing to watch coming from north of the Arctic Circle.
James (Jim) Barrett
jim.barrett [at] humlab.umu.se