Sigfrid Lundberg's Stuff
2022-12-02: The Copenhagen cholera epidemic 1853 in contemporary
Danish newspaper prose: Some back-of-an-envelope calculations
Inspired by the fact that we were all hiding away from the
Covid-19 2020 – 2021, I wanted to take a closer look at some other
epidemic. My hope was to find patterns of change in lan- guage use
mirroring sentiments and attitudes expressed in words, bigrams and
trigrams and frequency distributions. I started to write this May
2020 and completed it about two years later.
Essays,
Stories,
Media, 2022
2022-11-22: Sex, death and sonnets
A note on how to analyse poetry encoded in Text Encoding Initiative XML
Literature,
Poetry,
Essays, 2022
2018-04-27: Between the market and the arts
A discussion of photography as an art form, and its relation to the art markets.
Art,
Photography,
Economics,
Essays, 2014
2015-05-12: Vägmärken
Min Far fick Vägmärken i femtioårspresent för nästan exakt femtio
år sedan. Jag läser den just nu, och har faktiskt följt mig av och till ett
par år nu.
Religion,
Essays,
Spirituality, 2015
2015-04-06: Gonna make a sentimental journey
to renew old memories
För trettiofem år sen reste vi till Grekland, Gertrud och jag. Vi
var yngre då än vårt yngsta barn är nu. I veckan som gick återvände
vi. Trettiofem år är lång tid, mer än halva mitt liv, om trettiofem år är
vi sannolikt döda.
Souvenir,
Photography,
Essays, 2015
2015-03-22: Varför blir det såhär?
Hörde på nyheterna idag att USA nu är nästan självförsörjande på
energi, och att det begåtts två nya mord i Biskopsgården.
Zeitgeist,
Essays, 2015
2014-11-08: Camera Lucida and a tale of two mothers
I've read Roland Barthes' book Camera Lucida
Mothers,
Photography,
Essays, 2014
2014-10-27: I Rock & hatt
När jag ville ha jeans, långt hår och i övrigt se ut som en medlem
av The Beatles, då såg min far ut nästan precis så här.
Ageing,
Essayes, 2014
2014-10-21: Ack Sverige, Du Sköna
Nu har jag läst Wallins bok Ack Sverige, Du Sköna
Photography,
Essays,
Art, 2014
2014-09-03: Granite is hard
He sat on his knees and started to penetrate the tiles with hammer
and chisel
Essays,
Images,
Photography, 2014
2010-11-28: On patience and bus stops
Waiting at a bus stop can learn us something significant about
human nature
Essays, 2010
2010-04-20: Does hypertext promote extractive interaction rather than
immersive?
Extractive and immersive are two forms of interactivity. This note
claims that the digital library services have successfully implemented
facilities for extractive media consumption but that it is very difficult to
help users in the immersive pattern.
Essays, 2010
2010-04-05: George Smiley and libraries
I'm an ardent John le Carré reader. In particular I'm very fond of
the books about George Smiley.
Essays,
Music, language & literature, 2010
2010-03-09: Thinking when the spring is approaching
Winter is just the worst part of the year. Where approaching the
end of it.
Essays,
Images, 2010
2010-02-21: Podcast: Mor minns
Min mor har tre år kvar till 100. Jag menar att hon är en helt
fantastisk kvinna, med ett knivskarpt intellekt. Hon fick aldrig gå mer än
sju år i skolan som barn, men i 60-årsåldern tog hon i princip
gymnasiekompetens. I denna serie läser hon dikter och berättar ur minnet
eftersom hon är nästan blind.
Essays, 2010
2010-01-28: Reflections on a Library at Dusk
During my soon five years at The Royal Library, I've seen its
exterior in all kinds of weather conditions. Here I give you some images
showing the spectacular black granite fasade at dusk.
Essays, 2010
2009-12-10: On being an international commuter
The last four years I've spent more than two hours a day on
trains. And usually, but not always less than three. Furthermore, I go from
one nation to another and participate in the in the digital dissemination of
cultural heritage of a country which isn't my own.
Essays, 2009
2009-09-05: Twelve weeks
It is twelve weeks since i refurbished and redecorated this
site. It is time for an evaluation...
Essays, 2009
2009-08-26: What is a book, and does it matter?
Lorcan Dempsey of OCLC research, is involved in among lots of
things, statistical analyses of media use. In that work they are forced to
make operational definitions of the 'book'.
Essays,
Media, 2009
2009-08-10: On Divorce and Unemployment Benefit Societies
Here I analyse of some data retrieved from Google Insight
Search. This little study is inspired by the study performed by Hyunyoung
Choi & Hal Varian, Google Research, were they were able to show that it
is possible to make short-term forcasts of economic behavours using search
statistics.
Essays, 2009
2009-07-13: The predator rests on its prey
I've seen this image before. An excavator has demolished a
building, and has then proudly been parked on top of the remnants.
Essays, 2009
2009-06-28: Min mor
Min mor var 43 år gammal när hon födde mig 1956. Alltså föddes hon
själv 1913, året innan första världskriget bröt ut. Nu är hon 96, och lever,
som hon säger, på lånad tid. Tid, det är något som hon tar på största
allvar. Vi talas vid per telefon varje dag. Hon ringer 20.10, nästan
exakt. Det blir alltid ett trevligt samtal.
Essays, 2009
My name is Sigfrid Lundberg. The stuff I publish here may, or may not, be of interest for anyone else.
On this site there is material on photography, music, literature and other stuff I enjoy in life. However, most of it is related to my profession as an Internet programmer and software developer within the area of digital libraries at the Royal Library, Copenhagen (Denmark) and, before that, Lund university (Sweden).
The content here does not reflect the views of my past or present employers