Our lovely ol' Carl von — now 301 years of age (and counting...) and long immortal in cyberspace

| Mar 10, 2008 | 0 comments

After a stretched and streneous year, our monstrous website Linnaeus300.com is complete.

If you don’t have problems, why not create some for yourself? Isn’t that an old saying? In any case, it’s a ”strategy” which we ourselves have applied all too often through the years. When we, together with our partners at AGoodID, were commissioned, by the Swedish Institute, the honorable task of producing the official international website in celebration of the 300-year anniversary of the birth of Sweden’s great natural scientist Carl von Linné, or Carolus Linnaeus as he’s sometimes called in English, which at the same time should promote contemporary Swedish frontline science, and also provide a lustful educational tool for the widest imaginable target group worldwide, not least school children — well, we decided, as mentioned before in this column, to create not one but no less than 52 websites, one for each of the weeks of the year, formulated as questions, built on in-depth interviews with a number of Sweden’s leading international scientists in various fields related to Linnaeus’ own sciences and philosophies. Each of the questions got their own simple flash film, sound image, link library, interactive surveys (several of which have now expired), and more.

And so now the anniversary year is over and Linnaeus300.com is complete. It will linger out there on that WWW for another year, at the very least, for the benefit of everyone — not least school classes worlwide, as mentioned — who aspire to learn more about life upon this our only planet. Get in there yourself, why not? We promise that you will learn something new in a simple and pleasant fashion!

The flash films are created by BrittonBritton, AGoodID, Speak Marketing and Ola Ahlberg, from illustrations by Lova Gren, Gustaf von Arbin, Frida Eklund Edman, and others.

Our lovely ol' Carl von — now 301 years of age (and counting...) and long immortal in cyberspace

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