Kim Bach . OrgPå dette billede er jeg nummer 3 fra højre, manden til højre for mig er den navnkundige shevy.dk aka René som jeg spottede – hyggeligt at mødes!
Og dermed skulle både min og Renés tilstedeværelse vist være “bevist” – selv om jeg da ikke kan prale med at være kommet “direkte” fra “guldregnens skygge”.
Søndag den 8-oktober-2006 var der indkaldt til det andet danske blogforum, der var faktisk gået tre år siden det første.
Beslutninger….Dansk eller Engelsk…Det bliver på Dansk – tak til “toften” og “emme” for inspirationen til at tage den beslutning.
Som jeg skrev i min “tilmeldingspost” (jeg rebooter baby):
So just because you’re a blogger do you have anything in common with “these†people? Probably a lot and probably not a lot, but likely something, and maybe a lot…And who cares anyway, let’s just have some fun. And Kulturhus Islands Brygge sounds A-OK with me…
Så blev jeg klogere på noget af dette? “Vi” (“these people”) har helt bestemt meget til fælles.
Det der først og fremmest forener “os”, tror jeg, er at “vi” elsker at skrive, men “vi” er også alle meget optagede af demokrati, det frie initiativ, samarbejde, kollektivet, tolerance, internationalisering, kultur, og at drikke en øl eller to, men ikke mindst at “gøre en forskel”.
Formatet for Blogforum var dejligt friskt, korte præsentationer/oplæg efterfulgt af diskussionsfora, det der også kaldes “Open Space”…Hmm savner dansk ord for det her – åbne samtaler?
Jeg deltog i 3 åbne samtaler:
1. En diskussion om hvordan man bevarer sin personlige og professionelle integritet når man blogger, skal man f.eks. øve selvcensur? Samtalen blev initieret af journalist Dorte Toft (Bizzen, Toften), og vi kom ret vidt omkring, der blev luftet en pæn skepsis til journalist standen, og der var lidt hug til selvcensuren “det kan da være ligegyldigt om man skader sin karriere”.
2. Samtale som jeg faktisk har glemt hvad emnet var, men den drejede sig i høj grad om de etablerede medie huses indtog på markedet, som en anden slags feudal herrer som “samtalestilleren” Thomas Madsen-Mygdal fremhævede.
Jeg fik ikke svar på mit spørgsmål om hvilke motiver de etablerede medier har bag deres indtog – jeg mener det er:
1. Halvhjertet
2. Fordi det er oppe i tiden
3. De andre gør det
4. Hmm…Kontekst sensitive bannerreklamer…Folk skriver jo om alt muligt (og umuligt)…Mums!
Men det er da interessant at Kim Elmose, tidligere ingeniøren, er blevet hentet til politiken.dk og har en så interessant titel som “blogredaktør”.
En interessant diskussion drejede sig om muligheden for etablering af et uafhængigt “Bloghus” som alternativ til “feudal-herrrerne”i Bladhusene (LOL tak: Mygdal) – God idé: “SÆT I GANG”!
3. En idégenerings diskussion, følg den her.
Et spørgsmål der blev stillet tidligt, var om blogging er en teknologi eller en “genre”.
Min konklusion efter at have deltaget i Blogforum2, er at blogging kan opfattes som en slags journalistisk/litterær “genre/subkultur”. Her taler jeg “seriøs” blogging. Bevares jeg syntes det er FANTASTISK at flere og flere har mulighed for at skrive, og jeg syntes bestemt at det er en fordel at der “støjes”, også selv om det f.eks. er med til gøre overskrift.dk stort set “ubrugelig”, da f.eks. TV2 blogs medtages her.
Men med “seriøs” blogging tænker jeg noget der ligner seriøs “journalisme”, og det er den subkultur de fremmødte i går repræsenterede på fornemmeste vis. Jeg håber så at jeg selv kvalificerer i den kategori, jeg følte mig bestemt godt “hjemme”.
Bortset fra det…Jeg kan godt tåle “mere støj”! “Vi” skal nok finde ud af at sortere og finde guldkornene, evt. med hjælp fra redaktører/teknologi. Det er GLÆDELIGT at flere og flere skriver, det kan de næsten kun blive bedre til det af, og lur mig om ikke der gemmer sig mindst en “Mozart” i blandt dem der nu gives en stemme.
Dagen sluttede vi af med at lave en kollektiv bølge og nød en øl eller to!
Og hurra for alle de seje bloggrrls! Feminisme er måske lavstatus men who cares! Go grrls!
Og til sidst…Hvorfor blogger jeg? Hmm for fristende at skrive “I blog therefore I am”. Det er mest for mig selv, men jeg ville da gerne have højere Technorati ratings, Alexandre Kjerulf er i top 2.500! For et år siden skulle man ned på side 27 på Google når man googlede mig, nu er det “noget” nemmere at finde mig ;-). Men helt ærligt, som det også blev bemærket, jeg skriver mest for mig selv, det at blive “kendt” betyder ikke alverdenen for mig, selv om det da ikke “skader” vil jeg nok ikke følge Alexander Kjerlufs “sådan bliver man en medieluder” (sry fra “0 til 100.000 læsere på 3 måneder“) hacks – oh well jeg er jo allerede medieluder, selv om mine Technorati ratings ikke er helt så imponerende, så er jeg rent faktisk nummer 387.695 i øjeblikket, og det er ud af mere end 56 millioner.
Men jeg vil fremover være mere aktiv i det blog community som syntes at blomstre.
Hey…Skal lige huske nogle trackbacks…Det var rent faktisk noget af det eneste nørderi der var oppe i går. Dette underbygger også min teori om at blogging er en journalistisk/litterær “genre/subkultur” mere end en teknologi.
ps. Shawarmaen fra “snasken” lige overfor “Kulturhuset” var elendig, men jeg syntes der var for meget stress på i caféen – så kan jeg lære det, tog revance med Jacobsen Brown Ale, der er en rigtig god øl, senere på aftenen.
Onsdag den 4-oktober-2006 havde Computerworld Danmark indkaldt til et morgen seminar om fremtidens teknologier, specielt med fokus på de top 10 teknologier Danmark skal leve af, i hvertfald i følge Innovation Lab.
Jeg syntes Innovation Labs liste ser noget tvivlsom ud, det største problem jeg har med den er primært at de fleste teknologier er velkendte, jeg savner nicher der vil være velegenede for Danske firmaer at overtage. Listen syntes jeg nu mest er udtryk for at der bliver spillet “buzzword/floskel bingo”, og det må siges at der var fuld plade til mødet i morges.
Bevares det var da interessant at høre om RFID, Second Life, Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games, Connected Things og Augmented Reality, men jeg tror nu at mange sad med en “kejserens nye klæder” fornemmelse bagefter.
Jeg syntes faktisk at det mest interessante ved dagens møde var, at den Google Maps applikation Peter Brodersen har lavet, og offentliggjort på findvej.dk, blev fremhævet som et eksempel på fremragende anvendelser af Web 2.0 teknologier. Det Peter Brodersen har gjort, er noget rigtig mange andre ville have været i stand til at gøre, nemlig at kombinere offentlige data fra Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen med Google Maps, for at lave en letvægts tjeneste der kan vise Danske adresser på et kort, der er dejligt frit for reklamer.
Min første reaktion da jeg så Peter Brodersens applikation tidligere på året var: “pokkers det var præcis det jeg ville have lavet”. Rent faktisk havde jeg en prototype klar baseret på OIOs Address Web Service. Så lektionen er, at det Peter Brodersen har gjort, er at han rent faktisk har bygget en praktisk applikation i stedet for at snakke om det, og det er da helt klart det Danmark (fortsat) skal leve af, altså “pratical visionaries”, som jo også var mottoet for Reboot 8. Jeg skrev også til ham på et tidligt tidspunkt for at ønske ham tillykke med ideen. Men det kunne altså lige så godt have været mig der havde lavet den applikation! Så kan jeg lære det!
Vi anvender faktisk Peter Brodersens findvej.dk i praksis til at finde koordinaterne for Danske adresser i vores forening Netværksgruppen i Mjølnerparken, hvor vi bruger Google Maps i stor stil på vores Wiki, f.eks. her. Jeg har dog bemærket at koodinaterne fra findvej.dk ikke er helt præcise, hvorimod de data man får fra OIOs Addess Web Service er det.
Om man kan bygge en forretningsmodel på findvej.dk er nok højst tvivlsomt, her er der for mange store spillere, også til community delen, hvor det må forventes at Google og andre tager over, men interessant er det.
Den anden lektion jeg tog med hjem var for mig lidt uhyggelig, nemlig at jeg selv spiller ret så meget “buzzword bingo”, det er først noget man gør sig klart når man ser det på slides fra firmaer som Innovation Lab.
Yesterday I went to see the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”, a documentary that follows former vice-president Al Gore’s struggle to spread global awareness of the crisis facing humanity as a result of global warming.
As if I didn’t know it already, global warming is indeed a fact, and it will have big consequences. The opposition to Al Gore and the environmental scientists, defined by people like Bjørn Lomborg, need to stop doing the oil industry’s dirty laundry, humanity faces other serious problems, but this is the one that will impact all of us – the Earth might be rendered uninhabitable, the Planet Venus has an atmosphere filled with greenhouse gasses, could this be the destiny of Earth?
The facts are presented: Global temperature and CO2 levels in the atmosphere is strongly correlated, higher CO2 levels equal higher temperature. From core samples from the Arctic and the Antarctic we know that CO2 levels have never been above 300ppm over a period of 650.000 years, right now it’s above that, and the levels are skyrocketing.
I hope that this movie will be an eye opener, and the practical advise on how to take action on the web-site (climatecrisis.net) is very useful.
The movie ends on a positive note, the fact that we’ve already managed to control a global environmental crisis, the hole in the ozone-layer, leaves room for optimism.
Al Gore used to be the Next President of the USA, I’m actually happy that he lost the election, because he’s been on the grind spreading awareness of this, the most important, challenge facing humanity.
I have some issues with the movie. I could have been without the segment on the lost election, and I really doubt that you directly can see the passing of “the clean air act” in the ice-core samples. Al Gore clearly loves his Mac – but isn’t he a member of Apple’s board?
I went to see the new Danish movie “Rene Hjerter” Sunday, and it’s extremely rare that I go see Danish movies, I think that the new Danish movies are rather overrated, but this time two factors came into play.
First it stars Anders “Anden” Matthesen, second it’s partly set in a closed wing of a, clinical, psychiatric ward.
“Anden” is the Danish answer to Jim Carrey – this man can do basically whatever in creative arts he want’s to do, and do BETTER than get a way with it, and “Rene Hjerter” is no exception.
As an actor “Anden” does a pretty good job, and you can’t really recognise anything from any of his previous aliases, his character Kriss seems to have been invented for this. He also looks very different, and he seems to be credible cast as a clinical psychology patient.
I was a bit disappointed about the the scenes that were set in the psychiatric ward, what no smokers? Then again I’ve never seen the inside of a clinical ward, so what do I know. The passive TV looking is right on, as are the doctors and the nurses, and the old man that knows details about movies and other nerdy subjects.
The format of the movie is quite fresh, the title comes from an old black and white movie from the 30ies staring a female actor that the main character Kriss is obsessing on. There are constantly parallels drawn between the reality that Kriss is living in and the fictive world of the movie, so that the things that happen in the real world fits into the fictive. This is very credible, being in a closed psychiatric ward can make you feel like you’re in a a twilight zone.
All in all it’s a good movie, but I think I’d prefer to see the full black and white movie “Rene Hjerter” instead…
Copenhagen Denmark Gallery – Software Freedom Day 2006 – Software Freedom Day Wiki
A gallery page with photos from the Software Freedom Day 2006 at Gammel Torv (The Old Square) in Copenhagen Denmark has been created (by yours truly).
Dansk punk år for år…foreløbig til ’83 –
This is a site that tries to collect covers from all Danish punk related album, single and musicasettes releases.
Good job, and who has the coolest covers?
Saturday I was on the street to promote the use of open and free software at an event in Copenhagen Denmark. The event was part of the Software Freedom Day 2006.
We were standing on the main pedestrian street at Gammel Torv (The Old Square), and yes once again my PowerBook was flashed, this time running Ubuntu – really strange that no one else brought a laptop – and for most it was a first seeing Ubuntu on a Mac, and it runs really really well.
We were handing out Ubuntu CDs and balloons. Activism is really great, and I’m getting better and better at it.
We’re slowly spreading the word about the alternatives to commercial software, but will anybody actually install Ubuntu and switch? Probably not, but I think that I managed to inform at least a few people about the concept of free and open. You’re not a criminal if you copy and distribute open and free software. Unlike the huge companies from the US, we actually WANT you to copy it.
Some people asked why we were doing it. I think that there are many possible answers, but for me information want’s to be free, and the Internet is the greatest invention since the printing press, access to the Internet should be free, and handing out free software that make that possible could help achieving that. Lowering the bar on Internet access could help democratising the Internet.
I tried to explain the concept of “the beer isn’t free” to a girl, by saying that she could buy the developers a pizza, she offered to buy me one, I said that I didn’t really look on myself as a representative for the movement, she should rather go to the donations page on OpenOffice.org, but you can’t really get a pizza through their mail slot can you?
The greatest result from this event, on the personal level, was that I meet some people that share the same passions that I do, and we co-created this event – I also discovered that I’m probably more of a politician than a geek.
I’d like to change a few things…Linux is important, but probably too complicated, OpenOffice, Firefox, Gimp and Gaim are much more important projects for the end user, since they don’t have to switch their entire platform. The print on the Ubuntu CD actually reads something like this: “The default installation will destroy the data on your computer”. OUCH! I’d also like us to have install instructions in Danish, and I should have brought my translation of Manu Cornet’s website PC-hijacking.
But the beer was actually free: A guy that passed by shared his, just like in the old punk days. To top it, Gammel Torv was the main hang-out of the Copenhagen punks in the early 80’ies.
Yesterday was a very special day in Copenhagen. A new bridge crossing the harbour between Kalvebod Brygge and Islands Brygge was opened, and this bridge is exclusively for pedestrians and bikes.
I have no idea how long time it has been since the last bridge crossing the harbour, so close to the city centre, was opened, but it was way too long time ago.
There are way too few bridges across the Copenhagen harbour, so having a new one is great. After the bridge was opened the rapper Per Vers took stage to give, amongst others, his interpretation of Benny Andersen’s “Verdensborger” (World citizen), the title of this post is a quote from the lyrics, it’s difficult to translate, but Dannebrog is the name of the Danish national flag, brog rhymes with “bro” which means bridge, so the literal translation is: “I’m not passionate (buring for) about Dannebrog (the Danish flag) – I’m passionate about building bridges (e.g. bridging gaps). I’m a citizen of the world (verdensborger)”. Oh well! Lost in translation! I hope it made any sense.
Anyway a great performance by Per Vers, who’s scoring a small hit with his song “Black Power”, which is a great track.
I couldn’t have put it any better! We need more mental, racial and physical bridges.
Regular readers might remember that I recently made a post regarding the remarkable artist Julian Beever, who does 3-D chalk renderings on the pavement of cities all over the world, drawings that plays tricks on the eye.
This week Julian Beever was in Copenhagen, and he made a beautiful work at Axeltorv, as shown in the picture. He obviously hides something in his pictures, this time it should be a man that looks up at you. I think I spotted him, can you?
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