Moving day - new place: www.dejliglama.dk
I'm moving my blog to www.dejliglama.dk. Why you ask... well this is a blogger.com blog for one ;)
16.12.08
4.11.08
Second Life - its still about sex
I wonder if Second Life will ever be able to get a new image.
This mail just landed in my Gmail, after months of silence - it's not promising and surely it will postpone my future login a month or two.
This mail just landed in my Gmail, after months of silence - it's not promising and surely it will postpone my future login a month or two.
30.10.08
Ærgelig ventetid på TV2's webtv... når det nu er "deres" medie
Et hurtigt smut ind på tv2.dk idag, afslørede en overset lille "service meddelelse" til brugeren... STARTER OM 3075s"
Ja lidt farvet er man jo af sit arbejde...
17.10.08
Edupunk - can't believe I haven't found this sooner
I won't even start defining this - just read this post, and get lost in the link(journalism)...
Edupunk - looking aside the huge amount of heat it gets in the comments, can actually explain why I'm always so reluctant to give a "by definition" answer to problems or web-projects to be more specific.
As soon as you do not start out from the beginning, but choose to believe that certain aspects is set and not negotiable - well in a web-world, it often becomes the obstacle in the future of web, that progresses at speeds to fast for conventional company decision making.
I guess Edupunk is just a way of redefining the way we define things - never setteling... (that's not a definition)
Edupunk - looking aside the huge amount of heat it gets in the comments, can actually explain why I'm always so reluctant to give a "by definition" answer to problems or web-projects to be more specific.
As soon as you do not start out from the beginning, but choose to believe that certain aspects is set and not negotiable - well in a web-world, it often becomes the obstacle in the future of web, that progresses at speeds to fast for conventional company decision making.
I guess Edupunk is just a way of redefining the way we define things - never setteling... (that's not a definition)
12.10.08
New Media Days 08 - Web2.0 revisited
I attended New Media Days 08 along searching for fresh input on the future of internet, and it didn't take long - to feel a bit misplaced. I'm not exactly CEO-looking, and definitely not searching for an answer to "What should we do online?" So taking it for what it was in most parts, a "This is WEB2.0 - get there, because everybody is already there and soon we'd have to call it 3.0" - seminar for the web1.0'ers, I'd point out the things I got with me from the two days.
A bit sad because the design of the venue was meant to make it more playfull (A danish article)
David Weinberger
Calling web (1.0,2.0,3.0) for what it really is: Content is Connection, granted he did NOT give you the this-is-what-you-should-do solution, that many had hoped to get, but as Ben Hammersley (later commented), he took a broader perspective on the future of Internet, and cut down to the essential elements that make up the web, and the social functions that lies within that. The intelligence lies in the links between information and people. That is the real content.
Metadata about information is also information, and by continuing that line of thought I eventually wrote 3 things down:
- Include - no categorizing
- Infinitively
- Links are metadata
So
Content is Connection, Connection is links, and Links are Metadata therefore Content
or
Content = Connection = Links = Metadata = Content
Jonathan Harris
A digital artist, I think he was introduced as - and he sure was, with his www.wefeelfine.org app. which as taken the pulse on the social-part of the internet for 5 years now. Aggregating "I feel" and "I'm feeling" sentences from hundreds and hundreds of blogs and other posts around the world every 5 miniutes. The online system only shows you the last 2 hours of feelings, dissected in any manner you would like. The system as a whole will soon form base for a book looking into aspects as to why women in their 30s feel extraordinary confident on a summer day in Copenhagen opposed to the rest of the world - sounds wacky, well it's real statistics but it's also art...
Follow the rest of Jonathan's interesting work here
The Digital music revolution (Den digitale musikrevolution)
I attended this session because I'm an employee at a commercial radio station, and thought that putting a record label, a musician and MySpace in one room would make sparks fly - well, nothing of real interest happened.
Mike Sheridan performed with some nice music and not so nice graphics, but it's ok - we are after all writing 2008 and everything has been done before - so it seems. Sorry, just not my cup of graphical tea.
Anyways MySpace is launching their music shop in January in DK (correct me if I'm wrong). It's not iTunes and nothing we've seen before Mikkel Abildtrup Bagger from MySpace said (in so many other words), and he explained this by telling us that you would be able to go in to say Mike Sheridan's profile page, and buy HIS music directly from THAT page - SHOCK - WOW BAM - stop just one bit Mikkel... are you SURE that is at all possible ???
I would have loved to here more about DRM free music (TDC is doing it with their TDC PLAY - though it's not actually totally free) - guess the rest of Denmark is just not up to speed.
And maybe the Danish entrepreneurs behind Bandbase should have been present to make an interesting conversation. Though I've seen on FB that they where in Berlin to launch their .de version...
Branding online (Branding på nette stiller nye krav)
Again stating the obvious, but still some who had not seen the 2.0 way had to hear it again.
Branding online is not the same as branding offline - Ramus Bech Hansen from Kontrapunkt did an ok job at getting the message across though many of his slides where to crowded to see what he was actually talking about. The ones that did work showed nice illustrations on the core subject; going from ONE brand offline to many niche brands online, and also not necessarily using the same name - like Vogue vs. style.com (same owner).
It's about segmented audience, and it's about the long tail - in a different lingo.
Should have gone to see Anne Skare Nielsen's session called Listen louder - god dammit (Lyt højere for helvede!), for that I've been told it was about navigation and focusing in an overcrowded world - information wise...
- Anybody got a review on her session?
ペチャクチャ (Pecha Kucha)
It's a super cool presentation ... well rule you could say, dictating 20 slides, each 20 seconds making ONE presentation 6min. and 40 sec. No more no less.
Something a LOT of meetings and PowerPoints could benefit from :)
The 6 sessions in this one session was all about Young and their usage of media. It was especially interesting to hear a real life young "persona" take us for a walk through a typical day for her.
It wasn't all good, but some nice fresh views on media and young users. One point that stood out for me was the fact that at the end of the day - it's TIME that controls the amount of usage of each available media and also the different offers on those medias. Luckily (in part) next generation can multitask better that we can ;)
Btw. go see Pecha Kucha at its best here
Ben Hammersley - I LOVE YOU ( Beauty is Truth, Truths is Beauty - web 3.0)
- is web 2.0 worn out?
No Ben, if you should happen to read this, I don't exactly love you - but you DID present the best session on NMD08, and thank you for that :)
The special thing about Ben's session was that, it was the ONLY one (I saw) that mention web 3.0 by name... - David Weinberger talked about it without naming it..
So why am I so happy-go-lucky?
Well Ben did as David Weinberger did - cutting the clutter and calling it for that is really is. It's about doing what you are really good at!
The frustration was apparent in the room, here "we've" been chasing web 2.0 - social in all it's aspects, yes even killing journalism in it's extreme - making citizen-journalism, and now you tell us to do what we are good at - of cause these frustration outbursts came mainly from journalists.
Though you could feel C_O's where hoping to get leverage to take home, to take the web2.0 plunge after NMD08 - they got a "web 2.0 is all wrong" from Ben - taking it to the edge, but of cause to make a point. We've been so focused on the media instead of the content (the stuff we are good at).
Funny thing is in the session presentation it says ".. He (Ben Hammersley) will single out the elements of web 2.0 that are obsolete and guide you in the right direction."
I think many heard it as, web2.0 is wrong wrong absolutely wrong (maybe because it's almost exactly the way he said it)
To sum up
- Technology is a Tool - it's not the content
- Focus on Craftsmanship
- Good content is worth something
So in essence you could say Lower the amount, and put a higher price on it.
or
$UP and #DOWN = getting back to the head of the Long tail
(which btw got a torso at this years NMD08 - by Benjamin Faes from Google)
In response to the critics Ben Hammersley cleverly responded - It's a choice.
I've made my own diagram to show the elements - based on my beloved Triangle of Quality
Since Quality isn't something you can turn up or down, there are some other factors that will influence your level of quality - one we all want to be 100%...
Good post on Ben's session
Privacy 2.0 (Privatliv 2.0) & Show Me The Money - from idea to company
Had 3 good sessions for me - These two.
One about privacy online in the future - DR who co-produces New Media Days, did a good job, and the moderator Henrik Føhns had a good take on the subject - started out by googeling the panel participants. All in all a good talk, and some pointers. Martin von Haller Grønbæk stood out as a visionary, embracing the 2.0 concept not being afraid but also doing so knowing of the consequences.
Show Me The Money was a good blend, a guy who needed money, a guy who had gotten them and a guy who had gotten them and sold the company...
Interesting to here those guys talking about start-up and how it is to be an entrepreneur. The Danish VC's got some pointers to take home...
YouTube - Riding the video wave...
Lastly Benjamin Faes from Google did a presentation on what YouTube ALSO is (besides the dog-on-a-skateboard videos), quiet interesting if you ask me.
Key point to take home - YouTube is focusing on the professional content providers - see a red line here??
The red line
So what was New Media Days 08 about - apart from going through the "this is web2.0", I'd say the trends where:
- TIME is the one thing you can't control and get more of
- Connection IS content
- Content should be quality content
- Less is better
The obvious mistake is to think that, this is going back to the head of the long tail. Professionals group in large organisations, delivering THE content. I think it's something in-between - haven't found a perfect description (if I had I'd have my own session I guess)
I think it's very interesting that we are at a point in media that the 24 hours a day is actually the biggest obstacle - we haven't got that many hours to actually consume media, so no matter how you present your apps. It comes down to how well you can integrate them in the users day-schedule.
That was a lot of words - you probably have a different take on it, pls. feel free to comment ;)
A bit sad because the design of the venue was meant to make it more playfull (A danish article)
David Weinberger
Calling web (1.0,2.0,3.0) for what it really is: Content is Connection, granted he did NOT give you the this-is-what-you-should-do solution, that many had hoped to get, but as Ben Hammersley (later commented), he took a broader perspective on the future of Internet, and cut down to the essential elements that make up the web, and the social functions that lies within that. The intelligence lies in the links between information and people. That is the real content.
Metadata about information is also information, and by continuing that line of thought I eventually wrote 3 things down:
- Include - no categorizing
- Infinitively
- Links are metadata
So
Content is Connection, Connection is links, and Links are Metadata therefore Content
or
Content = Connection = Links = Metadata = Content
Jonathan Harris
A digital artist, I think he was introduced as - and he sure was, with his www.wefeelfine.org app. which as taken the pulse on the social-part of the internet for 5 years now. Aggregating "I feel" and "I'm feeling" sentences from hundreds and hundreds of blogs and other posts around the world every 5 miniutes. The online system only shows you the last 2 hours of feelings, dissected in any manner you would like. The system as a whole will soon form base for a book looking into aspects as to why women in their 30s feel extraordinary confident on a summer day in Copenhagen opposed to the rest of the world - sounds wacky, well it's real statistics but it's also art...
Follow the rest of Jonathan's interesting work here
The Digital music revolution (Den digitale musikrevolution)
I attended this session because I'm an employee at a commercial radio station, and thought that putting a record label, a musician and MySpace in one room would make sparks fly - well, nothing of real interest happened.
Mike Sheridan performed with some nice music and not so nice graphics, but it's ok - we are after all writing 2008 and everything has been done before - so it seems. Sorry, just not my cup of graphical tea.
Anyways MySpace is launching their music shop in January in DK (correct me if I'm wrong). It's not iTunes and nothing we've seen before Mikkel Abildtrup Bagger from MySpace said (in so many other words), and he explained this by telling us that you would be able to go in to say Mike Sheridan's profile page, and buy HIS music directly from THAT page - SHOCK - WOW BAM - stop just one bit Mikkel... are you SURE that is at all possible ???
I would have loved to here more about DRM free music (TDC is doing it with their TDC PLAY - though it's not actually totally free) - guess the rest of Denmark is just not up to speed.
And maybe the Danish entrepreneurs behind Bandbase should have been present to make an interesting conversation. Though I've seen on FB that they where in Berlin to launch their .de version...
Branding online (Branding på nette stiller nye krav)
Again stating the obvious, but still some who had not seen the 2.0 way had to hear it again.
Branding online is not the same as branding offline - Ramus Bech Hansen from Kontrapunkt did an ok job at getting the message across though many of his slides where to crowded to see what he was actually talking about. The ones that did work showed nice illustrations on the core subject; going from ONE brand offline to many niche brands online, and also not necessarily using the same name - like Vogue vs. style.com (same owner).
It's about segmented audience, and it's about the long tail - in a different lingo.
Should have gone to see Anne Skare Nielsen's session called Listen louder - god dammit (Lyt højere for helvede!), for that I've been told it was about navigation and focusing in an overcrowded world - information wise...
- Anybody got a review on her session?
ペチャクチャ (Pecha Kucha)
It's a super cool presentation ... well rule you could say, dictating 20 slides, each 20 seconds making ONE presentation 6min. and 40 sec. No more no less.
Something a LOT of meetings and PowerPoints could benefit from :)
The 6 sessions in this one session was all about Young and their usage of media. It was especially interesting to hear a real life young "persona" take us for a walk through a typical day for her.
It wasn't all good, but some nice fresh views on media and young users. One point that stood out for me was the fact that at the end of the day - it's TIME that controls the amount of usage of each available media and also the different offers on those medias. Luckily (in part) next generation can multitask better that we can ;)
Btw. go see Pecha Kucha at its best here
Ben Hammersley - I LOVE YOU ( Beauty is Truth, Truths is Beauty - web 3.0)
- is web 2.0 worn out?
No Ben, if you should happen to read this, I don't exactly love you - but you DID present the best session on NMD08, and thank you for that :)
The special thing about Ben's session was that, it was the ONLY one (I saw) that mention web 3.0 by name... - David Weinberger talked about it without naming it..
So why am I so happy-go-lucky?
Well Ben did as David Weinberger did - cutting the clutter and calling it for that is really is. It's about doing what you are really good at!
The frustration was apparent in the room, here "we've" been chasing web 2.0 - social in all it's aspects, yes even killing journalism in it's extreme - making citizen-journalism, and now you tell us to do what we are good at - of cause these frustration outbursts came mainly from journalists.
Though you could feel C_O's where hoping to get leverage to take home, to take the web2.0 plunge after NMD08 - they got a "web 2.0 is all wrong" from Ben - taking it to the edge, but of cause to make a point. We've been so focused on the media instead of the content (the stuff we are good at).
Funny thing is in the session presentation it says ".. He (Ben Hammersley) will single out the elements of web 2.0 that are obsolete and guide you in the right direction."
I think many heard it as, web2.0 is wrong wrong absolutely wrong (maybe because it's almost exactly the way he said it)
To sum up
- Technology is a Tool - it's not the content
- Focus on Craftsmanship
- Good content is worth something
So in essence you could say Lower the amount, and put a higher price on it.
or
$UP and #DOWN = getting back to the head of the Long tail
(which btw got a torso at this years NMD08 - by Benjamin Faes from Google)
In response to the critics Ben Hammersley cleverly responded - It's a choice.
I've made my own diagram to show the elements - based on my beloved Triangle of Quality
Since Quality isn't something you can turn up or down, there are some other factors that will influence your level of quality - one we all want to be 100%...
Good post on Ben's session
Privacy 2.0 (Privatliv 2.0) & Show Me The Money - from idea to company
Had 3 good sessions for me - These two.
One about privacy online in the future - DR who co-produces New Media Days, did a good job, and the moderator Henrik Føhns had a good take on the subject - started out by googeling the panel participants. All in all a good talk, and some pointers. Martin von Haller Grønbæk stood out as a visionary, embracing the 2.0 concept not being afraid but also doing so knowing of the consequences.
Show Me The Money was a good blend, a guy who needed money, a guy who had gotten them and a guy who had gotten them and sold the company...
Interesting to here those guys talking about start-up and how it is to be an entrepreneur. The Danish VC's got some pointers to take home...
YouTube - Riding the video wave...
Lastly Benjamin Faes from Google did a presentation on what YouTube ALSO is (besides the dog-on-a-skateboard videos), quiet interesting if you ask me.
Key point to take home - YouTube is focusing on the professional content providers - see a red line here??
The red line
So what was New Media Days 08 about - apart from going through the "this is web2.0", I'd say the trends where:
- TIME is the one thing you can't control and get more of
- Connection IS content
- Content should be quality content
- Less is better
The obvious mistake is to think that, this is going back to the head of the long tail. Professionals group in large organisations, delivering THE content. I think it's something in-between - haven't found a perfect description (if I had I'd have my own session I guess)
I think it's very interesting that we are at a point in media that the 24 hours a day is actually the biggest obstacle - we haven't got that many hours to actually consume media, so no matter how you present your apps. It comes down to how well you can integrate them in the users day-schedule.
That was a lot of words - you probably have a different take on it, pls. feel free to comment ;)
7.10.08
Getting ready to NMD08
I think so ;)
29.9.08
If The Long Tail is the basis of the future of Internet, then isn't the Lifestream phenomenon going against that?
The basic premise of The Long Tail is that the internet has made it possible distribute low volume highly focused content (well just about anything) at no cost at all. Changing how we produce and distribute things.
As you can read in the Wikipedia article on The Long Tail, it has many applications.
You could say that the internet has enabled the Long Tail, but it is also a Long Tail in itself.
That is visible in the increasing number of blogs, niche/specialized services like rent-a-bag.com, lulu.com... you name some youself and put them in a comment please :)
It's all services that provides or enables you to provide niche products in low volumne to a large audience.
My argument
Lifestreaming services that make an effort in collecting and dirstibuting a persons digital life into one big stream - the biggest and brightest right now: friendfeed.com
- is going against the theory of The Long Tail
I'm a person:
- i have many interestes
- i have different friend or friend-groups
- i express my interestest different to different people
I'm a distrubition of products:
- I have many products
- I have different customers or customer-groups
- I express/distribute my products diffrent to different customers
Well according to the Long Tail.
So in essens, I should Long Tail my stream going towads the 80% and not the 20% shown in the green area on the graph...
I should have many streams depending on what product i'm distributing and who is the intented reciver.
Short example: My friends might like to see photo's of me doing acrobatics last saturday, but my parents might not, though they might like to see the photos of me on holiday...
Get my point?
As you can read in the Wikipedia article on The Long Tail, it has many applications.
You could say that the internet has enabled the Long Tail, but it is also a Long Tail in itself.That is visible in the increasing number of blogs, niche/specialized services like rent-a-bag.com, lulu.com... you name some youself and put them in a comment please :)
It's all services that provides or enables you to provide niche products in low volumne to a large audience.
My argument
Lifestreaming services that make an effort in collecting and dirstibuting a persons digital life into one big stream - the biggest and brightest right now: friendfeed.com
- is going against the theory of The Long Tail
I'm a person:
- i have many interestes
- i have different friend or friend-groups
- i express my interestest different to different people
I'm a distrubition of products:
- I have many products
- I have different customers or customer-groups
- I express/distribute my products diffrent to different customers
Well according to the Long Tail.
So in essens, I should Long Tail my stream going towads the 80% and not the 20% shown in the green area on the graph...
I should have many streams depending on what product i'm distributing and who is the intented reciver.
Short example: My friends might like to see photo's of me doing acrobatics last saturday, but my parents might not, though they might like to see the photos of me on holiday...
Get my point?
8.9.08
Bilvask hack
Altså jeg holder nu og får en vask men jeg har stadig kortet som automaten skulle have taget... 2 vask til 1 pris..!
Prøv om du også kan ;)
22.7.08
2.7.08
The total core.makebelieve.dk web expirience
Makebelieve has been my household name for a long time, and it will keep it's existens as my stand-alone blog on the sub domain: core.makebelieve.dk. However, I've spend much more time finding the good stuff online resently, and this has made me create www.lateralthinking.dk - in essence this will be my new site :)
It incorporates at the moment, a point I believe in about the web-future: Simple also comes in nice packages. Tumblr is the main engine behind this site. It contains my blog, geo-feed, pictures and delicious tags - the main parts of my web pressens and what could be interesting for other people to read...
For the few of you ... don't change your RSS feed, I'll change it for you :)
YAY - online media is amazing!!!
It incorporates at the moment, a point I believe in about the web-future: Simple also comes in nice packages. Tumblr is the main engine behind this site. It contains my blog, geo-feed, pictures and delicious tags - the main parts of my web pressens and what could be interesting for other people to read...
For the few of you ... don't change your RSS feed, I'll change it for you :)
YAY - online media is amazing!!!
29.4.08
Google Sites - it's a wiki, but then it's not...
I've used google sites for a while now, and I know it's not a wiki, as my headline suggests ;)
It's a really good alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint - infact I'd say Sharepoint is an odd alternative to Google Sites you'd only choose if you have oceans of money....
If I where to start a company today, I wouldn't hesitate to go all google. Google Sites, Docs, Groups, Calendars .... Face it, Outlook only did the calendar overlay in the 2007 version because Google had it ;) I bet it's like that with a lot of things... so why pay, when you can get if for free.
Anyway, back to Google Sites - and the wiki part. One thing I would like, is the [link] feature of wikis - and the fact you can make links to non existing pages...
Any other wiki like features, or other features I've overseen?
23.4.08
Best news this week (maybe month) - Zyb buy's Imity!!!
Zyb, the online phone book-mobile backup-social network, bought Imity, a bluetooth tech. service for you mobile, that let you know when you are in the vicinity of your friends... Zyb + Imity = FUTURE POWER!!!
Danish article - http://www.computerworld.dk/art/45465?a=newsletter&i=1728&cid=18
Danish article - http://www.computerworld.dk/art/45465?a=newsletter&i=1728&cid=18
15.4.08
Cool Ad from TDC - Fake article to convince your boss to buy you mobile Internet
It is really cool - try it
Though the most funny part was that Debitel (a TDC competitor) have bought the banner ad on the page, with a similar product - good work Debitel.
Though the most funny part was that Debitel (a TDC competitor) have bought the banner ad on the page, with a similar product - good work Debitel.
10.4.08
Decentralized content - a new trend/way of doing it...
I really liked Modernistas new website
Now the Danish Markedsførings hus (all danish) is writing about another site following the trend; Wibroe, Duckert & Partners
But COME ON !! Part of doing the decentralized content - especially if you're in the web business - you choose "content providers" for you own website, that has a bit of bite, a bit of edge - new feel, or being on the edge in some way, when it comes to web - You DO NOT use De Gule Sider (An old school online phone book app.) - you use Google Maps, findvej.dk, www.biq.dk or any other way of showing your address / company details.
I'd suggest Wibroe to be a bit more creative and not using Google search on all their links too - You have to remember, that even though you use external sites to show your content, you're still responsible for the overall look and feel, and it still sends a message to your visitors.
Now the Danish Markedsførings hus (all danish) is writing about another site following the trend; Wibroe, Duckert & Partners
But COME ON !! Part of doing the decentralized content - especially if you're in the web business - you choose "content providers" for you own website, that has a bit of bite, a bit of edge - new feel, or being on the edge in some way, when it comes to web - You DO NOT use De Gule Sider (An old school online phone book app.) - you use Google Maps, findvej.dk, www.biq.dk or any other way of showing your address / company details.
I'd suggest Wibroe to be a bit more creative and not using Google search on all their links too - You have to remember, that even though you use external sites to show your content, you're still responsible for the overall look and feel, and it still sends a message to your visitors.
20.3.08
Cool steps
12.3.08
8.3.08
6.3.08
Focusgroup
5.3.08
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