Archive for May, 2006

CodeGarden06 is over — it was a blast! Nice work, Niels and Kasper.

40+ devel­op­ers from 11 coun­tries made this a won­der­ful event. Met some nice and cool peo­ple, most of them already with their hands dirty from doing sites with umbraco. Sweet.

The venue, Kul­turhuset Islands Brygge, proved to be very well suited for the con­fer­ence — every­thing went well and even the weather turned out ok in the end.

Good pre­sen­ta­tions, lots of talks, ideas, ques­tions, examples.

My pho­tos can be found at Flickr: Umbraco Code­gar­den 06. Also, take a look at the Code­Gar­den blog for more updates — maybe a bit of video one of these days.

Hope to see you next year. 

Fol­low­ing the videoblog­ging sem­i­nar where I did a short pre­sen­ta­tion with Jon Froda, Kristof­fer Gans­ing has now put of some good notes at Net­worked Sto­ry­telling:

The cit­i­zen artist
Vor­spiel, event blog­ging
Your Local Cul­ture Jammers

(pre­vi­ous post)

Yeah, yeah. Free down­loads, rec­om­men­da­tion sys­tems etc. is the bomb. It exposes peo­ple to music they wouldn’t oth­er­wise have come across. And I believe that. Some­times I even write I believe it. To make it more true.

But so far noth­ing beats hav­ing iTunes run­ning in a crowded cafe. I can browse other people’s music and the per­sonal aspect (remem­ber blog­ging?), hav­ing dif­fer­ent stuff in the same loca­tion with the knowl­edge that this music belongs to the same per­son, is so very useful.

Thanks to Lars Pet­tersen, I’m get­ting a wakeup dose of elec­tron­ica end alectro-clash. Sweet.

Yes­ter­day Urbanblog.dk launched. It’s a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Urban and Blogtid which orig­i­nally started as an alter­na­tive to Avis­tid, then despite good inten­tions went a bit dead and now serve as the plat­form from which Anger­mann, Bøt­ter, Bal­slev and myself work on the urban­blog project. We still plan on sup­ply­ing views on tra­di­tional media enter­ing a new era using social media with posts from clever peo­ple work­ing in the field. For the past months, how­ever, we’ve been busy build­ing a Word­press MU–pow­ered blog for Urban’s read­ers to play with.

Dis­claimer first: We’ve swal­lowed the beta pill, mean­ing that we still fid­dle with var­i­ous parts of the site. We’ve got some things to improve and a few lit­tle fea­tures up our sleeves, but wanted to let peo­ple in and see what they came up with. We fig­ured that we knew what had to be done, but that Urban’s new blog­gers knew in particular.

So far it seems the site will be pretty lively; there’s a lot going on already — sup­port­ing our feel­ing that if you pro­vide con­text (it’s about con­text pro­vid­ing, not con­tent pro­vid­ing!), sto­ries and thoughts will emerge.

These are just some of them:

• Laeti­tias ver­den, on heavy metal boyfriends and cats 
• J.P. Thiede om bold, fans, humle & quin­der, soc­cer, beer and women 
• louise.urbanblog.dk, rag­ing sin­gle — look out 
• Squier JV Gui­tars, niche-style gui­tar blog 
• WiFi Over­sigt, wifi in Copenhagen 
• Dansk Mikro­bryg, beer brewing
• Ajasørensen.urbanblog.dk, Urban­blog meets MySpace — cool 
• Spis­es­t­eder i Køben­havn, where to eat
• Jeg elsker min kone, wife lover
• Madonnafan.dk, Madonna fan blog
• Velkom­men til forstaden, sur­bur­ban thoughts
• Jensens Jam­merdal, early adopter — he might have done an exit
• 1001kop kaffe til hjem­løse, project based

And from the crew:

• K’s kragetæer, on jour­nal­ism and media
• Hen­ri­ettes hoved, blog mama
• Info & FAQ, Blogtid crew

I can’t wait to see what peo­ple will do. So many things going on, so many sto­ries wait­ing to be told. I’m sit­ting at a cafe, next to a guy read­ing Urban — I have the feel­ing he’s only get­ting half.…

Update: Jes­per Bal­slev posts his thoughts (in Dan­ish), out­lin­ing the proces.

Blogs giver nyt liv på net­tet, orig­i­nally uploaded by Jes­per Bal­slev.

This just in: Blogs vigtigere end Michael Lau­drup (vinkel tyvstjålet fra Thomas Kragh).

Urbanblog.dk rører på sig. Go check.

Emer­gens med en intro til Fritz Lang’s “M” fra 1931.

M står muligvis for Mörder, men det står også for Must see. 

Jeg havde fornø­jelsen af at se fil­men under Nat­film­fes­ti­valen. Lyd­broer og fløjten. “Noget om den men­neske­lige natur”. En klas­siker du bør se. Nu.

Lis­beth Klas­trup melder at Afdel­ing for Film– og Mediev­i­den­skab på sitet Timecodes.dk har et afs­nit om viral markeds­føring.

Om pro­jek­tet:

www.timecodes.dk er et under­vis­ning­spro­jekt, der formi­dler forskn­ing om tv. Pro­jek­tet er for over­bygn­ingsstud­erende på Insti­tut for Film-& Mediev­i­den­skab på Køben­havns Uni­ver­sitet.
De stud­erende er ans­varlige for både form og ind­hold på web­sitet timecodes.dk, og alle arbe­jder som skrivende jour­nal­is­ter. Deru­dover består pro­jek­tet også af en prak­tisk del, hvor de stud­erende bl.a. streamer video, behan­dler dig­i­tale billeder og uploader på webhotel. 

Redak­tio­nen består af gamle kendinge som Lennard Højb­jerg og Børge Kris­tensen, en sam­ling stud­erende og sågar en gam­mel Rødby-dreng, Søren Green Nielsen.

Glæder mig til at følge med, omend det besværlig­gøres lidt (skam­mer mig efter­hån­den over at web2.0-slappe) af man­gel på RSS. Kom nu, del…vi vil gerne følge med.

While catch­ing break­fast at Kreuzberg hang­out Morena, I wanted to use my laptop…online. But con­nect­ing to the AP didn’t work, I just got an error say­ing that I well, couldn’t… Which is not very help­ful at all.

Every­one I talked to were online with no trou­ble at all and gave me the pass­word. That’s when it dawned on me: I wasn’t prompted for one, so maybe it was sav­ing the pass­word from last time I was here.

Cor­rect. They changed the pass­word, but for some rea­son OS X didn’t think it was impor­tant to prompt me for a new one once the saved one failed. I had to go to my key­chain, delete the entry for Morena and try again, this time allowed to punch in the new pass­word. Success.

Seri­ously, why does it have to be so hard? Pass­word doesn’t work? Ask for another one. Don’t just go “sorry, bad luck” on me…