Archive for September, 2006

Blos­som, an entry to the My Dream App project, looks interesting:

Blos­som — any apps/documents can be set and mon­i­tored for active time used, and the ‘liv­ing’ vir­tual plant will pro­vide a visual indi­ca­tor of healthy progress; just a glance away through­out the day. 

OmniOut­liner Appe­Script hacker Ethan J. A. Schoonover (Kin­k­less, KGTD) joins in with the Omn­i­Group team and Mer­lin Mann to build Omni­Fo­cus.

Lift­ings 2000–2004: Nice art project by cool Flickr con­tact, Beate. 

Jeg har løftet ca. 90 men­nesker. Alle som har latt seg løfte har fått et sign­ert diplom. Jeg kan ikke løfte noen som veier over 97 kilo. 

Jyske Bank redesign run­down at Line Rix’s: Indret­ningskaos hos jyderne . ” Hvad i al ver­den har de jyde­gry­der gang i?”. (seems like some­one missed the happy dot com days at Jubii…)

Brian Poulsen starts a new, nicely named, blog: press­pass — notes from a pho­to­jour­nal­ist.

I’m a pho­to­jour­nal­ist work­ing as a staff pho­tog­ra­pher at a local news­pa­per. These are my sto­ries and expe­ri­ences from my daily assignments. 

Mikkel Holm Sørensen on how hard it is being a Euro­pean min­i­mal­ist on Myspace.

Apolo­gies first: I owe a lot of peo­ple a lot of replies to emails, phone calls etc. I’ll get there.

Just got back from a quick get­away to the Nether­lands. With a bril­liant sense of tim­ing, I chose to return the day before Cross Media Week, Pic­nic ’06 which looks nice. I’m a lot more into the pic­nic con­cept than to the cross media idea which I’m not sure adds any­thing inter­est­ing to the deal. Any­way, I’m sorry I couldn’t stay, so I’ll be fol­low­ing Chris­t­ian Lausten’s live blog­ging from the event.

Chris­t­ian did his own event, Knock Knock, last week which I had the plea­sure doing a light­ning talk on videoblog­ging at. So I should be post­ing some inter­est­ing things on videoblog­ging as a follow-up; that’s on the list too.

I’m not sure I pulled the pre­sen­ta­tion off. I went for the Dick Hardt–approach, doing 120+ slides in 5 min­utes flat which was new to me. My feel­ing was that the style is well-suited for short talks where you want to paint a pic­ture rather than go deep into var­i­ous parts of your sub­ject. But as expected you have to prac­tise stuff like that to keep the flow going. Which I only sort of man­aged. It’s a bit strange being so tied up to the exact words you’re using that you hardly get a chance to look up from your mon­i­tor. Eye­con­tact will be con­sid­ered for next time. 

You can dis­cuss how much actual knowl­edge you can stuff into 5 min­utes. I tried not to touch too many things in need of exten­sive argu­ments, but it’s a tough for­mat for sure.

But now, onwards. There are mails to be answered, calls to be returned, shit­loads of pic­tures from a boat­cruise round the port of Rot­ter­dam to be tam­pered with and uploaded (con­tain­ers, yummy) and car video from the trip to Århus (first in a series) to be edited, just as I’ll try and get some rel­e­vant video-related mate­r­ial posted for the peo­ple attend­ing Knock Knock.

I’m doing a short pre­sen­ta­tion in about a week’s time.

So I’m sorry I didn’t catch this one, Mak­ing a truly per­sonal pre­sen­ta­tion, by Patrick Damsted. Sounds really good.

Fra iBYEN:

Fredag den 15. sep­tem­ber lyder start­skud­det til en spritny dokumentarfilm-konkurrence, lommefilm.dk. Med et enkelt greb i lom­men kan alle delt­age. Kon­ceptet er sim­pelt. Man tager sin mobil, sky­der en film af maks. 60 sekun­ders varighed og sender den derefter til en pro­fes­sionel jury med dokumentarfilm-instruktør Max Kest­ner i spidsen. 

Idéen med konkur­ren­cen er at udnytte mobilen kreativt som medie, fordi den er tilgæn­gelig for alle og enhver. Efter devisen ‘alle har en his­to­rie, lad os se his­to­ri­erne’ håber film­folkene Kasper B. Ole­sen og Mar­tin Spen­ner, der står bag lommefilm.dk, at skabe aktive pro­duc­erende mediebrugere frem for pas­sive observerende. 

Det er som om tra­di­tionelle medier nød­vendigvis skal garan­tere ser­iøsiteten for det er sjovt — og virke­ligt. På Youtube og alle de andre sjove steder, bestem­mer folket selv, hvad der er godt.

Inspir­eret af min kværuleren tænkte jeg på, om man ikke kan mixe noget Google Maps med fx. under­skriftind­sam­linger. Folk opgiver gerne post­num­mer ell. by — et fikst kort ville vise hold­ninger fordelt over Dan­mark. Det er nok trawl­ing af data i diverse under­skriftind­sam­lings– og debat­sys­te­mer der er værst.

“Born­holm split­tet i sag om Rudy“
“Tøn­der har sit at se til“
“Kro­n­jyl­land 100% bag Taxa“
“Ingen royale i Tisvilde“
“Ingen på Fal­ster har nogensinde hørt om Tisvilde — men de er imod”

Osv. Pseudo-statistik for folket og poten­tielt en for­doms­gen­er­a­tor af rang. Men visse ting kunne sikkert være inter­es­sant at få visu­alis­eret og sys­tem­a­tis­eret lidt. 

Kunne afstemninger og ind­sam­linger osv. ikke være mere inter­es­sante, hvis man kunne tilgå deres data gen­nem et for­nuftigt API? Der er stort set ikke et nyhedssite uden en daglig afstemn­ing. Kom nu, del, vi vil lege med jeres bits.

I skrivende stund er under­skriftind­sam­lin­gen til fordel for mere straf og bedre under­hold­ning, med det mundrette navn ‘Hårde straffe til pæd­ofile og meget hård straf til Rudy Fred­erik­sen’ (tidligere ‘han skal i fængsel’), oppe på 99672.

Prak­sis­sen med at ændre, hvad der skrives under på efter de første 65k+ har skrevet under på, vil jeg ikke gå i detal­jer med her — det er jo trods alt “lis­som mest for at tilk­ende­give sin afsky over for sådan nogle men­nesker og især Rudy fra tv” det han­dler om. Med os eller mod os, det er til at forstå.

Vil tro det passer godt i Skaarups kram, så jeg fores­lår han laver et meetup og holder en tale, når de når 100.000. Jeg ville ikke blive over­ras­ket, hvis der var et par stykker, der skriver under “for at prøve at være nr. 100.000 — det er alligevel vildt”. På dagen kan de så erk­lære den store tilslut­ning for en sejr for retssikker­he­den og en sikring af lørdag­sun­der­hold­nin­gen. Evt. gameshows man går glip af, når man mødes på gal­ge­bakken til fest, vil blive optaget og uddelt på vhs.

Birthe Rønn-Hornbech skulle være på sagen ang. Skaarup, så måske jeg skulle bede Dan Hansen, Maribo om lige at tale med ejeren af øen om mulighe­den for at blive boende…

Vlo­gEu­rope is going down.

What: An uncon­ven­tional con­fer­ence about videoblog­ging in Europe.
Where: Milan, Italy.
When: Novem­ber 18–19 2006.
Who: Videoblog­gers, poten­tial videoblog­gers and any­one inter­ested in new media in general. 

I’ll be there, look­ing for­ward to meet­ing fel­low vide­blog­gers and talk about videoblog­ging for two days straight. I plan on being there some days in advance to slam espres­sos and eat nice foods. Let me know if you’re in town. 

Sign up if you wanna join us. Add your thoughts and ideas to the vor­tex.

Keep an eye on Andreas, who is one of the organizers.