Anders Pollas

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.