Som tidligere omtalt er Ekstra Bladet set linke ud, et særsyn blandt danske avismedier på nettet.
Nu tager de den skridtet videre og linker ud fra understregede ord i teksten. Den rene hypertekstgalskab. Hvad bliver det næste? (W)EB 2.0 I’m tellin’ ya…
Guan — and others — are making new year’s resolution.
In 2006 I will take at least one photograph every day and post it on 23.
I’m not into that — don’t pretend you are going to do stuff when you (that’s me) know that chances of you keeping those promises are slim. On the other hand, it’s hard not to get inspired by what other people think and here we are; this is the time where you comment on stuff, pretend it’s not a resolution — because everyone else is doing it.
I’ll try and move to 23 and as I’ve noted that more and more people, while keeping their urge to tell stories, are blogging less and photoblogging more — predictions of the use of photosharing tools are interesting. I’ll try and post more photos — and will try to throw in info on workflow, using multiple cameras etc. More photos, more video — more experimenting. I’ll probably start blogging more elsewhere (more on that later) but when looking back on 2005, there’s one thing I regret not doing: At least highlighting inspiration, good reads etc. With del.icio.us it’s too easy just to bookmark, not providing context. I think I’ll try to keep a list of new subscriptions, new blogs etc. and do a monthly list or something.
Looking forward to mroe structure…
Ok, this is pretty funny: Random Chuck Norris Fact: Top Thirty Facts
Chuck Norris can touch MC Hammer.
[via tveskov]
A vacant flat, a tip from Nicolaj and a promise to myself to take more time off: I’ll be at the 22C3, CCC’s annual Congres in Berlin.
The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) is a four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) information technology, IT-security, internet, cryptography and generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the discussion about the effects of technological advances on society.
I’ll be catching a bus from my christmas getaway on wonderful Lolland and flying back on December 30. Hopefully I’ll get time to think and find a balance between attenting the conference and hanging out with a laptop and some of the projects I’ve been neglecting for the past month.
In related news, we did a silent ‘launch’ over at blogtid.dk (link added to the mess that is my ‘involvement sidebar’) — the plan is to provide a decent alternative to avistid.dk which shouldn’t be too hard.
If you’re in Berlin between christmas and new year for one reason or another, ping me.
“Don’t just consume, create!” — or why BBC is sooo ahead of any of the traditional Danish media corporations: BBC News The Open News Archive.
Stop everything you’re doing. This just in.
For en gang skyld er EkstraBladet og jeg enige: Breaking news: Alex er langhåret. (deres timestamp antyder de var først ude, faktisk)
While looking for Jon Lunds url for my previous post on DIA06 I stumbled upon a post on Jon’s old blog about the campaign Avistid. The title of the post claims “Top danish directors in cutting-edge online-only campaign”. Which I actually thought was a joke. After reading the post, I’m not so sure. For the record, by the way: This is by no means “talk trash about Jon Lund”-day. I just missed a post some time back, found it and decided to post my comment here as opposed to in the comments as it appears Jon is now blogging somewhere else.
Anyway. A lot of bloggers have written about Avistid (can’t be arsed to link to it all, just search for it — you won’t be bothered with any other hits ;-), most of it being about the cluelessness with regards to the reason the campaign is even launched. Which is, by the way, where it connects to my previous post about online marketing.
So just a few thoughts on the claims Jon is making:
Top-“dogme” directors: True. But this isn’t the same as their films are any good or support the aim of the campaign in any way. Actually, I’ve found them pretty boring so far, the first by Søren Kragh-Jakobsen definenately being the worst.
Web-only: Yup, all other media is trying to drive traffic to the (horrible) website, trying to get people to watch the films. For what reason I ask? Please keep in mind that the Danish newspapers aren’t trying to sell just any product, they are actually trying to sell newspapers — and could benefit a great deal if they would please explain us what they are good at.
Cutting-edge: Bullshit. Being cutting-edge for the reason of being cutting-edge.…is not cutting-edge.…
As BMW before them: Mmm..no! BMW’s films were semi-viral pieces being linked because of the quality of the films. Which I haven’t experienced with the films from Avistid. Also, Selling cars and selling newspapers isn’t the same. At all. It’s obvious, however, that they’re trying to get it to be the same; going ‘lifestyle’ on the consumers poor asses.
The link to my DIA06 comments is this: If you want to respect your customers and not stuff whatever down their throats, you should take a good, hard look at the context in which you’re ‘communicating’. Noone gets offended if people selling jeans, soft drinks or cars pull the ‘lifestyle’ card on them. After all, this is a lot of what you buy. When you are a newspaper, however, sell less newspapers due to — among other things — the internet with its user empowerment, conversations and free niche-content and then
decide to market your product as if nothing has happened and you just need some flashy advertising and some promises about ‘being cool when you take the time to read a paper’ — you are taking the piss.
I’m willing to talk shop anytime, focusing solely on craftmanship, techniques and what have we. But in cases like this where the message you’re trying to convey so clearly goes against everything what’s right while wasting a lot of money and treating your (former) customers like stupid sheep — especially when you’re in a business who should have no trouble managing communication and hightlight what’s good about the product (and not the lifestyle sorrounding it) — then I think it’s time to take a step back and look at what it is you’re trying to do. And admit you’ve failed miserably.
Jakob has posted some additional thoughts on DIA06 after comments and more time to think.
I totally agree; the people of the jury seems to be good people — and that’s not the point. Just as marketing on the web — and new and better ways of doing it — is definately a worthy cause. But not the point.
When we’re poking fun at DIA06 it’s not because all marketing is bad — and people working with online marketing therefore are bad people. It’s because the framing of the whole event is no where near the good thoughts Jon Lund is laying out in the comment to Jakob’s first post. And while I whole-heartedly support innovation in the area of online marketing, I also believe in practicing what you preach and treating your peers with respect. Flash-sites, award shows and poorly created sites doesn’t run along those lines…
So: 100% support in putting focus on better online marketing from me. However, I’m pretty convinced (as a comment to Jakob’s closing remark that maybe they the agencies do need an award show) that they don’t need an award show.
Boxes and Arrows launched on Public Square.
Can’t wait to see Pind’s new we media-product Public Square hit the streets.
The product is designed specifically for we media, or peer-produced online publishing. No more trying to do shoehorn your site into software designed for blogs or generic online communities (whatever that is).
Congrats!
After an excellent launch party Saturday, we launched the exhibition site for Technical Breakdown — and now it works. The exhibition itself invites the inhabitants of Copenhagen to meet experimental contemporary art on a street level. The listening posts are placed on busy locations frequently visited by a large number of people. Accompanying the listening posts is the site which has all the background info, samples of each of the sound works — and a fifth online-only listening post.
Go have a look — and consider taking a look at the real listening posts throughout the city. Take the time to stop and listen.
Or head over to DIA.
Judging the judges over at Mentalized
Now this guy has a point (or an experience similar to mine):
Now, the biggest issue is this: At home, in no place, there is something that keeps my Next Actions. I have absolutely no trusted system.
For the past couple years, I’ve been struggling to turn my home into a home — instead of the office surrounded by kitchen and couches it seems to be right now. This of course is difficult if you keep changing offices and end up having a lot of gear hanging around. But still, I’m trying not to work much from home which means I kind of like not staring into my computer all the time. Which is where most of my GTD stuff lives. Being on a laptop definately makes things easier and basically a cheap laptop (if you’re not using one constantly anyway) might just be worth it, considering how much more structure on everything GTD provides.
I’m bad at using the context options of my current GTD system, PyGTD, so often I end up at the office, being surprised that I overlooked some @Home task. And again; I don’t always want to be too close to my computer when at home — or bring it when going for a saturday walk etc. So I’m thinking of either doing some online export-stuff and outputting that on a little screen in the kitchen (get stuff done by looking at your list, don’t worry about capturing, just scribble on little notes and input them when back at the office monday morning or something) — or actually finding a different system for when at home…trouble is; how do you avoid manually having to do a lot of syncing? Suggestions and experiences are oh so very welcome…
Stefan Andrén (SE), Senior Designer, NikeLab, USA is talking on “a designer’s way to break habits” — or rather doing a Nike showcase, putting a lot of fancy products on the big screen, showing some video commercials.
He’s summarizing the concepts behind the development but somehow it just turns into marketing speak. Maybe it’s because he’s got so many pretty pictures to show… Funny thing: If you succeed in communicating your development principles through your advertising material (which I usually enjoy), you might end up making a connection in people’s heads between ‘talking abstract’ (‘abstract’ being one of Nike’s concepts for a specific product line, oh the meta…) and corporate marketing speak. Maybe it’s just me — fast paced, action packed lifestyle commercials doesn’t do it for me…
Easter egg in Gran Turismo 4 (featuring a Nike virtual car): Look for morse code at the front right wheel.
Just a quick note: Why is it ‘innovation’ always has to be made look innovative by adding flashy elements to the website? Move on, 1999 won’t be back anytime soon.
And: The introductionary speaker mentioned the cameras streaming the conference live — but links to the streams are nowhere to be found on the Next2005 website. You have to go to Innovation Lab for that. Which is ok, but why not put it somewhere on the conference site?
Seated at Next2005. First up is Dr. Dr. Norbert Streitz from Ambiente who started by stating that in the future we might not value not being available. Since then he has — so far — mostly been in overview mode; not very specific, not very visionary.
Pervasive computing challenge:
Designing for an understanding of a transparent interface, privacy concerns.
Question: Do we still need office buildings (Dr. Dr. thinks yes)? “Cooperative buildings”. No longer the place for individual activities, but for planned social/group activities. “Smart environments”; attentive, adaptive, active.
RoomwareTM: iLand — an interactive landscape for creativity and innovation. 2nd gen. for Wilkhahn (office furniture makers). Beach: Software for interactive walls. Version with audio augmentation — room laughs. And so on. This is turning into a Fraunhofer product show.
Smart environments: System-oriented / People-oriented. “Smart spaces make people smarter”. Refrigerator ordering stuff not being consumed because of circumstances outside its knowledge vs. ‘people-empowerment’ through system-to.person information.
Smartness trade-off: sensor data for decision-making, tailoring etc. vs. control over data.
Now he’s back in overview mode, mentioning partners, going through a large number of interesting-looking projects that he haven’t got time to comment on properly. He is, however, throwing in comments about lack of time for explaining. There is actually a way to get around that, you know…
Communication through environments: Patterns, ambient messaging. Connecting Remote Sites: Communication mood etc. across remote locations.
Classy reports on the brilliance of the site posted in AUX’s press release for the sound exhibition Technical Breakdown (starting this Saturday), aux.dk/tekniskuheld.
While we’re not unaware of the potential tongue-in-cheek-ness of a possible site error in connection with this very project (and any errors we might make, hell we’re excused no matter what), I have to admit that it’s just a funny result of the lack of communication between the groups preparing the exhibition — I’m one of the groups and didn’t get the site ready on time.
There you have it. Open communication. Site to launch soon. I’ll let you know. For now, head over to AUX for more information.
Efter billedet pÃ¥ Politiken at dømme bliver han næppe hængende længe.…
I’ll be combining to favourites of mine tomorrow: Blogging and fancy product wathcing — I’ll be blogging from Next05, hopefully being able to post a lot of photos and perhaps a bit of video.
For tredje år i træk samles verdens mest perspektivrige it-prototyper til en Trendshop, hvor der vises frem af det mest langsynede og trendskabende fra afsnit for produktudvikling og –forskning verden over
Update: Nyholm is arranging a post-conference dinner, starting with drinks at the Oak Room.
Shortly after having done my last vlog post I wanted to test the gear and see how it behaved in low-light conditions, shooting from a moving car. I documented the setup over at Flickr — in short it’s luggage elastics around a headrest using a mini-tripod.
If I had a car I would probably just use it for driving around the city at night, listening to records. So that’s what I did for my test.
Rough cut, pretty boring — didn’t even miss the exit and go to Sweden by mistake. No action there… So just sharing the ‘results’. Image quality is decent (have much more video but that’s pretty much the same), the mount worked like a charm and I’m slowly falling in love with the different sounds of driving a car mixing in with the music from a cheap car stereo. Autofocus is definately a concern with changing light conditions.
Copenhagen Business School is blogging. Videoblogging too.
Jon Froda and Jesper Bindslev of E-mediators did the project (E-mediators writeup), pulling me and a few others in on it.
Two study programs — BLC and ASP — has spearheaded blogging; 10+ bloggers strapped with video cameras and stories to tell got a two-day introduction to blogging and online video after we finished implementing the system.
As an internal voice the blogs will serve as a hub for discussion concerning campus events and issues as well as the academic contents of the courses. Externally it is our vision to present the BLC and ASP as international study programs and CBS as an international institution of higher learning. As such we invite everyone to take part in the discussion
It’s done on Drupal which I had the mixed pleasure of templating. We’ve tried to make it easy for them to post their text and video which means the project’s techie, Guan, had to do a little magic behind the scenes. Apart from the implementation side, I did an overall introduction to blogging as a phenomenon, to the writing side of online communication and to the various places to look for context.
Andreas Haugstrup did a video workshop the following day (read his writeup here) which, apart from being great fun, partly inspired me to do my own silly video experiments. Pictures from the two days at CBS over at Flickr.
All in all it’s been a pleasure working with E-mediators, fellow contractors and CBS — and especially the passionate people among the students that went from email to Technorati-and-20-other-things-you-should-get-to-know-and-try-to-remember in two days without complaining.
Check the blogs out here: Cultunomics and Not A Green Dragon. Can’t wait to see what these people put out there.
Ekstra Bladet er sikkert den avis der har fattet online-delen bedst, men vi er nu alligevel nogen, der synes det er synd at de — og andre — sÃ¥ sjældent linker ud (som jo ellers er en temmelig smart internet-feature).
Men fat mod.
PÃ¥ plussiden: Ekstra Bladet linker ud.
PÃ¥ minussiden: Well…
Uha. man er blevet koncept-hacket hos Eat My Shorts, der vender transportsituationen på hovedet og selv leger blød trafikant i modsætning til undertegnedes mere trygge forsøg. Man aner nok lige en kæk kommentar til konceptet hist og her. Sådan.
Og så er min måned gamle post om denkreativeklasse.dk blevet samlet op af de store drenge Tveskov og Classy, hvilket skægt nok sætter sit præg på besøgstallet. Nå så skriver man godt, er der flere der læser. Nuvel, det må prøves en dag ved lejlighed.
Alle har travlt med Frevert. Hvad med den stakkels penisejer? Man gÃ¥r og tror alt er glemt, og sÃ¥ viser fortiden — og Louise Frevert — sit grimme ansigt, hvor man mindst ønsker det.
En evt. erstatning synes jeg fint man kunne give til ham. Ikke de bedste omgivelser at blive set i. So to speak.
