Anders Pollas

It looks as if Joel’s apol­ogy is spread­ing to lap­top sleeve wash­ing instruc­tions. Nice one…

Update: (note to self) Always check Boing­Bo­ing before post­ing funny stuff, good chance it’s already there… (I found it via some lap­top bag surf­ing). You see, I almost never post stuff that’s been on Boing­Bo­ing as most read­ers will have seen it there already. And if you’re not one of them, you should seri­ously think about swap­ping my blog for Boing­Bo­ing in your aggre­ga­tor — you won’t believe it, but they post every day!

. Good stuff too…

Caterina.net on Raw Per­sonal Con­tent & Neta:

In Japan­ese, “mate­r­ial” for news and sto­ries is called “neta.” The term has strong jour­nal­is­tic asso­ci­a­tions, but also gets used to describe mate­r­ial that can become the topic of con­ver­sa­tion among friends or fam­ily: a new store seen on the way to work; a cousin who just dropped out of high school; a funny story heard on the radio. Cam­era phones pro­vide a new tool for mak­ing these every­day neta not just ver­bally but also visu­ally shareable.

I’m a sucker for nam­ing stuff, but there’s more to it: This mate­r­ial may not be about con­tent, but about inti­macy. Which again means that wor­ries over the some­what triv­ial nature of much of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion in blog space sin’t to be taken too seri­ously; …all this RPC is Not Meant For You. More on com­mu­nity buildin­gat Joi Ito.
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Abstract Dynam­ics on The New Rep­e­ti­tion.

While I was away did some­one install a sys­tem in all NYC bars and clubs that just plays Van­ity 6’s “Nasty Boy”, Laid Back’s “White Horse” and Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock-n-Roll” on end­less repeat?

While I’m defi­nately no fan of mind­less rep­e­ti­tion, I’m rather pleased that Laid Back’s “White Horse” is in heavy rota­tion. I think it’s an excel­lent track. Appa­rantly the track has had quite some suc­cess in clubs world­wide over the years. Unfor­tu­nately Laid Back didn’t really make any­thing else of par­tic­u­lar interest.

Bonus info: “White horse” exist in a white label mix with Daft Punk — pretty sweet.

Nor­mally I tend to think that every­thing is poti­en­tially funny and that you can make jokes of almost every­thing. This bit from Details mag­a­zine sort of had me laugh­ing as well, but I’m not sure it’s all that funny… Or put another way; I can see why some mem­bers of the Asian com­mu­nity — or of the gay com­mu­nity — feel some­what offended.

WHITE T-SHIRT: V-neck nicely show­cases sashimi-smooth-chest. What other men visit the salons to get, mem­bers of the Asian gene pool pro­vides for free.

If you’re Asian, there’s an online peti­tion against igno­rance, if you’re gay, let me know of any online activ­i­ties (peti­tion wise, that is — I get my bit of strange blog searches already, thanks). In any case, while a joke is a joke, you might want to save those for the pub instead of pub­lish­ing them in mags…

Female nude pho­tog­ra­pher: “I must be the luck­i­est pho­tog­ra­pher alive. Unlike many pho­tog­ra­phers I don’t actu­ally want to give up my day job as I am a heli­copter pilot, fly­ing Hueys and CH47 Chi­nooks in the Ital­ian army.“

TDC launches 400 hotspots today. I’m not too impressed with the cov­er­age in Copen­hagen; apart from a few Baresso cof­fee shops it’s all gas sta­tions and burger joints which isn’t really where I would use wifi. But of course, while on the move, a wifi gas sta­tion would defi­nately come in handy.

DK note: “Inter­net stoppested”? Ahh, det er jo ikke fedt…

Another piece on “set­ting the price”. It’s a free­lancer clas­sic; you worry you will lose the client, so you under­charge. I’ve stum­bled across var­i­ous posts on this the last cou­ple of months but some­how for­got to post them (which unfor­tunal­tely goes for a lot of stuff these days — I’ll try to tighten up…).

If nobody is com­plain­ing about your cur­rent price, they are too low.

[via the most excel­lent Whitespace]

Easy as that, really. If you never ever need to nego­ti­ate in order to close your deals, do your­selv a favour and rethink your billing scheme. It’s bad for you as you’ll have a hell of a time try­ing to raise your price if you end up in a long term rela­tion­ship with your client, and it’s bad for the indus­try. And think about it: It doesn’t only take tal­ent and love of design­ing, cod­ing or what­ever your trade is (“If fash­ion is your trade, then when you’re naked, I guess you must be unem­plyed, yeah” — from some Pulp-song). You spend oceans of time keep­ing your­self updated on this and that and remem­ber, you’re pay­ing for your own machine park, you don’t get pen­sion plans and you prob­a­bly spend quite some time just clos­ing the deal. Phew, it’s a tough job…

Kubrick on type­faces (and a bunch of other things): “It’s Futura Extra Bold,” explains Tony. “It was Stanley’s favourite type­face. It’s sans serif. He liked Hel­vetica and Univers, too. Clean and ele­gant.“

Fire­fox Book­marks Syn­chro­nizer (FTP)

Strangely inter­est­ing con­cept:

In a one-time mar­ket­ing ploy, the online news­pa­per TV2 Net­tavisen in Nor­way pub­lished 20,000 copies of a print ver­sion of the web­site on Fri­day (19/04/2004), with a resound­ing suc­cess: all media in Nor­way and many media out­lets around the world have been talk­ing about it. The paper was printed in tabloid for­mat and dis­trib­uted to com­muters in Bergen and Oslo.

[via hypulp where you also can down­load a copy]

Inter­es­sante posts, hvor en blog­ger kri­tis­erer den alter­na­tive behan­dler Michael Kast­berg. Stilen er set før, tum­let for­mu­ler­ing med ved­hold­ende indigneret tone — og uden den store lyst til reel doku­men­ta­tion. Men der er en sam­tale, pÃ¥ en blog, om noget vigtigt. Men sÃ¥ er der — lige sÃ¥ velk­endt efterhÃ¥nden — ogsÃ¥ en trussel om, hvad der kan ske, hvis man ytrer sig frit. For advokaten læser med, og det vil nok være bedst, hvis man bare holder op. Eller kom­mer forbi, og fÃ¥r det hele fork­laret. Fork­laringerne holder jo bedst vand, nÃ¥r man kan præsentere dem selv…lidt som Sci­en­tol­ogy, der altid gerne inviterer inden­for… Hvad sker der? Er trusler og dÃ¥rlige und­skyld­ninger virke­lig stilen alle vegne. Der er ikke meget ved dialogværktøjer, hvis man kun mÃ¥ tale happy-talk om ingent­ing. Og, ja — jeg er nu sikkert ogsÃ¥ pÃ¥ kant med injurielov­givnin­gen aka “er du uenig skal du have en straf”. Well, screw you. [via Tor­ben Sangild]

Lost in Trans­la­tion Fans Archives

Hav­ing a blast. Peo­ple are nice.

Good news: Peo­ple are nice. Gui­tars have been played.

Bad news: Nobody’s responded to my tooth­ing–bluetooth-thing… Doesn’t any­one own any gadgets…aren’t any­one just a lit­tle bit … you know…

Dan­ish blog, but don’t feel left out if you don’t speak Dan­ish: Lorem ipsum.

Ok, everyone’s heard of the Grey Album by DJ Dan­ger­Mouse by now (which now is a point in itself). Usu­ally I would have posted some­thing about stuff like this as I find these thing incred­i­bly impor­tant, but I’ve been busy and think­ing a bit about what I want with this weblog. So I sort of con­cluded that I couldn’t really add some­thing to the debate, con­sid­ered going grey just for the fun of it, but didn’t even find the time to do that.

But. It appears men­tion­ing what is going on out there on the dan­ger­ous inter­net is some­thing any­way. See, this is get­ting waaay out of hand. You don’t find remixes of stuff you own the rights to amus­ing? Ok, I can see where you’re going. This is the usual stuff. You won’t add any­thing apart from bul­ly­ing to the debate, even though the copy­right laws obvi­ously don’t take the net­worked struc­ture and capa­bil­i­ties of the net into account? Ok, this isn’t exactly news either; the most of us don’t take you seri­ously any­more for that very rea­son. But threat­en­ing peo­ple link­ing to a highly inter­est­ing debate in a civ­i­lized world in the 21st cen­tury? Come on, you can do bet­ter than that. And even if you don’t get the net at all (which more than likely will reflect on the value of your poor com­pa­nies in a year or two), please behave your­selves anyway.

No, I don’t want to encour­age peo­ple to sam­ple any­thing they come across, but don’t you see what is going on here? The world is chang­ing, guys. And while you sit on your asses, afraid that you haven’t got what it takes to make it in the new world, you take on the aggre­sive atti­tude, think­ing that if you just scare peo­ple enough, the demand for inter­est­ing con­tent, eas­ier dis­tri­b­u­tion, the pos­si­bil­ity to (legally) link to inter­est­ing stuff etc. will go away? Dream on.

Any­way, stuff is going on:

• Keld Bach got one of the famous let­ters just for link­ing. Fol­low the devel­op­ment as he’s refus­ing to sign a nice piece of paper stat­ing he’s a criminal.
• Check in on Grey Tues­day and Down­hill­Bat­tle for more news.
• Dan­ish online papers Flix, Infor­ma­tion and Poli­tiken has more on the story.
• Cre­ative Com­mons is evil. You see, they actu­ally try to pro­vide more up-to-date rights mange­ment. And that we really can’t have. (by the way: Type­pad / Mov­able­Type offers ‘auto­matic’ CC licenses — so now all their users have to look out?)
• Elec­tronic Fron­tier Foun­da­tion is evil too.
• Dalager, Føhns, Erlando, Web­mer­cial, Myg­dal, Rock­land, Per­spec­tif , Hele­nius, Coffa, Classy and K9k are blogging…
• …closely moni­tired by AntiPi­rat­Grup­pen I presume.

Dis­claimers? Huh? No, you see — this is a weblog meant for adult peo­ple with minds of their own…

Some­one’s doing some­thing right here. Accord­ing to Dan­ish national radio they got DKR 256 mil­lion. Good going!

How cool is that? A web­site telling you how to suc­ceed when glu­ing This to That . Want to attach a sock to your favourite take-away cof­fee cup? No prob­lem, the 3M77 is your friend…
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