My great friend, neighbor and brilliant ex-co-phd-colleague/trusted-conference-travel-companion Mads Bødker is defending his phd thesis at the IT-University, Auditorium 1 on Thursday, November 1. at 10.00 AM. If you generally interested in the new breed of HCI research and issues relating to Risk and Reflective design you should stop by on Thursday for the talk. "Trust Within Technology: Risk, Existential Trust, and Reflective Designs in Human Computer Interaction" check ...

Haven't been all the way through the text, but I do find Adrian Chans attempt to write up A Social Interaction Design (SxD) Guide on Social Media, Social Practices, Social Content, very interesting. Read it here.. We can no longer make sense of social software and related applications from a user-centric model—at least not the model that has come out of cognitive science. That model has insisted on ...

Jeg har lige lynskrevet et blurp til vores kommende kursus på IT Universitetet "Social Software - Design og implementering" Men er det for tacky? Ville du deltage? Comments? MySpace.com, Flickr.com, Del.icio.us, Plazes.com, Last.fm, digg.com, Wikipedia.org, Youtube.com, Facebook.com, Second life, Beta, blogging, tagging, metadata, moblogging, AJAX, RSS, podcasting, mashups, folksonomier etc. etc. I løbet af de seneste år har vi på internettet set en udvikling set en relativ stor vækst ...

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This is probably nothing in the large context of things going around at the moment. To me however, this is pretty solid news. I'm happy to declare that my PhD thesis, has been approved by the assesment commitee meaning that I'm due to defend the bloody thing on the 29th of September, at the IT University of copenhagen, starting 14.00. M i Aud. 4 4. floor. You are ...

Holy smoke this one got under my radar. As of august 29, 2006 Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, was elected to Apple’s board of directors. This is hugh. Not only does two of the largest, and at this time must cutting edge companies mix blood - in itself rather signifcant. And it is rare that two possible contennders are greating each other, simply because they ...

As faithfull readers of this blog will notice, after my last design kind of deconstructed itself, I have made yet another redesign of the blog. Yes I know! Seems like all I do around here is arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.... This time I went for at little more clean and modern look and feel. Adding also some Ajax functionality here and there, see for instance the ...