A semi-coherent log for Martin Sønderlev Christensen – mixed with snipets of fun, critical thinking, love of all things connected and other browseworthy items.
Just signed up for the picnic conference in Amsterdam the next week. This is my first time at Picnic and my hopes are really high up.
The conference features an amazing host of the best and brightest people who is thinking and tinkering with our areas of expertise – augmenting innovation, business and organizational processes by applying social and participatory digital tools.
So hopefully I’ll have time to blog some of the ideas that bubbles up from the conference. Judging from this Picnic ad I better bring a videorecorder.
Hopefully not all keynotes speakers will blow up with ideas, that’ll be kind of messy :)
Still in need of a hotel, if anyone know of a really nice hotel (price, location and comfortwise) in Amsterdam – I’ll be happy to know of it.
Pia kjærsgaards seneste forslag om at forbyde tørklæder ved lov er ganske simpelt sÃ¥ modbydeligt dumt, at det krævede en ny mulepose. Read the rest of this entry »
Samtale over aftensmaden, der drejede sig om hvad computere er gode til og ikke gode til.
Mig: “De er gode at skrive pÃ¥, fordi…”
Datteren (6 Ã¥r): “Jaaarh, men de kan ikke smøre en ostemad med honningbogstaver pÃ¥… det smager bare sÃ¥ godt… tror jeg!”
Jeg ved ikke om det kan bruges til noget. men f.eks. kunne næste version af Windovs Vista tænkes lidt mere i den retning… det ville da være lidt mere “wauuuv” end det de har disket op med.
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 shelf+ (in the menu). Read the rest of this entry »
The case about the Mohammed drawings obviously have gone completely astray.
No doubt about it – and it’s leaving “naive” wellmeaning folks like myself looking pretty stupid. Sure I’d stand up for the freedom to speech, but not to insult someone, and sure I can understand why muslims feel very insulted, yet the reaction is a tad over the line to say the least. In all of this it is refreshing to see Jon Stewart walking us through the problem and pariticular Stephen Colberts who offer a solution.
Above Colberts insult to the Danish people “Hamlet and HCA eating the little mermaid and The Queen getting nailed by a NORWEGIAN wiking!” – Colbert, a formidable opponent.
Dalager directed my attention to the fascinating possibility of geotagging your flickr’s(1) and pin the location via the amazing Google Maps. That had to be checked out and with a couple of greasemonkey scripts installed in Firefox, vola! I was ready to “tag” my flickr’s geographically, only to find that Google Maps are a tad outdated when it comes to the part of Copenhagen where I reside currently. The images are at least one to two years old, judging from the buildings that are missing on the satellite images – that aside it’s really interesting to overview how the area has been developed.
Moreover it’s really interesting to see this clever merging of two extremly funky technologies. And at geobloggers lat=55.660751&lon=12.570344 (latitude and longitude) or flickrcity one find the illustrious “usual suspects” of the Copenhagen blogosphere geotagging away the city.
Personally, i’m gonna start Flickring and tagging the virtual wasteland that I’m living in according to Google – updating it a little, from the ground!!
(note 1): “Flickr’s” – shared digital pictures, just like Podcasting is.. you know.. iPods.
Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com13 hours ago Foursquare, a location-based social network, plans to distribute a free analytics tool and dashboard in the coming weeks that will give business owners access to a range of information and statistics about visitors to their establishments.
How Are Companies Leveraging Social Media? / Flowtown (@flowtown)2010/03/11 Ever wonder how big businesses are leveraging social media? Burson-Martseller recently released a report highlighting the Fortune Global 100 companies and how they were using social platforms including: Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We have complied a graphic illustrating the most interesting of their findings:
Blews - what the blogosphere tells you about news - Microsoft Research2010/03/09 While typical news-aggregation sites do a good job of clustering news stories according to topic, they leave the reader without information about which stories figure prominently in political discourse. BLEWS uses political blogs to categorize news stories according to their reception in the conservative and liberal blogospheres. It visualizes information about which stories are linked to from conservative and liberal blogs, and it indicates the level of emotional charge in the discussion of the news story or topic at hand in both political camps.
Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod2010/03/05 The iPad changes the experience formula.(Fig. 5) It brings the excellent text readability of the iPhone/Kindle to a larger canvas. It combines the intimacy and comfort of reading on those devices with a canvas both large enough and versatile enough to allow for well considered layouts.
RadarVirtuel.com2010/03/04 oh wauv.. live updated avition geolocation map!
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine2010/02/27 The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to rate pages based on the number and importance of links that pointed to them — to use the collective intelligence of the Web itself to determine which sites were most relevant. It was a simple and powerful concept, and — as Google quickly became the most successful search engine on the Web — Page and cofounder Sergey Brin credited PageRank as their company’s fundamental innovation.
The 99 Percent - It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.2010/02/27 At 99%, Behance's think tank, we focus on what happens after inspiration—researching the forces that truly push ideas forward. Our profiles of proven idea makers, action-oriented tips, best-practices sessions, and annual conference are all designed to help you transform ideas from vision to reality.
