Björn Jeffery

Read this on the plane home yesterday and laughed so loudly that the flight attendant gave me a odd look. Still worth it though. I love the English language when it’s used like this. More troubling than the ban, however, is its implication: French officials are sending important ideas to each other using BlackBerry e-mail. That is deeply disturbing. Most BlackBerry messages are composed during a brief spell of “BlackBerry prayer” in the middle of […]

I was sent this interesting prediction by Davide Casaleggio. It takes up the future integration of virtual worlds, the web and reality. Nicely made, and even if it’s been posted here and there already it is well worth a watch:

When all else fails, there’s always money. That’s what Metro seem to have thought, missing the first blog race, and now offering 3 Swedish öre per page view (100 öre=1 SEK=0,14 USD) for bloggers that switch to their new platform. More at Martin Jönsson and Internetworld (both Swedish). An inevitable development really, just look at what Revver has been doing on the video side. YouTube are following suit. But it is it interesting from a […]

Just a friendly reminder that it’s time for Likemind Malmö tomorrow. We’ve missed a few ones because of public holidays and stuff like that, but now we’re back! And the network has grown to 25 cities worldwide. Friday, 9 am at Solde Kaffebar, and the (excellent) coffee is sponsored by Anomaly. Swing by and say hello!

Lisbeth Knudsen, editor-in-chief at Berlingske Tidende, one of the three big old traditional Danish newspapers, today announced a new strategy “The new Berlingske Tidende” (in this premium content article in Danish from Borsen.dk). The strategy follows her taking office some two month ago, and has, according to herself, “earthquake” like dimensions. All journalists online The radical new step is a plan to make all journalists employed at Berlingske Tidende bi-medial, writing for both the web […]

One of the blogs I run, Discobelle.net, just won three out of ten categories of the Swedish podcast awards. Beating the Swedish newspaper DN in two of them. I thought I should mention it (so I could have a chance to illustrate it! 😉

Tim Guest just wrote a book called Second Lives, and came here to talk about virtual worlds and television. I’m keeping this a bit shorter as I think the readers of this blog probably know Virtual Worlds 101 anyway. Guest made an interesting comparison with the American emigration, and thought the incentives to move into virtual worlds today where pretty much the same. A sense of liberty, identity and the possibilities to start something new. […]

Next up – Peter Siljerud from Kairos Future. They recently spent 1000 hours in 16 homes to understand how people consume television today. One of the lessons learnt, according to Siljerud, was that the TV was the modern campfire. This was a fact that Eva Hamilton also mentioned. Their study showed that 63% of the 16-25 year-olds often, or always, watch television together with others. The equivalent number for 26-45 year-olds was 44% and 31% […]

I’m at Malmö Högskola where the third Moving Images conference is taking place, organised by SVT (Swedish National Television). The theme for this year is HD and high resolution. I thought I’d live blog chosen parts of it. SVT:s CEO Eva Hamilton introduced the day by emphasising the importance of both audio and visual when it comes to HD. Far to often it is assumed that it is only a matter of picture quality. The […]

I just thought I’d point you over to Web-Strategist.com where there’s an interview with me that was posted yesterday. Check it out! Collected a few other press clippings here.