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Thanks for the reality check

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Back in Malmö after two days at Webbdagarna, with quite a few meetings on the side. Not quite as many as I had hoped as I became ill and had to take it easy. I’ll have to get well at the weekend. Webbdagarna didn’t teach me much as far as knowledge about the internet goes. Fully understandable, as it wasn’t aimed for people like me (and that’s why the Reboot comparison was a bit unfair […]

Going to Stanford!

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I just got invited to participate at the Innovation Journalism conference at Stanford University. As part of the Swedish delegation. Yay, thanks Thomas! I’m childishly happy about the whole affair. Reboot last year was one of last years best two days, and I’m hoping this might be equally inspiring. In a more media related way perhaps, which suits me just fine. This week I’ll be in Stockholm Wednesday and Thursday. If you want to meet […]

OpenStreetMap from an interns point of view

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* Victor has written about his first OSM experiences over in our Good Old Office blog – good stuff! It’s working really well, I’ll add a link as soon as the first part is done. * Likemind tomorrow, both in Malmö, Stockholm and Copenhagen. * My keynote at Webbdagarna got cancelled as new sponsors entered the project. I understand that these conferences are commercial and need to cash in when they can, but it’s a […]

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It seems like everyday is workshop day lately, and those that aren´t go towards preparing presentations. Not a lot of blogging either, but last week wasn’t very newsworthy anyway. Plans for this week at Good Old: * Victor, our intern, is helping us make the first OpenStreetMap of Malmö. I’ll keep you posted on the progress there. We’ve got a few cool ideas concerning mapping and our neighbourhood. * Likemind Malmö at Solde Kaffebar this […]

MySpace stops all external widgets

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User-generated haven MySpace recently made the bold move to stop Widgets from running on user pages. Users were adding widgets to their gaudy pages to play songs, videos, the weather. A few weeks ago, MySpace decided to block all widgets that weren’t MySpace widgets – maybe as a step towards commercializing the content on the user generated pages. (PSFK) Feeding the MySpace beast obviously doesn’t apply any more. I can understand that MySpace don’t like […]

Why newspapers buy communities

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In my last post, Jonas Sandberg left a comment with so many questions that when I started to answer them, it turned into a post of it’s own. So here we go: why I think newspapers are buying communities. As I see it, there are two major factors that can be found: 1. Reaching young adults with targeted advertising. 2. Creating brand awareness in the target group, and acting as a bridge over to other […]

“Staggeringly apparent in its pre-existing obviousness”

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This is the funniest post you’ll read all day: Sore tempted as I am to spend the day surreptitiously watching Oscar clips on youtube, I feel moved to publicly mock the folks over at the Pew Research Institute, who have spent God knows how much time and money monitoring American internet useage only to come up with a ‘finding’ so staggeringly apparent in its pre-existing obviousness, that the moral laws of Western philosophy are struggling […]