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Mail to Dave Winer this morning in response to his DaveNet essay “Realtime Weblogs”. Posted here on request from Dave - but i think i’ll elaborate more on the ideas one of the coming days

Great essay, Dave!
Read it first thing in the morning in my bed and the energy in the essay was amazing.
What i really find to be interesting is that the points you make about weblogs and conferences could be made about weblogs and everything else. Corporations, meetings, nonprofits, town hall meetings, careers, politics - it all holds new promise when you add the openness of personal publishing/weblogs and the amazement of people when they realise they too have a voice .
The societal implications are huge if we globally can get the right people to self-organize in new groups and have the conversations that will develop the future within their particular field without the need for a media middlemen.
And it’s all coming together at the moment thanks to the power of weblogs and the ubiquity of wireless access. These are interesting times…
Keep the spirit!
PS. If i can help at any way at all regarding conferences let me know. We need, as you state, the diversity and global thinking.

PSS. Concerning conferences i think you really should be looking into the openspace-format - http://www.openspaceworld.org/english/openspace.html. I’m doing reboot in this format with 550 people this year - the resemblance of the format to the ideas you discuss are very interesting.

Ben Hammersley: Content Syndication with XML and RSS

The spirit of reboot
A journalist from one of the major magazine’s in Denmark asked for the following regarding his participation in reboot

“OK, Mygdal wanted some gonzo journalism and has promised me free hands and the following supplies:
Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of
high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole
galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… Also a
quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether
and two dozen amyls.

I also need an extra ticket for my lawyer.”

Our guy handling journalists only had one comment - “We need to talk about an expense account that doesn’t need receipts”… Good fun!

In doubt about what this years reboot event is about? - check out the interview harddisken did with me about reboot [danish].

The open society at work
Had an experience of the open society at work the other day. The national broadcaster in Denmark was preparing to run a story sunday evening on the security issues with wlan/802.11b. In the old world this would have been going on totally behind the scenes, but this time it was different…
Kasper Mejlgaard noted on his weblog sunday morning that the broadcaster was working on the story and that he was to be interviewed for it.
Not only did i get the information that the story was under way, i got the chance to influence the interview Kasper would do by emailing him (not that he needed it since he’s a clued-in guy), deconstruct and discuss the media angle with friends via instant messaging and try to get hold of people in my network that has access to the editors at the broadcaster. Now i didn’t get hold of the broadcaster internally, but still the story shows the amazing power of personal publishing and the promise of an open society.
It’s open vs. closed, creating reality vs. receiving reality, it’s interactivity vs. broadcast, it’s open processes vs. closed processes and finally personal publishing vs. BigMedia…
PS. The story they ran ended up being fine - basically only highlighting the clueslessness of the municipal of Copenhagen running an open wifi network directly on their internal network with everything open - and not as i feared, an attack on the technology itself.

New Architect: By Design - we’ve asked 16 of your peers about the technologies and innovations that are changing their jobs.

Dan Gillmor | Imagine: world with unlimited airwaves - Dan Gillmor get’s into the vision of open spectrum…

New on the blogroll…
DC. Dennison - a great columnist and blogger. And an example of a old media being on the front - why are danish media so slow to adapt?

Allegro Ventures - new seed fund co-founded by Pattie Maes of MIT Medialab, Firefly, etc. fame.

Clued-in…
There’s hope when a guy that has his own blog get’s promoted to Head of Ebusiness at the Danish Tourist Board. Remember consulting with them about six years ago - against my advice they made some awful choices that they got stuck in for 4-5 years, only recently have they started doing great stuff promoting Denmark on the net.