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Journalists
Spend the morning evangelizing the new era of microcontent, weblogs, community publishing, syndication/newsreaders, microadvertising, etc. to 15 journalists.
Loads of fun - all though it’s really hard to describe all this in a straigth forward way in 45 minutes!
But getting out of the door with the view of 15 journalists using Blogger is exciting…
The links and sites that i used in the presentation is on this radio weblog “Det digitale fagmedie“…

CombiFilm - the first danish netflix clone - great!
Only problem is that it’s rather expensive with danish value added sales tax coming in at around 33$ per month compared with the 19.95$ in the US.

mprove: Vision & Reality of Hypertext and Graphical User Interfaces. An amazing ressource of interviews, papers and analysis with the pioneers of hypertext and gui’s. Alan Kay’s original papers, etc.

Oblivion awaits. Hilarious writeup of what the record industry’s actions would sound like if discussed as strategies.

Old pals LittleDevice - digital product design finally launched a nice public website. Now we all just can’t wait to get their explainations of what “digital product design” and “thinking people - working design” really means…

Sprint launches flat rate pricing for 3G. “$85 for data in combination with 1,250 voice minutes”. “From a business perspective [flat rates for data] is a damn bad idea. If they get tons of customers and tons of traffic because of the flat rate they won’t have the capacity. It is lethal. It’s a suicide course,” said John Strand, CEO of Strand Consult, based in London.
Great news concerning getting telco’s to understand the big picture - but why’ do we now need to hear from our lovely danish analyst friend Mr. Strand in Infoworld?

OK, this is a biggie!
The long rumored opensource next-generation PIM project from Mitch Kapor has gone public.
Looks very interesting - some parts of the project is very similar to the prototypes i’ve been playing around for years - and their technology setup is 80% the same - so we must be doing something right

Also check out Mitch Kapor’s Weblog

Hypergene MediaBlog. All about Participatory Journalism - how audiences are changing the future of news and information.

Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research
“an emerging form of knowledge sharing that I call personal knowledge publishing”

Forbes Entrepreneurship: The Psychology Of Success