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Apple iTunes for Windows - the very first ever Apple software application for Windows that doesn’t suck!

Hans Henrik Højberg on Caroline Søeborg Ohlsen 2.0 [in danish]. What’s new and what’s not!

Caroline Søeborg Ohlsen 2.0

Living is…
Listening on your laptop to Christopher Lydon interviews while doing the dishes…

The Economist Technology Quarterly, September 6th 2003
The Economist on the invention and emergence of Ethernet.
“As with so many scientific breakthroughs, Mr Metcalfe’s ideas did not so much break new ground as take existing concepts and put them together in a new way.”
“One might argue that Mr Metcalfe’s biggest contribution to Ethernet was not inventing it, but getting Xerox to license it cheaply.”

Future Now a new weblog from the Institute for the Future

Recommended blog: Notes from Classy’s Kitchen

Nonsens, or…?
“The product is the paradigm” i just wrote in the cms thread without giving it much thought . It sounds rather nice and according to Google hasn’t been coined before. But is it “really” true?

Attitude problems?
Benjamin is blogging from the Nielsen Norman conference in london.
It seems as if the old guru’s are having an attitude problem or two.
And if you need proof just look at the latest Jakob Nielsen rant. There’s not much danish humbleness left in that guy! - if there ever was any…

It makes me happy, it makes me sad!
It makes me happy that Andreas and Hans Henrik are working on a hosted service for collaborative weblogs (or whatever it is they’re up to , but i can’t fail to notice the irony in their choice of technology.
It makes me sad that the cms market is still in such a terrible state that the founder of one the pioneering cms vendors in Denmark will choose Movabletype instead of his own product.
It’s probably the right solution under the circumstances - but why is it that the cms vendors solutions aren’t optimized for easy digital communication?
But i should blame myself - i tried to inspire the cms vendors and users in this direction in a keynote for fdih 2 years ago - but i can’t have delivered the right constructive message!
Update: Some good feedback and conversation in the comments to this post