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FDIH - Weblogs, an inspiration afternoon about the two-way web
I’m doing a small conference about blogging and organizations on the 7th of December in Copenhagen, Denmark together with FDIH. Topics are the big perspective, how to get started, cases from Microsoft and the Danish ministry for Knowledge, Technology and Education and an interactive openspace style conversation session.
Mail me if you’re interested in participating or signup at the site. The language will be Danish - just so you’re warned!

Living is…
Getting home from work and having the kid crawling wildly towards you, throwing himself in your arms with an enthusiastic smile for the first time.

Blogger Kevin Sites was the person documenting the awful shooting of an unarmed person in Fallujah last week - he now details his thought about it in an Open Letter to Devil Dogs of the 3.1

LEGO Factory
LEGO goes the participatory way with a design competition where the winner will get his design made into an actual product.

Chief Blogging Officer
Rageboy in disguise - some sort of promotion for a research company - hopefully one can get still get the gonzo version at rageboy.com

Interesting Adam Bosworth talk mostly about simplicity.
Love his opening remark - “Tim Berners Lee created the web as we know it today and preaches a sort of religion about the semantic web from his eerie at MIT that is totally over my head. “

One of my favorite shows - The West Wing” href=”http://www.nbc.com/The_West_Wing/index.html”>The West Wing - heavily featured a blogging angle in episode 605.
Blogging is really getting through the adoption curve when one of the major shows features it.

To link or not!
The bizarre danish story about a mentioning of The Grey Album continues. Story in short.
A danish weblogger Keld Bach posts about the The Grey Album (see his post in english here). Within days he receives a cease and decist letter from the danish organisation “The Anti Pirate Group” run by the Johan Schlüter lawfirm representing basically all danish music rights holders.
They have been known to threaten teenagers and their parents with very strongly worded cease and decist letters to get them to settle out of court for fines around 10,000 us dollars for small cases of piracy like downloading or sharing files on p2p networks even though the damage incurred was a small percentage of that amount and the fact that in many cases the evidence would’t hold up in court.
The only thing he has done is to WRITE about the existence of the grey album (which i also did and national newspaper did with the url of the grey tuesday website).
Through heavy pr work he eventually got them to back off, but has since filed a complaint with the board of danish lawyers for their behaviour to make sure it won’t happen to others in the future - and this is where it gets funny and bizarre.
Instead of admitting their error the lawyers has just submitted their “evidence” of the crime they argue has been done.
Their argument is that you COULD download a copy of the Grey Album from his weblog because he linked to the front page of the creative commons, which had a link to the creative commons weblog, which at that time had a post by matt haughey, which had a comment that linked to the grey tuesday site, which had a link to a “banned music” page, which had a link to a .torrent file of the album, meaning you would have to download Bittorrent to get it to work!
This is about 8 links out from his weblog post - with 30-60 choices per page where the specific link would have to be selected.
What happened to free speech?
And to what absurd levels will the recording industry take it before going where the users and the market is?
PS. Don’t tell the music industry and their lawyers that there’s this thing called Google that easily helps you find things with one or two clicks!

Sony Ericsson digs RSS!
We believe that RSS has a great potential in mobile phones, as a technology to automatically provide updated content to users - accessing the Web without browsing.

Capturing this moment in time beautifully!
Mike Kuniavsky really captures this moment in time with this blog post
“I look at this collection and try to identify what binds it together. The pattern that appears is a recognition of the complexity of the world, of the unpredictability of the world, of the incomprehensibility of the world, of the contingency of the world, of the time-based, sporadic, overwhelmingly confusing nature of the world.
What I realized while looking at this list is that we are awakening to the fact that the more we know of the world, the more we know how little it follows simple rules. It’s all grey area.”