reboot7 had somewhat of a theme called “new models”. An observation that what was changing wasn’t the technology, but the models of how the world works. The perspective that is changing. The belief system that is changing. The culture that is changing. It’s not old models on new technology, but new models on the existing technology. I’ve never been able to articulate this very well – and the theme never shined through reboot7.
Now i found this writeup by Stewart Brand of a Brian Eno/Will Wright talk that is about some …

You work hard and set big aims of contributing something to the world – and then you get your 75,000 (210.000 now!) views of fame as the guy who demonstrates how to open a bottle of beer with a bottle of beer for Make. Something everyone knows how to do in a beer-drinking culture, something truly pervasive globally (as some of the hundreds of commenters around the web also have stated).
Good to know that your contribution to society at least will be that a beer-drinker or two will have learned …

Did a 5 minute, 30 slide sprint (PechaKucha go home!) presentation about language and change at the CustomerMade conference some time ago. The presentation is here as an pdf – all though a bit of the meaning probably isn’t in the slides.

It’s a little more than 5 years since this blog started – which in itself had been a long journey towards getting there from having internal blogs, blogger.com test accounts, etc.
Recently i’ve been a lame bad blogger – haven’t really been able to mix a pretty hectic work life and a pretty hectic family life with being a good blogger. But i’m feeling like the blog energy is coming back…

The Danish national broadcaster have started working with the danish version of wikipedia on their sports-section. A really good idea to promote having the staffers of the national broadcaster contribute to Wikipedia – and having them promote wikipedia to their users. A great way to put the assets of the public service broadcaster (employee time and user attention) into the commons with Wikipedia.
What’s interesting is that it becomes really difficult to describe such a collaboration. Two sentences from DR’s website. “DR SportsWiki is a unique and brand new collaboration where …