The number of houses for sale in Denmark is at an 6 year all-time high at 47.019 today. (it might be even more years since the 6 years is as long the data goes back.)
The real scary number though is that the number of houses for sale on the market have gone up 47% just the last 7 months and is showing no signs of recovering.
About three years ago about 60 danish bloggers united to discuss everything related to the specifics of blogging and everything related to figuring out what it is that’s really going on.
We’re a couple of bloggers who are taking the initiative to do another blogforum gathering this time Sunday October the 8th in Islands Brygge Kulturhus, Copenhagen. To unite bloggers, to unite the thinking, to have a good time.
In the spirit of sharing and openness all of the planning will happen in a couple of open meetings - everyone that meets up co-creates the event. The first meeting will take place this coming sunday at 11am in downtown copenhagen. Comment on this post if you wanna join.
A very scary scenario from John Robb on where we’re heading.
This tension and confusion has now reached a tipping point, akin to the situation that preceded WW1. Nation-states, confused and locked into antiquated mindsets, are likely to stumble into a global war. To wit: Israel’s loss to Hezbollah and the US loss of Iraq to civil war puts both countries into an untenable strategic situation. Instead of blaming themselves for an inability to reach victory, they are priming themselves for a confrontation with the perceived ’source’ of the problem: Iran. As it stands right now, war with Iran is likely inevitable. It really doesn’t matter whether it is caused by a US (or Israeli) air campaign against Iran, an Iranian pre-emptive special operation, or a simple error: it’s on the way.
Seymour M. Hersh has a good behind the scenes description in the new yorker of the process leading up to the current Lebanon crisis.
Eugene Eric Kim will be in town the coming friday and we’re throwing a blogger meetup for him. Eugene is a thinker and do’er on collaboration, wiki’s, open source and digital history. Eugene also recently has worked with Doug Engelbart trying to implement his ideas in this new context.
We’ll have some beer and good conversation - and dinner afterwards for people that are hungry 
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Date:
Friday the 18th 18.00 at Barbar Bar, Vesterbrogade 51, Copenhagen V and dine afterwards 19.30 at Carlton, Halmtorvet 14, Copenhagen V
How to signup:
- comment on this post so we have an idea of who’s coming.
Yours truly,
Essential read from James Boyle.
It is not that openness is always right. Rather, it is that we need a balance between open and closed, owned and free, and we are systematically likely to get the balance wrong. Partly this is because we still do not understand the kind of property that exists on networks. Most of our experience is with tangible property; fields that can be overgrazed if outsiders cannot be excluded. For that kind of property, control makes more sense. We still do not intuitively grasp the kind of property that cannot be exhausted by overuse (think of a piece of software) and that can become more valuable to us the more it is used by others (think of a communications standard). There the threats are different, but so are the opportunities for productive sharing. Our intuitions, policies and business models misidentify both. Like astronauts brought up in gravity, our reflexes are poorly suited for free fall.
Just a short question that has surfaced in my head lately. When and how did the means to achieve something become the goal itself in many fields?
For example profit/sustainability/economic freedom only being the means to achieve the goal.
Lately experienced through discussions with journalists/media people (even for half-way public service broadcasters) being infuriated by the suggestion that profit/sustainability only is the mean to achieve the goal of independent media, the fourth state power, the medium for a local community, a platform for conversations leading to shared meaning, the democratizing power of information and knowledge, etc. and not the goal itself.
How and when did we got lost in the game of means and lost sight of the big goals - in such a substantial way that the game of means is our only perspective?
(thought probably partly inspired by Doc).