Ok, this is something that really has been puzzling me for months. The Second Life hype. Today was the tipping point – i need to understand the dynamics of the hype – hope you can help.
A danish IDG arranged event called webchamp honoring great web solutions devotes about 80% of it’s full-day conference to Second Life. Rest aside that Second Life has got nothing to do with the World Wide Web (Web) it’s interesting how mass media is pumping/hyping up Second Life.
Overlooking the very low user numbers compared to …

Did a presentation in the afternoon for a couple of hundred online marketing professionals at the DIA07 conference/award show. A basic cluetrainish message representing the individuals view on the future of marketing customer/company relationship combined with some context and thougths on the customer-driven intentional marketplace.
Started by reading aloud 14 statements from the Cluetrain Manifesto – since they so beautifully captures the zeitgeist – even though they were written in 1999, soon almost 8 years ago. The statements/worldview apparently was somewhat controversial with the crowd, or at least with one of …

Did a gonzo presentation for 100 danish library leaders today. Ended up calling it “Excitement, Fundamentals and Implementation”. Discussing the excitement about the future many people are experiencing. Calling for the library to go back to the fundamentals of giving free access to information. Calling for the libraries to actually implement their core in a digital context by digitalizing all information in their archives and providing danish citizens free digital access to all material published whether in books, journals, dvd, etc. – effectively bridging the copyfight vs. the copyright cartels …

Happy Hour is 9 to 5 is the title of my friend Alexander’s new book (aka. Mr. Chief Happiness Officer). Read it online for free or buy a pdf/physical book to support Alexander and his work. Comes very well recommended.
(photo of the friendly Laundromat Cafe staff admiring the first physical copy of the book – big parts of the book was written in the cafe).

My kid brother gave me a wonderful christmas gift – a gift card to do micro lending with Kiva. You can check out my portfolio and follow my adventures.
Kiva is a great prototype – but would love if the system could be more P2P than the current implementation – which is more of an add-on to existing instutional micro lending systems. (a lot of transaction costs that could be taken out of the system).

Ted Rheingold tagged me to do a 5 things you may not know about me – so here we go.
– I’m a high school dropout with no formal education. (technically probably still on leave from high school).
– I’m 29 years old and live in Copenhagen, Denmark with my girlfriend and our two kids.
– In my teens i was a hockey dj, actually the reason why my family got a real computer. DJ’ing for 1.000-2.500 people for ice hockey games – a great learning experience about the symbiosis …