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Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft:“Blogging is huge,” he said. “It brings together the three biggest Internet trends: communicating, sharing and socializing. It started with e-mail and instant messaging and music sharing, and it’s getting bigger each day.”

PressThink: Mark Glaser: The Media Company I Want to Work For– Not Someday, But Now
“I am usually a patient person, but not now. I am tired of waiting for media companies to change and figure out the way that the business is shifting right beneath their short-sighted eyes. When are they going to understand that their readers are more important than their stockholders? When are they going to understand their readers at all? When are they going to “get” the Internet, true interactivity, citizen journalism, blogging and the communities of thought that are rising up?”

Word of the year 2004: Blog

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!

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

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.

Guardian Unlimited | Newsblog | What we’re up to today
“What we’re up to today

From today, we’re experimenting with the idea of a “newsdesk update” Newsblog entry. Every weekday morning, one of our editors will tell you some of the main stories we’re planning to cover during the day, let you in on the editorial discussions that go on behind the scenes in our newsroom, and give you an opportunity to offer your comments and suggestions. And today it falls to me to get the ball rolling …”

evhead: Next?
“Next” seems to be a popular theme…

Turning point (danish)
I’m blogging this from a danish mailing list for historical purposes because it’s a turning point at the same level as the guy who wrote an opinion after reboot4 in 2001 in a danish newspaper attacking weblogs because they would generate “over-communication” and wondering why people should publish and communicate. If people can get that angry and put so much effort into attacking something - there’s something really substantial to it…
As Gandhi said: First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. The you win.
The post below is closer to fight than to laugh, we’re getting there…

From: xxx@kommunikationsforum.dk
Subject: Re: broadcast: Brugerne har skrevet 1 million artikler i online-leksikonet Wikipedia

At sammenligne Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (eller andre seriøse leksika skrevet af et videnskabeligt personale) med tilfældige internetsurfendes skriblerier er i bedste fald en absurd vits… snarere en hån mod lødigt arbejde.

Kristensen citerer Gilmor som argument for at WIKIPEDIA ikke er utroværdigt
kaos:

> - With Wikipedia, fact checking is global. Anyone can cause damage,
> but everyone can repair the damage, too.

Tja, og så kan vi så forsøge at skille den ene idiots bavl fra den andens… Hver uge sin sandhed. Og hvorfor skulle hr. Jensen ikke også kunne skrive en encyklopædiartikel om Mona Lisa eller relativitetsteorien?

Hurra for netdemokratiet og alles ret til at have en mening, ikke sandt?

Og at der er skrevet MEGET gør det da ikke nødvendigvis bedre.

it.fdih.net
On friday we’re doing a micromedia experiment in augmenting and documenting a conference. Nicholas G. Carr wil meet the danish it-industry - and we’ll be there ONLY using micromedia tools.
Mobile phones for video coverage, sound interviews and pictures. Laptops for transcripts and blogging. Wifi and a live chatroom on the weblog site for those in the audience that wants to join the backchannel.
The idea being that we’re only using off-the-shelf equipment that most of us run around with in our pockets and bags all ready. Meaning - whatever we pull off anyone can do without any special costs, anywhere, anytime.
Secondly our emphasis is on documenting the event for all the people that can’t be there and extract as much value from the event to the organizers.
Check it out if you’re fluent in Danish friday afternoon - i’ll kick in some links to Nicholas G. Carr’s english talk here.