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Where there’s passion, there are stories. So true, so true. There’s no need to coach people about storytelling, the story telling skills are within us and it “only” takes passion to unlock them…

Been following Jay Rosen’s coverage of the “MillerGate” at the New York Times and are really impressed. (read his last 8-10 posts - they’re long but wort the read).
It’s a showcase of what human conversationel hyperlinked investigative journalism is. When you can dig into the core of a story, link to sources and other people’s reporting, when a site becomes the hub for a story for a few weeks - just in time media.
That it then covers the same missing elements in traditionel journalism at the most well respected newspaper in the world is only ironic.

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

Gerry McGovern: Why content management software hasn’t worked.
Good rant against the current focus in the cms industry. Reflects a lot of the points i made 18 months ago in a presentation at the FDIH Cms-conference. Loosen the focus on sales, drive the market through product innovation, kill the “cms-category” - suggested at that time the term “conversation systems” instead to get a term that would open up people eyes to innovation.
Not much has happened, at last not in the danish marketplace. 10-20 serious vendors all struggling to get by by themselves using a sales model instead of focusing on product development and innovation.
In Denmark there really hasn’t been any real conceptual innovation in the market since Lars Buur and Thomas Christensen created the SIAB CMS product seven years ago in 1996.
Today one of the more promising products is Niels Hartvig’s “Umbraco” project. To make a full circle Niels Hartvig was one of the original employees coding on SIAB for Lars and Thomas and i was involved in almost closing a merger betweeen Lars and Thomas’ company and my old company Radiator in 1999 that would have created the at that time second largest internet consulting and software company in Denmark.
Small world!

Social Software Wiki. Lot’s of ressources on the emerging field of social software. Also check out the “the discussing social software” post and thread at Matt Jones’ site.

OK, this is a biggie!
The long rumored opensource next-generation PIM project from Mitch Kapor has gone public.
Looks very interesting - some parts of the project is very similar to the prototypes i’ve been playing around for years - and their technology setup is 80% the same - so we must be doing something right

Also check out Mitch Kapor’s Weblog

Respect…
Movable Type celebrates it’s first birthday with a new 2.5 release. Amazing that this piece of software only has been around for a year - another example of what a very small group of people can do when they let themselves create - building on the shoulders of giants like Pyra, Dave Winer, Engelbart, etc.
The software is now even used on corporate sites such as Neoteny’s new corporate site.

Steve Outing: Board The Weblog Bandwagon Now, Please. The amazingly anti-innovative danish media world could take a lesson or two from this article - instead of spending their time on a clueless lawsuit against deeplinking.

Net Deva

Helen Baxter on “Blogs and Klogs”