The attacks on participatory culture/models gets more and more bizarre.
Yesterday the main morning news show ran a story about how anyone can edit wikipedia. They make fun of a world where everyone can participate and spread fear about how dangerous it can be.
To prove the point they humorously tried to show that they had edited the hosts’ own wikipedia entries with some prank statements. Like small bullies in kindergarden doing it on national television – f*** with our collective creation Wikipedia. Arrogance is a small word for it.
What they actually …

Jason is in Copenhagen this week. Join fellow bloggers and microbloggers for wine/beer/late dinner at Falernum, Værnedamsvej 16, Copenhagen V Thursday February the 5th at 9.30pm. Comment here or tweet @mygdal if you’re coming so i can try and make sure the reservation is somewhat correct.

The last couple of years i’ve spent a great deal of time exploring the visual paradigm, the shift from textual to visual communication and collaboration. A long the way i co-founded 23, a photo sharing service in 2005 -and saw people sharing unexpected photos. Small shops taking photos of their goods and the life in their store, organic farmers uploading photos of their lettuce in order to sell them, a small communication agency communicating through photos, big organizations sharing photos from their events – the story goes on,
But they we’re …

The invite for this years reboot.
It’s time to reboot our minds once again; reboot10 will take place in Copenhagen Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27 2008.
Two days away from implementing, away from the status quo. Two days together with old and new friends in an informal and open festival spirit…
THE EXPLORATION OF “FREE”
reboot10 is an exploration of “free”. “free” as in free information, free individuals, free societies, free markets, free products and services, free ideas, free minds, free to move, free software, free taxonomies, free culture, free knowledge, free …

Discussing the idea of rebooting things/minds/societies with friends today a simple insight i astonishingly never had thought of. (not wanting to stretch the reboot metaphor too much).
Even though a preventive reboot of the system now and then could avoid a hard crash, most things first get rebooted when they’ve crashed hard and reached a standstill.
Could explain an absurdity or two in societies and organizations. And could point one’s energy towards rebooting the things that have crashed instead of doing preventive reboots of things that are still functioning somewhat however an …

So today is the day.
Would never have believed 10-12 years ago that i would experience so much, make so many mistakes, meet so many interesting inspiring people, mess so many things up, try so many things and yet realize how little i understand of it all.
And as all the wise “elders” tells me these days – it only gets better if you let it. And that i guess is the hard part becoming more and more settled in one’s mind and relations.

I’m instigating and sponsoring The Copenhagen Project.
A couple of months ago i “met” a talented bloke Jeppe Kabell in a comment thread in the latest flamebait between mainstream media folks and edge-media folks about protecting old business models, free vs. paid, amateurs vs. professionals, paper vs. digital and objectivity vs. subjectivity. All discussions that in our opinion is taking us away from the essential issue “how do we as humans keep up to date with what’s happening in the world and make sense of it all” – in a …

A bit harder birth than normal for reboot9, but now everything is rolling. Below the invitation to participate.
Calling all practical visionaries of the world!
It’s time to reboot our minds once again; reboot9 will take place in Copenhagen Thursday, May 31 and Friday, June 1 2007. Two days away from implementing, away from the status quo. Two days together with old and new friends in an informal and open festival spirit…
THE CHALLENGE
The theme for reboot9 is “human?”. A big word, but a word that saturates what’s happening and all ready on …

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 …