http://bootstrapping.net Bootstrapping the web since 1994 Thu, 14 May 2009 14:39:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2009/05/14/tv2-wikipedia-gate-2/ 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. http://bootstrapping.net/2009/02/03/calacanis-open-bloggermicroblogger-dinner/ 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2008/09/25/23-launching-visualblog/ 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2008/05/27/reboot10/ 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2007/08/01/crashing-before-rebooting/ 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2007/08/01/turning-30/ 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2007/07/23/announcing-the-copenhagen-project/ 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, ... http://bootstrapping.net/2007/03/26/reboot9-human/ 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2007/01/25/second-life/ 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2007/01/19/welcome-back-on-the-town-square/ 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2007/01/17/the-future-of-libraries/ 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2007/01/04/happy-hour-is-9-to-5/ 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2007/01/02/micro-lending/ 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 ... http://bootstrapping.net/2007/01/02/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-me/ Was on the danish national broadcasters conversation show "Deadline 2nd section" in a conversation about "the new reality of the net" (their title) last sunday. Haven't dared watching it myself, but if you're adventurous you can watch it. Interestingly how much attention Secondlife gets since it's a very small trend compared ... http://bootstrapping.net/2006/12/14/the-new-reality-of-the-net/ Participated in an Arup workshop recently with a great diverse group on the future of the business hotel. One insight i had during the workshop seems to be sticking. An emerging travel ethic that seemed to resonate with most of the participants all though it goes against all current trends. ... http://bootstrapping.net/2006/12/14/out-of-context-observation-the-travel-ethic/ Paradigm surfing is what i do. http://bootstrapping.net/2006/11/29/realization/ This tidbit from the google quarterly earnings somehow stuck with me. Other Cost of Revenues - Other cost of revenues, which is comprised primarily of data center operational expenses, as well as credit card processing charges, increased to $223 million, or 8% of revenues, in the third quarter of 2006, compared ... http://bootstrapping.net/2006/10/20/google-production-costs/ Well, even the title is hilarious, so check out this speech by Sumner Redstone [pdf], chairman and founder of Viacom at a conference about "Progress and Freedom". Some noteable quotes... - "Copyright is even more right in the digital age because copyright compels creativity. It furnishes the incentive to ... http://bootstrapping.net/2006/10/04/copyright-is-even-more-right-in-the-digital-age/ People across the world connecting via blogs. Iconic post/comment if it's for real. http://bootstrapping.net/2006/10/03/arrested-by-mistake-in-iraq/ Did a presentation yesterday at the Shift conference on the use of language as technology/tool for change [PDF]. The last page is the participants suggestions of words we should say goodbye to and words they'd like to see appear/be used more widely. Shift is a great initiative, more momentum to ... http://bootstrapping.net/2006/09/29/dead-words-walking/ Kevin Jones from Good Capital and xigi is in Copenhagen next thursday the 21th of September. So if you're into talking about investment that serves good purposes, microfinance, social enterprises, social entrepreneurship - wednesday is your evening since we'll have an open blogger dinner at 8pm @ The Laundromat Cafe, ... http://bootstrapping.net/2006/09/15/blogger-dinner-wednesday-with-kevin-jones/ "And the only interesting thing that happened was, Juan Trippe was walked into this plywood mockup of the cockpit, and he didn't care about that, but he turned around and looked at the space behind the cockpit, and I'll never forget it, because he turned to his chief engineer, John ... http://bootstrapping.net/2006/09/15/a-simple-case-of-user-innovation/ "Ya see users like Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit and Flickr because they are contributing to true, free, democratic social platforms devoid of monetary motivations." Kevin Rose, co-founder, Digg http://bootstrapping.net/2006/09/13/hypocrisy-quote-of-the-year/ Al-Noor Ramji, Chief Executive Officer BT EXact and Group CIO, "At the end of the day, we (BT) are a telco... and by that I mean, we are fundamentally an infrastructure company". Five minutes later on the same panel: Neil Rogers, Managing Director 21CN, BT says, "We are fundamentally a services company" as ... http://bootstrapping.net/2006/09/12/the-organization-that-was-just-a-bit-confused-about-whom-it-really-was/