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Re: cluetrainplus10 - Links Subvert Hierarchies

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:41:22 -0000

Insightful stuff. This short article radiates the fact that you've been living and breathing this for years. It seems obvious when you write it like that. Yet I''ve spent two years myself in my startup to realize that all that I've done to become a "normal" business was wrongheaded - and that I should have pursued the online paths a lot more rigouriously - right from the start.

Re: I’m growing tired of Twitter

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:38:59 -0000

Definitely :-)

What continues to impress me is the power of trackbacks. Hardly did I write this before a trackback appeared below to my "more in depth" post. I think what made your post here great is that it is so much you :-) So much so, that it inspired me to write a post of my own about it. (couldn't comment hijack my way out of it)

Re: I’m growing tired of Twitter

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:31:51 -0000

Great post, which I can totally relate to, and it goes for most online social networks. I would say it is possible to use these tools to create and sustain meaningful relations, although like you it is probably no more than a handfull or at most few handfulls which have come out of my use of Twitter. I haven't calculated it very rationally in terms of how many hours I've put into it, and if I did it probably would not look encouraging. But I don't look at it in those terms. I see it more like a big learning experiment which helps me dress myself and others up for whats coming - and what will be _more_ the real thing. More peer-to-peer driven, more sharing, more caring and much more powerful (as in the Wikipedia meaning of the word). More so than say Twitter, Facebook, even Google, which are all young wild proprietary experiments trapped in the "old" economy.

Re: To fail informatively

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:08:13 -0000

What's not so impressive is the way post #3 ought to appear as the first comment to the article, and the first two comments appear only after that comment. I am currently making an inquiry into whether the post-time of comments can be edited in Disqus, so it is possible to patch things up.

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:35:10 -0000

Barney, what do you mean?

Re: To fail informatively

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:44:09 -0000

Or at least it's a bit buggy - see the comments to this thread : http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/events/show/89977656 for the above to make any sense.

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:30:52 -0000

Now check out DJ kaplak : http://blip.fm/DJkaplak :-)

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:00:02 -0000

Terrific stuff, that DJ site :-) I love it !! Excellent choice of music, too. Good to see you here, Terris !

Several times this summer I've been concerned with putting our data on proprietary services with architectures beyond our own control, such as Twitter. It has been a long winded concern, but was further provoked by Twitter prohibiting me access to my own data (everything beyond 200 tweets in my back catalogue - which is about 80% of my/our Twitter activity). Now, Twitter has opened up again, but it remains a deep concern of mine the way we enthrust web services with "our" data.

Now, as I explore deeper what public feeds entail, I'm less worried. As long as the service offers ways to feed/export data, users remain in control. What we need to work at, then, is improve the feeds and make it easier to extract the information we need from them.

Facebook and other such architectures which offer no feeds/export still present a lot of problems, however.

Re: blip.fm and revenue models : Wouldn't they get a cut of all the songs "sold" from their site? Say 95% of listeners don't pay, but 5% buy a song, from which blip.fm earns a dime?

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:16:42 -0000

Barney, thank you for that note. I'm not so sure there really is a lot revenue there yet to share, as Lijit has yet to find a suitable business model, IMHO. Offering premium services aimed at businesses seems to me a far more promising road to go than putting Google Ads in search results, but only Lijit knows for sure.

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:16:42 -0000

Re: chance meeting with man in Gents toilet - Blog in isolation

MortenBlaabjerg — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:13:56 -0000

LOL - had fun reading this.

Re: Dear YouTube friends, can I have my account back?

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:27:08 -0000

Loic, IMHO you should direct your pleas and pressure at the television station, which put the pressure on YouTube in the first place, qua their idiotic copyright anti-branding anti-PR legal hazzle for legal hazzle's own sake policy

Re: Contextualized Search

MortenBlaabjerg — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:59:11 -0000

If you didn't know, Twitter has now acquired Summize : http://blog.twitter.com/2008/07/finding-perfect...

EDIT : Apparently, this has also broken the link to the search on Summize for my exchanges with Micah. Will try and fix the link.

I somewhat wish the Twitter guys would just concentrate on getting their own service right, instead of buying a perfectly well-functioning service and begin to ruin that too. If the Summize team is now to be working on Twitter, there'll be less time to focus on the search side of Twitter (i.e. Summize), which is too bad, because it was so promising.

Re: Contextualized Search

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:59:11 -0000

Re: Why We Don’t Really Like Social Networks

MortenBlaabjerg — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:32:48 -0000

"starting with a known, fixed set of categories would help people self-select into or out of a given culture. Fluid tagging allows for increased specialization in forming bonds among people."

Thanks for this inout, Bob :-) I hear what you say, and it's a very interesting point. I believe you are right. What's so incredibly difficult IMO, is to _not_ use fixed categories to describe what we do, because it will lock us into a position we may not want to have. We try very hard to avoid this.

Say we describe what we do as "affiliate marketing", then we lock ourselves into a particular set of ideas, where some people feel comfortable and others definitely not. We may also lock ourselves into a blind spot, where we won't pick up on other ideas which are meaningful, and therefore prevent us from understanding the real problems we aim to understand. Same thing when we say this is for "filmmakers" or if we say we make a new way to "search" or "find information"...

So, our strategy from the beginning has been to throw this blog out here and try to make it sufficiently diverse and interesting in it's themes and capablitiies to attract readers from very different input bases, who share or somehow have an interest in our problem - and further build upon this in our wiki. We're trying to build community from the bottom up, and do that without having a product yet, to build it around. What we have is a problem and a vision, and both will take form as we unfold our online activities. The tough part is connecting and energizing our local networks, at the same time as we create a global network.

We don't know yet precisely where all this will lead, although we do have good ideas about what we want to build. We just can't build this without a broader input base. The old "build, launch and they will come" doesn't work for us.

Re: Strange load page problem in WordPress

MortenBlaabjerg — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:48:06 -0000

<embarrassed>I tried deactivating the plugin from which this code came, and it solved the problem. should have tested this before coming to you.</embarrassed>

Verified and solved. Thanks for your speedy help and attention! I greatly appreciate it.

Re: Strange load page problem in WordPress

MortenBlaabjerg — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:47:20 -0000

Installed a new WordPress plugin for our Twitter feeds which have no problems with Disqus (in fact, it's even better). Here's the link in case others run into the same problem :

http://xavisys.com/wordpress-twitter-widget/

Re: Inline images and videos

MortenBlaabjerg — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:44:39 -0000

Great news, man :-) Keep up the good work!

Re: Strange load page problem in WordPress

MortenBlaabjerg — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:42:08 -0000

The error is the same for every URL (I think, - it's been persistent for
many posts now). Tested it again on our oldest post. Upon saving the
comment, I get the following :

Browser Popup error box :

"Internet Explorer kan ikke åbne Internetstedet
http://www.kaplak.com/blog/2007/12/15/exploring...

handlingen blev afbrudt"

In translation :

"Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet location
http://www.kaplak.com/blog/2007/12/15/exploring...

the action was cancelled/aborted"

Pressing OK sends one to an empty browser screen with blue text standard
error saying "Internet Explorer cannot show the website"
Browser is IE7 and OS is Windows XP Home Edition.

Best,
Morten :-)

Re: Why We Don’t Really Like Social Networks

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:35:53 -0000

Re : Categories

Btw, Clay Shirky has a great talk on ontology and the clashes between fixed categories and worldviews, and the emerging world of tagging and fluid filtering methods : http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detai...

Re: Why We Don’t Really Like Social Networks

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:49:52 -0000

Yeah, it is so incredibly easy to do - but leverages so great power. We need more tools like this - and we need to bridge the gaps between the forerunners of these tools, and people like Palle and others, who could easily utilize these tools to their great advantage.

I meet a lot of scepticism, ignorance and thickheadedness generally aimed at (digital) technology, and specifically at open architectures such as wikis.

Somehow though, during the last year or so, Facebook seems to have broken down some of these reservations (at least over here), so that people, who otherwise wouldn't use internet services, have now begun to do so. I hope they will also begin to ask questions and think about what the architectures they use entail. In this sense, popular services such as Facebook can be forerunners for involving users in more dedicated environments, such as wikis. And that's also why it's essential, that we are on Facebook and other such services.

Re: Why We Don’t Really Like Social Networks

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:49:52 -0000

Re: A Market’s Day in Odense

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:44:20 -0000

Great! If you do, promise to stop by and say hi :-) You're right, Odense sure looks lovely in the summer. I explicitly went for some of the beautiful spots. I may do a photo set later on the "common" Odense, so that things are a bit balanced out...

Yes, Andersen is the author of "The Little Mermaid" too.

This is what the town square looked like in 1999 :

http://www.crewscut.com/index.php?title=Fil:MKH...

EDIT : Looks like Disqus doesn't allow inline images... Too bad.

Re: A Market’s Day in Odense

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:44:20 -0000

Great! If you do, promise to stop by and say hi :-) You're right, Odense sure looks lovely in the summer. I explicitly went for some of the beautiful spots. I may do a photo set later on the "common" Odense, so that things are a bit balanced out...

Yes, Andersen is the author of "The Little Mermaid" too.

This is what the town square looked like in 1999 :
http://www.crewscut.com/index.php?title=Fil:MKH...

EDIT : Looks like Disqus doesn't allow inline images... Too bad.

Re: A Market’s Day in Odense

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:31:41 -0000

For those of you who wouldn't know, Odense is the birthtown of H. C. Andersen, most celebrated writer of fairy tales. One of his most touching, as well as most famous and celebrated stories is The Ugly Duckling, in which an 'ugly duckling' goes through a lot of hardships, to later find he's turned into a beautiful swan.

It's only fitting we have this swan family around here :-)