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Re: Meebox bliver til UnoEuro - Meebox.net

Morten Blaabjerg — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 12:22:23 -0000

Har indtil videre haft et positivt indtryk af jer - så håber på at dette vil fortsætte. Håber på en smooth overgang, og at det ikke betyder ændringer i fht. pris, ydelse og serviceniveau. Så jeg bliver hængende!

Re: Meebox bliver til UnoEuro - Meebox.net

Morten Blaabjerg — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 03:20:28 -0000

Er bekymret for det samme, og har samme ønske i fht. at håndtere en håndfuld domæner fra samme sted, uden unødvendig merbetaling og opsplitning. Jeg vil gerne have alle mine webaktiviteter samlet eet sted.

Re: Afgående juraprofessor: Drop staffeloven – tillad hash

Morten Blaabjerg — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:05:16 -0000

Der mangler et "r" i overskriften...

Re: BitTorrent Sync Announces Support for Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Morten Blaabjerg — Tue, 19 May 2015 06:24:47 -0000

I also envision Bittorrent Sync as a tool for this purpose. The Synology NAS'es that we use do allow the generation of links to individual files which can then be used in the curriculum software as a link attached to the lesson, where it is relevant. But one has to go through the trouble opening the Synology Assistant and/or openeing the NAS via the web interface, navigate to find the right file, create the link, copy the link and only by then can the link be shared. This is a rather cumbersome work procedure for something that tedious.

I much prefer organizing og browsing files and folders via Bittorrent Sync shared folders (Synced with the NAS'es, some folders always kept in sync, other folders kept in sync as the need arises, but all files allways accessible from the NAS'es).

Would be brilliant if one could simply rightclick on a file in a BTSync shared folder and share the NAS generated link or something along those lines. The files are already accessible on the NAS unit, so syncing them to a web server is unneccessary. All that is needed is the functionality that makes BTSync take advantage of the capabilities of the NAS units.

Re: Cloud Station or Bittorrent Sync instead of Dropbox?

Morten Blaabjerg — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 17:14:22 -0000

I can't really comment on the privacy-related question, but would be very much interested in the answer to that as well.

DropBox not only snooped on my files, they also deleted files they deemed inappropriate (files I wanted to share with my students during a course), without asking me or giving me any due warning. I've never been so shocked about the behaviour of a company, regarding the treatment of my data. Needless to say, that was also the day they lost me as a customer, forever.

For at couple of years I've had a Synology Diskstation around and it's a great piece of hardware, especially for streaming film and music to our various devices. But when it comes to documents and images, the NAS never quite have been used to its full potential. Connecting via WebDAV was always a bit awkward, though it works, because the mac doesn't index those files very well, so it's difficult to search for files easily, not to mention begin the daunting task of organizing all those files thrown in there from time to time. Consequently things have been pretty much a mess, relying solely on memory to recover and access files. I do love the DSfile app available for Android and iOS, which makes it very easy to stream films from the DS via Airplay to our Apple TV box. They run very smoothly, and it's quite convenient.

Recently I've been looking for something which would make the contents of the NAS more accessible and help ease my workflow in various tasks, and the last few days I've taken a long hard look at Cloud Station, and have been testing it with my NAS, Macbook and Desktop PC. I've put it through a massive test, using it for all various files lying around, and while it is terrific to be able to access all ones files as they're on one's local harddrive (and the sync does appear to take place, although sometimes it seems it will take forever to sync files, when you really put it to the test), easily indexed, searchable, and thumbnails generated fast for all of them, etc., things start to get a bit messy, once you begin to organize and work with files, deleting some folders in one place, moving files a bit around. Cloud Station doesn't seem to follow very quickly which can lead to situations, where I wouldn't trust my units to actually have the data that I'm looking for, because I wouldn't know if it has "caught up" with recent changes. I doubt if I can truly trust the application to keep up with speed and reliably sync every task speedily and efficiently. I've tested Cloud Station using Synologys QuickConnect solution which seems to work quite well, but probably doesn't do much good to the speed of the app either.

This leads me to consider other options, and I've discovered BitTorrent's Sync, and what I've read so far, I like. Especially the fact that there's a Synology Diskstation bundle ready to be installed for my NAS, which means the NAS can be put to use at what's it good for, an always-on, always-connected place to backup and serve files from different places.

One other thing to consider, is that Cloud Station comes for free, as it's part of the Synology eco-system. BT's Sync is not, and although there's a free option, I'm guessing one would want the paid option ($39/yr).

Re: Savages - Filmmagasinet Ekko

Morten Blaabjerg — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 05:43:01 -0000

Glimrende, glimrende anmeldelse. Der er en interessant nøglescene hvor Dennis, Travoltas karakter omtaler politikerne i Washington og siger at "we've become a nation of whores". Synes der er meget i filmen som oplagt kan tolkes symbolsk, som en kommentar til det amerikanske samfund og USA's nationalkarakter.

Dualiteten imellem Ben (idealisten som "goes Bono in Africa") og Chon (realisten, krigsveteranen) er også vældig interessant, med rødder helt tilbage i en film som f.eks. Platoon hvor hovedpersonen Chris tvinges til at vælge imellem idealisten Elias og realisten Barnes.

I slutningen af filmen er der også en interessant kommentar om at den gode californiske weed måske en dag kommer tilbage igen... Måske det betyder, at USA en dag genfinder sine sande værdier, sin sande balance i et trekantsforhold imellem idealisme og realisme?

I sandhed en interessant actionfilm, der stikker dybere end som så.

Re: I supported App.net with $50/year, here’s why

Morten Blaabjerg — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:18:54 -0000

I think this misses the point. They don't need to. What one presumably will pay for and be part of the app.net package/deal is that you get to decide where you'll syndicate your feeds. You can make your stuff go where your "friends" are - you don't need them all to sign up to app.net for you to do that. And better, you won't have to rely on third-party apps relying on big proprietary companies such as FB and Twitter to do it. You can even write your own or hire someone to do it for you.

Re: Coming soon: the disruptive molecular age of information

Morten Blaabjerg — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:44:02 -0000

There's a good reason wikis and blogs allow "molecular" activities like the ones you describe, Robert. There's one answer and it's called Free Software.

It's no coincidence that GPL'ed, free software projects such as MediaWiki and Wordpress have taken off and created such architectures that facilitate what you describe. As long as online services embrace proprietary standards and architectures alone, they cannot work together very well.

RSS/Atom is the only cross-platform standard I can think of which enables "molecular" activities. We experimented a lot in my startup Kaplak with combining items from different sources using RSS and tags to create new contexts. And I know there's a lot of activity still going on with feeds.

I am a big fan of many online services. I use Gmail and Google Docs extensively. I use Twitter some of the time. I often use YouTube. I am one of the biggest fans of Prezi, the flash presentation & storytelling tool. I would love if these tools would make it a lot easier not just to embed, but to make their services work together across platforms, so that it was lot easier to bring related stuff together. The best tool to do this I've seen so far is MediaWiki, which can be incredibly powerful given it's very flexible extensibility possibilities.

Also there's the question of copyright all over again, as part of the reason true "molecular" activities have yet to take off. Enabling open standards and using free software means you can't hide how you work, and you can't control the flow any longer. Twitter cannot shut users down. Google cannot expell a user for illegitimate use of their Gmail accounts. And YouTube cannot easily take down infringing videos, or videos they deem to be infringing on someone's rights.

It's about control. Free software is the right path, I believe. But the trouble is it's getting really hard just sticking to one's blog, as an increasing amount of our exchanges takes place using proprietary platforms.

Re: cluetrainplus10 – Links Subvert Hierarchies

Morten Blaabjerg — 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

Morten Blaabjerg — 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

Morten Blaabjerg — 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

Morten Blaabjerg — 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

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

Barney, what do you mean?

Re: To fail informatively

Morten Blaabjerg — 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

Morten Blaabjerg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:30:52 -0000

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

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

Morten Blaabjerg — 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

Morten Blaabjerg — 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

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

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

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

LOL - had fun reading this.

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

Morten Blaabjerg — 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

Morten Blaabjerg — 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

Morten Blaabjerg — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:59:11 -0000

If you didn't know, Twitter has now acquired Summize : http://blog.twitter.com/200...

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: Why We Don’t Really Like Social Networks

Morten Blaabjerg — 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

Morten Blaabjerg — 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

Morten Blaabjerg — 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/wordpres...