New Media + IT

Today I attended a very interesting conference called Samtalerne (Danish for conversations).
The day started off with me and Euan Semple, a former BBC employee, getting trapped at the stairs of the university of Copenhagen. Being inside an elevator that won't go anywhere is a great way to network, I tell you :-)
I'll do a more [...]

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[ categorized as: Blogs, Conferences, Web 2.0 ]

I just pre-ordered this book, called "WordPress Pro Development".
I haven't really been able to find any other information about the book, except »Deals with computers/software«, as Amazon writes.
But I hope it contains a lot of tips, tricks and code examples of how to customize or build upon the WordPress platform. Let's face it, PHP rocks! [...]

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[ categorized as: Books, CMS, PHP, Web 2.0 ]

Since I'm a firm believer in acknowledging other peoples work, I find it only fair to tell you, that the new banner for this weblog has been designed by my good friend Jesper.
Don't forget to check out the very talented ad/media bureau, that he and a friend of his is running. Its called BrandNew – [...]

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[ categorized as: About this blog ]

Apparently the European Union has just announced a "European Charter for Film Online endorsed by major industry players".
This sounds quite interesting.
In the press announcement it says:
This Charter – the first of its kind in the world – identifies the preconditions for enabling content and infrastructure providers to make film online services a commercial success. The [...]

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[ categorized as: Businesses, Entertainment ]

The Economist has an article about America Online (AOL), where the various problems and difficulties with the firm, the brand, the shares and the customers are discussed.
The article argues, that Time Warner, who owns AOL, might be considering to break off the AOL-branch of the business.
Read the article, it's interesting, and very important, stuff!

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[ categorized as: Businesses ]

This weekend I bought a folder about how to search on Google, called "Google for alle" (Danish for "Google for all").
Instead of listing some of the points in the book, which I find quite good actually, I decided to post the link to the site, that the book is inspired by.
According to the writer, Erik [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Guides ]

If you, like me, has a job with no time to blog, timestamping is a very handy feature.
With the help of timestamps you can "spread out" your posts to prevent them from being grouped in the hours from 17:00 till midnight (or whenever you turn off your computer). It's also very handy if you're very [...]

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[ categorized as: CMS ]

As any other, I've signed up to be updated via RSS at Bloglines.
But since I don't want to keep a browser window with Bloglines open all the time, I decided to download their notifier.
But how awful. The notifier really doesn't do anything but tell me, when I have unread posts.
I think that the idea of [...]

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[ categorized as: Feeds, Web 2.0, Web applications ]

It's been about two weeks since Google announced four new services, among them Google Notebook.
After testing it since them I must say, I'm in love… well, almost in love.
The Notebook is just what I've been looking for – a place online to put down all those things, you normally end up putting in a text-document [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Web 2.0, Web applications ]

I'll dedicate this post to play the hate-card on the Flash-format :-)
If you look at it, a Flash-powered site might look nice, but that's about it. To prove my point, I've listed the things, that I hate in Flash-sites:

No native browser support. The user NEEDS to have the Flash-player installed to see the site.
The content [...]

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[ categorized as: Web 2.0 ]