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For those of you who understand my father-tongue (danish), there is now a streaming (realplayer) version of my recent presentation at LinuxForum 2004 here in Copenhagen. I think it's one of the best presentations I have given in quite some time, which is fairly surprising to me. I
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So it's the final day of AfricaSource. One of the professionally most exciting events I have attended in the past 18 months is coming to a close. All we have to do, as we wrap up, is burn about 60 CD's with digital photos from a
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This past weekend we had the good fortune to be involved in the 2004 LinuxForum here in Copenhagen. Since we participated last year with the crazy CopenhagenConnectedCycle, they had kindly asked us if we had something to participate with again. Did we ever :-) We actually ended up doing a
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The Wireless Roadshow is obviously my main focus this year, and I've spent a large part of whatever time I have been able to work, trying to get the ball rolling on the preparation for this project. Recently I went to Istanbul to address the Open Society Institute&
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Things are gradually returning to normal here, as my back attempts to regain it usefullness as a body-part. I can stand up and work, and even sit down for 30-45 minutes at a time now, and I've been doing 5-6 hour work days this week, mostly trying to
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Offline and unable to sleep because of a really painful lower back, I spent my laptop battery writing up some notes from my experience at Emerging Tech. The advantage of doing it from that vantage point is probably a bit more reflection than in my previous entries. The disadvantages inclue
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So I did my talk yesterday at ETech. I think it went pretty well, although perhaps I should have focused a little more on the tech side of things. Turn-out was ok, considering that I was competing directly with Danny NTK O'Brien, talking about alpha-geeks and their habits.
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I'm in a talk now by Priya Prakesh on Project Miljul, which was a 4 week research project to find out how workers in india use their mobile phones. In fact it's a talk on user centric design, with the unique perspective of indian culture as
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O'Reilly Network: O'Reilly Network -- 2004 Emerging Technology Conference Coverage [Jan. 16, 2004] Here's a few comments from my tke on emerging tech 2004 in san diego. First of all, Joi Ito roks. Thanks for all the fresh perspectives, the hecklebot and the sense
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O'Reilly Network: O'Reilly's Digital Democracy Teach-In [Feb. 10, 2004] The Teach-In featured nine sessions with a variety of movers and shakers who have been thinking about and using technology to alter the way we elect and communicate with our candidates and political leaders.
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Just to do justice on the whole Amercian Centri rant I had. It is fir to say that the Emerging Democracy Teach-in was highly american centric (as is the rest of this conference), but Joi Ito and Ethan, did a good job of reminding everyone during their talk-show style session
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So, today has been the digital democracy workshop here at ETech. In about 20 minutes Ethan and Joi Ito are on, and I hope they'll change my impression of the day for the better. So far I have been less than impressed. I realize of course that we