media
Battleship Galactica killed tv
Mark Pesce writes that it was Battlestar Galactica that killed broadcast tv. You may want to have a look at Bob the millionaire, who wanted to buy Lost. But couldn’t. Update: And if you didn’t know – Battlestar Galactica is now available for download in the iTunes Music Store! Watch on the bus, at work, [...]
The head of IFPI in Finland must be like 350 years old
Tigert.com reports: “Now, we need to understand that listening to music on your computer is an extra priviledge. Normally people listen to music on their car or through their home stereos”, says Kyyrä and continues; “If you are a Linux or Mac user, you should consider purchasing a regular CD player.” I can’t even start [...]
Belief and science – all mixed up
Reading about the Spaghetti monster on Boingbong has been both fun – and scary. Not scary beacuse people make a very intelligent joke about the Spaghetti monster. But scary because there are educated people who believe that Darwin and all the science in his footsteps for hundreds of years are wrong. Mixing up belief and [...]
Norwegian princess daughter named after Princess Leia
In an article called I’m Leah, Norwegian princess Märtha answers a question from newspaper Aftenposten about the name of her daughter, Leah Isadora: “[Journalist]: – And the name Leah Isadora…? [Märtha]: Ari took the initiative to it because he always has been fascinated by the dancer Isadora Duncans life and tragic death. He has traveled [...]
Cory Doctorow speaks in Oslo
Cory Doctorow visited Oslo today to talk at the Norwegian Polytechnic Society. About 100 (?) people attended the speech, including Jon Lech Johansen, often called “DVD-Jon”. As you may know, Cory is science fiction author, a Boingboing blogger, and European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He talked about the case which started [...]
Bono for pope
Marc Pincus thinks Bono is the the new pope: “what makes Bono stand out as a true leader is that he is helping us realize our own power”. Support the One campaign and watch the video.
DVD-Jon plans mobile phone revolution
Famous Norwegian hacker “DVD-Jon” wants to turn the mobile phone world upside down. In an article in Norwegian daily “Dagens Næringsliv” Jon’s father Per Johan Johansen says “It’s simply a new way to use the net. With the new software we have developed, your mobile phone will be able to do all new things. Telenor [...]
Mark wants to buy Real
Mark Frauenfelder at Boingboing wants to “…start up a fund to buy Real Networks and put them out of their misery.” Count me in!
Killing children
I’m watching the BBC series about Auschwitz. Episode 3 is about how kids were sent there, just to be killed immediately at arrival. More than 4 000 French kids were taken from their parents, and sent alone in trains to Poland. Every single one was killed.
Webby Awards nominees 2005
The 2005 Webby Awards nominees list are out. Both Boingboing and Flickr are nominated in the Blog category. Weird. When did Flickr become a blog? (Yes, I know it has one…) Hicksdesign is also a nominee. Jon Hicks is confused – and flattered.
Smart money into del.icio.us
Joshua Schachter announces that a group of investors has put money into Del.icio.us, the very clever social bookmark service. And some investors: “Union Square Ventures leads the investment group, and the other members are Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh Koppelman, Howard Morgan, Tim O’Reilly, and Bob Young.” Take a guess: [...]
Trendmapper is “discovered”!
This afternoon my friend Eirik‘s site Trendmapper was featured on John Batelle’s Searchblog. Try it for yourself. Go to Trendmapper and enter your search phrase. Every night Trendmapper will search for you, and make a nice graph to show the number of hits. It doesn’t work backwards of course, so the search will only go [...]
Fake, fake, fake, fake.
Excellent campaign from the Swedish government. On Flicka.gov.se you can read about how we are being surrounded by messages. About retouching, video effects, clever advertising slogans.
