The attacks on participatory culture/models gets more and more bizarre.
Yesterday the main morning news show ran a story about how anyone can edit wikipedia. They make fun of a world where everyone can participate and spread fear about how dangerous it can be.
To prove the point they humorously tried to show that they had edited the hosts’ own wikipedia entries with some prank statements. Like small bullies in kindergarden doing it on national television – f*** with our collective creation Wikipedia. Arrogance is a small word for it.
What they actually …

Jason is in Copenhagen this week. Join fellow bloggers and microbloggers for wine/beer/late dinner at Falernum, Værnedamsvej 16, Copenhagen V Thursday February the 5th at 9.30pm. Comment here or tweet @mygdal if you’re coming so i can try and make sure the reservation is somewhat correct.

The last couple of years i’ve spent a great deal of time exploring the visual paradigm, the shift from textual to visual communication and collaboration. A long the way i co-founded 23, a photo sharing service in 2005 -and saw people sharing unexpected photos. Small shops taking photos of their goods and the life in their store, organic farmers uploading photos of their lettuce in order to sell them, a small communication agency communicating through photos, big organizations sharing photos from their events – the story goes on,
But they we’re …

The invite for this years reboot.
It’s time to reboot our minds once again; reboot10 will take place in Copenhagen Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27 2008.
Two days away from implementing, away from the status quo. Two days together with old and new friends in an informal and open festival spirit…
THE EXPLORATION OF “FREE”
reboot10 is an exploration of “free”. “free” as in free information, free individuals, free societies, free markets, free products and services, free ideas, free minds, free to move, free software, free taxonomies, free culture, free knowledge, free …

Discussing the idea of rebooting things/minds/societies with friends today a simple insight i astonishingly never had thought of. (not wanting to stretch the reboot metaphor too much).
Even though a preventive reboot of the system now and then could avoid a hard crash, most things first get rebooted when they’ve crashed hard and reached a standstill.
Could explain an absurdity or two in societies and organizations. And could point one’s energy towards rebooting the things that have crashed instead of doing preventive reboots of things that are still functioning somewhat however an …