Mimertalks.org is owned and maintained by Mimertalks.org I/S.
Mimertalks.org is the brainchild of Henrik Foehns and Martin von Haller Groenbaek. The idea for the services was conceived through the autumn 2004. Mimertalks.org was launched 15 January 2005.
Mimertalks.org is an experiment, a bottom-up project that will become a source of audio content covering wide ranges of topics such as technology, art, science and culture. Mimertalks.org will not compete with radio and television and other broadcasters or mass media. Our content will be more “narrow”, focused and in-depth and less “news”.
The starting point is access to rather inexpensive technology for recording and editing sound, standard formats like MP3, easy and efficient distribution of content through web site, RSS feeds and downloads to MP3 players such as iPods.
Mimertalks.org is striving to become a large library of information in audio format extracted from people with interesting ideas and creative minds. Thinkers and creators, who does not bother to pass on this information to other people for different reasons. A lot of valuable insight gets created during conversation or presentations but is never documented for posterity. We will document by digital recording and storage for all to access.
To make the content accessible to the wide audience, we have chosen to communicate in English whenever suitable and possible. Our immodest ambition is to participate in establishing a counterweight to the predominantly American digital content of today’s internet by giving the voice to European IT-leaders and thinkers. A lot can be learned by relating to how Californians think about technology and science. But seen from a European perspective the relevance of American thinking decreases when the issue is politics, culture or art. Though Americans will appear on Mimertalks.org from time to time.
However, bear with us. In the beginning Mimertalks.org will contain a shameless disproportion of interviews with and presentations from Danish people. We have to start somewhere.
Posted by Martin von Haller Groenbaek at January 08, 2005 09:52 PM