OpenLife

Harvard University has given the former software executive a fellowship at its Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, part of Harvard Law School, in order to head up the new Blogs at Harvard Initiative. Winer, who studied math at Tulane University before collecting his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, will instruct Harvard students and faculty in the art of posting daily dispatches to the Web.

Read article at http://news.com.com/2008-1082-985714.html?tag=fd_nc_1

Smart Mobs - the latest book by Howard Rheingold who also wrote Virtual Reality which is one of the very first books that I read dealing with the future of IT.

The books web-site is at http://www.smartmobs.com/index.html.

The book is of course a brilliant piece of journalism. But I cannot help thinking afterwards that I have just read one of the longest Wired articles. There is nothing with Wired articles of course. But in order really to learn about Always-On Panopticon…or Cooperation Amplifier, I would prefer to go directly to the sources - e.g. Michel Foucault or Robert Wright.

Wednesday 26 February I will be talking on the importance from a legal perspective of archiving e-mails as part of the seminar CRM for Microsoft Outlook organized by Software AG.

AS lead-up to the seminar I have co-authored with Ole Kock - the head of Software AG in Denmark - a short piece (in Danish) titled Har virksomheden styr på sin digitale forretningskorrespondance?

In the article Danske virksomheder døjer med IT-sikkerhed by Max Stougaard published in Jyllands-Posten 15 February 2003 as follows (in Danish):

Flere end to ud af tre virksomheder oplevede i 2002 sikkerhedsproblemer af alvorlig eller generende grad. Det viser en ny undersøgelse fra Danmarks Statistik.
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In the article Ensomme IT-slidere by by Jens Herman Iversen in Berlingske Tidende 16 February 2003 I am quoted as follows:

Der findes ikke nyere tal, der kan give en retningspil på, hvor mange enmandsejede internet-virksomheder, der findes i dag, men Martin von Haller Grønbæk mener, at der er mange. Han er advokat med speciale i IT og rådgivning til iværksættere, og han var medstifter af Foreningen for Dansk Internet Handel.
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Finally it arrived. Just last Wednesday 12 February 2003 I recieved from InnovationSHOP my all new mobile phone - the SonyEricsson P800.

It is truly a wonderful piece of communication equipment. Until tonight everything worked smoothly. The symbian OS never crashed. I even installed the new Opera browser for the P800.

But then tonight the phone just died. Went totally blank. Now I got to waste precious time returning it. Hmmm.

I will be speaking on Personal networking, entrepreneurship and the Internet at the conference Netværk er vejen til din succes held 30 April 2003 in Horsens, Denmark.

Wonderful news! Friends, partners, colleagues and family Benjamin and Louise Lundström gave birth 16 February 2003 to Karl August and Kasper and Caroline Eich Heine 26 January 2003 to twins Rachel and Elliot.

I have just finished the migration of my weblog from groenbaek.blogspot.com hosted at www.blogspot.com and maintained by pro.blogger.com TO suse.groenbaek.net/openlife hosted at my own server placed in the basement of my house in Copenhagen and maintained with the help of Movable Type (ver. 2.5).

Thousand thanks to Nikolaj Nyholm for helping with importing entries from blogger to movable type and to Gary Hayes for importing the design.

In the February 15, 2003 issue of CRYPTO-GRAM, Bruce Schneier of Counterpane provides a persuasive argument for why security properties of different systems, including IT and locks, are better of being open to public scrutiny instead of being kept secret.
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