OpenLife

Attending a lecture a Copenhagen Business School with MIT professor Erich von Hippel on user lead innovation Democratizing Innovation (2005).

Interesting stuff, in particular because it seems that it is part of the Danish government program to bring the Danish society into the future to promote user lead innovation among Danish businesses.

After discovering IT Conversations maybe 18 months ago I think that it is safe to say that I now get most of my “more-than-just-news” information about IT from listening to Doug Kay’s podcast than from reading.

Here are two excellent podcasts that I have consumed with great pleasure the last few days:

Paul Graham (t d f) at OSCON 2005 and Vernor Vinge (t d f)’s keynote Presentation at Accelerating Change 2005.

This is also interesting in a Danish setting. There has been a lot of arguing here in Denmark whether Microsoft’s XML schemas for word documents were in fact open. Now it seems that we are moving in the right direction.

Patent progress at MSFT?: “

There’s been lots of interesting commentary about Microsoft’s recent decision to submit its Office Document Formats to ECMA for ‘open standardization.’ That’s good news, depending, of course, on the details.

But this is even better news: Microsoft has also promised that ‘it will not seek to enforce any of its patent claims necessary to conform to the technical specifications for the Microsoft Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas.’

This shows some hope to the complex of issues around patents affecting software in the land of Microsoft. Even opponents of software and business method patents will advise companies to secure them — given others can as well. But behavior like this goes a long way to neutralizing the negative effect of such patents. No license. No agreement. Just an unequivocal promise — at least with respect to those who don’t sue Microsoft.

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(Via Lessig Blog.)

Currently playing in iTunes: Kaleidoscopic Event 8 by quincyessentialmusic’s Podcast

I wish I had been visiting the event Henrik Fohns refers to below to get some revitalization for Mimertalks.org (t d f)

Podcast arrangement: “
Kim Mediahack Elmose har blogget podcast seancen, hvor jeg lavede en ‘how to’-demo.”

(Via FunzaFunza.)

Currently playing in iTunes: Paz e Felicidade - a Quincy Essential Music - mix made by Anthony

I was recently interview about the limits of copyright in a digital world for Denmark’s Radio.

Listen to podcasts with the interviews here:

http://www.dr.dk/p1/ligelovligt/arkiv.asp?action=showarticle&id=44500

http://www.dr.dk/p1/ligelovligt/arkiv.asp?action=showarticle&id=43843

Currently playing in iTunes: Gary Burton-Like Minds by Gary Burton