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Arne Esmann-Jensen is the CEO of the Videnfabrikken / Index System A/S - a startup company that I assist as a legal counsel and on the board of directors of which I serve.

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My friend Ole Gulløv has composed 12 beautiful melodies to lyrics by the Danish poet Frank Jæger and with a group of excellent he has recorded a CD with the titel “Refleksioner ved mit rosenbed” (Reflections by my rosebed).

The CD was presented with a small intimate concert today at Admiral Gjeddes Gaard.

Contact Ole Gulløv at sleep_tight @ hotmail.com to buy the CD.

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Henrik Moltke visits Copenhagen, Denmark, New York

Copenhagen, NY

Jeg er netop vendt hjem fra New Yo…: ”

Copenhagen, NY

Jeg er netop vendt hjem fra New York (staten og byen) hvor jeg har optaget materiale til en radiodokumentar om den mildest talt absurde sag, kunstneren Steve Kurtz fra kunstgruppen Critical Art Ensemble er blevet centrum for. Mere herom her (The Guardian), og her (Støttekommitéen). Dokumentaren burde være færdig omkring midt februar.

På vejen kørte jeg forbi den lille landsby Copenhagen, NY - der ovenikøbet ligger i kommunen Denmark - og som prominente folk som Biker Jens før mig har været forbi. Billeder her - mere følger.

“

(Via Henrik Moltke Blog.)

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This is exactly why supporting the recent initiative (in Danish) by Morten Helveg Petersen, MP from the SocialLiberals, to demand that the Danish public sector adopt an open standard policy is so important.

Denmark bottoms out in Firefox adoption: “

According to XiTiMonitor, the European average for Firefox adoption is the best in the world with around 20%. Front-runner countries like Finland does even better with 38%. But the numbers for Denmark are as disappointing as can be. With just 10%, we’re ranking third to last in a list of 32. Roughly half the adoption of our friends in Sweden.

To anyone paying attention to governmental and bank policies, this should hardly come as a surprise, though. The last couple of years is fraught with embarrassments of discrimination and bias from public web projects. From the university application portal to my own bank to videos on the public TV station, Internet Explorer continues to reign supreme or exclusive in the mind of decision makers.

So its no surprise that Firefox’s market share is abysmal in Denmark compared to the rest of Europe. It must surely be one of the favorite nations on the globe in Redmond. What an accomplishment.

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(Via Loud Thinking.)

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Here is a photo of me speaking at the cmf2005 back in November 2005 on legal issues and CMS. See Janus Boye’s photostream from the conference here.

cmf2006 - The 2nd International Content Management Forum Conference will be held in Aarhus, Denmark: November 7th - 9th, 2006.

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Something is happening at the web-site Mimertalks that Henrik and I created for podcasts. I promise to start podcasting again once that I have installed the the new version of Garage band with the podcasting facilities.

Liv på Mimertalks: “
Tro det eller ej! Jeg har lavet en podcast på Mimertalks.org.

Du kan også snuppe det på Mondofunza.com mit engelsksprogede eksperimental-site for podcasts og sære lyde.

Eller bare fortsætte her:

Interview with Adriana Cronin-Lukas, The Big Blog Company, by Henrik Foehns

‘The network is always stronger than the node’. This is the way Adriana always finishes her e-mails.

Download mp3 (30mb).

Adriana is a partner at and founder of the Big Blog Company, the first consultancy agency for blogging in the UK. She advices companies in Europe and the United States on how to use blogging, rss and other social media in their communication.

She is also one of the editors of the group-blog Samizdata.net. They call themselfes a ‘globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty’.

And she has her own blog: Mediainfluencer“

(Via FunzaFunza.)

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A good overview on where to spend your travel/conference budget this year.

Conferences: “A list of some that matter“

(Via @rgumente.)

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My preferred photo sharing service is now 23 Photo Sharing

Why is that?

First because the people behind 23 are people that I know and trust. My photos are personal stuff and I feel better, if they are handled by people that I can talk to.

Second, Flickr is now owned by Yahoo and that automatically makes me somewhat suspicious. Nothing wrong with Flickr and Yahoo and the fact that they are in it for the money. Don’t get me wrong, I think that it is great that innovative people like those behind Flickr get a good exit. But the minute you become part of a large organization you loose (to a very large extent) the entrepreneurial passion that made you create innovative stuff without regard to existing structures. Now Flickr has to make money and to fit into the Yahoo universe, which is not bad, but not what I signed up for to Flickr in the first place.

Third, 23 seems to be truly open and collaborative service - and will probably remain so until they get their exit too
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