Category Archive Open culture

Starting an Open Knowledge Foundation Local Group in Denmark

. By initiative of Niels Erik Kaaber Rasmussen, I've joined the efforts to start a Local Group of Open Knowledge Foundation in Denmark. We're a small group by now, but hopefully more members will join in the months to follow and help shape the path going forward. We'll begin by organizing some meetups and getting the […] Read More…

Open Knowledge Conference in Geneva a great success // #OKCon

. These last few days - September 16-19 - I've been in Geneva with most of the other Open Knowledge Foundation staff to organize the world biggest event for open knowledge, the Open Knowledge Conference, with over 900 people attending from over 55 countries. The full program of the conference was chug full of sessions focusing […] Read More…

Joining the Open Knowledge Foundation team

. . It is with great joy that I can announce that as of January 14, 2013, I am officially part of the Open Knowledge Foundation team. I will be working with community management within two areas; Open Government Data and the global community of Local Groups. Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is officially described as […] Read More…

Back from Prague, now onwards to do talk in Helsinki @ Open Knowledge Festival // #OKfest #CC

. This weekend I spent in the good company of old friends, with whom I travelled to Prague for a long weekend of relaxation and to attend the Coldplay concert there. Good times and what a show. We're talking U2 stage production scale here - and in Chris Martin, the lead singer, an iconic performer. […] Read More…

Thoughts from my first time at Burning Man // @burningman

. . I hardly know where to begin when prompted to explain what the journey to the Burning Man festival has given me in terms of new thoughts, new perspectives and new energies. Still, I would like to try to capture my thoughts at this point right after the experience - for future reference and […] Read More…

Nice feedback from #CPeurope talk/panels in Berlin this week (links, video and photos)

. It's been a great few days in Berlin this week, where I've been attending the gigantic Campus Party conference in the former airport Tempelhof. The venue in itself was impressive - by far the biggest and most authentic set for a conference that I've ever attended - but also unconventional in the sense that […] Read More…

Talks and panel discussions in Berlin next week @ CPcon // #CPeurope

Next week I'll be heading to Berlin for a few days to attend the enormous Campus Party Europe Conference, the world's largest technology fest with over 600 speakers - that takes place in the former city airport Tempelhof. I'll be giving a talk about my record label Uhrlaut as well as participating in two discussions […] Read More…

Interview in Jyllandsposten, critical comment by IFPI, moving Platform4, coverage in TV2Nord, Gaffa + Nordjyske // #platform4dk #uhrlaut

It's busy times right now; we've moved Platform4 from the old venue to the new, launched the PlayForm Mobile Art & Technology Exhibition and released a new EP with Tone - while at the same time trying out a new rather rebellious sharing experiment in Aalborg, Aarhus and Copenhagen. To start from the end: The […] Read More…

Feedback blogging from recent talks + interviews on DR website and in Politiken

People attending some of my recent talks have been kind enough to feedback online with their impression of the sessions - which I really appreciate. After my talk at MultimediaDays at Aarhus Business Academy last week, Jeanne Bødker Nissen wrote this one on the Multimediedesigner blog: Spændende oplæg om Creative Commons (in Danish) Also Berit […] Read More…

Talking at Open Source Days, KODA, Promus and VIBE these next two weeks // #cph #aarhus #cc #platform4dk

Lots of talk-activity these next couple of weeks. Tonight I'll be co-hosting the Creative Commons/KODA debate in Copenhagen and give a brief presentation of the CC-licensing tools and also my label Uhrlaut - and the same in Aarhus tomorrow, Thursday, in the Promus building. Friday I'll give a Platform4-presentation in Aalborg in front of two […] Read More…