Category Archive Open web

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…

Anti-ACTA day: Demo later today + interviews in DR P4, TV2-Nord and Nordjyske // #stopacta

. Today marks the big Anti-ACTA day in Denmark and across the country in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg people are hitting the streets to show their opposition to the subjugating legislative initiative. I am part of the Danish movement against ACTA, and have helped setup the demonstration today and act as spokesperson. To our […] Read More…

Another P3 Interview – this time on the Megaupload closing (w. audio-file) / #net_neutrality

  For the second time last week I was asked to appear for a comment in Danish national radio DR P3's "Pressen" program (Friday Jan 20 2012). This time they were discussing FBI's forced close-down of online locker-service Megaupload. Naturally, I expressed the dire concern among proponents of the open web, that these kind of […] Read More…

Interview in national radio DR P3 about SOPA (w. audio link) // #sopa #net_neutrality

    Wednesday this week I was interviewed on Danish national radio DR P3 in the afternoon program P3 Pressen about the SOPA shenanigans going on in the US right now. The interview is approx 4 minutes and you can hear it here. SOPA is a draconian law being passed through congress in the US […] Read More…

New book: ‘Creative Commons For Alle’ – with chapter by me // #creativecommons #openculture

My friend and collaborator in Creative Commons Denmark, Peter Leth, has recently published a great new book, 'Creative Commons For Alle' (English: Creative Commons For All) which aims at introducing the immense strength of using Creative Commons licenses to the broad audience in general and to grade school teachers in particular. As Public Project Lead […] Read More…

Talk from Copenhagen IT University now online // #itu #cph #cc

The talk about open culture and Creative Commons that I did at the IT University earlier this month was recorded on video and has now been put online. In case you want to check it out, see below. The talk about open culture and Creative Commons that I did at the IT University earlier this […] Read More…

Hosting workshop @ CC Global Summit // #warsaw #creativecommons #ccsummit2011

Today I'll be hosting a workshop at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Warsaw, Poland, focussing on how to work with volunteers in the CC communities across the globe. The idea is to address ways to establish such communities, how to sustain/expand them and of course how they can be used as a strong resource […] Read More…

Attending Creative Commons Global Summit ’11 in Warsaw // #warsaw #poland #cc

Just arrived yesterday in Warsaw, such a beautiful city, to attend the Creative Commons Global Summit 2011. As Public Lead for Creative Commons Denmark I am representing our CC affiliate jurisdiction along with my colleague Martin von Haller Grønbæk. The idea is, first and foremost, to meet and network with all the other leads from […] Read More…

Interviewed for German national radio // #urlyd #cc

A couple of weeks back (I just haven't had the time to blog about it before now) I was once again interviewed for the show 'Breitband' on German national radio Deutschlandradio. Continuing on the theme of Creative Commons, the popular and highly esteemed radio show keeps adressing the need for German artists and songwriters to […] Read More…

Finished the 7-minute quick-and-dirty video blog from Transmediale11 // #tm11 #berlin

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Transmediale11 conference in Berlin and during that I shot a lot of video of many of the things that went on. This has now been edited into a 7 minute quick-and-dirty video collage of select footage, interviews, workshop bits and other stuff from the nice week in […] Read More…