Archive for August, 2008

M: Joy Division and New Order retrospective

Some time ago, i watched the cinema movie Control with my good friend Nicolaj. It’s a very emotional movie about the life and tragedy of Ian Curtis and Joy Division. It’s all in b/w, very stylistic and unique in it’s sense of filming.
When you leave the cinema seats after the lights get turned on, you’re [...]

Challenge OTW: Get down and knock them off!

I’m not doing much sport at the moment. Frankly, the only physical work I do, is riding my bike 2 * 3 kilometers to and from the train station each day.
Well, for the whole next week, I’ll try and change that. Goal:
Do 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups a day.
I recently finished a book by Carsten Mørch called [...]

The digital life in toto (part 1)

New possibilities and initiatives in the digital world have exploded during recent years, and the development doesn’t seem to stop for anything - just consider the monstrous spectrum of different online services that have launched within last decade or two:

Social networking services: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace
Communication and publishing platforms: Wordpress/Blogger, Tumblr, Twitter
Social life aggregators: FriendFeed, Profilactic, Lifestrea.ms
Social bookmarking and news: del.icio.us, Digg, StumbleUpon
Information [...]

Lifestreaming - next generation blogging?

While the blogging-trend seem to have reached it’s peak (or is that just being naive?), a new phenomenon is luring to be the “next big web thing”: Lifestreaming.
In brief, a lifestream is “a record of a person’s daily activities, aggregated from online sources such as blog posts, social networks and photo publishing“. The word Micro Blogging is about [...]

Challenge OTW: Break of Dawn

I did it again - I failed to do a challenge last week. Hmm, wonder if “Challenge of Every Second Week” would be more appriate at the moment. Not OK. I’ll up myself.
For the next week (Monday to Friday), I’ll face the primal fear of every teenagers mind: early mornings!
So, next weeks challenge:
Break of Dawn
Besides being [...]

Challenge OTW: The Dark Wandering

*White doves takes off and a blossom light beam illuminates the nimbus*
Padre, i have sinned..
It has been a long time since my last Confession. Last week, I, a misdeed.. I failed. I failed to perform my weekly ritual, to carry through the challenge of the week..
 
Felt a little theatrical in the moment of writing But, even though [...]