Årstiderna

Årstiderna First home delivery of organic vegetables today. Will need to open the great Chardonnay and think up a meal composition. Sun is shining. Life is pretty good.

Time for cleanup

I realized, what does one put on the blog-thing anyway? Recommendations, reference-points, maybe warnings, and amusements, as high level categories. I KNOW I’ve left one or two important out, but will add them later and clean up in the  scheme right now. As well as add links to something I particularly recommend this morning – RadioLab from New York. First Laughter episode of season 4 just came out. Rats can laugh too! And also include a me-link to www.teldok.se, a site i work on togeather with Stefan Görling, a collegue at KTH.

The Kitchen Computer

The Kitchen Computer

Kevin Kelly’s description of the use his kitchen computer gets very much reflects the scenario in my own family. In fact, the kitchen computer (a macmini with eyetv and softsqueeze software for teve and radio) was the first computer my dear Mimi “enjoyed”. Wife Acceptance Factor is hard to come by, but we treasure our MacMini, and our three year old not only watches Bolibompa but speaks to grandpa in Phoenix Arizona regularly as well as… The screen get’s the occasional finger print but… that’s a worldy matter.

Picture of really old 1969 computer for kitchen is also mentioned in ChrisAnderson’s excellent short on Free: “… a stylish kitchen appliance offered by Honeywell in 1969, came with integrated counter space.”

…they were being trained and coached in a subterranean way.

Shaping in unconscious ways Another great KK post, this time on how available patterns shape/prepare in a great effortless way. I’ll make a point of being persistent in just showing how much I like something by doing it, doing it, making the pattern and the love I have for that particular activity, apparent to my son. Wether he joins or not, shows appreciation/interest or not. Later in life, if he gets the urge, the pattern will be right there for hom to build upon. I never really understood how and why I am as much like my

Dirty Business

Conceptual Trends and Current Topics

Kevin Kellys LifeStream är min favoritläsning. Idag (! när jag läser) skriver han om hur det är att ‘jobba’ i olika yrken. Jag har genom Jon Udells långvariga intresse letat liknande sajter länge. Fascinerande!

Framtidens teve, eller En lektion i hur en bra bild kommer till (dig)

AppleInsider | Apple TV Take 2: an in-depth review (part 1): what’s new

Länken ovan ser på rubriken ut att vara en recension av Apples andra release av AppleTV. Stämmer. Men såå mycket mer döljer sig i den tudelade artikeln som jag rekommenderar alla med det minsta intresse för hemmabio eller “ICT policy” att läsa.

Du lär dig alltså hur olika affärsmodeller på den amerikanska videouthyrningsmarknaden står mot varandra, hur transmissionskompression gör en högupplöst bild sämre “på skärmen” än en mindre upplöst men inte så sönderkramad dito. Men jag skulle inte skrivit detta blog-inlägg om det inte vore för det faktum att den amerikanska artikeln om de amerikanska förhållandena kastar ett så hårt strålkastarsken på det faktum att vi lider av triple-play i Sverige! Vafan.  (Och hur skapar jag styckebryt i wordpress?)

Marknaderna ser olika ut på olika kontinenter, i olika länder. Olika typ av konkurrens och behov av olika (mycket) reglering. Jag studerar för tillfället “Network Neutrality” (inför ett ännu outlyst super-seminarium den 16 april – ni läste det först här!) och inser hur olika detta ämne  ser ut i olika länder. Och EFTERSOM vi alla blir allt mer internationellt sammanknutna kommer (av nationella aktörer föreslagen) nationell reglering ha mindre och mindre chans att få fotfäste, att vara relevant. Så hur ska vi göra i lilla Sverige?: När kommer iTunes store att få tillåtelse att börja hyra ut film, i Sverige? När får amerikanarna tillgång till konkurrenskraftiga priser på “consumer broadband”? När förstår svensson-konsumenten att de inte får bättre bild av att köpa platt-teve? Och så vidare. När vi börjar förstå, kan vi börja resonera, på ett högre plan…

…outside the realm of the originating provider’s application

Social Graph API: One small step for Google, one giant step for the Internet Operating System

 But a real platform service makes it possible for developers to do things entirely outside the realm of the originating provider’s application. Unlike OpenSocial, which I found disappointing, the Google Social Graph API is a game-changing play in the social networking space. It’s a huge step towards open standards and a level playing field in smart social apps, and exposes Google’s data and infrastructure in a subtle and powerful way. I can’t wait to see what comes next!

Sweet music memories

Pat MethenyI’ve only sat in line waiting for Good tickets a few times, and every time it was when Pat came to town. On his homepage he gives us a podcast with the inside word on all of his records to date. Terrific. Why don’t more musicians do this? 

20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog)

20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog)I didn’t think I’d engage on a personal level in the US election. Larry Lessig made me feel. Strongly. I also hope for similar type of analysis to show when it’s time for election in my neck of the woods in two years time  

Balance between Man and Machine

I am involved with a search/linking/directory service at work. Because of that I found the recent radar a very interesting read. One quote (of many):

 Mahalo is placing a bet on human intervention in search results; Wikia Search on the power of making its ranking algorithms open and transparent (a la open source software). But both are trying to re-draw the boundary between human and machine. 

Rather than making a bad job of summarizing, I refer you over to radar. I think the very rapid fall of the stock markets over the last few weeks, and the subesquent flapping, is an indication that we didn’t find the right balance just yet. But, as is said in the article, at least trading can and will be stopped if changes are too big too quickly. Internet-facilitaded interaction between “machines” in other areas isn’t necessarily dampened by similar human intervention…