http://elgg.ell.aau.dk/ryberg/weblog/295.html

Once again I have not had much time for blogging - maybe it would be better not to mention this lack of blogging, since it is actually pretty obvious from the dates in the blog-postings. Anyways - some of the things that has been happening (apart from working with my PhD) are the creation of a new homepage for the education "Informationsvidenskab" at Aalborg University (in English we have termed it Human Centered Informatics) and then I have run a small course on Social Software together with Christian Dalsgaard from Aarhus University. The latter is actually visible here in this Elgg-environment, since the students from the Master in ICT and Learning (MIL) are blogging, sharing bookmarks, discussing SoSo and So On. Unfortunately I have not had time to comment on all postings, but they are really all interesting and there are more to come.

The homepage for Informationsvidenskab has turned out very well I think. I am really happy that students, researcher and former students have been willing to write a bit about themselves and the education. I think this works much better in describing what the education is about, than the more formal, academically toned descriptions. Big kudos to Open Source Software system Typo3 and people who have shared pictures, templates and other stuff under creative commons licenses or the like (do check out credits and acknowledgments if you visit the site - link in footer :-) - and of course a very big thanks to all the students, researchers and former students for creating the content :-). Right now the page is in Danish only but eventually we will translate all the stuff.

Well - not much more to say this time...oh apart from that I found a wonderful remix - a Jørgen Riber Reggae remix. Jørgen is a researcher and a colleague who is very popular with the students (they have actually named a movie award the 'Riber Award' - Riberprisen) because he runs a popular course where the students create (wonderful) short films. Apart from that he also teaches in the use of Macromedia Director (must now be Adobe something...) and he has created some online tutorials for this. Now, a student has remixed/sampled his voice-over from these tutorials with reggae music - this is really funny and cool (it is in Danish - but maybe also funny if you don't speak Danish - I dunno). Anyway - you can download this wonderful remix here

I think it is worth listening to - kudos to the student Christopher who made it and kudos to Jørgen for permitting it (I would be very surprised had he not - he has himself a wonderful sense of humour and he is a hilarious lecturer - he makes people 'roooooll ooover' laughing (this is a pun also, which might only be understandable to people who've been through the Director course)) 

http://elgg.ell.aau.dk/ryberg/weblog/314.html

Just a very quick note - from Finn Kryger and Thomas Tjellesen I picked up this blog

http://guttorm.hveem.no/blogg/

It is written by Guttorm Hveem and is in Norwegian. Especially I picked up on the posting about where he also talks about online identity management - "person vern" - protecting oneself in a maybe sometime too transparent world - see the post here:

http://guttorm.hveem.no/blogg/2007/01/born-og-internett-kjeldek

This also linked to a Norwegian Initiative 

http://www.dubestemmer.no/ 

The site is called "you decide" translated to english - and it takes up issues of how you should decide what you put on the net, if you are really anonymous and who is actually looking at you - very interesting - thanks to you guys for picking that up in the first place! Also if I have not saidd so before - read also the blogs of Michael Zimmer and Anders Albrechtslund - the latter just yesterday sent me a link about this as well from New York Magazine: 

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll  

http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/ 

http://elgg.ell.aau.dk/ryberg/weblog/326.html

Just a quick note on a service that have been initiated by the people developing elgg. They have created the service explode, which is an easy way to connect to ALL your friends without having to sign up for multiple services (apart from the explode service of course). The idea is that whether your friends have their own blog, are members on myspace, facebook, Hi5, arto.dk, LinkedIn or having their own homepage you can connect to them through the explode. Explode does not take a lot of signing up and filling out. You write a brief description, state some interest and then link to whatever page you think represent you (your blog, your homepage, your myspace profile, your LinkedIn page or whatever).

In this sense you can build a friends network across different services - you don't need to sign up to seventeen different social networking sites and have just a cluster of your friends represented there, while signing up for another service to have another cluster (often with overlapping members) represented there. I guess one could call it a meta-social networking site - as it is not as such a social networking site itself, but can aggregate your friends across different sites and have them displayed anywhere you want (see the widget on my page here) - no more see my Myspace contacts here, see my bloglogcommunity here, see my 100 other networks here ...I think that's quite clever and big Kudos to the elgg-developers Ben Werdmuller and Dave Tosh (and all the others) for this. You can read Ben Werdmuller's blog posting about it as well.

Check the explode out here and you're welcome to add me as a friend :-) 

http://elgg.ell.aau.dk/ryberg/weblog/331.html

Well - got a message from a friend through IM about a video concerning changes and transformations - as it is written somewhere about the video:

"Amazing how things change and are constantly changing. This video does a good job of highlighting some facts and figures that range from interesting, to stunning, to even a little scary." The video is about globalisation and the 'information age'

Apart from the things about computers exceeding the human brain I think it is very interesting 'statistics' and 'factoids' :-)