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Gone Fishing

Jacob Christensen — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:19:02 +0000

Folketinget, the Danish parliament is in summer recess. And boy is it in summer recess: The homepage has been down for more than a day and nobody noticed. Except for a couple of geeks haunting Twitter.

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Blogstalgia

Jacob Christensen — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:25:41 +0000

Did you know that this slick WordPress operated blog had a predecessor?

No?

Actually, back in 2004 Apple’s .mac service threw in a blogging application called iBlog for good measure and for whatever reason I decided to give it a try. The results – in Danish – are here.

Some posts made it to this blog, so the first actual post on what was then blog.jacobchristensen.name was this one and things only really started going with the 2005 local elections.

Berlin, S-Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz Taken in 2004. I first visited the place in 1993....
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Advice for Spin-Doctors

Jacob Christensen — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:27:33 +0000

Re: Okman-gate

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Brussels Gets Funny

Jacob Christensen — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:42:16 +0000

Well, if you are Belgian you have to have some sense of humour. So here is the Brussels Jungle – any similarities to actual EU processes and policies are … slightly scary.

Unrelated, but here are some Jacques Brel classics thrown in for good measure:

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Buzzword Bingo

Jacob Christensen — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:17:06 +0000

So, there is an EU summit coming up? Who’d have thunk – the good thing about these things being held in Brussels is that nobody except the EU correspondents and the Eurocrats have to care. But thanks to Caroline de Cock aka Linotherhino, we too can have a piece of the action.

Yes, it’s the (almost) official European Council Summit Buzzword Bingo – readily available as a PDF for printing. It even has flexicurity!

PS: Just in case you wonder what a buzzword bingo is, here’s Wikipedia to the rescue.

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Waving to the Naughties

Jacob Christensen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:34:26 +0000

“Naughties” as in 00s, that is. And in an attempt to be so 2010, I’ve contributed to Bølgen which you can find at Google Wave if you belong to the select company of the Illuminati (or whatever) with a modest look back at Danish politics in the outgoing decade.

Okay – I belong to the grumpy minority who claim that the new millennium began in 2001 and that the 00s strictly speaking go from 2001 to 2010, but as we live in an age of democracy…

(And by the way, James Naughtie is not married to Eleanor Update. Obviously, I spend too much time on the intertubes).

In any event: Thanks to Bjarne Tveskov for putting in the time and effort.

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Could This Be a New Word in Danish?

Jacob Christensen — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:13:00 +0000

Via Twitter the – rhetorical – question “how do you say this in Danish?” reached me. “This” was astroturfing, which is the not uncommon practice where companies or other established interests try to create popular legitimacy by setting up or funding organisations that look like ordinary grassroots organisations.

I doubt if the term astroturf with reference to artificial grass is generally well-known in Denmark, if only because top-level football (that’s soccer to you yanks) is played on real grass in this country, but we do talk about kunstgræs. So maybe astroturfing could be kunstgræsrødder in Danish? After all, the practice of astroturfing is not that uncommon: As politicians have learnt, the activities of one or the other organisation of patients or people suffering from some kind of disorder have over the years turned out to be heavily subsidised by medical companies, even if completely artificial organisations are very rare.

Oh, and kunstgræsrødderne are coming this way.

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Meanwhile, in the Comments Section

Jacob Christensen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:00:08 +0000

1. There are ten twitters in Odense. c|net thinks that Twitter is dead. (Well, almost) … hey, I’m part of the twelite!

2. There are ten types of blog commenters. And yes, I was very much in Unfogged mode Sunday.

3. The Metropolitan Region was something of a mess during the past week. Occasionally, the Monty Python Region felt like a more accurate name.

4. On Wednesday, the Socialist Party had five mayors and one regional chairman. On Sunday, the Socialists had one mayor. How do you think this looks? Professional? I mean: Losing one is what happens, but five out of six?

5. Denmark is officially f***ed. It more and more looks like Anders Fogh got away in time.

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Flash

Jacob Christensen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:28:36 +0000

Web designers love Flash. I don’t.

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Farewell GeoCities, We Hardly … well, We Did Know You

Jacob Christensen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:38:13 +0000

Hurry over to XKCD to behold the resurrected glory of GeoCities.

As a commenter wrote: This is beyond #win (If you have just the least idea about html, check the source code). Indeed. Also: XKCD’s forums.

HT: BoingBoing.

Oh, and Flash is for today’s web what animated gifs were to web 1.0.

Update: A reply in kind.

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