Last minutes with Oden

Beautiful documentary.

Last Minutes with ODEN from phos pictures on Vimeo.

Jag börjar på Iconvert

Idag blev det (äntligen) lite mer officiellt att jag börjar hos Iconvert. “Om”-sidan kanske blev lite krystad, men så skrevs det i all hast också. Och ja, ny sajt för Iconvert är på gång.

Since you came here there have been …

Came across “Gary’s Social Media Count” today via Ronnestam. If this doesn’t have the famous “wow factor”, I’m not sure what does. All of these stats fits in quite well with the recently released “Did You Know?” from The Economist.

Unbelievable, wouldn’t you say? Kudos to Gary.

Some updates to the blog

It’s been a while since Wordpress 2.8 aka. “Baker” was released. Even though I think “Coltrane” was a more fundamental change to the usability and backend of Wordpress, Baker proved to be the perfect excuse to complete some other improvements that have been on my to-do list for ages.

To start things up I’ve implemented disqus for handling comments. It’s an excellent framework that allows users to login using e.g. their Twitter or Facebook identities. As you might recall, I did some ‘ugly hacks’ to enable a Facebook Connect and Twitter Connect earlier. Disqus also has a neat feature called social media reactions which monitors conversions around your posts, so no need to use the backtype plugin or similar to bring the conversation back. I’d also like to reserve some extra kudos to the DISQUS-team, especially Giannii – they’re absolutely fantastic at getting back to you if you have a problem and seem to monitor conversations regarding disqus in every space.

I’ve also finally got around to writing somewhat decent about me and follow me pages as well as mashed up my social presence to a lifestream page by using the excellent wp-lifestream plugin. Following a tip from Andreas Karman (Swedish post), I cleaned up the archives a bit using smart archives reloaded.

And as a bonus to all iPhone users, you now have an iPhone optimized site if you visit this blog in Safari on your iPhone, compliments to wptouch. Rumours also has it that the feed wasn’t working earlier, that’s now solved.

Puh. Maybe it’s finally time to create some content? It’s just that Wordpress is to fun to mess around with.

Personas art installation

“Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display until Sept 09 at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab (Please contact us if you want to show it next!). It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.”

Very interesting, would you agree with your Personas?

Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset

You have to love and respect Hans Rosling, he’s enthusiasm and world hope in a Swedish doctor-package. This is his latest talk at the US State Department, making and emphasizing his point with Gapminder World, a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries.