Survey of my online habits

On July 8th, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:

David tagged me in his online habits survey - so here goes :

What site do you visit first thing in the morning (after your blog)?

Actually I don't visit my blog first - I think it's gmail and then possibly some social networking site and 2 - 3 categories in my feedreader. Also I tend to visit greengirlsglobal.com for whom I have been blogging for a good while now. Then my clients sites to start my working hours for the day.

Name a service that you recently discovered and like?


Hm. that would be podcastmachine, actics and IRL- but a little disclaimer is that a couple of friends are working on them (I am working on IRL myself - and I think it's a brilliant idea). They do have a huge thing in common though: Vision to change the world, awesome. I don't know if it's a service but I am really into the 365days group on flickr these days. It my little creative project...

A blog whose design has impressed you?

My very favorite blogdesign (still) is la petite claudine - I simply love her header - and her blog...

A widget that would really help out but which doesn’t exist yet?

I think all kind of practical proximity widgets has a long way to go still. They really have to be convenient for the users though - otherwise I don't like widgets...

The last 2.0 book that you’ve read?

I am currently reading presentation zen ( the book), and I finished Clay Shirky's "here comes everybody" back in April - oh and I am terribly happy for my "how to be a rock star freelancer" book.


An online service that you think will become indispensable?

I really hope that actics will come indispensable, or dothegreenthing - basically services that makes you change the world.

A service that should exist because it’s sorely needed?

I don't know if it's a service - but a decision making mechanism that can change the world without have 50 politicians agree upon something before there's action. I think the world really needs that now. Decisions and actions - no more talking. But services that encourage actions are sorely needed. Services that makes people change their everyday patterns for more sustainability are sorely needed.

i think ethical proximity is gonna be huge in the future.

A blogger or net-entrepreneur whose work you admire?

I really admire people on their way up struggling, who succeeds in the end because of hard work. I admire J C Fischer for putting out his book ( he even made a dedication to me in it !!!!) and I truely and utterly admire Laura Kiralfy who is my partner for the inreallife.dk network for her creativity and her ways of action. Otherwise I will say Chris Messina - for his work with both Barcamps and Coworking... rock on guys.

Im passing the survey on to - well Sanjay (who we are interviewing for Geek Army Knife tonight) and to Elmine

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the future role for the media companies - aggregator instead of content creator

On April 29th, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:

In FDIHs network group that works around "media and content" we had a very good (not to say excellent) discussion around Chris Anderson's "free" concept and why it emplies to the media companies in particular. The discussion was facilitated by Mads Kristensen of Vadnu.com.

Anyway I got out of the group meeting with one thing completely clear to me. The media needs to change and journalists need to change ( nothing new in that) - but my take on how they should change is to become aggregator instead of a content creator themselves. as Clay Shirky also points out in his book "here comes everybody" - it's not really about content anymore. It's about putting up filters that delivers the right content to the right person.

I can give you some examples from my everyday life at good "filters" for my cravings and likings.

for inspiration I have my art bloglines folder that I look through several times a day (crafting, vintage, clothes - you name it)
for my shoe addiction I have shoewawa.com
for cooking I have several blogs -but I love thepioneerwoman and chocolate and zucchini.

I have clearly defined and categorized my own filters in my RSS reader.

Could this be the take that the media companies should have in the future ? - filters ? giving us very niche targeted content after which subject we are interested in right now ?

I am a bit in doubt how you would make such a setup - but I think it's the closest that I can gather my thoughts on media for the time being

Update: after further reading i am sure that what the media companies need to keep in mind is:

1. in the media "hooray days" there was only one or two places where you could go if you wanted to be outside of the mainstream ( and not be generalised as a part of the public) - the bookstore or the library where you could choose yourself what you wanted to be seeing/reading - you where only in complete control at the bookstores/movie rentals and the library. (Chris Anderson writes a bit about this in the long tail)

2. Today you can go everywhere to be outside of the mainstream - in fact I think I that could even argue that web killed the mainstream... =)

please do keep that in mind when you make your survival strategies.

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