Classy technology change quote
“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys”.
Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876

Weird and interesting – The wrong world is winning…

pseudorandom: David Smith: US=MS
“If you want to understand how the world views the US, it is probably very similar to the way we view Microsoft:
– Extremely successful, much of it appears to be undeserved.
– We are totally dependent upon them, and there isn’t much of an alternative.
– Becoming too successful in our niche simply means that we will attract their attention.
– We like it when we see them fail.
– We are uncomfortable when we see them fail because they just keep working at it until …

Ready.gov – From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security – makes me scared of the american manipulation machine!

Everybody’s blogging!
Harvard is blogging, Stanford is blogging, Gartner is blogging, Jupiter is blogging, Alan Meckler is blogging and William Gibson is blogging.
Momentum, momentum, momentum – if they drink the weblog kool-aid and adopt to the format and culture.

Gerry McGovern: Why content management software hasn’t worked.
Good rant against the current focus in the cms industry. Reflects a lot of the points i made 18 months ago in a presentation at the FDIH Cms-conference. Loosen the focus on sales, drive the market through product innovation, kill the “cms-category” – suggested at that time the term “conversation systems” instead to get a term that would open up people eyes to innovation.
Not much has happened, at last not in the danish marketplace. 10-20 serious vendors all struggling to get by by …

O’Reilly Network: Cory Doctorow’s Bitchun’ World: P2P Gone Wild. Interview with Cory about his book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and the future in general.

One of my little brothers friends comment: “peter, it doesn’t suit your personality having a job”…
Those kids, those kids

Living is…
Trying not to think too much when something beautiful happens.