The everyday life

Read ‘em and weep boys! I won the bet. First man at Kyllingborg!

Check the geo-tagged photo as proof.

As Søren points out I did comment that the internet has no real content. Of course that is not true. I know that there’s plenty of good stuff out there and a lot of it is actually quite useful and informative. Just think about wikipedia. My point was that there seems to be more and more stuff floating around out there that doesn’t really add anything, it just reproduces what everyone else already have said and done.

Imagine then my excitement when yesterday I read an article (Lillelund, N. (2008, December 18). Er ventetiden gratis? Jyllands-Posten, p14, 1. sektion.) that raises the issue of news media spending whole days on single, non-important, issues, while the financial sector is in such a turmoil and many other pressing issues would be more suited for discussion.

At least a few other are concerned, unlike most, who will be satisfied as long as they can youtube cute kittens and don’t get to affected by the financial crisis!

Søren’s latest post (sorry Søren) made me wonder about the usefulness of the internet and realize something bad.

For a long time I’ve had a big issue with where the different mass media outlets are going, with declining intellectual quality of content, especially with reality TV shows and the like being on the rise still. In all this “mess” I’ve looked to the internet for higher quality entertainment. This is where Søren’s blog post comes in! I realized that things like twitter and endless loops of links to basically no content at all is just as bad, if not worse, as stupid television shows with no real content, except giving the effect of total penalization of the consumer.

That’s not to say that there is no quality content on the internet… on the contrary. The internet really does hold the promise of delivering better quality, reaching further and involving the users more thereby getting consumers to think about the choices they take.

What I’m saying though is, that as most people still rely on television as their primary form of entertainment some of that dumbing down that takes place will inadvertently spill over to the internet.

This lends credit to Mark’s theory that web 3.0 isn’t going to be the complete breakdown of the barrier between creator and consumer, but rather reinstatement of gatekeepers that can control the quality of the content. But these gatekeepers will have to be non-influenced by the larger media outlets as to keep the credibility of the content.

Just my thoughts after a sleepless night!

That’s the average time spent looking at my blog! I now know that thanks to goolge analytics. I can also see that since November 28th I’ve had 29 unique vistors. It’s not quite as impressive as I had hoped for, but I guess with what I’m writing it’s no wonder

So I’m realizing that the iphone is actually the perfect procrastination device, with the access to apps such as facebook, twitter and the like! In reality blogging is too (but don’t tell anyone – it’s a secret).

I’ve had a twtter account for a while already to be able to follow someone else, but haven’t used it myself. But now with a handy app fir the iPhone I rhoughtid give it a try and see what I think about it… After all it’s not much different from status messages on facebook, and I’ve a feeling more people would probably see those than my twtters. Still if you wanna come along on my twitter adventure you can follow me in twitter.com/etj

I’ve just spent way too much on something as trivial as a cup of joe, but what a cup!

After work I decided to go to the airport to starbucks to buy a Christmas cup as well as caramel drizzle so I can make my own caramel macchiatos at work.

This being December they also had the holiday selection of drinks with a dark cherry moccha catching my eye. As always in Copenhagen it was way to expensive with a grande setting me back 45 DKK (that’s roughly $ 7.60). But boy was it worth it! Every holiday season I’m somewhere with a starbucks I get equally surprised and satisfied how good their seasonal drinks are relative to their usual offerings. Guess I cans stand coughing up that insane amount a couple of times a year for that

Happy holidays