11 reporters (six of them jailed) stand accused in the case of the satirical cartoons of Mohammed and other motifs in different countries. There are 13 temporarily or permanently closed publications in Algeria, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco and Yemen. Please read Reporters Without Borders
(via djh.dk/ejour)
The satirical cartoons of the prophet Mohammed and other motifes were printed (and shown on websites) in 143 papers in 56 countries around the world according to the Danish webzine eJour. The article is in Danish, but it contains a very large collection of links.
143 aviser viser tegningerne
En digital tur rundt på kloden giver gevinst i 56 lande
Mindst 143 aviser i 56 lande har bragt enkelte eller alle de 12 Muhammed-tegninger, der oprindelig blev trykt i Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten 30. september 2005. Vi finder tegningrene gengivet i aviser i såvel kristne som jødiske og muslimske lande. Det viser resultaterne af en digital rundtur kloden over, eJour har foretaget i februar.
Lisbeth Klastrup har nogle interessante betragtninger om livet i blogosfæren. Måske de kan bringe os på sporet af, hvorfor blogs lever efter en anden logik end andre medier.
Hvordan man skaber en genbesøgelig weblog:
Inden for spilforskningen arbejder man med et begreb, der hedder ’replayability’, på godt dansk oversat til ’genspillelighed’. Både spillere og forskere synes ofte, at et spil er godt, når det er genspilleligt, altså når man kan spille spillet igen og igen, og stadig blive underholdt af det eller finde nye udfordringer i det. Med en lidt anden formulering kan man måske stille det samme krav til et professionelt eller corporate website: Det skal have en høj genbesøgelighedsfaktor. Det kan en weblog måske være med til at skabe
Af forsker Lisbeth Klastrup, IT-Universitetet i København.
Som mangeårig bloglæser, blogskribent og nu også som blogforsker, har jeg læs mere
(Via hovedetpaabloggen.dk.)
Dagbladet Information: “Avissnedker nu som skældsord »
[11:59] 24. februar 2006 |
Af Nikolai Thyssen
Jeg bad forleden Henrik Føhns, som en af de fire kommentatorer, der på skift skriver på Mediesiderne i Information, om at skrive en kommentar om blogosfæren. Det gjorde jeg med en mindre provokation, for Føhns er på en gang aktiv i både et gammelt og et nyt medie. Som redaktør på Samvirke er han noget så gammel, men som blogger har han været noget så ny helt fra begyndelsen. Derfor står han på begge sider i konflikten mellem ’old media’ og ’new media’: Bloggerne står på den ene side og si’r: ’Se os, vi har fremtiden på vores side, vi er den demokratiske udvikling af medierne, avispapir og flow-tv er kna”
(Via information.dk.)
Og her er selve kommentaren:
Mens vi venter på overraskelsen
Hvornår får danske bloggere fingeren ud af egen navle?
Af Henrik Føhns
”Der er ingen dansk blogosfære!”
Udsagnet faldt i en mail, som jeg modtog fra en avissnedker forleden.
For de uindviede, så er blogosfæren summen af alle blogs. Forstået som et fællesskab eller socialt netværk, hvor de mange blogs er koblet tæt sammen via links, referencer og kommentarer.
Der er masser af gode blogs, skrevet af mediefolk og teknologer. De handler dog oftest om andre blogs, teknologi eller medier. Hvis vi ser bort fra dem, hvad sker der så egentlig i den danske blogosfære? Ingenting, hævdede avissnedkeren.
Jeg møder ofte journalister fra de ”gamle” papirbårne eller licensfinansierede medier, der mener, at danske bloggere ikke har fået et afgørende gennembrud, fordi ingen af os har været i stand til at levere historier med nyhedsmæssig eller afslørende gennemslagskraft – og deraf følgende høje læsertal, som man har set det i USA.
Men i modsætning til traditionelle medier tænker bloggere ikke i oplag eller lytter/seertal, men på deres position i netværket. New York Magazine lavede for nyligt en top 50 på verdens mest populære blogs, og anslog at der findes over 27 millioner blogs på verdensplan. Jo flere andre bloggere, der linker til ens blog, desto højere oppe på top 50 befinder man sig. Helt i tråd med opfattelsen af blogosfæren som et socialt netværk.
er en oversigt over den danske del af blogosfæren. Her kan man i real time kan følge med i hvem, der har opdateret deres blogs og med hvad. Hvis vi følger avissnedkerens kritik og fraregner eksperterne, så står vi i overvejende grad tilbage med en samling selvoptagede sludrehoveder. Det er selvfølgelig en grov generalisering, og mange ”leverpostejsbloggere” – som de med selvironisk distance har døbt sig selv – skriver faktisk overraskende velsmurt og underholdende, men de afslører hverken korrupte politikere, medie- eller erhvervsfolk.
Undersøgelsen i New York Magazine viser nemlig også, at politiske blogs har overhalet blogs om teknologi. Men hvordan ser det ud på den front i Danmark? Tjah, de findes, men ingen af deres historier har endnu formået at slå igennem i mediernes traditionelle fødekæde, bortset fra de gamle pornobilleder af Louise Frevert, der blandt andet slap ud via bloggeren Keld Bach. Han røg derfor ind i en voldsom polemik med Kim Møller, der driver den yderst aktive blog Uriasposten, som sammen med en række andre blogs af nationalistisk karakter – vi kan vel kalde dem højreorienterede – befolker deres helt eget hjørne af den danske blogosfære. Her kom man vidt omkring i emner som antisemitisme og islamofobi, alt sammen ansporet af en nøgen Frevert.
Ingen af disse bloggere er tilsyneladende politisk aktive i gængs forstand. Og ikke alle er lige velartikulerede eller høflige i tonen.
Et mere gennemarbejdet bud på en decideret politisk blog i polemik med sin omverden, er den fritænkende Punditokraterne.dk, der virker inspireret af den amerikanske Instapundit (nr. 7 på top 50) og den britiske Samizdata.net.
Punditokraterne er blandt andre folk fra Copenhagen Business School, jurister og en Groft Sagt skribent fra Berlingske forsamlet for at skyde med meget liberale, verbale skarpskud. En velargumenteret og belæst flok, der stadig savner kvalificeret modstand fra deres politiske modfløj. Til gengæld ser de ikke ud til at kunne levere et gennembrud i form af en markant selvstændig historie, fordi de ikke oplever verden, men snarere fortolker den fra et skrivebord.
Og her ligger måske kimen til avissnedkerens udfald mod blogosfæren. Alt for mange blogs lever i kraft af andre medier og deres historier. Bloggen er et medie, hvor vi i princippet kunne gå ud og opleve verden gennem vores egne øjne og beskrive den uden filter. I stedet får vi en masse historier og links til andre blogs og medier, referencer til bøger, film og musik og beretninger fra tanker tænkt mellem fire vægge foran en computer. Det er som om den virkelige verden udenfor vores vinduer er blevet den virtuelle verden, som vores krop af og til betræder af simpel fysisk nødvendighed, mens verden på vores skærm er blevet den virkelige verden, hvor vores hjerne og bevidsthed trives allerbedst.
Jeg venter stadig spændt på den dag, hvor en blogger, podcaster eller videoblogger tager bussen den modsatte vej af, hvad han eller hun plejer, taler med nye mennesker og ser nye steder for dernæst at blogge om dem. I stedet for at hakke på journalisterne på DR eller referere kronikker fra udenlandske magasiner.
I mens småsludrer jeg selv videre på fohns.dk og mondofunza.com. Og venter på overraskelsen – ligesom avissnedkeren.
Blogs to Riches - The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom — New York Magazine: “New York Magazine”
(Via nymag.com.)
Official announcement from the Sex Pistols regarding the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
(Via www.thefilthandthefury.co.uk/.)
And the videoclip to accompany it: “Its what these people have done that is relevant, not what they wore while doing it…”
Via (www.johnlydon.com.)
DIRELAND: IRAN EXECUTES 2 GAY TEENAGERS (updated)
…and they want Denmark to apologize for some cartoons?
In love with a sausage: Burenwurst aus Wien
dr.dk › Nyheder › Kultur › Dan Turélls hash udstilles på Politihistorisk Museum
The hash left behind by the late Danish author Dan Turéll in 1993 and ten years later confiscated by the police, when his widow wanted to sell his belongings by auction, can now be seen on display at the museum of Danish policehistory at Faelledvejen in Copenhagen. 11 gramme to be exact. I don’t know if he was ever translated into English. But he was the closest Denmark ever came to a beat poet. Apart from his friend Peter Laugesen of course.
I bike by every day. Maybe tomorrow I will go see the “rygeklump” of Uncle Danny and pay my due respect. He did some wonderfull and very witty poems about Buddha.
(Via http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder.)
Senior researcher Ulla Holm at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) has analyzed Denmark, the welfare state and our understanding of ourselfes according to the fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling” by H. C. Andersen:
Today I read a comment by the Danish writer Kristian Ditlev Jensen in the Danish daily Politiken about a future possible “world religion”. He quotes Albert Einstein:
“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity”.
Kristian claims that the three big monotheistic religions – Christianity, Islam and Judaism – fight because they are monotheistic and claim that there is one and only one God. Their God.
The Danish writer claims that in contrast to the above mentioned religions, Buddhism respects diversity and therefore is the religion of the future. Somehow more advanced than the more militant religions to appear after Buddha finally had his Nirvana. The bottomline is that you are nothing. In fact we are all nothing, which is something you can’t really preach. Can you imagine anybody fighting a religious war to persuade others to become…, nothing? Not really.
I made these photos in June, when I visited British Museum in London (please click them for larger versions). The statue is centuries old. But look at the happy laugh and the potbelly that reveals a living far from today’s fear of getting fat. This guy has an inner peace that is bigger than all of us. And he loves it.
I have thought about blogging these photos ever since the row about the Muhammed cartoons started back in September, but I had to read Kristian’s comment today to get around it. You can make a statue of Buddha. I can take a picture of the statue. And love and spiritual energy stems from it. We need some love and the feeling of being nothing in the debate about the Muhammed cartoons.
More photos at fohns!
Så er den første podcast fra Transmediale 06 klar. Det er en reportage fra udstillingen. Den er ret rå og ikke særlig sofistikeret i lyden. Optaget på min iPod.
Om små 14 dage følger et par interviews.
All this is in Danish including most of the podcast except from a short interview with a robotmaker.
Download: Reportage fra Transmediale
Maybe this is better than excusing to people, who do not listen, because at the end of the day their agenda is not at all about Denmark and cartoons but something entirely different.
“Posts that contain Buy Danish per day for the last 30 days.
Get your own chart!”
The Danish division of Greenpeace has been convicted according to the Danish legislation on terror, due to an action against GMO soya. A fine of 50.000 dkr. Is this freedom of speech?
Terrorpakke i brug for første gang mod fredelige Greenpeace:
“Greenpeace-aktivister går frivilligt ud af Axelborg og arresteres af politiet.
København, Danmark — Dom vil stække foreninger, der anvender ansvarlig civil ulydighed. Som den første organisation nogensinde er foreningen Greenpeace Norden blevet dømt for at overtræde paragraffer indført med terrorpakken fra 2002. Det skete da Østre Landsret i dag skærpede en byretsdom fra juni 2005.
Retten idømte miljøorganisationen en bøde på i alt 50.000 kr. (25 dagbøder af 2.000 kr.) i forbindelse med en fredelig happening i oktober 2003, hvor frivillige aktivister hængte et banner ned fra Axelborg i København i protest mod gensplejset svinefoder.
‘Vi må konstatere, at Folketinget uden særlig forudgående offentlig debat har vedtaget en lov, som i praksis knægter ytringsfriheden for organisationer, der lejlighedsvis benytter sig af fredelig civil ulydighed.”
Read more:
(Via Greenpeace Denmark.)
A Danish citizen group have posted this on the world wide web and via e-mail. I post this to show the variety of opinions within the Danish society. The text is also published in Arabian on their website. I have not signed the letter and do not intend to do so. I too want to live in peace with the muslim world, but I want to live by terms set by a modern democratic society. Not by rules set by autocratic, fundamentalistic, religious regimes. The outrage about the Danish cartoons have other roots than the cartoons themselves. The cartoons and Denmark have just become scapegoats for social and political disorder in the Middle East. And it is by no means fair to condemn the cartoonists in this manner, as at least four of them not even portrayed Mohammed, but merely made a comment on the case that released the drawings in the first place, namely a pr-stunt made by the author of a children’s book about Mohammed. The book is by the way quickly becoming a bestseller in Danish bookstores, which means that his pr-stunt worked. Another thing is, how clean his conscience is knowing that several people have died the last few days as an indirect cause of his book.
Though I strongly support the freedom of speech, it’s still haunts me, if you should exercise this freedom with more care? But then again, I’m an atheist, I have my constitutional rights that other people have fought long to achieve on my behalf, I can’t just give them up. I have nothing against christianity, islam or other religions. But when they start to preach and act against basic human rights - count me out.
“A letter from Another Denmark
Dear Muslim citizens in Denmark and the World
I wish to state the existence of another Denmark: A Denmark that wants to live in
peace with the Muslim world. There is another Denmark, which hopes for and believes
in respect and tolerance between religions and different groups of people.
As a Dane I have no responsibility for what a single and privately owned Danish
newspaper chooses to publish. Even so, I strongly condemn the actions of
Jyllands-Posten that have offended muslims around the world, and I understand the
need for an apology from the newspaper.
We all have a responsibility for treating each other, our religious faiths, and
convictions with dignity and respect. By publishing the caricatures of Muhammad, the
newspaper Jyllands-Posten failed their obligation to exercise with care and
consideration the right of freedom of speech.
I condemn all kinds of discrimination, prejudice and racism, whether it is directed
against Muslims, Jews, Christians or other groups in a society. Therefore, I reject
the hostile and prejudicial way of speaking that has marked several Danish,political
parties and media within recent years.
I want to make a request to all parts involved, that opinions and protests may be
conducted in a respectful and peaceful manner. Attacks on and threats against
individuals and assets only make the situation worse for all of us.
I believe in a world, where religions, ethnic groups and various political and
cultural opinions can coexist in an atmosphere of dialogue, tolerance and mutual
respect.
I wish to state the existence of Another Denmark that conceives itself as a part of
such a heterogenous world and humanity.
In the sincere hope of international tolerance and respect.”
(Via anotherdenmark.org.)
Already five months ago the Danish Mohammed drawings were published in Egyptian papers!
Documentation on these two blogs:
Monochrom’s wonderful tribute to the overhead projector, a media platform that is sadly passing away… Please download this song as an MP3: MP3 (5:25) This is the disco version.
FAREWELL TO OVERHEAD
(which had been a popular school broadcasting technique back in the old days)
monochrom in cooperation with Hangl and Kertal
Farewell To Overhead
When I was a little boy going to school
Everbody had this thing in use
It told us about history
It told us of democracy
It told us about how this world would be
Mostly you were stored aside
You stood there dreamingly and sighed
You did not even look too good
But everything was understood
Your apparatusness did shine
You waited humble and offline
But then they switched you on and went
On to some things to understand
Photosynthesis
and foreign places
Penis and vagina,
USA and Canada
Overhead was where it all was at
Overhead
You really drove us mad
You weren’t all that bad
On the walls we read
What they wanted to teach
What they wanted to preach
It’s over
Now you are dead media
Looked up on wikipedia
Not even the collector’s scene does care
But in this world of powerpoint
I miss you still my de”
(Via www.monochrom.at.)
I saw the journalist Mona Eltahawy in the Danish news yesterday. She has some very interesting points about being caught in the system of bipolar, religious extremism. On the one hand European right wing anti-muslim and on the other hand the extreme islamists.
