Tonight my favorite composer will be present at the Tivoli Concert Hall. Steve Reich, the American minimalist composer is 70 this year and he is celebrated with concerts all over the world. Tonight the brilliant Danish barrier-breaking ensemble Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen will play pieces of Reich with the composer himself at the mixing desk.
Read this article (in Danish) about the ensemble and BE THERE: 8pm sharp!
I have several times tried to become an early riser just to gain more time to write, but I’ve never had much success. And then I find this quite serious and at the same time quite weird blog of Steve Pavlina, who experiments with sleeping patterns. He sleeps less and less, but he is more energetic and productive than ever.
How to Become an Early Riser: “Steve Pavlina . com
Personal Development for Smart People
How to Become an Early Riser
May 23rd, 2005 by Steve Pavlina
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
- Aristotle
Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I’d almost always sleep in late. I usually didn’t start hitting my stride each day until late afternoon.
But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high correlation between success and rising early, even in my own life. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity was almost always higher, not just in the morning but all throughout the day. And I also noticed a significant feeling of well-being. So being the proactive goal-achiever I was, I set out to become a habitual e”
(Via tveskov.com/blog.)
MODKRAFT.dk - Nyheder - Trance-hyldest til Hitler
Folkets stemme: “MEDIEKOMMENTAR:
Podcasting er for alvor ved at vinde fodfæste i Danmark
‘De store statskanalers monopol på meningsdannelsen er forbi. For i fremtiden kommer vi alle til at have vores egen radiostation.’
Så svulstige er ordene fra ‘Djævlens Advokat’, en ny podcast, der vil angribe sine emner og interviewpersoner ud fra en liberal grundholdning. Formen er en P1-kopi, hvor indholdet får ros og skaber debat på http://advokaten.wordpress.com, men den tekniske udførelse halter. Og det skriver jeg ikke for at nedgøre de to producenter bag podcasten. Mange andre podcasts lider også under dårlig teknisk kvalitet, for lyd er nu engang sværere end skrift, ligesom tv er sværere end radio. Hvis man vil beherske hele fødekæden vel at mærke. Og det skal man, hvis man vil podcaste.
I 1926 skrev den tyske for…”
(Via Dagbladet Information.)
Jacob Bøtter var forbi og interviewe mig til sin podcast. En lang snak om medier, globalisering og navlepilleri:
Ellevte episode - Mediesnak med Henrik Føhns (Jacobs podcast): “Ellevte episode - Mediesnak med Henrik Føhns
Her indleder jeg min første føljeton, startet på baggrund af mit interview med Anders Høeg Nissen. Det handler om medier, ikke nødvendigvis nye medier, men i højere grad mediernes nye rolle.
Som en start er jeg draget ud til Henrik Føhns, journalist igennem 20 år som derudover blogger og podcaster. I hans daglige arbejde fungerer han som redaktør på Samvirke. Vi taler om hvorfor danskerne ikke er hoppet på den store blogging bandwaggon, hvordan medierne stiller sig overfor det og trækker en masse parelleler til hvad der er sket før i tiden. En lang, men spændende, snak som giver et godt grundlag til mange flere diskussioner.
Download podcast (52 minutter, 24 MB)”
(Via boetter.dk/podcast/.)
Top News Article | Reuters.com: ”
‘South Park’ battle over Scientology heats up
Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:19 PM
Talk of the Town: South Park
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By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Tom Cruise threatened to boycott promotion of his upcoming Paramount Pictures film unless a sister cable TV network pulled a ‘South Park’ rerun lampooning the Church of Scientology, industry sources said on Friday.
Representatives for Paramount and Cruise, a prominent Scientologist, denied he made any such threats or had anyt”
If you happen to be in Toyko this Sunday (I’m not) my friend Jakob Draminsky Hoejmark is doing a show of noh opera and computermusic:
“hello hello
if you_ll happen to be around tokyo west watching plum flowers on
sunday - do drop in for some noh and computermusic too
feel free to spread the word 
)
best
jakob”
Thursday I moderated a session at the yearly Danish e-commerce awards about future technologies with Jens Roland of Innovationlab. Jon Lund did a fine job of liveblogging the event which was attended by 350 people = Danish e-bizz is on its way up again.
:”
Ok, I’m now seated in my chair at one of the workshops at the .
In one of the meetingrooms in the 1600th century Copenhagen stockexchange - Børs-bygningen.
Interesting to see what’s this is about. I’ll keep you posted!”
(Via .)
Please download the English version of the decision made today by the Danish Public Prosecutor/Director of Public Prosecutions/Attorney General not to prosecute the Danish paper Jyllandsposten in the case about the Muhammed cartoons.
Rigsadvokaten: Pressemeddelelser: ”
Pressemeddelelser
Dokumentnavn 15/3-2006. Rigsadvokatens afgørelse i sagen om Jyllands-Postens artikel ‘Muhammeds ansigt’”
(Via www.rigsadvokaten.dk.)
Martin Krasnik havde et fantastisk morsomt interview med den britiske (i USA bosatte) kommentator Christopher Hitchins i Weekendavisen i fredags.
Citat fra artiklen:
“»Hvad er du så? Ateist?«
»Ikke engang ateist.«
»Hvad så?«
»Antiteist!« Han siger det højt, og hans kone stikker hovedet ud i køkkenet. »Hitch…,« siger hun. Og han fortsætter: »Jeg insisterer på, at alle religioner er versioner af samme usandhed. Jeg insisterer endnu mere på, at alle kirkers indflydelse er skadelig. Jeg ville ikke engang ønske, at religionens latterlige påstande var rigtige, og jeg misunder ikke de troende deres tro. Jeg er lettet over selv at mene, at det hele er et dystert eventyr. Jeg siger, at livet ville være frygteligt og ubærligt, hvis de troende faktisk havde ret.«”
Hvis du vil læse det hele, må du købe avisen i kiosken. Du kan også vælge at se et mere afdæmpet
tv-interview med Hitchins. Eller følge med i hans støttedemonstrationer for Danmark: Link
I dag søndag er jeg citeret i en artikel om weblogs i Jyllandsposten. Måske har du fulgt linket i artiklen til min weblog. Hvad kan jeg sige andet end: Tegn et abonnement på Samvirke. Vi er både bedre og billigere end Jyllandsposten. Og vi har også sjove tegninger.
One of my favorite authors in my younger years was John Fante:
Boing Boing: Salon on LA proto-beat author John Fante:
“Friday, March 10, 2006
Salon on LA proto-beat author John Fante
Allen Barra wrote a great piece about one of my favorite authors, John Fante. A movie based on his novel, Ask the Dust, opens today in theaters.
Fante — the name rhymes with Dante, which must have afforded no end of amusement to someone whose best-known character constantly proclaimed a desire to be ‘the world’s greatest writer’ — is one of the true bad boys of 20th centu”
(Via http://www.boingboing.net.)
On this day six years ago the technology heavy NASDAQ Composite index peaked at 5048.62 (intra-day peak 5132.52), more than double its value just a year before. I had just started at my new dotcom job. 10 months later I decided never to leave journalism again. And now it’s time for Web 2.0 – or is it dotcom 2.0? I do get confused some times… Maybe is it time to pick up on the 80’s and my failed career as a punk musician? I still have my guitar, any one out there who wants to be in a band and change their life?
If you want to go down memory lane: Wikipedia on dotcom or Investopedia, the biggest market crashes in history. And something about the band (in Danish) Boghandle. Argh, this website does contain some disinformation. The band was formed in 1985 - not at the end of the 80’s. And the first album did not lead to a support gig for the Pixies. We played with the Pixies in Copenhagen a year before the debut on vinyl. June 1989. In fact my last concert with the band. But the fuzz pedal on the cover of the second album (produced by Jack Endino) was mine. And I still have it!
Download mp3 …disclaimer: Damage to your ears will be on your own responsibility. It wasn’t exactly new age music….
