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Trinitatis #Natkirke 8-jan-2013

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Helligtrekongersdag 2013 #hviledag

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The Nintendo 3DS Internet browser is super smooth

The Nintendo 3DS Internet browser is super smooth by Kim Bach
The Nintendo 3DS Internet browser is super smooth, a photo by Kim Bach on Flickr.

I love the analog joystick for navigation, with audible feedback when you hit the borders of the page during up/down left/right scroll

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Let’s go!

Let's go! by Kim Bach
Let’s go!, a photo by Kim Bach on Flickr.

My new poster came with my purchase of Mariokart 7 for Nintendo3DS, GameStop in City 2 is a great place to spent your dough

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Hvor er det kommunalt

Manglende Google Maps API nøgle på http://htk.dk/Fritid_og_Kultur/Biblioteker.aspx
Morten Saxness delte dette på Google+

Vi har set mange brands udskifte deres website med en Facebook side, men denne Japanske by går all-in på Facebook.

Kunne I forstille jer, at nogle danske kommuner gjorde noget lignende og hvilken effekt ville det have?

Det kunne være et glimrende PR stunt fra en af udkantskommunerne, der er svært pressede.

Det fik mig til at komme i tanke om en “udveksling” jeg havde med min kommune for en måned siden.

Så: debatten er kort…svaret er JA! (sjovt at være i dialog med kommunen om hvorvidt jeg kan få adgang til at rette fejl på deres hjemmeside, antager at der STADIG er fejl her http://htk.dk/Fritid_og_Kultur/Biblioteker.aspx – jow jow – mangler stadig en opdateret Google Maps API nøgle SELV om der IKKE er GIS integration på siden – CMSet inkluderer – som standard – en GIS .js).

Mit take: ingen kommuner har brug for en hjemmeside, tilgengæld skal de være på facebook, og alle borgere skal have mulighed for at blive admins på facebook siderne.

Al selvbetjening skal overføres til http://borger.dk og kræve NemID. KAPLAH!

ps. Til jeres information er her min brevveksling med kommunen, jeg synes da bestemt at medarbejderen gør en glimrende figur, og han kan næppe gøre mere, så længe han ønsker at beholde sit job, man kan så undre sig over at han gør det…

pps. Jeg kan jo også have taget fejl, og ser “ting” på min computer, og det er jo næppe vigtigt for kommunens drift at dette virker.

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Fra: Kim Bach [kim.bach@gmail.com]
Sendt: 7. juli 2011 15:13
Til: Kommune
Emne: Fejl på hjemmeside på adressen
http://htk.dk/Fritid_og_Kultur/Biblioteker.aspx – mangler API nøgle til Google Maps

hej HTK,

I har en fejl på hjemmesiden på denne adresse: http://htk.dk/Fritid_og_Kultur/Biblioteker.aspx – i har ikke registreret siden korrekt hos Google Maps (mangler API nøgle)

I kan selv se fejlmeddelelsen hvis i prøver at gå ind på siden.

Testet i Google Chrome under Windows 7, men da problemet er på serveren, bør problemet være der uanset user-agent.

I kan evt. sende mig FTP-login og/eller login til CMS, så retter jeg det for jer.

Venlig hilsen

Kim Bach
Lindevangshusene 58,st,th
2630 Taastrup
Skype:kim.bach
Facebook: http://facebook.com/kim.bach
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kim_bach
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Svar fra kommunen

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11. jul. 2011 15.03 skrev B :

Tak for din henvendelse!

Jeg har testet med både Chrome og IE 9 på en windows 7, og jeg får ingen fejl.

Får du stadig fejlen?

Dit tilbud om hjælp må jeg takke nej til, da det vil være et brud på vores sikkerhed.

Mvh

B
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Svar fra mig:

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Fra: Kim Bach [mailto:kim.bach@gmail.com]
Sendt: 11. juli 2011 17:44
Til: B
Emne: Re: Fejl på hjemmeside på adressen http://htk.dk/Fritid_og_Kultur/Biblioteker.aspx – mangler API nøgle til Google Maps

Hej B,

Så må jeg jo hjælpe os, ja jeg er borger i Høje-Taastrup Kommune,, så godt jeg kan, og havde nok ikke forventet den tillid til borgerne som jeg forventede/ønskede 😉

Fejlen er der stadig, den er sikkert ikke hos dig, fordi du sidder inden for en firewall og har måske andre IP adresser og/eller DNS navne.

Vedhæftet en skærmkopi som det ser ud hos mig.

Så vidt jeg kan se ligger fejlen i det inkluderede script
www.n-gis.com/mapscript.js.aspx?view=422 – som har en reference til www.n-gis.com/gkey.js.aspx som ser ud til at have en Google Maps API nøgle i sin href, jeg gætter på at fejlen skal findes her:

document.write(“<script src=’http://www.n-gis.com/gkey.js.aspx?server=”+top.window.location.href+”
type=’text/javascript’></script>”);document.write(“<div id=’nm_gmap’
style=’width:400px;height:400px’></div>”);

altså i gkey.js.aspx ASP-NET siden.

Venlig hilsen

Kim Bach

ps. “sikkerhed” er et frygtiligt begreb som gør ting der er lette som at rette denne fejl, f.eks. ved at fjerne referencen til GIS interfacet helt, da i tilsyneladende ikke bruger det, svære – action is cheaper than control 😉
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Svar fra kommunen

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11. jul. 2011 19.49 skrev B:
Det er skam fra min egen private maskine og linie jeg har testet, og ikke fra en maskine på rådhuset.

Nu har jeg testet på 3 maskiner – både XP og Windows 7 samt IE 8 og 9 samt den nye Chrome. Jeg får ingen fejl.

Jeg tager en snak med vores leverandør tirsdag.

Der er vist ikke mange virksomheder der vil give adgang til deres CMS for andre end egne ansatte – det er den sikkerhed jeg taler om.

Jo vi bruger faktisk N-Gis – det er det system vi bruger tila t vise simple kort på vores hjemmeside, så henvisningen kan vi ikke fjerne.

1000 tak for at du gider hjælpe med fejlsøgningen.

Mvh

B
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Svar fra mig – bliver næppe besvaret 😉

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underligt – jeg har kun testet på min Netbook som kører over Telia 3G

ps. et godt råd; drop Google Maps og skift til Open Street Map ;-))

pps. Mht. sikkerhed, så er HTK IKKE en privat virksomhed, men
borgernes ejendom, derfor forventede jeg at få lov til at redigere
hjemmesiden 😉

ppps. ja, jeg er anarkist 😉
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Take the “Pepsi-challenge” Google+

Google+
With all the talk about g00g+ (Google+), and the comparision with facebook, I came to think about a regular usecase on facebook, can I do that on g00g+ – today?

  1. Create a page for an organisation
  2. Create an event for that organisation
  3. Invite people to the event
  4. Update the people of the organisation
  5. Update the attendees of the event
  6. Create a campaign to promote the event and/or the organisation

All of the above, is possible to with facebook in approx. 15 minutes.

So take the Pepsi-challenge g00g+

Crossposted to | g00g+ | twitter | facebook | Illustration from the brilliant comic XKCD – Fanø you Mr. Randall Munroe for luring me to Google+, guess I made a splash though 😉

ps.

I’ve included a link to a discussion about the challenges businesses are facing with g00g+ from Advice Digital (in Danish) advice digital: Google+ udfordrer virksomheders digitale position by René Clausen Nielsen and Birgitte Raben. They have answered my questions: “you can’t do this – yet”. I really doubt g00g can top facebook on this – but we should all embrace, and welcome, the competion, and g00g are good at “stealing” ideas.

Update: July 19th 2011

I’ve included a link to a discussion from “digitale tanker: Thoughts on Google+ and links to great reviews” – someday I might “get” “circles” – I’ve focused on a business oriented use-case here.

Update: July 25th 2011

I’ve included a link to an article by Henriette Weber “The social network on steroids – my first thoughts on Google +” – she’s also talking about “circles” – which I still don’t get. BTW, the only reason I noticed this article was because she shared it on…Google+ 😉

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Kære Information: hold op med at fodre trolden

Liberal Alliances facebook app “Freedom Fighter” der er en slags spil hvor man kan optjene point ved at deltage i debatten, typisk online, har bragt emnet spam på lederniveau af medierne, også de trykte, og det har resulteret i at f.eks. avisen Information har besluttet at blokere for “Freedom Fighter” skribenter, skribenterne er (var ;-)) lette at identificere da de markerer deres indlæg med #ff efterfulgt af deres Freedom Fighter nummer, f.eks. #ff911.

Information begrunder deres handling med at de blev ramt af “spam”, facebook har siden lukket “Freedom Fighter” applikationen, næppe udelukkende pga. Information. Senere er applikationen så åbnet igen, og så lukket igen, man kan følge med på facebook-gruppen Freedom Fighters Lounge.

Før vi går videre, lad os kigge lidt på definitionen af “spam”!

Definition på spam er, løst, ifølge Engelsk Wikipedia “uopfordret, anonym, post, sendt helt uden hensyn til modtager, som regel automatisk”.

“Freedom Fighter” er ikke spam under denne definition, det der kunne være tale om er “nyhedsgruppe, eller usenet, spam“, som f.eks. består af gentagne afsendelser af de samme beskeder.

Men Information driver ikke en nyhedsgruppe, de driver en avis, og kommentarer er at betragte som læserbreve. En avis som Information har næppe offentliggjort et eneste læserbrev, der ikke har været gennemlæst først, en praksis der ikke ser ud til at gælde for kommentarer, i hvertfald så længe de skrives af godkendte, registrerede skribenter.

I stedet for at blokere brugere, så burde Information afsætte ressourcer til at fjene de såkaldte spam-indlæg, inden de bliver offentliggjort, og lade de relevante og gode indlæg slippe igennem, uanset hvem de kommer fra. Denne modering skal så ske døgnet rundt, for at sikre at debatten er frisk.

Min påstand er at det Information gør her er at “fodre trolden”. “Freedom Fighters” udviser det jeg vil karakterisere som “trolde adfærd”, og alle regler foreskriver at man ignorerer dem der gør det. “Trolde adfærd” går ud på at opføre sig på en måde der er bevidst provokerende, de eneste der kan få trolden til at stoppe er hvis man ikke giver dem opmærksomhed, men bare ignorerer dem.

Troldene har masser af andre steder de kan boltre sig.

At drive et online medie er “high-maintanence”, hårdt arbejde, hvor det skal være så let som muligt at deltage, men det stiller krav til aktiv indsats fra dem der driver mediet, man skulle mene at Information har ressourcerne til det. Hvis ikke, så er jeg sikker på at man let kan rekruttere. 10-20 af de seriøse brugere til stå for at moderere, de vil sikkert sætte pris på at blive inviteret på en kop kaffe engang i mellem, men ellers er de billige i drift. Denne “massernes intelligens” fungerer fint på ægte online medier, Information kan frit kopiere det.

Det kedelige er at den manglende moderation resulterer i endeløs meta-snak, om alt andet end politik, og det er vel ikke formålet, men man kan da godt have Liberal Alliance mistænkt for at have iscenesat dette for at få omtale, vel vidende at det ville provokere, og navnet “Freedom Fighter” giver da “visse” associationer til rebel-baser og onde imperier.

Vi kan godt stille krav til seriøse aviser, som Information, at de modererer mere end de gør, for jeg anerkender at de allerede gør et pænt stort arbejde med det i dag, andre medier, som Ekstra Bladet, har jeg opgivet, de har vist ambitioner om at nå YouTubes kommentarspor i nyttesløshed. Lige nu tyder alt på at Information bruger en masse tid på at lukke konti, i stedet for at blokere indhold.

I øvrigt er Informations egen side, naturligvis, blevet ramt af noget andet ødelæggende, indholds-spam, nemlig “Godwins lov“, man skal ikke længere end til kommentar nummer 9 i artiklen “Spillet om magten” før den rammer, ak ja, så meget for moderation!

Hvorfor Liberal Alliance, eller andre politiske partier, så overhovedet anvender facebook fatter jeg ikke, ingen af de store online medier har noget som helst tilovers for retssikkerhed og ytringsfrihed, og de kan tilenhver tid lukke sider ned, uden at give en begrundelse, og Liberal Alliance har vel ressourcerne til at udvikle apps der ikke bruger facebook.

ps. denne artikel er henvendt direkte til Information pga. den aktuelle sag, men den er tiltænkt alle seriøse danske online medier, jeg elsker jer!

pps. Stor, stor tak til @informeren – Informations twitter-konto, for at deltage i debatten på twitter, og udfordre mig til at skrive denne artikel. (beklager min trolde-agtige “limpind” ;-))

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Amazon Kindled KISS

Kindle
Order Date: October 7, 2009
Order #: xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx
Recipient: Kim Bach

Items not yet shipped:
Delivery estimate: October 21, 2009 – October 23, 2009
Shipping estimate: October 19, 2009
1 of: Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6″ Display, U.S. & International Wireless, Latest Generation)
Sold by: Amazon Export Sales, Inc.
1 of: Patagonia Kindle Case (Fits 6″ Display, Latest Generation Kindle)
Sold by: Amazon Export Sales, Inc.

Kindle and Sony PRS-505I’ve been waiting for the Kindle to be launched in Denmark, I’ve wanted one since I laid my hands on one at Reboot 11 in June. So now I know what I’m getting for my birthday.

Yes, the Kindle has it’s problems, and I fear that it will end in my hardware graveyard, alongside my Palm Vx (which I loved, and read books on) and my Compaq PDA (which I loved, and read books on), but the Kindle is a different creature, much like the iPod, it’s focusing on a specific application and has connected that with a clear business model, I see it as a connected object, a beautiful combination of form and function, something Microsoft has never understood, and that Apple has abandoned, except with the iPod Shuffle.

KISS!

For those oblivious to what a Kindle is, it’s an eBook reader developed by Amazon. Amazon’s vision is to make all books ever published available in digital form, and Jeff Bezos can repeat after Steve Jobs: “we have xx millions of accounts, AND they come with creditcards”. I believe that it will take talent for Amazon to fumble this.

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Today is #talkhttpday

Yes, today I’m going to talk HTTP instead of shit.

This post will be updated throughout the day

https://twitter.com/timeline/home#search?q=%23talkhttpday
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/

HTTP/1.1 200

The fun thing is that this little game started on Facebook, right now I’m using a combination of Facebook and Twitter to co-create the revolution of the mellemrumssingularitet .

ps. it’s unfortunate that I have to use twitter and facebook, because Jaiku can do it all…

http://www.jaiku.com/channel/talkhttpday

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Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans… – Celebrating women in tech

March the 24th 2009 is Ada Lovelace Day, the brainchild of Suw Charman-Anderson. Suw pledged to write a blog-post about a woman in tech that she admired, if at least 1,000 would make the same pledge, and since I’ve admired and been fascinated by Ada Lovelace since childhood, and especially after I read the wonderful book The Difference Engine, so I embraced the project, but at the same time I knew that it would be difficult for me to find just a woman in tech that I admire, that is because the list is long, and I’m happy to say that it’s actually getting longer.

In the end it turned out to be quite simple to name one single woman in “tech” that I admire, a woman that I’ve admired for 2,5 years since I met her at the wonderful BlogForum 2 – an initiative that we really need to revive – and almost did at Copenhagen Twitterfestival.

Since 2006 the woman I have in mind has become quite the celebrity, due to her uncompromising and relentless pursuit of the truth in the murky waters of the Danish tech-business, and this year she’s the natural selection, she’s the woman behind the mainstream breakthrough of the blog-media in Denmark, she is – of course – Bizzen/Toften: the journalist and blogger par excellence Dorte Toft.

Love/hate relationship with “tech”
I have a love/hate relationship with my field, the field known as “tech”. Tech is definitely one of the places where change is happening today, and I feel blessed that I’m involved in bringing this change.

But “Tech” is a field that is riddled by paradox. On one hand it’s crawling with greedy snake-oil salesmen, on the other it’s home to the most revolutionary, idealistic and altruistic people ever as well as some of the most wonderful concepts that humankind has ever come up with.

The problem with the snake-oil salesmen, is that, until now, they’ve pretty much got away with cheating their customers, the authorities, the business community and worst, their employees, and a lot of the snake-oil has been sold under the heading that Denmark is number one in tech.

It’s been a constant embarrassment to me, and I actually left the business four years ago, and it took me two years of “repenting” before I felt that could return to “tech”, and today I’m luckily to be employed by a tech-company that doesn’t carry any snake-oil.

Emperor’s new clothes
I’m just going to, briefly, mention the fact that Dorte Toft was the woman that noticed that Stein Bagger and IT Factory didn’t wear any clothes, thus exposing one of the biggest scams the Danish tech-sector has seen to date, but thank you Dorte for exposing these people, so that we can be protected against these predators and making it possible to feel proud about working in “tech” again.

Feminism isn’t “low-status”
What I’d rather celebrate today is that Dorte Toft is a self-proclaimed feminist, even though it’s – in her own words – a field that is “low-status”, and her labour of love “Nærmest Lykkelig I Nørdland” (“Almost happy in Geekland” – something got lost in translation sorry about that), where Dorte Toft has been writing and writing and writing about the benefits young women would have if the choose to join the so-called “though” fields, technology and science, a very noble cause.

I noticed that Dorte Toft also wrote a blog-post in observation of Ada Lovelace Day today. In this blog-post Dorte is pledging to return to “Nærmest Lykkelig I Nørdland”, I’m so, so happy to hear that, Dorte Toft has been toiling away, trying to ease young women into the fields of tech and science, and her work deserves so much more attention than the perpetual Stein Bagger saga.

To all the wonderful women that I’ve worked with, am working with and will work with in the future, thank you so, so much for putting up with us, we need you, and remember how far you’ve come.

When I mentioned to my father how much I loved having female managers, he simply said that he could never ever imagine have a female manager, I was appalled.

Women, “tech” is too important to be left to men
Women please don’t stop now, so that next time I’m in a position where I’m hiring tech-staff, I hope that I’ll receive applications from women. Looking at the number of students at the IT University in Copenhagen I’m quite optimistic that that would be the case.

DORTE TOFT: Please go work on “Nærmest Lykkelig I Nørdland”, I’m waiting for it, unlike the book about “Banditterne i habitterne” (“The Bandits In Suits”) – and remember feminism isn’t “low-status”!

YOUNG WOMEN: We really, really need you in the tech-sector. Tech is far too important to leave to us men, and listen to, and get inspired by Dorte Toft!

Celebrating the Enchantress of Numbers
I’ll close this post with these wonderful quotes.

We may see aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves
Lady Ada Lovelace

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans – everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers
Charles Babagge, inventor of the Analytical and Difference engines

Notes
If you want to learn more about the fascinating life of Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, by many considered the inventor of programming languages, I’d strongly recommend “The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron’s Daughter“, “Zeroes and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture” and “The Difference Engine“.

I’m also building a “shrine” to Ada Lovelace on Algorim.dk, a result of “mellemrumssingulariteten” which was inspired by a young woman I know, this woman is, BTW., working in the purest field of them all 😉