In january this year Lis Er Stille recorded their new album, and i was so lucky to sing a few lines with a choir for the occasion.
Now in April they released the album Collibro, which is highly recommendable for postrock listeners.
The track The Real Children is free for download, and there are links to the album and more at liserstille.dk
Finally my bachelor paper is finish!
It’s a three part paper. First part is an analysis of information on the web. The second part is dealing with traditional copyright, and explains Open Source and Creative Commons as modern ways of licensing. The third part is a history lesson, that tells the story of human media from the first cave paintings to the bittorrent technology.
If you can read danish, it is definitely worth a look.
Download: Digital Sharing of Information.pdf (2009)
Resumé
This bachelor examines the western cultures modern digital information sharing. The first part is an analysis of information sharing on today’s web, which separate the ways, in which information can appear on network based media platforms. This media system analysis is followed by examples from the web. Then follows a mixture of the categories, that appear as hybrids, which are explained, and creates new possibilities for web communication.
The second part examines how the media of our culture is licensed, and how this makes up the foundation of the many copyright conflicts between the users of the internet and the commercial media industry. Drawing on the experience from the information analysis, counterarguments for the maintenance of copyright law are presented. Finally I argue for ‘Open Source’ and ‘Creative Commons’ as modern ways of licensing, which are specially designed for network based media platforms; Examples of media texts that use these are presented.
I have just finished 2 papers in my subsidary course ‘Information Technology’!
The first one is from the course ‘Knowledge and learning in the working life’, that ended with a paper about Etienne Wengers theory of ‘Communities of practice’ (written in danish). It uses the working enviroment at Google, as an example of a company that use communities of practice. Download Communities of Practic.
The second one, is from the course ‘Information analysis and representation’, which in practice means XML/XSLT. This course ended with a paper and a product (both danish), and the subject has building a way to organize animals i XML/DTD, and show the data in browsers with XSLT/HTML/CSS. Download all in archived file.
A new movie about the conflict between the users of the internet and the commercial industry has been released. The subject is one of the great showdowns of our time, which I also recently has writing BA in media science about.
Opensourcecinema.org is a film/web project by Brett Gaylor, who is the man behind the new movie ‘RIP: A Remix Manifesto’.
I first read about the movie at Lawence Lessig’s blog, and he is also featured in the film. BTW Lessig’s recent book ‘Remix – making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy’ is now also available under the Creative Commons Attribution
Non-Commercial Licence, so grap it and enjoy the reading 
RIP: A Remix Manifesto is a beautiful mashup movie, which is being further remixed at the Opensourcecinema.org website. It is not yet released or made avaliable for download for counties outside America, but until then, the movie can be watched in chapters at Opensourcecinema.org.
After some silence at the music department, a new electronic project has arrived. The last few months I been puzzling with software, midi and tunes with Lasse, Martin and Mads, who also played in Cpt. Ahab’s Surfwax. Two projects became one, and its called Spetakl, and until now we’ve made a little tune called ‘røst’, that can be found on the next VUF compilation in April 2009.
We also launched a website on Spetakl.net, and from now on we will post our tracks there.
Over the years I have build and maintained the website of Claus Hansen aka Savium, a musician who posts his music online for free download. A few weeks ago, we launched a whole new site, powered by wordpress, with a new creamy design by Claus. At the same time he launched his new ep, called Lethargic Philophony, so be sure to check that out! Great instrumental guitar/computermade rock.
This is a little XML based CD katalog, and a 4-page paper about explaining the use of XML, DTD and XSLT. It is made in the course ‘Information Analysis and Representation’, which is basic XML and how to use it on the web.
The year 2009 has begun, and overall it seems enthusiastic. But let’s have a look back at 2008. I’ve made a mash-up list of different websites, that has made lists over the passing 2008 creations in various fields.
First of all the internet magazine ‘Wired’ has made some great lists, and these are must-sees:
BTW the site Lifehacker has also made a mash up of The Great Best of 2008 Roundup.
Have a great start on 2009, and take care. Soo long till next time.
Kenneth R
The course ‘Web Technology’ ended with producing a website, and writing 10 pages about it. So if you are into (or wanna look into) webdesign, the 10 pages will guide you from the web basics to coding this site. Mostly in Danish.
One of my courses at SDU Kolding is ‘Information Technology and Learning’. The examination is the portfolio method, where students write 4 portfolio papers about the course material, and that’s the basis for the communical examination at the end of the semester.
Introduction (Danish) – Introduction to the course and the papers – 11/12/2008
Portfolio#1 (Danish) – The Portfolio Method – 14/09/2008
Portfolio#2 (Danish) – Virtual Learning and Cooperation – 01/10/2008
Portfolio#3 (Danish) – Papert, Resnick and LEGO Mindstorm – 10/11/2008
Portfolio#4 (Danish) – Searle, Copeland and Artificial Intelligence – 22/11/2008
Here is my notes with lods of links to texts and wikis
The site is online again after a long break. There is not much new here, since I have been very busy, and haven't had the time to write any posts. Kenneth (4/5-2010)