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Happy Holidays
I found this classic Disney cartoon on YouTube, which is a wonderful source for videos like this; short, classics, fun. It will no doubt later be removed by the YouTube admins at the request of the...
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The LEGO niche community
I have been looking around for a way to start Kaplak’s looking into the workings of online niche communities. We have some great examples in our own local backyard, but I wanted something, which showed...
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Paid work and fan work
This Wired article provides some interesting insights into the intersections of an old corporate tradition such as the LEGO corporation and online fan communities of the hacking, open source breed....
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Kaplak’s Online Strategy
If you’re reading this, you belong to a select group of people who have managed to find their way along intricate paths into this new home for the Kaplak Blog. Kaplak’s first site was since it’s...
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To Disqus or not to Disqus
The pros and cons of commenting service Disqus The waters are divided these days on the blog commenting service Disqus, which we’ve also installed here on the Kaplak Blog. Personally I was impressed...
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Why We Don’t Really Like Social Networks
I’ve sometimes experienced people who won’t accept invitations to connect with me on social networking sites such as LinkedIn or Facebook. Sometimes because they don’t know me or believe they don’t...
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What is Kaplak?
Over the next handful of articles I’m going to dive into what Kaplak is and how it works, as far as I can at the present time. This first article is a slightly modified re-run of the background article...
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To Fail Informatively
Clay Shirky on the merits of metadata Video featuring an interview with Clay Shirky with some memorable quotes, found courtesy of Jake Mckee. One of Shirky’s great points is, that in order to...
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The Big Questions
A few months ago, on July 8th 2008, I shot this video at Odense harbour. I didn’t manage to edit it until the 25th. Then my dog died from one week to the other, and I didn’t do any real work on the...
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The Anthropology of YouTube
I can’t say how much I enjoyed this video of a talk by cultural anthropologist and media ecologist professor Michael Wesch of Kansas State University, famous for his extraordinary video on web 2.0,...
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Barack Obama : Technology Empowers People
We believe that real change can only come from the bottom up. And technology empowers people to come together to make that change. —Barack Obama, speech at Google, Nov. 14th 2007. What’s at stake in...
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Lessig, the Abolition Movement and the Wicked Problems We Face
Stumbled over this very thoughtful interview by Charlie Rose with Stanford professor, Creative Commons founder, copyright reformer and Change Congress-initiator Lawrence Lessig (via Lessig’s Blog) :...
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Everybody fucks
I was called up on the phone today by a guy from Jyllands-Posten, which is, as some will know, a major Danish newspaper. The guy in the other end told me they’ve just converted to a tabloid format and...
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Free Software And Proprietary Dead-ends
Stumbled over this interesting discussion about WordPress “premium” plugins and themes, i.e. plugins or themes which are sold at a price, just like any other piece of proprietary software. WordPress...
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You can have your ice cream and eat it too!
This previous friday, March 20th, there was supposedly a demonstration taking place in 4 major Danish cities, against the court orders which demand ISP’s to block access for their customers to the...
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Google as in “Massive Copyright Infringement”
Torrent index sites like The Pirate Bay are often compared to search engines such as Google in that both offer vast indexes of information, and both give easy access to unauthorized copies of...
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When The Garden Walls Come Crumbling Down
Or what would happen if Facebook went GPL In thesis no. 93 The Cluetrain Manifesto claims : We’re both inside companies and outside them. The boundaries that separate our conversations look like the...
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The World of the Yeltsins
I have not had the slightest piece of time, opportunity or reason this last year to revive the Kaplak Blog – or the Kaplak Log, as I think I’ll soon rename it – until now. For one thing, Kaplak doesn’t...
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