November 2005
The Archives
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11.23.05Free online scifi movie becomes a hitAs a follow up to my previous post on P2P I have to mention this one. A movie made by students and distributed through the internet becomes (probably) the most viewed movie ever in Finland. Yepp. Interesting times.
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11.23.05Some food with all the technologyRight now I have quite a bit of Norwegian visitors coming over from the election of the best norwegian blogs over at Dagbladet. My blog has been nominated in the technology category. And yes, I am a geek. Still, I am seriously interested in what we eat and drink. So, to compensate for all the technology I invite my norwegian readers over to my Norwegian Food Blog as well. For my international readers I give you a possibility to take a coffee break or maybe make some fantastic mustard. For the people that still don't care about all this food ...
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11.23.05P2P and TV distributionNow this is a classic picture. Dan Glickman, chairman of the MPAA, and Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent. One grey haired man looking suspiciously into the camera. One legendary programmer looking satisfied and thoughtful out of the picture. The fact that Mr. Cohen's technology is on its way into serious use in the media industry is good news. BitTorrent has already changed the industry. But, the real fun hasn't even started. Software like Videora that lets you subscribe to media content and easily convert it to your portable devices will acellerate use of both illegal downloads and possibly also very interesting ...
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11.22.05Now I really need your help :-)Update: I actually won the competition! This blog, www.eirikso.com has been nominated by one of the biggest newspapers in Norway (Dagbladet) to the prestigious title "Gullbloggen", or in plain english: they want to find the best Norwegian blogs. First, huge amounts of blogs where nominated by the readers of Dagbladet. Then, a panel of experts selected three blogs in the following categories: 1. Politics 2. Technology 3. "Under 20" 4. Open Category Actually, I did not know about this, and would like to thank the person that nominated Eirikso.com under "Technology". The other nominated blogs in the technology category are in Norwegian, but very interesting as well: Espen Andersen: ...
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11.21.05Illustration at Om Malik’s blogI am honoured by the fact that Om Malik has used one of my illustrations in his recent post about Skype. It was originally drawn on the back of a business card. A good reason to immediately send you all over to Gapingvoid and the classic post on creativity. And for the people coming over here because they want to see more of my strange little drawings, here are some links: How Bob the Millionaire became a pirate The similarity of cars and computers Norwegian princess daughter named after Princess Leia Legal threats and the internet And no, I am by no means a designer. Anyway, if ...