The Archives
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04.29.10Of course I won’t sue Mitch Joel! :-)Actually, I am honored by the fact that Mitch Joel used my image of Avinash Kaushik in his presentation at Gulltaggen in Oslo today. I use a lot of CC-images myself and I find it very hard to know exactly how to credit people. In the image? At the end of the presentation? For this image I had burned in a tiny piece of credit at the bottom. And I feel that I don't ask for much when I share my images with an attribution-share alike license. I even allow for commercial use. The only thing I ask for in return is ...
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06.04.08What to do if you are nervous when presentingPhoto: Borut Peterlin / Mladina The quick answer: tell the audience! An actor once told me that it's only one thing that's worse than being nervous on stage. And that's sitting in the audience watching a nervous person on the stage. Knowing that sounds scary. But it's not. It means that the audience want you to feel fine. They feel sorry for you and want to do everything they can to help you. So, I want to add something to that last part. The thing that's worse than being nervous on stage is sitting in the audience watching a person that tries to ...
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04.19.08To share or not to shareI'm sharing a lot of my knowledge here at eirikso.com. I'm sharing images on flickr and SmugMug, quick thoughts on twitter and presentations on Slideshare.net. The internet is fantastic for sharing content and I think sharing is a very good idea. It's simple - if you share, people share back. I learn a lot by structuring my thoughts enough to be able to communicate them. And I learn a lot by having an intelligent community out there that is ready to help me out by sharing their knowledge back. But when you share information people can take it and use it ...