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I successfully moved this database to dltq.org/v1

Here is the archive of DLTQ.org from December 04 to May 17th, 2006.

Comments are still open, but the spam is all over so who knows when I will notice any new legitimate comment.

Thanks for visiting these months, now on to the new DLTQ.org

Raymond

When I started blogging again in autumn 2004, I decided to use TypePad and this blog was then at dltq.blogs.com. Then, when I registered DLTQ.org in April 05 I realized that I could just as well try using Wordpress, which is an excellent open source blogging software tool. Permalinks were broken, but I could import the posts from Typepad to Wordpress without much hassle.

I have now used Wordpress for about a year, and just like I was happy with Typepad I have been overall happy with this software. It is pretty easy to use, at the same time as it offers a lot of customizing options.

However, I am moving on yet again, this time to start using the software of my own company, BlogSoft. I have been working for BlogSoft for about a year now, as consultant for clients as well as doing support and research.

Why break the permalinks once again? Well, firstly I want to use our own blogging software more, and implement and use the new features of it as they are developed. Also, I got more than tired of all the spam comments and trackbacks I had to moderate. Currently I receive about 150 emails an hour and it simply just becomes too much.

I will move this database with posts and comments to dltq.org/v1 and then do a fresh installation of a blog on this page. Please excuse all the mess as I clear this space.

See you again soon, with the same feedburner RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Dltqvlog) but with a different look and a clean plate.

I am not sure how precise this movie is, but I think it is an excellent example of how a relevant topic can be explained through a video.

Made by Public Knowledge / Youtube page - [via]

Now, if only the big telecom companies that are of the opposite opinion could explain us in similar ways why net neutrality is unnecessary as well as hurting business.

PS: I am still trying to delete spam comments / trackbacks from this blog. However, I receive over 150 new comments per hour that I am to moderate. I will look into options, but one solution might be to simply not accept comments, however much I dislike that option.

Spam is anti-light, it is the disruption of all things. While the sun is shining outside, I will spend some time now to delete the hundreds of spam messages that have crawled all over this site. In the meanwhile, I will be moderating all comments.

In the coming weeks I will prepare for Vloggercon on this site, exploring the issues of political / organizational videoblogging.

Last friday I also edited the feed for The PAN, something I should do a lot more often. It is great fun to curate a 15-minute video without the tools of voice-over or an explicit explanation why I included this or that clip.

Five seconds for you

It is wednesday night before easter, and I am sitting here, starving. Physically starving.

I feel like going out, going to a restaurant, getting some good food, having some drinks. But there is so much I must do. So much I have to do.

There are two reminders I received just now, by watching two of the hundreds and hundreds of posts that were made during videoblogging week. Both of them were by Kent & Jen’s site Ebb and Flow.com

The first piece I watched was this one, a somber reminder of the difference between doing and being. I left a comment there just now, but the emotion it has struck in me goes deeper still.

Then I saw the movie before that one, the one published last saturday called The Universal. I know this might not be OK, but I will hotlink to this anyway. It is a very important message seeping through these frames.

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I absolutely love the Echo Chamber Project, even though I think I have never personally expressed to Kent just how important I think projects like this are.

This leads to the more spiritual aspects of all this. Spiritual - a concept I rarely refer to in my work. I don’t look at myself as a spiritual man, but I know that when I am asleep, in my dreams, it is all about spirit, about deeper connections, about compassion, about empathy, and about real progress through understanding.

This is why videoblogging speaks so strongly to me. The potential it has to create so much more empathy between regular people. And how we over time can learn to understand each other.

The last days - several days - I have been internalizing the issues related to educational blogging and educational videoblogging. I am late on delivering papers on this, position papers, or strategy papers, or other pieces of paper or intent showing how we as a for-profit company in the whole blogging industry can help people communicate while making money doing it.

The technology itself cannot be enough, as any consultant knows. We cannot just give them the application after selling them the concept of blogging, how good it is for business or how it will change business, and so on, without also helping them understand, truly understand some of the issues related to this.

I am a fool. A bloody fool.

Losing the question, which is not just all of this, all these questions you could get so deep into.

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Empathy?

How can we begin having empathy for the larger world? The world outside the hundreds of millions of people who are living in the West, who have access to computers and cameras and internet and language. What about those who might be less fortunate.

In all my thinking about videoblogging, blogging, education, podcasting, uzw ad infinitum, I have for instance not even linked to my friend Prakash from Kathmandu who started blogging on dltq.org/currentnepal yesterday. I have known Prakash for years, and I have tried to get him to videoblog earlier. In fact, with the help of Peter and others we managed to send him a digital camera early last year that he can use to videoblog from the situation over there, which is quite tragic at the moment.

I wish I had more of a global sense of empathy. I do, deep inside, but I keep forgetting it. I feel like a fool. Not because of guilt, this is not just the usual white guy feeling guilty for being white and priviliged.

I will go eat now, then get back, finishing up a few documents, send them off!, and then do some screencasts about Mefeedia and other things.

Watch the Video

This video is slightly different from what I normally do, but I really liked working with it. The sounds of the birds and my steps against the ground in contrast to those silent sculptures in the Vigeland Sculpture Park, which is one of the major tourist attractions here in Oslo.

Enjoy!

This is a screencast I did last night. Before editing it to make an ipod-friendly video out of it I smacked Boards of Canada on top and made a quick export and showed it to Daniel and Schlomo. Both independantly thought I should keep it as it is, so yeah here it is.

Conversations in the vlogosphere is something that interests me. How can it work? How Does it work? And how do we keep the conversations flowing?

Part of my question is: Is the blogging format part of what destroys conversations? How we are always obsessed with a) creating new content or b) watching new content? Where the (reverse) chronology becomes one of the central, the defining aspects of the medium.

I don’t have any definite answers for this.

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Jen Simmons gave us a link to this amazing videoblog entry by “Irene Uncensored” where we are introduced to Mike Braxton who is ‘from the hood’. Mike wants to do some filmmaking, and Irene is to help him with it.

This kind of videoblogging is what I have been waiting for. Building bridges between cultures, be that cultures within the same city or world cultures. Irene: I look forward to hearing more about this, and I am going to bug you about it if I don’t hear news. This is an amazing project and I hope to not only hear more about it, but also see similar projects around the world.

Tonight I had a discussion with Schlomo and Michael Meiser about - stuff. Here is 37 minutes of our discussion.