In the midst of the fury of tasks overwhelming me as temp head currently, the last three days have provided some very interesting experiences and meetings with journalists and bloggers.

Wednesday evening, I actually meet up with 15 male bloggers and Dan Gillmor - and at least most of these 15 Danish bloggers were famous to me :) - many of them I have been reading, or appearing with in the media, but it was the first time I saw them in real life. It also turned out that several people were involved with the ITU - or were considering some form of involvement. Small world.

At my end of the table, we had some interesting discussions about blogs and blogreading, RSS feeds, corporate blogging (or not). I had great fun - a bunch of very nice guys. And - I should add- it is not particularly representative of the Danish blogosphere, that I was the only women present - there is quite a few female bloggers around (such as Tinka of Distant Sun, Tantologi, Emme, Many, Randises, Hende, Frk. Andersen and Yin).

See Morten's pictures from the event. And Knut's. Pollas' moblog entry. Dalager also blogged it briefly. Thomas's (the initiator) list of the partipants.
And via Gøtzespace (also a ITU lecturer!), the corporate weblog manifesto.

Tuesday, Dan Gillmor, author of We the Media who also spoke at the Fagfestival, gave a speak at the IT University which I had organised in collaboration with DONA. He started by presenting - via his blog - a little video from the ITU and the auditorium in which he was speaking - a shrewd example of how instant instant webpublishing can be. Thomas Madsen-Mygdal liveblogged his talk - and people also have some discussions in the comment-list to the video-post on Gillmor's own blog, E-Journal. One of Gillmors more interesting points (which I think was a quote from someone else) was that "in the (web?)future people will not be famous in 15 seconds, but to 15 people".
[update: Jonas of Verture net has blogged him taking a photo of Gillmore who is videofilming Jonas - oh, we are indeed living in a world of simulacra. He also took a snapshot of Gillmor and me (desperately trying to fix the projector). Thanks, Jonas...]

Monday, with Christian Badse from the Skum-community on DR, I spoke on the Danish Journalists annual fair Fagfestival 2004, about mediaforms where the "audience" take action.

About 50 journalists showed up and we had a good discussion after our presentations. Not a lot of Danish journalists have bought into weblogs yet, and I'm not sure I convinced them that they should do it. However, I hope that a few more of them at least now knows more about the opportunities for direct dialogue with readers that the weblog provides.
Here are the slides from my speak.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 11:09