Thomas Stenumgård

Quite funny… found this while reading through a...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:56:00 +0200

Quite funny… found this while reading through a presentation on social objects today.

Been listening to Dum Dum Girls lately. Love this one...

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:54:10 +0200

Been listening to Dum Dum Girls lately. Love this one - Everybody’s Out

"Our ability to balance consumption with production and sharing, our ability to connect with one..."

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:15:24 +0200

“Our ability to balance consumption with production and sharing, our ability to connect with one another, is transforming the sense of media from a particular sector of the economy to a cheap and globally available tool for organized sharing.”

- Clay Shirky - Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

"Facebook is founded on the radical social premise - that an inevitable enveloping transparency will..."

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:28:43 +0200

“Facebook is founded on the radical social premise - that an inevitable enveloping transparency will overtake modern life.”

- The Facebook Effect

"What’s most important is that you have a game plan in place which is strategic enough to get you..."

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:53:45 +0200

“What’s most important is that you have a game plan in place which is strategic enough to get you started and adaptable enough to change as fast as conditions in the game do—because change as we all know, happens.”

- Armano/Logic+Emotion

Will Gen Y Grow Out of Social Networking?

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:44:31 +0200

Seems like quite a few people have been doing studies on this and concluded they will not.

My quick take on this. Totally agree. For two simple reasons:

1. My mother has been using Facebook via an iPhone for a long time. People at alle ages get into it. Not out of it.

2. In the future everyone and everything will be conntected. Tech will in a suble way enable new relationships and strenghten existing ones in a more human way than what is the case now.

Time to go for a run before the World Cup bronze final ;-)

"But there is one compensating advantage for the people who escape the old system: when the ecosystem..."

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:10:00 +0200

“But there is one compensating advantage for the people who escape the old system: when the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.”

- Clay Shirky - The Collapse of Complex Business Models

For Drunk Girls (Holy Ghost! Remix), we worked with Director...

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:17:00 +0200

For Drunk Girls (Holy Ghost! Remix), we worked with Director Daniel Garcia to create a piece that was purposefully NOT about the lyrics of the song. We went to Portland, where we got a glimpse into the culture of bike jousting. It was a long, fun night and we hope you enjoy the results!

Awesome

"So when we think of global political systems and how they are going to develop in this century, we..."

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:48:28 +0200

“So when we think of global political systems and how they are going to develop in this century, we cannot simply think in terms of the traditional nation state. We also need to think about the emerging network state.”

- Nations And Networks

Such a great day

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:48:12 +0200

Today’s been such a great day. Slept long, played soccer at Ferd stadium, ran around Bygdøy (I think the beach season is officially on), had a huge salad for dinner and now late yoga at Skøyen.

Also had the time to listen to some awesome tunes with Extension.fm and here’s a great song embedded with the best music player on the net.

Beastie Boys - 07 - Too Many Rappers (Max Tannone remix)

Quick note: Two things that would be awesome. Sharing from the SC player to Tumblr and vertical typing in the Tumblr iPhone app.

Off to do yoga

I’ve seen this quote before, but I came across it again...

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:13:00 +0200

I’ve seen this quote before, but I came across it again now when watching Fred Wilson’s presentation 10 Ways to Be Your Own Boss at a recent Behance conference.

So good

Wanted

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:08:00 +0200

Glasses with:

- augmented reality (for navigation, information, etc.)

- microphone

- speakers

- camera

- GPS

- gyrometer

- “screen” sharing

- mobile Internet

- nice design

Future...

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:21:00 +0200

In 40 years we will not be able to distinguish between biological machines and non-biological humans. Basically the machines will take over and our goal should be that they are nice to us.

- Brad Feld

I’m sure it must have been intense to live through the first and second industrial revolution, but I’m so happy to be living right now.

In this perspective it’s easy to imagine tablets as the first step away from desktop computers…

"But if technology and the ability to be connected disappear further into the background, what will..."

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:04:07 +0200

“But if technology and the ability to be connected disappear further into the background, what will occupy our foreground? A bit of the humanity we’ve always valued in the “real world.” Legislators who are currently fixated on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education as the key to innovation will realize that STEM needs some STEAM—some art in the equation. We’ll witness a return to the integrity of craft, the humanity of authorship, and the rebalancing of our virtual and physical spaces. We’ll see a 21st-century renaissance in arts- and design-centered approaches to making things, where you—the individual—will take center stage in culture and commerce.”

- Your Life In 2020, Forbes

"I saw a two-year old kid (in diapers, in a stroller), using an iPod Touch today. Not just looking at..."

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:40:57 +0200

“I saw a two-year old kid (in diapers, in a stroller), using an iPod Touch today. Not just looking at it, but browsing menus and interacting. This is a revolution, guys.”

- Seth Godin (via thegongshow)

Soft Hand by Willard Grant Conspiracy. From Regard The...

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:03:00 +0200

Soft Hand by Willard Grant Conspiracy. From Regard The End.

Willard Grant Conspiracy are an alt country band currently based near Palmdale, California. Originally formed in 1995 in Boston, Massachusetts by Robert Fisher and Paul Austin. The band operates as a collective, with vocalist Fisher the only permanent member. Fisher’s voice and Americana style has been compared to both John Cale and Johnny Cash, with most songs being acoustic.

If people don’t like this song I’ll shut down the blog with immediate effect ;-)

"There were two other pieces over the weekend that also spoke to the critical role that attention..."

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:10:19 +0200

“There were two other pieces over the weekend that also spoke to the critical role that attention plays now. danah boyd wrote how the hackers on 4chan are not about gaining access to systems (security hacking) but instead about (mis)directing attention. The more we rely on external systems for allocating our attention, the more we will be susceptible to such hacks.”

- Continuations

"Should I put a Tweet This button on the posts? A Facebook Like button? I really resist doing this..."

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:28:26 +0200

“Should I put a Tweet This button on the posts? A Facebook Like button? I really resist doing this because, while it may seem like a good idea today, in a year or so, will it still seem right? What if I had put Myspace links on, or Digg links on my stories in 2005? When you go back through the archive those would seem crazy, almost defacing of the content. Don’t those things belong in toolbars or bookmarklets?”

- Scripting News

"Having a “dashboard” to edit content is wrong, imho, and represents a huge step backward..."

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:25:17 +0200

“Having a “dashboard” to edit content is wrong, imho, and represents a huge step backward in the art of blogging. I want to bring it back, and make it a competitive issue.”

- Scripting News

"A lot of people have begun using the term ecosystem to describe these big platforms. That captures..."

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:24:00 +0200

“A lot of people have begun using the term ecosystem to describe these big platforms. That captures their decentralized, emergent character, but ecosystems do not have a central point of control. Apple decided to eliminate third party analytics between one release and the next. That doesn’t happen in an ecosystem. The right analogy is a government.”

- Brad Burnham/USV - Web Services as Governments