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Social Media in 2009, what is next?
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Facebook, Origo, Myspace, Twitter, social media has become fundamental in running projects with many actors. It is a new way to link to distant people, we are connecting back to earlier collaborators and schoolmates. Capitalism thrives on the activities of normal people and there is in my opinion a battleground of things being puched at us and loops and closure possibilities for us to discard it. It basically reminds me of walking through a bazar where the whole world is available, being pushed at you and one’s ability to hold focus while walking and browsing.
Ravit Lichtenberg has here an interesting picture of how things might change in 2009.
1. January 2009. New NordicDogS Site
We have spent Christmas in Iceland, meeting friends, family and re-evaluating our activities. We are to move to Africa soon, Dori finishing his position as dean of the Design Faculty in Oslo at the National Academy in Norway. Soley is going to take on the task of supporting graphic design education in ENAV (school of visual arts) in Maputo. We have spent quality time of our Icelandic holiday break in the Hljómalind Cafe in Reykjavik. There is wireless internet and lots of nice people from all over the world visiting Iceland and much of the underground and protest activity in Reykjavik is planned there. The cafe is very close to our flat in the town and we feel very good there, starting the day with organic toast and double espresso. Most of the time we have not been looking up from our Macs, but now the site is almost ready for running. We hope that this new site can help in informing about what we think important.
In Iceland 2009 is starting beautifully , lots of excitement and great possibilities! Please wish us luck!
Here are our older sites. DORIGISLASON.COM and OLDER DOGS SITE
6th Oct. 2008, Fogo Island, Canada
Soley spent September in Canada, mostly in Fogo Island, Newfoundland and a week Quebek City.
I absolutely loved it there and just long to buy one of these little houses. The nature and the houses and stages are beautiful and so many interesting details in this quite simple style and small scale villages. I was there to help out my friend Elisabet who is moving there for a very exiting job in the Shorefast foundation. Elisabet had to finish of her work in Norway so I was a “babysitter” for her boys Einar and Jon Kolbeinn that are 13 and 17 year old absolutely great boys. I met extremely nice and open people that let you feel as one of them from day one. I miss everyone and the island and will most definitely go there again and take Dori and Andri with me.21st August 2008. Ken Robinson always fantastic
Among the ‘must see’ lectures in our great new world of endless available lectures is Ken Robinson’s talks! Both brilliant and fun. His subject is education and the need to transform education. ‘We are still educating our kids according to the ideology of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution – killing their creativity. There is a new age now, creative one, and we need the creative people to face the vast challenges of today – the industrial ideology will not get us anywhere in that matter!’ Sir Ken Robinson is the recipient of the RSA Benjamin Franklin Medal 2008. Here is an hour long lecture at that occasion worth every minute of watching. And here is his fantastic lecture at TED which we have watched and used often. When we were watching this lecture, our son, then 10 year old, heard bits of it including some of our discussions about it (kids always hear and understand more than you think) The day after he went to school rebellious and told all his friends that the school was destroying their creativity! One of his schoolmates is a very creative and artistic boy. We heard later from his parents that in the evening he got nightmares and couldn´t sleep because he was so scared about his creativity being destroyed.
