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Trine spiser…

Klaus Silberbauer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:26:47 +0000

…er min frues nye blog på Politiken. Very good food, blot på dansk og med en lidt anden vinkel. Web 2.0-baghjul til Silberbauer.

Er Adblocker-blok en farbar vej?

Klaus Silberbauer — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:32:37 +0000

BT og Berlingske har puttet et lille script på deres side, der kan se, om du anvender Adblocker til at fjerne bannerreklamer. Hvis du gør, så må du ikke bruge bt.dk eller berlingske.dk, næh nej.

Umiddelbart er det jo en forståelig reaktion fra et annoncedrevet, og absolut hårdt presset, mediehus. Og det er ganske i Berlingskes ret at håndhæve visse vilkår for brug af deres nyhedsservice.

Men er det smart? Jeg tror det ikke. Det er vel nemmere, at vælge berlingske.dk og bt.dk fra, end at leve med spam-agtige bannere på andre sites. Desuden kan blokeringen nemt omgås med Yesscript, hvor man blokere for BT’s blok af blokkeren. Og sådan kan våbenkapløbet optrappes. Det eneste Berlingske opnår, er et fald i trafik til skade for annoncepriserne.

Jeg tror det er en stakket frist for medier, der med en anklagende pegefinger skal gøre opmærksom på, at reklamerne skam er der for min egen skyld. De kan jo alligevel ikke tvinge mig til at klikke på dem.

Til gengæld lykkes det til fulde for Berlingske at reklamere for produktet Adblocker Plus, som nu ganske givet bliver installeret på adskillelige browsere landet over, efter at Markedsføring bragte historien om adblocker-blokaden på bt.dk og berlingske.dk.

Jeg holdt for nylig et foredrag, hvor jeg spåede bannerreklamens snarlige død. Jeg tror, vi er taget et skridt nærmere. Nye forretningsmodeller skal til. Jeg kan ikke give opskriften, men det er helt tydeligt, at god gammeldaws display-reklame har det meget, meget hårdt på nettet, simpelthen fordi de meget nemt kan vælges fra.

Kunde&Co(py)

Klaus Silberbauer — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:41:56 +0000

Exhibit 1: Kunde&Co‘s campaign for the referendum on changing the Danish constitution. Paid for by the Danish government an thus pure royalistic propaganda. And a ripoff at the same time. This is wrong on so many levels:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Exhibit 2: Harry Enfield‘s “Women Know Your Limits”:

Click here to view the embedded video.

…looking forward to the lawsuit from the BBC.

Support World Climate Community

Klaus Silberbauer — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:21:27 +0000

June 11 the City of Copenhagen will launch World Climate Community. This project needs all the publicity in the world.

World Climate Community will collect ideas and voices on climate from all over the world to let the politicians know that we’re for real and that this planet is too good to waste. The world’s leaders will gather in Copenhagen for COP15 in December and World Climate Community will help set the agenda.

Right now you can join the Facebook page and invite your friend to join too. And of course, after June 11 you should join the community and participate with your opinion, ideas and projects.

The community will launch at www.worldclimatecommunity.com

If you want to advertise, advertise!

Klaus Silberbauer — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:05:47 +0000

Baekdal is absolutely right. Audi fucked up: Why only publish their (probably pretty costly) documentary on Les Mans 24 on iTunes only, and thus only in the US? A European brand makes a movie about a European event, and then only makes it available to recession-struck Americans. Dummkopfen.

The movie is paid for – why not just push it on Youtube and every other available channel? Get it out there!

Here’s the trailer, but you can’t see the real thing, unless you’re American. For some reason, Audi doesn’t want you to.

Click here to view the embedded video.

A light in the dark

Klaus Silberbauer — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:22:26 +0000

When everything is looking bleak, and the R-word is everywhere, it’s inspiring and important that mankind still have the ability to look towards more distant horizons.

Kepler is designed for finding eart-sized and earth like planets out there in the void. In a few years we might finally know the chances of life existing elsewhere.

Imagine, that while greedy speculators and naïve CEOs were busy raping the global economy, sending this planet tumbling into recession, some people sat down and designed a machine to answer one of the ultimate questions: Are we alone? I really wish I was smart enough to be one of the boffins that put this together.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Excellent: The keyboard is dead. The Macbook Wheel is here.

Klaus Silberbauer — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:18:23 +0000

Excellent video from The Onion introducing Apples new HCI invention

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Picasa 3 is great – network support still sux, though

Klaus Silberbauer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:54:31 +0000

Picasa 3 is out (has been for a couple of weeks, I know. I’m a so late-follower).

Anyway: It’s splendid. It’s even smoother and faster than v. 2. Especially the new image preview, that if you want it to replaces Windows’ horrifically slow built-in image previewer is very, very cool. Almost Mac-like – which is, of course, good.

But, but, but… I so hoped that Google had fixed the network support so that scanning folders on servers (like my beloved Cubestation where my photos live) would work. But alas – Picasa still gets the hickups badly when trying to access a mounted drive letter.

It’s a shame. Picasa is an immensely good piece of software, but with the whole world going submicro-nano-laptop more and more people will have a NAS at home for important stuff that need a lot of space and that you don’t use everyday – and that you thus don’t want to lug around on your astronomic-cost-pr-MB solid state memory in your cool, new subnote.

Photos are exactly such stuff.

Countdown to the end of the world?

Klaus Silberbauer — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:05:06 +0000

Tomorrow at this time we will know if the Large Hadron Collider in CERN will create a black hole as some scientists think it may do.

According to the guys in lab coats, it’s not very likely that this will happen (PDF). But these are the same kind of guys that invented niceties like asbestos, the h-bomb, CFC gasses and the thorium toothpaste.

So, If tomorrow you feel being very rapidly compressed into something just a little larger than a singularity, together with the most of the mass of our solar system, it’s a tell-tale sign that some CERN boffin didn’t do his algebra quite right. In that case: Remain calm and enjoy the feeling of being so attractive that even light and the fabric of space-time itself time can’t resist you. Revel in the feeling that McCain, Palin, and global warming can’t harm you any further.

Have a nice day.

[UPDATE]

Here’s a live webcam feed from CERN

Our defence minister just had a foot massage on national television

Klaus Silberbauer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:43:15 +0000

There seem to be no limit to what politicians will do to get a bit of airtime.

Right now Danish TV2 is broadcasting a reality show in which our Defence Minister visits the Danish Hollywood King of Beauty Ole Henriksen. We just saw the minister getting his feet washed and massaged, and now he is in session at a hypnotist. WTF? Denmark is currently at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, while our Defence Minister is having a foot massage on television. Am I the only one who finds this just a little bit disturbing?

What on earth was his press advisers thinking when they okayed this? Even Sarkozy wouldn’t be so stupid as to get himself filmed in a spa!

But then again, Minister Søren Gade is the guy who in 2005 chose to pack a 9mm Neuhausen for at formal visit to Afghanistan. Very… Castro.