Danmark 2.0

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5 years ago
by John Gøtze in

I am very pleased to announce a new blog:

Danmark 2.0

Danmark 2.0 (RSS)

I’m now a resident blogger for:
Ingeniøren
[Ingeniøren, Engineering Weekly, is Denmark’s leading publication in the fields of science and technology providing high quality and objective information on a weekly basis.}

In Danmark 2.0, I’ll be blogging in Danish about the Danish development towards a digital, network society – about e-government, standards, and what-not. I’ve started with an entry about open document standards. In the entry, I point here (check it!) and here/here/here (well, check these too)..

Update 1: RSS-feed link updated.
Update 2: My new blog at ing.dk is an addition to my blogging, not a replacement of this blog, if anyone could get such a thought. I’m now blogging in two languages – English here, and Danish there (and here).

EA Fellows

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by John Gøtze in

I’m proud to be one of the founders of EA Fellows, a Danish think-tank offering enterprise architecture consulting services. I’ve teamed up with fellow bootstrappers Allan Bo Rasmussen (Zebranet), Bo Møller (ConceptLab) and Tommy Pedersen (SimMark), and we have now opened EAFellows.com. Besides providing information about our services and products (yes, we have products!), we also run a blog, where we will make commentary about EA. We’re focusing on the Danish/Nordic market, and the site/blog is in Danish only.

Days of Openness

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5 years ago
by John Gøtze in

Linuxforum 2006 here in Copenhagen was great. There’s a report at Groklaw.

In my view, the highlight was Simon Phipps‘ presentation. My favorite quote: “If you don’t join the network, you don’t get the effects”. It’s exactly the network effects that counts, and what make open standards so valuable.

Phipps announced the launch of the ODF Alliance, less than four hours after the official press release was launched. For coverage of the alliance news, see my OpenDocument tag, where I have collected reactions in press and blogs. The alliance launch is (further, as if we need more) proof that ODF has crossed the chasm.

I chaired a jam session with Louis Suárez-Potts, where he talked about the community of and around OpenOffice.org. The more I learn about OOo, the more impressed I get. I’ve now used OOo for almost four months, and am very happy with it. Sure, Calc could be better, but it does just fine for almost everything. Writer and Impress are actually better than their Microsoft counter-parts, IMHO. But the really cool thing about OOo is that it uses ODF natively, so I can go somewhere else if I want to.

My bookshop

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5 years ago
by John Gøtze in

Several years ago, I created Gotzemazon, an Amazon-WS-driven shop. People out there are actually using it (thank you!), so I thought it was time to refresh it a bit. I see some opportunities in thematic bookshops, for example an EA Bookshop and an XML bookshop (these are just simple rewrites of bestseller lists). If only one had time to play … Well, I did play around a little. In playing with the rewrite rules, I created a “short” URL – http://slashdemocracy.org/booksearch/ – that I (and you, if you want) can use for quick searches, such as a search for XML-books: http://slashdemocracy.org/booksearch/xml. It’s nothing special, but might be handy.

Speaking of XML: Mr Safe is back!

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