ZinePal Gets It Right: Proper Re-Packaging and Re-Distribution of Blogs

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You would think that the makers of Zinepal read this blog, but I’m sure it’s just coincidental: A while ago I wrote about similar services FeedJournal and Tabbloid and called for a somewhat different model: Using technology to repackage, edit, and re-distribute blog posts, instead of ‘just’ offering PDF dumps via email.
Now Zinepal does that, [...]

Using Filters And Labels To Free Up Gmail Space

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Yesterday my catch-all Gmail account reached the 92 % watermark, and I found it alarming. I had been looking time and again for effective ways to clean up, but none seemed viable as I had over 60,000 emails on file.
Judging from what I learned online, there seems to be two ways of doing this. Either [...]

5 Penetrating Tips: Learning Online Marketing From Spammers

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I detest spam email as much as the next guy. Last year alone I manually sent thousands of mainly work related emails and probably read ten times as many as that. So it goes without saying that I spend a fair amount of time hanging out in my Inbox. I consider spam a fact of [...]

DIY Zine Culture Goes Digital

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I was asked to talk a bit about Issuu by Zine Arcade, who really liked the possibilities to publish online. Here are a few bits of it (the least promoting parts):
Issuu is the ideal platform for the zine community. I myself have been very inspired by the old b/w DIY culture, and that movement is [...]

RSS to PDF Converters Showdown: FeedJournal vs. Tabbloid

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Blogging is publishing, right? But it never really achieves that print-and-ink feeling, right? Wrong.
Well, sort of. I’ve been playing with two blog-to-PDF services (actually RSS-to-PDF), as it’s a nice thing to compile your precious writings once in a while. You can email it to your Mom who doesn’t get blogging, or print it to a [...]

I pretty much started drooling over Ubiquity for Firefox: Mashups on the fly!

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After seeing this video about Ubiquity for Firefox, that let’s you create mashups on the fly via the browser, I basically started drooling. It’s a significant step towards empowering non-geeks (or rather: geeks with poor coding skills) to create those simple, but significant (!) integrations between services that makes your day so much easier – [...]

The streets as a canvas – for animation!

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Blu is the author of this amazing street art/slash/stop-motion animation. It’s fairly easy to imagine the process of creating it. But on second thought; try imagining the number of frames, the questions from bystanders (I mean: it’s grafitti at broad daylight, right?) and the sheer creative thought that went in to this short (but actually [...]

The promise of art keeps vandals away

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Take a good close look at this picture and tell me what’s wrong. Any suggestions? Well, what if I told you that this plywood wall is located in the centre of otherwise graffiti infested Copenhagen and that it’s been clean like this for at least a month now.
Notice the white sheet of paper to the [...]

This Sunday: Political cinema + art books

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The recent release of RAF-member Birgitte Mohnhaupt and the destruction of the ‘Ungdomshuset’ (formerly hotbed for alternative culture and street-level activism) calls for political flashback … according to these guys, anyway:
STATION 16, a newly formed Copenhagen group dedicated to the exhibition of avant-garde, experimental and underground cinema, takes this opportunity with it’s debut screening to [...]