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A work colleague told me today that I am a social software junkie, when I was trying to convince him of how wonderful plazes.com is. Shortly afterwards another colleague of mine persuaded me into making a last.fm account. I sort of tried to avoid making one for a long time, with the excuse that I have enough music channels in my life, streaming radio and buying cds got me covered, but what the heck I will give it a try.
It struck me when I was making my account and had to load a photo of myself, that someone should make a meta tool for handling different accounts on the social software around. I decided on a new picture this time, and had to change my display picture on flickr, gtalk, msn messenger and plazes – thank you del.icio.us for not having a profile page.

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I have just been invited to give a talk at Aarhus publiclibrary on blogging/moblogging/puclicstorrytelling blah blah. They want the loaners to contribute stories and pictures to their webpage. Today I’ve been thinking of what to tell them, should I give them the usual postmarxian tale of how blogging will save the world and democratize media, enabling every ordinary man and woman to speak out – the typical speak on blogging from the internet subculture of blogging. Thinking of blogging as a subculture – which I think one should, this is not a mainstream medium – made me come up with the scenario that for blogging to become mainstream, everyone should make a blogpost as often as one makes a list of groceries to buy. If this really happens – the dream of the blogging community – I’m actually not sure that the hype around blogging would exist. The reason why people from the subculture promote this as much as they do is due to the fact that it is NOT a mainstream medium. If/when it becomes, they will go elsewhere…..

I just found out that I am ¾ nerd - going fast towards geekdom. MSNBC has made a quiz, where you can test how geeky you are. My score was 44. The score differentiates like this:

0 to 29: Stuck in the Last Century
30 to 60: Heading to Geekdom
61 and up: Seriously Nerdy

Thinking of it, I realize that the score perhaps is a bit misguiding, because just doing the test, shows a little bit of geekdom.