No, Janus Friis is not an Estonian. I don’t mean to brag of some sort of nationalistic pride, but really, he’s Danish.

Other than that, he’s not the brightest of the bunch.

From what Derek says, it sounds interesting. I don’t have any books on the way just yet, but this could be a way to publish, if I ever do write one.

Certainly.

Dan Cederholm reports on some whole new interpretation of the voting with your wallet–theory.

A new, as I understand it, feature at the CFC containing strange emails:

Meanwhile Henrie Ranenburg wants us to tell him how to meet the “Chelsea hooligans.” Our advice is to simply turn up at the Bridge wearing a Spurs shirt.

Ever so true.

Although I usually find such videos boring, or at least irrelevant to anything, I just thought this would be as good a reason as any to have a solid back-up strategy.

Seth obviously makes a good point of why grand openings are often superfluous and missing the intended point of the party throwers, very often, at least. I have one example of the contrary.

One year and a half ago, my school changed its name, something I commented on, although I in Danish. The day of the name change, my school threw a huge party for all high school kids in Copenhagen, a so-called “grand opening”. And it really was. I personally found the party to be dreadful, because the school was crammed, and the queue to the bar was endless.

But the outcome was all as desirable as one could have hoped for, maybe even more so. The school has for the past many years had a quite bad reputation, and thus no-one wanted to go here. However, this school year (that is, starting August 2007), we almost had all our places filled with people who actually applied for the school.

No-one can be sure that this was because of the party, but I believe the heavy branding of the school was a key factor. Thus, a grand opening might just be what is needed. Or it may not, as many of Seth’s examples show.

Could very well come in handy.

As usual, an intelligent analysis of the real situation with Web 2.0 by the Drama 2.0 Show.

I am reminded of the West’s attempt to free all those poor, unfortunate souls who aren’t free as we in the west are, ignoring the fact that to be really free, you have to strive for it, not have it given to you.

I don’t get it, I really don’t. Why would anyone need a tool bar for editing Markdown-formatted text? I love Markdown for its basic goal of being easy to read and write. Why would anyone need buttons to do it? Yes, it’s decently executed, but I question its premise.

(Via Daring Fireball, obviously.)