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Sweden Social Web Camp 2009

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Svårt att skriva. Svårt att beskriva. På 80-talet när jag körde en stor HD hade jag en Harley Davidson t-shirt med texten “If you need to ask, you’ll never understand”.

Samtidigt strider den sortens exkluderande attityd mot allt som jag vill stå för. Men någonting finns där. Vi som var där kommer alltid ha något som liknar ett hemligt leende, tecken eller handslag – #sswc-tecknet.

Vad du än gör nästa höst – missa inte SSWC 2010.

Om man bortser från #sswc-nostalgin, twitterflöden, alla fantastiska bloggposter, bilder och annat finns det ändå några värdeord som jag skulle vilja addera till bilden av Sweden Social Web Camp.

Dedikation, professionalism, pliktkänsla, ordning, uppoffring, tanke, arbetsglädje, struktur och medmänsklighet.

Att se alla dessa 286 personer agera strukturerat utan spikad agenda, delta med hjärta och hjärna i sessionerna och aktiviteterna, hjälpas åt med både enkla och svåra ting samt passa alla tider med bravur fyller mitt hjärta med respekt. Och hopp. Om dessa individer representerar framtiden finns det hopp. Massor av hopp.

Dessutom, Döden var bäst av de samtal jag deltog i. Nivån, närvaron, trovärdigheten och diskussionen var bättre än det mesta jag har haft nöjet att få uppleva. Hittills. Man vet ju aldrig vad sswc 2010 har i sitt sköte.

[Filmen? Johan Grafström och jag leder en session om konceptet Play. Björn Falkevik filmar som vanligt.]

To do.

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Jag gjorde något otroligt dumt häromdagen. Utan att gå in på misstaget i detalj – som givetvis inbegriper hög hastighet, en hårnålskurva och min älskade motorcykel – kan jag glädjas åt att det slutade lyckligt.

Men tillvarons skira bräcklighet lyste mig i ögonen tillräckligt många sekunder för att etsa fast en tanke – en tanke kring olika saker man bör göra innan man highside:ar över floden Styx.

Jag tror att alla borde bli bättre på att visa sina medmänniskor uppskattning. Redan innan denna episod har jag bemödat mig om att ringa upp folk som jag tycker har gjort något bra – emellanåt lite styltiga eller tillknäppta samtal: -”Hej, det är Morris, ringer bara för att säga att jag tyckte din grej var bra…”.

Kruxet är att det inte riktigt räcker. Det finns de som jag vill visa min uppskattning för som inte gör uppenbara, påtagliga saker. Utan bara för att de är. Och gör (eller ibland inte gör!) det de ska.

Får helt enkelt börja twittra hämningslöst och ostrukturerat om att jag älskar en massa folk…

Uppdatering: För att förtydliga, inget hände vare sig med mig eller motorcykeln – det var bara väldigt nära. Kortversion: Morris gör något korkat – klarar sig med en hårsmån genom ren tur. Inser värdet att tala om för alla som han gillar att han gillar dem.

THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

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THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Art  1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Art  2 Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Art  3 Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Art  4 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Art  5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Art  6 Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Art  7 All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Art  8 Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Art  9 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Art 10 Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Art 11 Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Art 12 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Art 13 Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Art 14 Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Art 15 Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Art 16 Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Art 17 Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Art 18 Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Art 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Art 20 Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Art 21 Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Art 22 Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Art 23 Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Art 24 Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Art 25 Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Art 26 Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Art 27 Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Art 28 Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Art 29 Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Art 30 Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

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Art  1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Art  2 Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Art  3 Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Art  4 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Art  5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Art  6 Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Art  7 All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Art  8 Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Art  9 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Art 10 Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Art 11 Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Art 12 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Art 13 Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Art 14 Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Art 15 Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Art 16 Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Art 17 Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Art 18 Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Art 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Art 20 Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Art 21 Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Art 22 Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Art 23 Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Art 24 Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Art 25 Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Art 26 Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Art 27 Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Art 28 Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Art 29 Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Art 30 Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Är jag en bättre pappa i text?

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Jag är pappa till två tonåringar. Och även om de tvivlar på det emellanåt är det dem jag älskar mest på planeten. Men det vore lögn att säga att vi har en enkel harmonisk relation – vi bråkar både högljutt och “lågintensivt”. För er som inte har barn kan jag berätta något som, åtminstone jag, absolut inte var beredd på – att ens egna barn kan vara totalt olika till personlighet och sätt. Vilket i sin tur leder till att man hela tiden försöker hantera dem lika – med nyansen att man måste justera sig beroende på vem man i ett givet ögonblick försöker påverka.
Det går sådär. Och min självbild som pappa får sig ohyggliga törnar dagligen. Vad värre är, är att jag oftast hatar mig själv för min oförmåga att hantera saker bättre. Själv drömmer jag om att mina barn ska uppfatta mig som salomoiskt rättvis och “sträng-med-en-humoristisk-vinkel”, men tyvärr faller mina pedagogiska skämt platt till marken likt blyklumpar och min “rättvisa” ter sig som repression.
Nu när barnen är tonåringar blir den samlade känsloladdningen oftast så stor att vi inte hinner komma fram till själva sakfrågan innan jag eller någon av dem har kreverat av ilska – med efterföljande kalabalik. Tärande för alla inblandade, dysfunktionellt och rent ut sagt – för djävligt.
Men, efter att ha haft hela Norden som operationsområde och utgått från Vejbystrand som stationeringsort, har jag sedan lite mer än ett par månader veckopendlat till Stockholm. Tidigare har jag med en dåres envishet alltid åkt hem oavsett om jag varit i Stockholm, Köpenhamn, Malmö, Kristianstad eller Oslo på möten. Nu åker jag tunnelbana till Gamla stan.
Jamfört med tidigare träffar jag barnen nästan inte alls. Vilket känns fel. Och samtidigt har en ny relation vuxit fram. Sms med sonen, och sms+Skype-chatt med dottern. Visst, vi har tok-sms:at ända sedan jag utrustade barnen med mobiler i unga år, men jag upptäcker till min förvåning att vi den senaste tiden har “hanterat” svårare och svårare frågor över sms/chatt.
Med bättre och bättre resultat.
Vilket öppnar för en spännande och skrämmande fråga: Är jag en bättre pappa i text?

Jag är pappa till två tonåringar. Och även om de tvivlar på det emellanåt är det dem jag älskar mest på planeten. Men det vore lögn att säga att vi har en enkel harmonisk relation – vi bråkar både högljutt och “lågintensivt”. För er som inte har barn kan jag berätta något som, åtminstone jag, absolut inte var beredd på – att ens egna barn kan vara totalt olika till personlighet och sätt. Vilket i sin tur leder till att man hela tiden försöker hantera dem lika – med nyansen att man måste justera sig beroende på vem man i ett givet ögonblick försöker påverka.

Det går sådär. Och min självbild som pappa får sig ohyggliga törnar dagligen. Vad värre är, är att jag oftast hatar mig själv för min oförmåga att hantera saker bättre. Själv drömmer jag om att mina barn ska uppfatta mig som salomoiskt rättvis och “sträng-med-en-humoristisk-vinkel”, men tyvärr faller mina pedagogiska skämt platt till marken likt blyklumpar och min “rättvisa” ter sig som repression.

Nu när barnen är tonåringar blir den samlade känsloladdningen oftast så stor att vi inte hinner komma fram till själva sakfrågan innan jag eller någon av dem har kreverat av ilska – med efterföljande kalabalik. Tärande för alla inblandade, dysfunktionellt och rent ut sagt – för djävligt.

Men, efter att ha haft hela Norden som operationsområde och utgått från Vejbystrand som stationeringsort, har jag sedan lite mer än ett par månader veckopendlat till Stockholm. Tidigare har jag med en dåres envishet alltid åkt hem oavsett om jag varit i Stockholm, Köpenhamn, Malmö, Kristianstad eller Oslo på möten. Nu åker jag tunnelbana till Gamla stan.

Jamfört med tidigare träffar jag barnen nästan inte alls. Vilket känns fel. Och samtidigt har en ny relation vuxit fram. Sms med sonen, och sms+Skype-chatt med dottern. Visst, vi har tok-sms:at ända sedan jag utrustade barnen med mobiler i unga år, men jag upptäcker till min förvåning att vi den senaste tiden har “hanterat” svårare och svårare frågor över sms/chatt.

Med bättre och bättre resultat.

Vilket öppnar för en spännande och skrämmande fråga:
Är jag en bättre pappa i text?

Gravity – en Nokia Series 60-klient för Twitter

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Startskärm

Startskärm

 

 

Först och främst – jag är ytterst tveksam till klientprogram. Jag tycker att man skall hålla sig till webbaserade lösningar. Och med ett aktivt deltagande i några javaklientkatastrofer, och med hundratals tester av andras misslyckade javaklienter har jag utvecklat en allmän antipati mot klienter i mobiltelefoner.

Denna antipati utvecklade sig nästan till ett rent hat efter det att Google släppte sin Gmailapp – för att den var så bra. Gmailappen var beviset för att det faktiskt går att göra bra klientprogram till mobiltelefoner. Om Google kunde göra en stabil och smidig klient på första försöket, betyder inte det att alla andra som försökt och enligt mig misslyckats, slarvat?

Idag har jag funnit en ny klientprogramvara som fungerar. Gravity, en Twitterklient för Series 60-telefoner. Och nu blir jag nästan ännu argare över tidigare misslyckanden – för Gravity är riktigt bra. Och snygg. Hur kommer det sig att ett tyskt utvecklingsbolag, Mobileways, lyckas göra en stabil och funktionell Twitterklient med ett fungerande användargränsnitt? Jag menar inte att de har ett särskilt handikapp just för att de är tyskar, utan efter alla dessa andra dilettanter som misslyckats lyckas Mobileways att göra en tekniskt bra och snygg Twitterklient.

 

Tweet på gång

Tweet på gång

Den enda negativa kritik jag kan pressa fram är att demonedladdningen endast tillåter att man testar i 10 dagar, samt att man endast kan “tvittra” under första demodagen. Snålt tilltagen testperiod. Det räcker dock för att utvärdera ett köp för 106 kronor. Men det borde ha varit en 30-dagarsdemo utan inskränkning.

För mig, som är en ex-jaiku- och numera Bloggy-fan (även om jag saknar Jaiku intensivt emellanåt) är Gravity precis det som behövs för att jag skall börja gilla Twitter. Installerat på min Nokia N85 ger Gravity Twitter den funktionalitet och  den (svårdefinierat uttryck) ‘look-and-feel’ som jag behöver för att stå ut med Twitter. 

  • För oss som gillade Jaiku:s Series 60-klient finns det egentligen inte mycket att säga mer än: Prova.
  • För de som älskar Twitter och har en Nokia Series 60-telefon är valet enkelt: Köp.

Och sammantaget ger Google:s Gmailapp/Mail for Google Apps och Mobileways Gravity ännu ett skäl att hata stora delar av mobilutvecklingsbranschen.

De bevisar nämligen att det går att göra rätt.