Jonas Beckman

Well, it’s been a while.

I found new friends through EuroPython this summer. Currently, my main gig is for KMM (Knowledge Management in Museums), a Nordic/European cultural heritage project. Lots of interesting infrastructure work and almost all Python: Django, xmpppy… and I have just added rdflib to the mix. Haven’t had this much fun for a long time. Last week was hectic though, as we prepared the public sites for a re-launch. I will write more soon!

Some of the others are going to Amsterdam to meet the European Digital Library people. But me, I’m going to Chicago. I’ll bring my Mac and see what happens - see you there!

The year is almost over. Perhaps I’ll write a summary a little later.

But right now, I’m just back in from a long run in the cold rain: across bridges, along railroad tracks, into the woods and down to the water again. Slow steady running for an hour and a half. Sometimes that’s the best feeling. Only in the middle, going up the highest hills, did I give in to tempation and really maxed my pulse. Then kept going, but slowly again.

Impra - network of female musicians in Scandinavia in genres as Jazz/Improvised/Electronica/Alternative - had a party tonight. Lots and lots of great music. I have a special jazz friend… she knows everyone and tells me about these things. Life is good!

Real moblogging

Quiet afternoon close to central Stockholm. Very warm for this time of the year… as long as the sun is up it still feels like summer. A long walk in the sun is the cure for many ills.

I can email from my phone to Flickr and it automatically ends up here. Is that real moblogging? No. I can’t give you my phone and tell you to moblog something - you’ll never find all the necessary clicks yourself. Until it becomes that easy spontaneity is lost.

And spontaneity is important even for people who work with lots of photos. For instance, Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase does ethnographic work and advocates a mixture of serious preparation and very simple methods. Via Mymarkup.net

Hmm… Martin Spernau is thinking about the creation myth of relationsships.

I recently left a short and very stormy relationship and think Martin is on to something here. In retrospect, both the best and the worst parts were pretty obvious from the way it started.

But I won’t go into details here. *Laughs* I have done quite a lot of semi-public writing on members-only community sites over the past two years… and it’s time to spend more time outside of that particular ghetto.