gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"

still in copenhagen

[Rick Segal & myself doing our schpiel at Reboot8.]

I'm writing this from the hotel lobby in Copenhagen. Got a couple of hours here till I grab a taxi to the airport, arriving in London tonight etc.

Thanks to Thomas and crew, as always, for putting on such a great show at Reboot8.

Brief observations:

1. Nobody was using the word "blog" much. Or "blogging". The phrase "future of blogging" was conspicuously absent. It's like we're all too busy working on our own projects to worry about the "state of the blogosphere"; another phrase that was gratefully nowhere to be seen.

2. I spent the afternoon yesterday one-on-one hanging out with Doc Searls. We ended up eating Mongolian BBQ and talking about the meaning of life. We both seemed to have arrived at our calling rather late in life, which is great, of course, but also exhausting. A lot of the people we hung out with this weekend were 10 or more years younger than me, even more so with Doc. We seem to have lost a decade or so somewhere down the line.

3. Stowe Boyd is an interesting chap. They guy wants to change the world. Rock on.

4. Always good to run into Geoff Jones again.

5. I'm not sure if I get Doc Searls' "Intention Economy" idea yet. But I also think "Marketing is Bullshit" is a lot closer to the truth than "Marketing is Dead". When they talk about "marketing" in this context, of course, they mean "marketing department" marketing. Add-on marketing, as opposed to baked-in marketing. Exherent, not inherent etc. I have no problem with the idea that "Everything is marketing from now on", even if it might make Tom Coates a bit squeamish. etc

6. This is my third visit to Scandenavia. I find the place utterly agreeable, although I'm not crazy about the food [The beer, of course, is a completely different matter altogether]. I would have no problem living here for a while if the right gig ever came up. I also feel the same way about Switzerland.

7. One thing I like about living in Europe is the ease of travel. You catch a plane, and an hour or two later, you're somewhere interesting like Stockholm or Paris. When I lived in New York, an hour on the plane and you would end up somewhere like Boston or Cleveland. Not quite the same.

8. Would like to get more involved with Rick Segal's company, MusicIP. We're working on it, but it's hard as both of us are so damn busy with other things.

9. Had a great time with Laurent, Nico and all the chaps from CoComment. Lovely people. Can't wait to get back to Geneva again.

10. Nice to see more and more people sniffing around, asking about Sigurd and Thingamy. The interesting thing about Thingamy is that it scales. Theoretically you can run General Motors from your cellphone, if your thumbs could type fast enough.

11. Back in London tomorrow. Signing more Stormhoek prints. Then home on Wednesday. It's been an intense month. Will be glad to be back in quiet mode again.

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