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What does a random place look like?

Posted in Philosophy, english, reality check, tagged , , , on July 16, 2010 | 10 Comments »

What does a random place on Earth look like? Is it pristine and beautiful like this one? …or polluted and gloomy like this one? Let’s find out. Let’s find photos of 5 random places around the world. But how? Random places The first challenge is to select 5 random places. This is not as straightforward [...]

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“Brutal transparency” on the DataMarket blog

Posted in data, datamarket, english, tagged , , , on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I just posted a new entry on the DataMarket blog: Iceland: Restoring trust through open data and “brutal transparency”

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Iceland & Energy – presentation w. John Perkins

Posted in Næsta Ísland, data, datamarket, english, opin gögn, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Just finished my previously mentioned presentation on Icelandic energy data. Some 250-300 people showed up – mostly to listen to John Perkins obviously. Interesting audience to say the least, but a lot of fun! My DataMarket piece went well – and putting it together at least helped me put some things in perspective. The slides [...]

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Iceland & Energy: Upcoming presentation

Posted in Næsta Ísland, data, datamarket, english, opin gögn, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I have been invited – on behalf of DataMarket – to give a presentation at the University of Iceland on April 6th. The occasion is a small conference due to the visit of “Economic Hit Man” John Perkins to Iceland. Perkins is here to attend the premiere of “Dreamland“, a documentary on the effects that [...]

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Icesave and Icelandic deposits

Posted in data, datamarket, english, opin gögn, tagged , , , , , on January 14, 2009 | 8 Comments »

As DataMarket‘s Money:Tech gig (see previous entry) approaches, we’re starting to see all sorts of interesting data coming together to form our “DataMarket on the Icelandic Economy”. Some graphs just speak for themselves. Here’s one that caught my eye today: The numbers are millions ISK. Note that these are only deposits in Icelandic banks and [...]

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DataMarket at Money:Tech 2009

Posted in data, datamarket, english on December 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »

My company – DataMarket – will be doing a presentation at O’Reilly’s Money:Tech conference in New York in February. I attended the first Money:Tech conference earlier this year, and I must say it’s one of my favorite conferences ever, so I’m greatly honored to be speaking there. The topic of my presentation is “What an [...]

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Hans Rosling strikes again

Posted in data, english, opin gögn, tagged , , , , on December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I’m a big fan of Hans Rosling. He’s really the guy that opened up the eyes of the world to the importance of availability of and open access to data. His latest presentation, from Google’s Zeitgeist08 conference, is now available on YouTube. It is not as stunning as his original TED eye-opener, but still among [...]

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DataMarket launched

Posted in Ideas, data, datamarket, english, tagged , , , , on November 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I’m pleased to announce the launch of DataMarket’s new website. As the name implies, DataMarket is about creating a marketplace for data – structured data to be more specific. This means all sorts of statistics and tabular data, including but not limited to: market research, exchange rates, various financial information, economic indicators, weather data, sports [...]

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Presentation on Innovation (IceWeb 2008)

Posted in Ideas, Philosophy, english, tagged , , , , on November 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Ever since the banking crisis struck Iceland a few weeks ago, I’ve been running out and about to advocate for innovation as the way to rebuild the economy. Yesterday, I was privileged to give a presentation on the topic at the IceWeb conference. The title of my talk was “The Innovation Renaissance” and the slides [...]

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To: Gordon Brown – From: An Icelander

Posted in english on October 10, 2008 | 35 Comments »

Dear Mr. Brown, (cc: The international press) Here in Iceland, we are busy dealing with a series of mistakes in government, regulation and banking operations. As a result of a total collapse of our banking system, customers in the UK have feared for their deposits in Icelandic banks, just like every single Icelander has. In [...]

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