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Personal Blogs are the Public Life Bits
A few months ago I wrote about “Memories for Life“, a proposal for a Grand Challenge in computer science. The aim of that Grand Challenge was to find ways to store, index and secure our digital...
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Visited Countries – Revisited
When I read Bill Bryson’s fantastic book “A Short History of Nearly Everything“, one of the things that stood out, was a reminder that the world is still a really big place. Even though we feel that...
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Dear Apple – may we pay?
Update (Feb 7): Updated the estimated number of iPhones in Iceland in light of more reliable data. As stated before: I live in a small country, nobody wants my money. In the couple of years since I...
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Adventures in copyright: Open access, data and wikis
I’ve just had a very interesting experience that sheds light on some important issues regarding copyright, online data and crowdsourced media such as wikis. I thought I’d share the story to spark a...
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The future of finance: Total transparency?
The financial crisis hit Iceland full force last Monday. One of our banks was pretty much nationalized, followed by a large investment company filing the equivalent of Chapter 11. This led to...
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Peningar vs. raunveruleg verðmæti
Í hamaganginum undanfarna daga hafa sótt að mér allskyns heimspekilegar pælingar. Sumar þeirra snúast um eðli peninga og hversu mikið peningar eigi skylt við raunveruleg verðmæti. Þarna er ég ekki að...
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Vorum við öll sofandi?
Undanfarnir dagar hafa verið merkilegir. Vikurnar tvær hér á undan virðast hafa farið í þunglyndi og “refresh” á mbl.is, vb.is og Eyjunni hjá voðalega mörgum. Ég er þar engan veginn undanskilinn....
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Greiningadeild Hjalla
Ég er alger amatör í hagfræði og fjármálum. Ég hef samt ekki enn séð neinn virkilega rýna í stöðuna sem upp er komin hér á landi og hvert stóra myndin í efnahag þjóðarinnar stefnir og ef enginn vill...
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Presentation on Innovation (IceWeb 2008)
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...
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What does a random place look like?
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....
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