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Coming up: Chris Anderson at What’s Next

Posted on 27. Jan, 2009 by Kristin Heinonen in Uncategorized

Chris Anderson is visiting Scandinavia for the first time on Feb 4th as the main speaker at Media Evolution 2009 in Malmö, Sweden.

Kristin is involved in the preparations and starting tomorrow, this cool mix of thinkers, entrepreneurs and bloggers will write about Chris Andersons “Free’ theories from their own, unique perspectives.

The finale will be an interview with Chris Anderson here at What’s Next!

This is the schedule for the blogging event:

Wednesday 28/1: Peter Sunde, Pirate Bay, Copy me happy
Thursday 29/1: Martin Thörnqvist, Digital Renaissance
Friday 30/1: Morten Lund, LundXY
Saturday 31/1: PAUSE
Sunday 1/2: Sofia Mirjamsdotter och Niclas Strandh, Same Same But Different
Monday 2/2: Mikael Zackrisson, Veckans Affärer
Tuesday 3/2: Eirik Solheim, NRKBeta och eirikso.com
Wednesday 4/2: Kristin Heinonen och Tomas Wennström, What’s Next

We are really looking forward to this event and all the upcoming posts!

Here are a few lines on our fellow bloggers and what they will write about:

Peter Sunde, one of three founders of the Pirate Bay. Develops software, consults and lectures on Internet issues with a focus on copyright and net neutrality.

At Copy me Happy Peter will write about the aspects besides economy. If you stop focusing on economy how will the web and the digital future affect us all?

Martin Thörnkvist runs the Swedish music label Songs I wish I had written and is blogging as a Music Strategist at Digital Renaissance. The blog focus on the future of the music business – the need of reality check and try try try new models.

Martin will write about “Keep what you got by giving it all away’ – why I rather have 100.000 listeners and 100 buyers than 100 listeners and 100 buyers.

Morten Lund is a Danish serial entrepreneur. Described as having a “psycho-aggressive’ investment style, he has founded or co-invested in more than 40 high-tech start ups in the last decade, most famously Skype which was sold to Ebay for $2.6 billion in 2005.

He will blog about Chris Anderson http://lundxy.com/

Sofia Mirjamsdotter is writing on the blog Same Same But Different, in co-operation with Niclas Strandh. SSBD is a blog with one single subject: The meeting between mainstream media and new media

Sofia’s post will (of course) focus on how the Free theory will influence mainstream media.

Mikael Zackrisson, web manager for the Swedish business weekly Veckans Affärer. Blogs about current trends and business opportunities on the web.

At his blog Mikael will write about rethinking your business – changing business models in a world of free stuff.

Eirik Solheim is project manager at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and blogs about new media, photography, presentation techniques and the web.

At NRKBeta and eirikso.com Eirik’s will write about “Free and the content producer. Will this really work?’

Kristin Heinonen and Tomas Wennström are new media podcasters, entrepreneurs and consultants.

At www.whatsnext.se they will round up the blogging event with an interview with Chris Anderson.