Creativecommons.fi will be launched on Monday. To mark this the IP Redesign initiative at the Medialab in Helsinki is hosting an open workshop on immaterial property. If you’re in town that might not be a bad way to spend the day. I’m going to be on a flight from Copenhagen to Helsinki in the afternoon, but my thoughts on IP will be presented as part of a video insert at the workshop. I’m hoping to make it to the afterparty if the flight arrives in time.

A quick shout from Reboot 7 in Copenhagen: it’s the first time I’ve made it to Reboot, and this has got to be the coolest social software-related event at these latitudes. It’s a lot bigger than I had expected and everything is still really laid-back. Tomorrow morning I’m going to do a little talk on object-centered sociality, and flesh out the main points of the original blog post. I’d already agreed to speak about a different topic, but those of you who’ve been commenting the post here and on your blogs, convinced me to switch. It’s awesome that there’s now a growing discussion around objects in the social software world!

Update: For a summary of the talk, see
David Weinberger’s blog
Bohellz blog

Another update! Here are the slides. The PowerPoint version includes my speaker notes.
PowerPoint (about 5.1 megs)
PDF (about 5.2 megs)

I’m hosting the next Aula klubi with Matt Jones tomorrow, with Ben Cerveny (Flickr, Frog Design, etc. etc.) as guest speaker. Ben will speak about the importance of ‘dynamic system models’ which allow very subtle and complex meanings to emerge in games. Will they become a new language for design more generally? This will be a great opportunity for the Helsinki community to meet Ben, so we look forward to seeing everyone there! The event will be held at Korjaamo on Thursday, June 2nd at 18:00. Details here; for directions, see this map.

Update: Kiitos Ben for a fantastic talk, and to everyone who showed up and took part in the discussion. UIAH Medialab videotaped the evening, I’ll post the link when the edit makes it to the web. Matt also posted some photos from the talk.