What a week! On Wednesday, Dec 10, I attended Paul Kahn’s lecture on Managing Everything: a new vision of the Digital Library. The lecture dealt with how the emergence of music – video – photo sharing sites, growing collections of digital books, national media archives and collaborative work spaces offer us a vision of a Digital Library in search of a user interface.
The lecture was part of Paul’s application for a docentureship at the Media Lab Helsinki. For the past few years Paul, who is An American Living in Paris, has been teaching information architecture at the University of Art and Design Helsinki.

On Thursday evening I had the good fortune, through the kindness of my colleague Mika Tuomola, to be invited to a performance of Kristiina Elstela and Juusi Tuurna’s cabaret act at Manari. You can see more information About the Performance here. It is a wonderful act and I thoroughly recommend it to everybody. You do not need to know Finnish to appreciate the talent of these two performers.

On Friday, the Media Lab Helsinki hosted the public defense of Koray Tahiroglu’s dissertation on Interactive Music Systems. The event, the featured Prof. Robert Rowe from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University as Opponent. Here is a picture from our gathering after the karonkka at Belge’s kabinetti.