Lennart and Sarah are Starting Up

Sarah and Lennart from the Netheralands are preparing for their visit to Denmark. They’ve launched a rather awesome looking website, of which great things are expected. I’m duly impressed and looking very much forward to seeing what they come up with.

Find their site at http://www.48hoursindenmark.nl.

I’ve been in contact with Phil and Christian and they’re plans will be revealed shortly as well.

One down…

Jesse and his travel-buddy Mike have now concluded their 48 Hours in Denmark. We’ve garnered quite a lot of good insights from the visit, as both of them are well versed in not only the digital aspects of experiences, but experiences in general.

What’s just as important is the face that they both enjoyed their trip, which we are very please about. That way their input will be of a more positive nature and free-thinking is always easier when you are at ease.

The next phase of the project is Jesse downmixing his video input into a short 2-min clip, that will contain all the best bits he’s recorded on the trip. Also there’s a Flickr stream and his own tumblr blog at www.hellodk.com.

Following Jesse’s visit we still have out two other teams, one from Holland and one from the UK - you know who you are We expect to have sorted dates with them shortly and will post them here then. And here’s a shot of Jesse’s travel bag.

Weekend Confirmed

As our Twitter-followers will know Jesse (@jessedee) har arrived in Aarhus. He had an eventful journey and has now been handed a nifty new Danish sim-card, which will allow him to use his iPhone here. It’s already being put to good use as can be viewed at www.hellodk.com, which is his blog for the trip.

We’ll try to post a few updates here on the site, but most likely he’ll be quicker than us. In other word keep an eye on his blog and tweets for the latest.

Oh, and it’s a good evening to be in Denmark! Sun is shining, events around town. Catch you all later.

Jesse Will Be Arriving This Friday

As you may have noticed by now the blog is back up. You reading it now - yay you! This means that we are nearing the first visit from one of our contest winners, Jesse. He will be arriving this Friday afternoon and will be spending the weekend here with us in Denmark.

Hopefully Jesse will give us lots of great insights and ideas into the whole digital tourism field - and hopefully Jesse will have a great time here as well. The general idea is that he goes digi-media-nuts and publishes whatever content he likes. We will link to the things here. You will be able to follow the trip virtually and we’ll post the good stuff afterwards. Thoughts, ideas and creativeness to follow.

Currently Jesse is researching he trip and we are mining data from his searches, like the busy little miners we are (I actually do have miners some way back in my family, in case anyone is interested?). When he gets here we will stand back and let him loose. Maybe eat dinner with him to say hello and discuss things. Mostly, however, he is free to roam as he pleases.

So check back this Friday evening when we will start the weekend with a bang.

Closing Date - extended until April 27th

Hi Folks

More cool youtube applications are about to go online in a few minutes - great!  We’re very excited about all the work that has been put into creating all applications and so are our project partners.

We have however decided to change the closing date to april 27, 12.00 CET. The reason? Well the word has finally spread about the contest into some new regions, and we want to give folks here a chance to submit an application also.

Stay tuned for an update on the further process by monday april 27.

Kelly Cree, Jessica Mullen

The third application, this one from the Popular Podcast (or Kelly Cree and Jessica Mullen).

We Want You (To Apply)

The chatter about the project has been pretty good, both on Twitter and in the blogosphere. All we need now are some actual applications, thank you very much

Lots of people have written kinds words about 48 Hours in Denmark, and have urged others to apply. The UMPC community has been active, as well as podcasters and lifestreamers. So people, get filming! We want all your applications, even if you are the author of large news sites and the like (ehem) - it’s all good.

Personally I’m off to Paris for a quick spring break - going somewhere for easter? Ideal opportunity to show off you skills and ideas, and make a creative little video from you travels!

Only one application in so far - your chances of winning a free trip to Denmark are very good at the moment…

Rachel Sterne

Yesterday we received the very first Youtube application here at 48 Hours in Denmark. The creator is a real forerunner in the field: Rachel Sterne of Groundreport fame. Groundreport is a user generated journalism site (am I sayin that right, Rachel?) to which more than 4000 people contribute, and they have more than 200.000 visits a month. She also has 1300 followers on Twitter.

Now that all sounds very impressive, but don’t let it scare you - your video is still more than welcome and your chances are not smaller, just because you have fewer followers on Twitter!

For your viewing pleasure:

Our Facebook Group

Welcome to the second day of the project! Yesterday we got around 200 hits, which isn’t bad for a first day tally. Quite a few people were kind enough to tweet the URL and use the #48hoursindk tag, so we are aware of people in the UK and US already showing some degree of interest. Yay!

If you’d like to join our Facebook group - it can be found by clicking this link.