Historian, Independent Film Producer/Director, Internet Entrepreneur and Teacher
Odense Area, Denmark
- Current
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- Founder and CEO at Kaplak
- Founder & Admin at Crewscut.com
- Founder & Owner at Crews Cut Production
- Past
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- Archival Assistant at Landsarkivet for Fyn, Statens Arkiver
- Student Aid at Syddansk Universitetsforlag
- Editor-in-Chief at Ude af fokus, Odense Studenterradio
- Website Admin at History Dept., University of Southern Denmark
- Editorial Board, Freelance Writer at Rubicon
- Founder and CEO at Hard Joy PD
- Education
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- Syddansk Universitet
- FilmTrain
- Tornbjerg Gymnasium
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Morten Blaabjerg’s Summary
I've been working with film, theatre, video and digital media platforms for the last 10 years.
On the side, I've managed to complete two university degrees, in History and Applied Visual Communications respectively. I've built wikis, board and computer games and abstract academic systems. I've juggled with texts, code, images, video and other kinds of material in a plethora of genres, setups and technological platforms. Last, but not least, I've written a thesis on the introduction of the Maxim Gun in colonial Africa.
All of these activities have given me one particular asset more than any other : an intimate knowledge of how the internet works. In part from the perspective of someone looking for very particular and special information, and for niche products of all sorts. And not the least from the point of view of someone producing niche products, looking for an audience, downloaders, buyers and opportunities to make a living of producing something spectacular, but economically limited, at least in the traditional sense. But the internet is changing this - and in our new company Kaplak, we're building peer production tools which will help individual producers and companies sell products on the slim end of the long tail.
Morten Blaabjerg’s Specialties:
Storytelling, developing ideas and creating universes
Peer production and social media strategies
De-construction of texts, images, films and other expressions
Careful contextual analysis of anything
Building and running a wiki
Morten Blaabjerg’s Experience
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Founder and CEO
Kaplak
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
In Kaplak we're building internet distribution tools for cultural products on the slim end of the long tail, and making a sound business out of it too. We're building and strengthening peer production tools in order to create better ways to match production and demand, than has hitherto been possible. This creates great value for millions of people, who would otherwise have few or difficult ways to make their products available, or find the products they need. Otherwise unsuccessful queries, made every day on web search engines and indexes, and on p2p networks, is a huge business opportunity.
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Founder & Admin
Crewscut.com
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
November 2004 — Present (4 years 9 months)
Crewscut.com is a wiki dedicated to cultural projects, which I've lived with for a couple of years now, and learned a lot from. The wiki is first and foremost a great personal tool for it's users, to keep track of projects, thoughts, interesting links, texts, images and details of obscure information, which doesn't fit anywhere else. The wiki is mainly written and administrated in Danish, and only to a minor degree in English.
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Founder & Owner
Crews Cut Production
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)
1995 — Present (14 years)
Crews Cut Production is a very loose network-based organization for work on film & video productions related to Morten Blaabjerg with associates. Approximately 10 short fiction, PR and documentary film/tv productions have been organized, financed and produced under this construction.
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Archival Assistant
Landsarkivet for Fyn, Statens Arkiver
(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)
September 2006 — December 2006 (4 months)
Landsarkivet for Fyn, the regional archives institution under the National Danish Archives (Statens Arkiver) received a greater than usual amount of material in 2006, as a result of the re-organization of the Danish regional structure and bureaucracy. Additional funding were secured to bring in extra manpower to secure, sort and package the archives safely, knowledgeably and speedily. It was a great team to work with, a mixture of historians, student aids and archival experts, and a welcome refreshing change from research on my thesis.
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Student Aid
Syddansk Universitetsforlag
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
January 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 8 months)
I worked in the distribution department of the publishing house, basically self-organizing the storage facility in collaboration with 4 other student aids and packing (a lot of) books for delivery. It is the best student's job I ever had - just wished I had found it earlier in my studies.
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Editor-in-Chief
Ude af fokus, Odense Studenterradio
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
August 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 1 month)
"Ude af fokus" (literally meaning "out of focus") was a weekly academic radio talkshow featured on Odense Studenterradio, the grassroot's radio station for students in Odense. The program typically featured one or more guests, invited to discuss a particular topic of the week, from an academic angle. It was a lot of fun and also a lot of hard work to be inventive enough to do a live radio show every week for a complete season, and I/we learned a lot from it too.
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Website Admin
History Dept., University of Southern Denmark
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)
August 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 1 month)
The Dept. of History at University of Southern Denmark was in need of a website, which combined the daily need of the staff to communicate with students and the students' need for online communication of events, seminars, social activities, new research, jobs & career opportunities etc. to other students. I merged two old existing websites into one and created a new and lighter approach, which worked well for a few years. Sadly, the site became a tad neglected as funds ran thin, other admins carried on the work, and the "local sites" of faculties and departments collided with wishes of the central administration for a grand, general IT and "branding" strategy. But the site continues to be in use.
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Editorial Board, Freelance Writer
Rubicon
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
Rubicon is a periodical edited and published by the history students at the University of Southern Denmark. Rubicon provides a spirited and academically highly vigorous and ambitious environment for scholars and students alike, so much so that an "official" historical periodical based at the History dept. at the university does not exist.
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Founder and CEO
Hard Joy PD
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
June 1993 — December 1994 (1 year 7 months)
Hard Joy PD was a mail order software library. It contained thousands of public domain and shareware titles on floppy disks for the Amiga computer, which were labouriously manually copied and distributed to customers in packed envelopes. In the days before the internet made software like this accessible to everyone, there was a thriving business model in making this type of software available via mail order.
Morten Blaabjerg’s Education
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Syddansk Universitet
MA , History, Applied Visual Communication , 1998 — 2008
- Activities and Societies:
- Historie, AVK, Rubicon, Historisk Fagråd, Studienævn for Historie, Web Developer & Admin
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FilmTrain
FilmTrain , Documentary Film Production , 2004 — 2006
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Tornbjerg Gymnasium
1989 — 1992
Additional Information
Morten Blaabjerg’s Websites:
Morten Blaabjerg’s Interests:
Technology, filesharing, peer production strategies, colonial history, Max Stirner, strategy games, LEGO, Civilization II
Morten Blaabjerg’s Groups:
IDEA, IDEA House Odense, FilmTrain, AVK, Odense Studenterradio, Ude af fokus, Kaplak, Oplevelsesiværksætter, Other contacts
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Wikipedia Users Group -
Danish House of History -
FastTrack 100 (6,500+ members!) -
The Next Web Conference & Blog -
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MediaWiki Users -
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The Danish Social Liberal Party -
Geeks Who Care -
Twittering
Morten Blaabjerg’s Honors:
The first version of my Civilization II scenario "Hammer of the North" (2001) won a virtual gold medal at Civfanatics.com for outstanding scenario design.
Morten Blaabjerg’s Contact Settings
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