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It’s not every day you get kudos from the prime minister himself. Makes me proud for the 10 years I have worked on the music site Urørt.

Beklager at klokkeslettene er totalt på bærtur, skylder på coveritlive :)

Jeg har den ære av å jobbe med Urørt.no som vi for tiden redesigner og rydder litt på. Urørt.no fikk nytt design i 2007/2008, men er preget av litt rotete bruk av fonter og avstander, samt en forside som trengs å strammes opp. Min rolle er teknisk prosjektleder, webdesign / ux / ia og css. Jeg kommer til å dele mer info om redesignet etter hvert, men fikk lyst til å legge ut en oversikt over alle undersidene på Urørt.

Bildet under er ikke et sitemap i ordets rette forstand, mer en oversikt vi bruker når vi går gjennom alle sidene og sjekker at de ser fine ut, stresstester, og validerer. Klikk for full størrelse.

Oversikten er laget med Pencil, et hendig og open source verktøy som du enten kan kjøre som en plugin i Firefox (=alle platformer), eller som et standalone program hvis du er på Windows  eller linux. Pensil kan brukes til mye rart, for eksempel til å lage wireframes av nettsider, og du kan laste ned andres grafikkbibliotek (collections) eller lage dine egne dersom du ønsker å utvide mulighetene.

Høyreklik her for å laste ned

Urørt – sitemap.ep (226 KB)

Slik ser det ut når P3 gjester Midtnytt-studioet!

See and download the full gallery on posterous

Fnisete som en unge på julaften! Kan ikke avsløre hva vi holder på å lage, men det kommer video-oppdatering i helga, og sikkert en million bilder til. Man må jo benytte anledningen når man først har fått tak i en Storm Trooper uniform!

Ps: Kjempeblooper, uniformen er på feil vei! Men vi oppdaget det før vi begynte å filme :)

Foto: Lars Haugdal Andersen

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Setting up local players for Urørt.no and NRK Sogn og Fjordane (and other district offices. The player uses a slightly modified versjon of the Jeroen Media player.

Check out a few embedded flash examples after the break..

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I will present NRK Urørt tomorrow infront om some scary people in suits (or?), and I will ask someone to film it and stream it live on the web via my mobile using Bambuser.com.

Crossing my fingers and my intestines for it to go over smoothly:

(the above video should always show the lastest archived stream, or a live feed I am streaming)

Good luck to me.

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We are doing a soft launch of a new feature on Norwegian music demo site Urørt.no (nrk.no/urort for those lacking ÆØÅ), namely the option to create you own mixtapes. Each mixtape can contain 20 songs, selected from the over 57000 unsigned mp3s uploaded by the 22000 bands on the site, and you can share it with friends by sending them to Urørt, or by embedding the player in your own website, like this:

Gå til Urørt for å lage din egen miksteip

A while back we also took the time to contact facebook to have them add our domain nrk.no to their Share Partner program, which was necessary to be able to automatically embed flash in their site, when you use the facebook share feature.

Oh, and every mixtape also comes in the form of a podcast rss so you don’t have to manually download each track if you want to keep all the songs on your harddrive or you ipod.

So if you are like new music and like showing it off, then head on over and create an account.

My colleagues over at Lydverket published a great festival guide today, and I have been thinking of ways to enhance it.

We recently made a page that fetches artsts info from several websites, like imeem, youtube, last.fm, flickr and wikipedia, for use together with NRKs radio playlists, and I wanted to miks Lydverkets guide with this aristinfo service.

The easiest way would be to simply link each artist in their festival guide to the corresponding arist page, but the first problem is that the layouts are quite different. To solve this we changed the artist info page to take a folder id as a paramter, so that we can change its layout dynamically. And is so happens that we have a folder that has no layout at all, which means I can do something like this:

http://www2.nrk.no/spillelister/LaatInfo.aspx?artist=Santogold&ppfolder=p3

This gave me the sudden urge to just insert an iframe dynamically under each artist name in the festival guide, so that you can simply click on an artist, and get a ton of information, music, videos, etc, but the problem with this is that there is simply TOO MUCH information.

Luckily, the artist info page is build up of several smaller, freestanding pages, placed in the artist info page using iframes (mostly). This means that I can break it all up, and perhaps create a tabbed interface for each artist in the festival guide, which I will work some more on tomorrow.

But until then I want to test a few other things:

A few minutes ago I went through the list of the 17 bands that are scheduled to play at the Hove festival (www.hovefestivalen.no), seached them all up on youtube, and placed them in a standard youtube playlist. I then created a custom player, that looks like this:

Hove – Day 1:

Hove – Day 2

Perhaps it could be as easy as this? I you are reading a festival guide, what else do you need than a fast way to check out each artist? Is one youtube video is for me enough to tell me wether or not to see a band live? Perhaps.

I think I will insert this little youtube player in the page and ask around tomorrow if it works or not, and then I will do some tests with the youtube api to see if a can extract my playlist as xml and present is as I wish.

Else er et av de morsomste menneskene jeg har jobbet sammen med, og en av få jeg har møtt som har nesten samme humor som meg. Hater henne litt for at hun har rømt til Oslo, savner henne fælt. I videoen under kom hun rett fra tannlegen hvor hun hadde fått massive mengder lokalbedøvelse, med særdeles nedsatt taleførhet som følge.

Jeg ba henne derfor sporenstreks om å fortelle tomatvitsen, til glede for internett, men mest meg selv, og Else leverte, som alltid :)

Denne videoen er også publisert på Flickr, hvor du finner masse annet snop fra meg.