change?
most interesting view on how change could really happen in the political system of the United States: lessig08.org or just view the video:
Archive for Ideas
Amen
please read this article by german magazine “Der Spiegel”, unfortunately only in german.
Nothing more to say on G8, 1984 and Heiligendamm… cheers B
UPDATE: a nice summary on widely discussed legal issues during the G8 Summit in Germany 07 can be found on one of the best online-magazines: Telepolis
all in german language only - sorry.
thoughts worth listening to pt II
just found the TED Talks archives growing and growing… for those geeks of us that own a 5th generation iPod the episodes are even downloadable to that mobile video player… just where the heck did we know this guy from?
“stay hungry, stay foolish” guys!
thoughts worth listening to
just recently zapped through a quite eloquent talk on “ethics in politics” (in german only - sorry) helt in the university of tübingen by former german chancellor Helmut Schmidt available on phoenix online. You may as well only get the transcript in PDF format but you´ll miss a real spellbinder.
UPDATE:
check the phoenix bibliothek – the whole speach is downloadable in MPEG4. Thats what I pay my GEZ for… finally something…
Thomas’ Modulor Project
In 2005, Thomas Ackermann started his project on Le Corbusier’s Modulor, a scale of proportions that can be used for any kind of creation. Le Corbusier used this scale for his architecture.The font and the posters that are displayed below are based on this scale. The photos are the latest part of his experiement. The images are taken at the Dockland in Hamburg, Germany.
The Presidents of the USA
Al Gore should have been the president of the USA. If you feel a little like me, Gore’s speech at the TED will make you cry. What would the world be like without this guy?
(Once you’re done crying, go on and read the article about Al Gore at wired.com.)
Parody of Sony Bravia Ad
Do you remember the Sony Bravia ad Bas has linked to recently? Tango has a good parody.
web+1
Web2.0 is old, Web3.0 will be old soon, and Web4.0 will be old and boring as well. We want to be ahead of things:
var web = Web.getCurrentVersion();
var weAre = web+1;
Did I make myself clear?
Web 2.0 Reinvented
Broadcasting with del.icio.us
The question why so many people bookmarked about:blank at del.icio.us still bugs me. (Apparently there was only one person (Jeff) who tried to answer.)
The for-tag is quite good way to contact people via del.icio.us. But it’s hard to use it for a lot of user names.
So I wrote a little program that parses the site for the user names, and then generates a huge string consisting of for:user1 for:user2 for:user3…. I copied that string and tagged my posting with it.
Pros
- Contact many people at once.
- Reach a peer group with a special interest.
- Easy and fast.
- No costs of distribution.
- Some might consider it as spam
- Users get angry.
- The huge tag line with the for-tags stays there and somehow messes up your link list.
- For some reason it takes a long time until the link appears on the for-page.
