cyberculture
Slides “Neue Medien – Fluch oder Segen”
The other day I visited Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) for a day to give a keynote speech and a workshop for FES stipends at the summer academy. (Full disclosure: paid gig.) For completeness’ sake I’m posting the slides below. In order for them to make sense I’d recommend downloading the file from Slideshare so you can see [...]
Thoughts on the mainstreaming of openness
Disclaimer: I’m strongly biased towards openness. I prefer free and open software over closed systems, I prefer an open and decentralized web over a closed and centralized one. I prefer transparency over obscurity. That said, I’d also consider myself a pragmatic idealist (thanks for the hint, Igor) in the sense that I think to reach [...]
iPad, Wired App, ecosystem. Or not.
I’m a big fan of Wired. I read it online all the time, I used to have a Wired US subscription (that didn’t work out that well both in terms of shipping times and price, at about 10 times US subscription prices with shipping). These days, I have a subscription to Wired UK that I’m [...]
If Murdoch endorses the iPad, it’s bad
In the Guardian, soon-to-be-ex media mogul Rupert Murdoch continues to claim Google steals Murdoch’s journalistic content, while the iPad might save journalism. Faced with the statement that consumers are used to getting their news for free, he reacts as follows: Murdoch dismissed this fear, saying consumers could be forced to change their habits. “When they [...]
New School: Crowdsourcing 101
At a recent meeting, Trebor Scholz, curator of the Institute for Distributed Creativity mailing list (IdC), host of collective.net and organizer of the Internet as Playground and Factory Conference, kindly invited me to give a brief talk at an undergrad class he teaches at the Eugene Lang College of New School University. So while I [...]
Augmented Reality vs Adblocker
Architect Keiichi Matsuda ‘s take on augmented reality. I wonder what this would look like with a decent ad blocker? (via) Update: Thanks for KoopTech for pointing out what the video looks like without the augmented reality layer:
iPad, so what?
So Apple announced the tablet after all. Going by the name iPad it’s just that – a tablet computer, or maybe rather a tablet phone as it runs on the iPhone operating system. A quick recap: the iPad does have wireless, a browser, multi-touch, motion sensors for gaming and many ways of purchasing content through [...]
Some Geeky Web Culture Graphics
No context, no hidden meaning, just a few slightly geeky graphics that made my day. It’s likely you’ll see them again since I love them and just might try to squeeze them in somewhere, sometime. Retro Games With Modern Themes by Penney Design This and many more like it by Stéphan Massa-Bidal (some rights reserved: [...]
Tech year 2009 wrap up: cloud computing, Android, privacy discussions
A couple of days ago I’ve given a short look back at the year 2009 from a personal point of view. Right after, I realized there were a couple more things with a wider tech perspective that I’d like to include – again, more for personal documentation than anything else. So here goes. Everything went [...]
Unprinting Journalism?
The discussion about the future of journalism, and how print media can move on to digital devices, has been going on for awhile yet. Time has recently announced a “magazine tablet” that’s demonstrated in the video below. It goes by the name Manhattan Project or SI Tablet (for Sports Illustrated, named after the first magazine [...]
