digital divide
How to build your own mesh network?
As you may know, I’ve been obsessing about the One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) for awhile, for both its aims and potential. Here’s another project that ties right in, a simple guide on how to build your own mesh network. (The OLPC laptops support meshing out of the box, but if there’s no network […]
Twitter vs Blogs, Revisited
After a week of Barcamp and Web2Expo Berlin, I have to take a look back to what I’ve been writing about the relation between Twitter and blogs. (If you like to read up on the discussion, you can find my posts on Twitter here, the most relevant posts here being probably on inattentive trust, my […]
Tim O’Reilly tells his parents: What’s Web 2.0?
Link: sevenload.com
At Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, Tim O’Reilly kindly agreed to try solving the one issue all of us are sharing: How to tell our parents what we do? So here’s Tim, explaining to his parents: What’s Web 2.0?
“So Web 2.0: First off, it’s the idea that the Web, rather than the personal computer is […]
Tara Hunt on Government 2.0
Back in the days when I worked for politik-digital.de, our coverage focused a lot on e-democracy, e-participation and what we hoped would soon become (excuse the lame-o-pun) Government 2.0. And while I haven’t been following this area as closely lately, I was thrilled to see that Citizen Agency’s Tara Hunt has been working on improving […]
Digital Information: Everything Is Miscellaneous, summarized in 5:28min
Embedded above, “Information R/evolution” is a great 5:28 video by Kansas State University’s Michael Wesch. It’s a very neat visualization of how information changes and behaves differently when it’s digital: No way will information ever again be restricted to individual categories, but instead tagged and thereby be connected to different topics, ideas and contexts. The […]
What’s Your Job as a Web Strategy Consultant? You’re a Floating Device
What do I do for a living? Well, what you see above - at least according to my friend and partner in crime, illustrator Matthias Pflügner. This sketch is what he came up with after I tried to explain to him what my job as a web strategy consultant is.
In case it’s not obvious: […]
Do You Know How to Use the Web to Innovate?
The internet isn’t just a means to send email and look up information. It’s a powerful tool for all kinds of networked communication. But it’s also a great tool to innovate - in your product, your business, or your organization.
Lately, I’ve had a number of chats with my buddies and collaborators Max Senges and Thomas […]
Video: Consumers Have Changed, Advertisers Haven’t (And That’s Bad)
Just stumbled over this not-so-new-but-still-very-good movie produced by (if I’m not mistaken) Microsoft. In just two minutes and seventeen seconds it shows exactly just what is wrong with advertising today: While consumers have changed considerably over the last few years, advertisers often still try to stick to their old methods - and worse: to their […]
Great presentation: Designing for Hackability
The podcasts aren’t up yet (but will be here), but judging from his slideshow, Brian Oberkirch’s presentation at the webmaster jam session 2007 rocked: Brian Oberkirch: Designing for hackability.
He nails it when he says: “It’s ok if you’re not the Master of Your Domain. (…) Let them play.” Openness is key for successful & […]
Yahoo & MSN side with Chinese government, against their users
Oops, they did it again: Yahoo and MSN signed a blogging ’self-discipline’ pact in China:
US Internet giants Yahoo and MSN confirmed Friday they had signed a code of conduct for their blogging operations in China that committed them to protecting the interests of the Chinese state.
So what exactly does that mean?
Yahoo, Microsoft’s MSN and other […]