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I heart Miro: How to Build Passive Support for Your Good Cause
I Heart Miro is a simple Firefox extension to support the open-source internet TV project Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player). When you buy books at Amazon, you do it through the Miro Firefox extension, and Miro gets paid for every sale through the Amazon affiliate program.
I Heart Miro is a simple, yet great example […]
Mashup Online Magazine That Writes Itself
That’s an art project I’d love to see one of these days: An online magazine that writes itself, based on a calendar, a pre-written set of tags connected to the calendar, and a bunch of RSS feeds.
Imagine, just for simplicity’s sake, a lifestyle magazine for women. (Of course, every other type of magazine would […]
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 […]
Open Source Hardware: Buglabs to ship in Q4
Tired of your bricked iPhone? You’re not alone. (Ok, to be fair, iPhones aren’t even being shipped in Germany yet, I think. But anyway.)
There’s at least two new projects that are open sourcing not just their software, but also their hardware: They’re specifically designed for hackability. How awesome is that?
First, there’s OpenMoko, an open source […]
Opening the Social Graph
Lately the web has been buzzing with talk about the Social Graph (or Social Network Portability, as others prefer to call it).
The basic question? Who owns your social network, and how can you move it back and forth between different services and applications? (You should be the only one with complete control over your […]
Status report: Some minor updates to this site
Usually I wouldn’t put up a post about how this site is structured, or about any minor changes in general. But since all the changes have been made due to input of one kind or another from friends and those following this blog, I’d like to take the opportunity to say: Thank you!
So, what has […]
Dramatic Hamster remix: You talkin’ to me?
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If you haven’t been hiding under a rock, you may have seen the (soon to be classic) Hamster With The Dramatic Look video. (It’s on youtube, too.)
Well, here’s a little remix fun.
(I’ve remixed it via Jumpcut, with mixed results: First, Jumpcut made me merge my Jumpcut […]
Great copyright documentary: Good Copy Bad Copy
Good Copy Bad Copy (Denmark, 2007) is an amazing short documentary about copyright & remixing culture.
(Also, it features Yochai Benkler in a great video interview at Re:Publica 2007 Wizards of OS 4 (Thanks, Thomas!), which is so much less blurry more professionally produced than the snippets (1, 2, 3, 4) I shot with Thomas […]
Photosynth: Creating 3D images from tagged pictures taken off the web
This demo by Blaise Aguera y Arcas may be one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen being done with digital images. (He works at Microsoft Live Labs. There you can also get a first experimental glimpse at the technology here - it doesn’t seem to work with Firefox 2.0.0.4, though.)
From the TED website: […]
Culture Clash: Busy Economy vs Burst Economy
Anne Zelenka recently wrote a great busy vs bursty manifesto on Web Worker Daily, comparing the “busyness economy” (aka traditional) with the “burst economy” (aka the web):
There’s a culture clash inside office buildings where workers from the busyness economy sit in cubicles next to workers from the burst economy — web workers. Yes, that’s right: […]
A Swarm of Angels: Thousands not hundreds
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I was thrilled to hear that A Swarm of Angels (the amazing collaborative community-based film project lead by Matt Hanson) is hitting the 1000+ members mark: This also means its time to freeze membership for a little while to guarantee for the necessary stability. Phase 2 out of 5 accomplished!
You can join […]
daily link postings: good or annoying?
As you may have noticed, I just included my daily links from del.icio.us. On one hand, I think it might add an extra bit of white noise in your RSS feed. On the other hand, I kinda like how it takes blogs back to what they initially were (or at least how this one started […]
Miliband: “We can: politics for the Facebook generation”
David Miliband, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, maybe one of the few next-generation politicians who just get it. At the Google Zeitgeist 07 (Robert has links to the videos) conference he gave a speech titled “We can: politics for the Facebook generation“. Miliband makes some really good points. (You could […]
Fundraising model: Weblogs for a good cause
Just stumbled upon something at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) which I hadn’t noticed before: RSF offers weblog hosting. For a monthly fee (5,90 or 14,90 Euros depending on the plan) you get an ad-free blog and RSF’s promise that they won’t work with the police in restrictive countries by giving out your details. (Like Yahoo […]
Preserving your digital memories, explained by Library of Congress
As David Weinberger points out in his (so far great) book Everything is Miscellaneous, the way librarians used to order information is pretty much obsolete in the digital world.
(Just for clarification, it’s not the librarians’ fault, it’s just the way the meatspace works: One physical object can only occupy one space at the time, and […]
My name is Peter Bihr. I live in Berlin, Germany. As a freelancer, I consult on web strategies, communities, blogging and social media. In this weblog, I jot down random thoughts, ideas and news. Hopefully, you'll find some are interesting for you, too. 