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re:publica program is online
The conference program for re:publica 07 (April 11-13, 2007, Berlin, upcoming.org link) is online. (Sorry - German only, so far.) If you happen to be in Berlin at the time, I’m sure it’s worth dropping by. Markus and his folks sure got an interesting bunch of speakers together (including, hopefully, Larry Lessig), and it’ll be […]
How to turn your users into evangelists
Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users has some thoughts on how to turn users into evangelists. (Hint: The bottom line is to have a product or service or cause that helps users learn and grow and kick ass at something.)
As always, she just gets it right:
1) You have a product or service or cause that […]
Study: Wikipedia’s credibility
The current issue of First Monday (Nov 2006) features an empirical study about Wikipedia’s credibility. What’s really interesting about the study’s findings isn’t the ratio of Wikipedia articles that contain errors (13 per cent including typos), but the perceived credibility. According to researched Thomas Chesney, experts found Wikipedia articles in their field more credible than […]
UC Berkeley video cast
UC Berkeley now video-casts their classes via Google Video as “part of UC Berkeley’s commitment to the broadest possible dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of our state, the nation and the world.”
Now that rocks.
(Link)
Thanks, Max!
Breathing Earth
Breathing Earth is a very unusual piece of art:
“Breathing Earth is a map of the world showing a real-time simulation of the CO2 emissions level of every country in the world, as well as each country’s birth and death rates. The art is beautiful and with the sort of percussive, bugs-in-the-forest soundtrack, it keeps you […]
Show me your social network, I’ll show you mine
Read/Write Web features a pretty detailed social network dick comparison comparison of the major (and not-so-major) social networking sites. It’s actually quite interesting to see it all compiled including feature charts, traffic and membership figures and some background information about who’s looking into buying whom. So who’s got the longest the winner?
“MySpace is an undisputed […]
Wordpress YouTube plugin
At last: A smart, convenient YouTube plugin: The YouTube plugin. (Creative name, huh?)
(Thanks Jörn for creating it, and Meike for the hint!)
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh at Wizards of OS 4
Markus talked to Rishab Aiyer Ghosh at Wizards of OS. Rishab researches about free software at United Nations University in Maastricht (FLOSS project). The 40 min interview is about the impact of free software on development, politics and administration, about motivation of developers, about the Access To Knowledge (A2K) movement and about Cooking Pot […]
Interview with Yochai Benkler
Today was the day - this morning Thomas and I had the chance to meet Yochai Benkler. Among many other things, he teaches and researches at Yale, was one of the top speakers at Wizards of OS 4, and is the author of The Wealth of Networks: The book about which Creative Commons founder Larry […]
Wizards of OS 4 in Berlin, this weekend
In case you’re in Berlin and haven’t made any plans this weekend (and even if you have), don’t miss out on Wizards of OS 4. It’s the conference on free knowledge, information freedom and open collaboration.
From Thursday until Saturday, there’s going to be pretty much non-stop program at Columbiahalle (Google Maps).
Among the speakers there will […]