Tag your laptop
In a discussion with Jay Cousins recently we talked about a small problem: If you’re coworking in a cafe or in a coworking space, you sometimes don’t know a whole lot about the other folks around, or what they’re working on. Online, Twitter or a coworking network like Hallenprojekt.de do a good job transmitting just [...]
Open Design by Ronen Kadushin
Yesterday I had the chance to see the opening of Ronen Kadushin’s Open Design exhibition at Appel Design Gallery, Berlin. (Thanks for the invitation, Ronen!) What’s so special? All the designs are free and open, as in open source, and released under a Creative Commons license (by-nc-sa): Designers and hardware hackers can download the plans [...]
I work for the Internets shirt now available in the U.S.
A little while ago, MT and I launched a little side project, a t-shirt series that says “I work for the Internets“. We’ve only sold a few, but we’ve also been asked a few times if we shipped outside Europe which had been quite expensive due to the way our German Spreadshirt shop was set [...]
Berlinblase is back
With Barcamps abound and the Web2Expo just around the corner, it’s time to once more kick off a few side projects. One I’m particularly fond of is Berlinblase. (I hinted at it here.) Johannes Kleske was so kind to write up a neat brief summary, so please allow me to simply quote at length:
Yep, we’re [...]
A Swarm of Angels: Worlds Will Shatter
Ground-breaking collaborative film project A Swarm of Angels just released the first video trailer, and boy, I can’t wait to see more:
Worlds Will Shatter – The Unfold trailer from Nine Orders on Vimeo.
I’ve been a proud member of the Swarm for a while. And while it’s not always easy to find a good way to [...]
Can you trust the information in Wikipedia? Wikitrust tells you.
A very interesting project going by the name Wikitrust (part of the Wikipedia Quality Initiative) analyzes if information on Wikipedia is trustworthy. In order to do this, Wikitrust computes both the authors’ and the individuals words’ trustworthiness. The more contributions an author made and the more edits they survive, the better; in case of words, [...]
Workshop: Social Media in Higher Education
Next Tuesday, I’ll have the great chance to hold a workshop at UOC, Barcelona, on Social Media in Higher Education. UOC is a virtual university with students all over the world, so they’re very web-savvy to begin with. I’m very curious about their feedback on my two cents on Web 2.0 and social media. Also, [...]
Ameritocracy: Beta invites for you
A few days ago I wrote a brief post about Ameritocracy, a collaborative fact-checking platform with a focus on U.S. politics.
The Ameritrocracy team got back to me and was so nice to provide my readers with a bunch of invites to the close beta so you can check it out yourself.
With the invite [...]
Tim Berners Lee Explains Web Philosophy In Two Minutes
Internet Pioneer Explains Web PhilosophyWatch more DIY videos on 5min.com
Two minutes is all it takes for internet pioneer Tim Berners Lee to explain the basic philosophy behind the development of the web as we know it – namely, that sharing, open source and collaboration are the very basis the web is built on.
A Vision of Students Today
Michael Wesch created this video in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. A tad too much on the melodramatic side for my personal taste, but it’s a pretty neat video still, with some good points about the education environment students face today.
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