Arduino and Makers at atoms&bits
Today I made an LED blink by pushing a button.
You might ask youself: Err, what? Why are you blogging this?
No, I haven’t turned crazy or bored, so no worries. What happened is that I eventually got around to getting out my Arduino:
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware [...]
Adopt a word: Prandicle (and why the Oxford English Dictionary is doomed)
Ever wondered what happens to old words that get out of use? Well, I guess they just disappear, usually. So far, the official way of this happening was (again, I’m guessing here) when they got edited out of the dictionary of choice. So the Oxford English Dictionary launched a lovely campaign, plus website, called Save [...]
A Second Layer for Commercial Use of Creative Commons Content?
Update: In her comment, Nicole pointed me to CCPlus, which seems to solve most of the problems laid out in this post. Thanks!
An open question: Would it make sense to add a layer of licensing (or rather: meta-licensing) to Creative Commons that would allow easier (speak: quicker) use of CC-licensed content for commercial use?
As [...]
Creating your online experience: Don’t be the capsule hotel
When you’re creating the online experience for your organization, brand or even yourself, keep this simple advice in mind: Don’t be the capsule hotel, be the dinner party. It may sounds somewhat strange, but when I stumbled upon these two images I couldn’t help using them to illustrate this point: A shared online experience is [...]
Creative Commons explained by Lawrence Lessig
Larry Lessig’s talk at the iCommons Summit 08 gives you a nice overview of the history of Creative Commons:
Check out Larry Lessig’s Blip page for more videos
(via Netzpolitik.org)
Web 2.0 Summit 08 shares web 2.0 lessons learned with the public
This year’s Web 2.0 Summit is a who is who of the internets. What I find particularly cool is this year’s theme: Sustaining, applying and expanding the web’s lessons. The summit won’t be just an insiders’ game, but instead aims at spreading the love knowledge with the less focused, more mainstream crowds.
This is really [...]
Berlin couple share their pregnancy: RealBirthTV
When I was pointed to RealBirthTV first a couple of days ago, I have to admit I didn’t know what to think. Over-sharing or a logical thing to do? RealBirthTV is Berlin-based couple Erik and Jodi, who share the journey of their pregnancy, starting a few days ago in their third month.
Today I met [...]
Widgets Are Your Friend
Tony Hirst, author of this neat RSS manifesto and edupunk extraordinaire, produced this little gem of a pro-remix, pro-sharing, pro-widget rant:
changes everything
we don’t care
where it came from
if it’s good enough
for government business
salvation
but can you be RSS’d
let someone else make it PORTABLE
WIDGETS are your friend
(via Brian Lamb)
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 [...]
