This might be my last entry while travelling as my return trip is rather soon (time flies no matter whether fun or not…). Kind of is an odd feeling of returning. Bittersweet. Some things I look forward to, others I don’t, some things are in both categories… so i will spend the last time probably a bit more offline. — read more ›
While there is still tons of smoke in the air here (as far as I can see there is a lack of proper equipment to kill the fires). Also, in the last days I had been running across demonstartions and food strikes and burning tires besides the motorways around Easter. Not the same as in some other places of the world. Actually, I wanna point at a few interesting things that I stumbled across the last days (besides that it is getting spring in Europe): — read more ›
In the UK I had the chance to drop by HMV to look for records. Unsuspicious I was going through some of the world music and found a new Putumayo Presents CD. Well, I found quite a few, that I did not know yet, but I just ended up buying one called “Caribbean” with Soca and Reggae. To my positive surprise parts of the money goes to Yéle Haiti, a movement for bringing hope to Haiti, spearheaded by Wyclef Jean. — read more ›
Interesting post by Anne Galloway on how we technologists often tend to see the inevitable progress of technological development. It can be found here. — read more ›
My – rather uneducated – feelings towards OLPC have always been ambiguous: Nice technological idea but will it be accepted. Today I found this Businessweek article by Bruce Nussbaum criticising the top-down approach of the project. It stirred a lot of discussion and only time will tell if the OLPC will make a difference. — read more ›
Aftenposten, one of Norway’s big newspapers had today this nice article from Niels Chr. Geelmyden arguing that to think independent thoughts is contraproductive and disrespected in this society. In his case he is looking at Norway and citing Henrik Ibsen who said that at his time “there are no 25 indendently thinking people in Norway”. Geelmyden argues that society (and the government) even encourage people not to think. The startdom of athletes and the tax-free lottery are some of his examples. I would even put the attitude of seeing people as “nerds” somewhat into that category. — read more ›
Very interesting take on the effects of Web2.0 on The Register.
Another great post by Seth Godin. The only thing I would like to add is that it is not only true for marketeers. Anybody working has some responsibility to carry and if you cannot put your name under what you produced, you should not produce it. — read more ›
Thanks to Florian Beer for pointing to this interesting video on media spin.