Back from the lovely city Budapest where I picked up this this scene which got my thoughts spinning about time, history, attention, technology, composition (yes…!), clothes; relations as human-technology and human-animal, about the wild and the domesticated; about tourism.
Back from the lovely city Budapest where I picked up this this scene which got my thoughts spinning about time, history, attention, technology, composition (yes…!), clothes; relations as human-technology and human-animal, about the wild and the domesticated; about tourism.
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StartupTech has an article from the Web 2.0 Expo, where Tim O’Reilly suggested an alternative to the term ‘web 2.0′:
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, internet guru Tim O’Reilly threw out the possibility that perhaps the name should be changed.
He said he and his friend John Battelle of Federated Media had been playing [...]
StartupTech has an article from the Web 2.0 Expo, where Tim O’Reilly suggested an alternative to the term ‘web 2.0′:
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, internet guru Tim O’Reilly threw out the possibility that perhaps the name should be changed.
He said he and his friend John Battelle of Federated Media had been playing around with an alternative which was Web 2.0 + World = Web Squared.
I have a suspicion that some people have a grouch against the word web 2.0, because they view it as a trend and they do not view themselves as persons following trends. They do not want to be one in the crowd. They do not like these kind of hyped concepts, because they just don’t.
But the strongest resentment against the term web 2.0 is probably to be found in persons who count themselves as an authority or hope be one some day. The day the web 2.0 term withers away, the soul of the term – non-authoritative, transparency, democracy and participation – will fade away too. The technological foundations in web 2.0 will be just another tool in the capitalist raise to money and power. The soul of web 2.0 will soon be forgotten. The balance between producer and user will probably be as skewed as it was before the bottom up power of web 2.0.
At lunch, a large, loud American man leaned over and asked Masse and me “He, what are you guys here to learn”. I instantly felt the word “learn” somewhat strange in this conference. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that the word ‘learn’ is connected with the task of [...]
At lunch, a large, loud American man leaned over and asked Masse and me “He, what are you guys here to learn”. I instantly felt the word “learn” somewhat strange in this conference. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that the word ‘learn’ is connected with the task of acquiring facts in the traditional western education system. And that’s how I interpreted his question s:”What facts are you here to acquire?”. As John Maeda said in his talk yesterday:
‘Eduction’ is a dysfunctional concept.
Traditional learning is tightly connected with traditional education. I’m at this conference (Web 2.0 Expo) to acquire viewpoints of things more or less familiar to me, I am not here to acquire facts. I think some programming freaks might pick up a factual tip or two, but the sessions I’m looking for are about viewpoints about the interface between technology and ideology. This is learning too of course, but does the western educational system aknowledge this? No, not generally. Perhaps that’s what’s making it dysfunctional.
When I arrived to the web 2.0 conference I had a bad case of mouse arm. Now, after some sessions with arm raising yoga, my arm feels just fine.
When I arrived to the web 2.0 conference I had a bad case of mouse arm. Now, after some sessions with arm raising yoga, my arm feels just fine.
I’m at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Right now, I’m listening to Douglas Rushkoff. I shoot a photo with my Canon G10. Of course I wanted to be able to write the name of the person on the image and send it directly to Flickr. This is easily done with the iPhone, but [...]
I’m at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Right now, I’m listening to Douglas Rushkoff. I shoot a photo with my Canon G10. Of course I wanted to be able to write the name of the person on the image and send it directly to Flickr. This is easily done with the iPhone, but the image quality in complex light is not that good on mobile phones. Please give me social features on my digital camera!
The iPhone version below is shoot in the app “mobile photos” and uploaded directly to Flickr, with added title and tags…
I will uppdate this post with the G10 photo during the day. I have to listen to Anssi Vanjoki from Nokia now. He is talking about ‘location’ – my favorite word right now…
Update!
The corresponding photo from my Canon G10, with the flash turned off:
The most beautiful piece of technology on this earth? Well, it has to be the absolutely dazzling fire trucks embellishing San Francisco. In the photo below I was lucky enough to catch a fire truck in its womb… I strongly suspect a lot of calls to the San Francisco fire department are false calls from the Mayor [...]
The most beautiful piece of technology on this earth? Well, it has to be the absolutely dazzling fire trucks embellishing San Francisco. In the photo below I was lucky enough to catch a fire truck in its womb… I strongly suspect a lot of calls to the San Francisco fire department are false calls from the Mayor himself, just to fill the street with these beauties…
Det var ett tag sedan jag skrev en dagens reflektion. Är på Web 2.0 Expo i San Francisco. I morgon börjar konferensen och eventuellt bloggande blir nog på Digitala Mediers blogg. Dagens reflektion blir mycket kort och den börjar med en bild.
Bilden föreställer en slags kändis från Fisherman’s Wharf i San Fransisco. Han har som [...]
Det var ett tag sedan jag skrev en dagens reflektion. Är på Web 2.0 Expo i San Francisco. I morgon börjar konferensen och eventuellt bloggande blir nog på Digitala Mediers blogg. Dagens reflektion blir mycket kort och den börjar med en bild.
Bilden föreställer en slags kändis från Fisherman’s Wharf i San Fransisco. Han har som sin “grej” att sitta här på bron på bilden och skrämma människor. Han håller upp buskarna som ligger framför honom och när någon går förbi så rasslar han till i löven och säger buh… Allt detta vet jag efter ett reportage på svensk tv. Jag blev faktiskt förvåndad när jag såg honom igår. Hade glömt det programmet. En del tycker att han är jätterolig (inklusive jag själv) och det brukar samlas en hel del folk som står och tittar på andra sidan gatan hur folk reagerar när de blir skrämda. Det var faktiskt riktigt kul… 
Men från tv-programmet minns jag att det har hänt en hel del olyckor med sjukhusbesök som resultat och många San Franciscoianer är riktigt förbannade på honom, och vissa är rädda.
Här sittar han i alla fall efter ett “arbetspass” med en hel del skrämda människor på sitt samvete. Masse och jag tittad på. Kul kul kul…. Riktigt kul… Nu är det dags att lägga ifrån sig arbetsredskapen (buskarna) och räkna pengarna från tacksamma människor som fått sig ett eller två goda skratt. Reflektionen lämnar jag till dig. Jag upprepar i stället titeln:
En dag på jobbet…
Vi är alla ganska lika innerst inne. Inte sant.
Are you someone who like to take notes about this and that, while taking a walk, while having a coffe in some obscure little coffee shop or travelling – and you also happen to own a iPhone. Then I can recommend iProRecorder from Bias. I have tested quite a few recorder apps this week and [...]
Are you someone who like to take notes about this and that, while taking a walk, while having a coffe in some obscure little coffee shop or travelling – and you also happen to own a iPhone. Then I can recommend iProRecorder from Bias. I have tested quite a few recorder apps this week and iProRecorder stands out with an excellent audio quality and design. If you don’t mind lousy sound quality, I can really recommend Evernote with its outstanding workflow – note that a lousy sound quality might not be bad for you, since it comes with very small file sizes.
Note!!! I had some problems with the wav files iPhoneRecorder produced when I tried to play them on my computer. This problem has to do with something in VLC, so when I uninstalled VLC it worked perfectly. When I re-installed VLC I choosed not to use it with wav files. Use iTunes or whatever.
Another tips with iPhoneRecorder is to use Safari to transfer the files to your computer. You can do it with all browsers, but if you use Safari with Bonjour you get an nice interface. Using wifi without bonjour produces a very ugly white page with blue links and non-existent images. I used Safari 4.
Motoboy’s album Motoboy (2008) might be characherized as something in the tradition of the brittish band Suede.
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