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Tumblelog byChristopher Clay, founder of Soup.io.
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Output so far
Heftling (2012?)
Luminous Flux (2012–) ♥
Mixtapes (2011)
27 (2010) ♥Team Armin Soyka (2010)
26 (2009) ♥
Startupwiki (2009–)
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
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April 20 2012
“ Some architects can look at a building and tell you which version of Autodesk was used to create it. ”— #sxaesthetic | booktwo.org
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February 24 2012
“ [Four-year old] Beatrix asked if she could watch a show. Sure, I said, so I turned [the TV] on.— TV Is Broken
A few minutes later, a commercial comes on. “Why did you turn the movie off, Daddy?”, Beatrix worriedly asks. ...
A [movie trailer] comes on.“This! I want to watch this!”, Beatrix exclaims. – “We can’t honey. It’s not out yet. It’s just a commercial.”, I say. She is confused.
“Can I choose?”, Beatrix asks. She thinks this is like home where one can choose from a selection of things to watch, a well organized list with clear box cover shots of all of her favorites.
I have to explain that it does not work that way on television. That we have to watch whatever is on and, if there is nothing you want to watch that is on then you just have to turn it off. Which we do. ”
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“ Networks over dollars: Enormously vested interests with bottomless pocketbooks can be overcome by people banding together through newer, smarter, faster networks....— Politics is a Business. A Big, Broken One. Let's Fix It. - Anil Dash
We've seen it happen to the wealthy, powerful newspaper, magazine and recording businesses – and the protests against SOPA and PIPA [proved it possible in the political realm].
I can think of no industry in better need of that sort of upheaval than our policymaking infrastructure, ... [where] many decisions [are] not based on fact or effectiveness, but shaped by the money chase that elected officials are obsessed with.
I want our tech industry to see as much potential, as much excitement, as much glamour, and far more meaning in fixing politics and voting and policy as they do in fixing the way we listen to music or organize our photos. ”
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December 25 2011
“ Im Informationszeitalter ist nicht mehr Wissen Macht, sondern Zeit zu haben sich Wissen anzueignen. ”— fasel
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schlipsnerdDecember 16 2011
The nightmarish Stop Online Piracy Act hearings – Washington Post
"like a group of well-intentioned amateurs getting together to perform heart surgery on a patient incapable of moving" :-(
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November 14 2011
Upgrade Democracy is a new liquid democracy software initiative. Quoting Bucky seems like a good start!
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October 31 2011
“ Books are great at capturing ideas, claiming cultural ownership of ideas, generating speaking gigs based on ideas and getting authors paid for ideas. But books are much, much less great at actually propagating ideas. ...— ‘Public Parts’ and its public parts: In a networked world, can a book go viral? » Nieman Journalism Lab
Books don’t go viral ...because the thing that makes books lucrative to authors and publishers — their ability to restrain ideas, to wall them off from the non-book-buying world — is antithetical to virality. ...
The system has been designed to advance books within the marketplace, rather than the marketplace of ideas. It aims at publicity rather than publicness, at selling objects rather than propelling the arguments they contain. ”
Ideas are always parts of processes and discourses, never finished products. The web is the only medium that can represent/provide this adequately.
(Related: Scientific journals. I can really only sum that whole clusterfuck up in three letters: WTF?!)
Also, still badly needed: Much, much better online discussion software. Let's please work on that?
October 22 2011
“ We drift from block to block, from city to city, traversing continents and timezones. We live in cheap hostels, tiny flats and abandoned structures, scavenging the left-overs of a fallen industrial society.— A fanfare for those who are still alive. – @kewagi
We speak many tongues, but one language. We smell riots long before they happen, and sense wireless hotspots. We distrust all that claim to lead us, and fear those who pretend to protect us.
We inhabit new worlds inside and outside our heads our ancestors didn’t dare to dream about. We are leaving their dreams of material wealth behind and spin new ones of liberty and life and happiness.
We hate those who demand respect without earning it. We phase in and out of different realities and change our personae like underwear. We are digital conquistadors, exploring the strange new plane that produced us.
We consider gender, skin color and spiritual alignment as accessoires we can wear, not as defining aspects of ourselves. We disregard nations, for we are children of the city and the river.
We are born as the slaves of a dying time, struggling to get free.
We are the chosen ones, for we have chosen ourselves.
We are the new. ”
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July 09 2011
“ Es gibt kein Real Life, nur ein Nahleben, das sich auf den Umkreis des Körpers beschränkt, und ein Fernleben, das den Geist entgrenzt. ”— haekelschwein
May 26 2011
Google Scribe
Why write when you can autocomplete? "Using information from what you have already typed in a document, Google Scribe's text completion service provides related word or phrase completion suggestions."
Or in its own autocompleted words: "Google Scribe is a great way to get the best of the best in the world of the living room and dining room with a view to the sea and the mountains of the world and the world of the living room and dining room with a view to the sea and the mountains of the world and the world of the living room and dining room..."
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February 25 2011
Sechs Monate seiner Vorratsdaten hat der Grünenpolitiker Malte Spitz von der Telekom eingeklagt und ZEIT ONLINE zur Verfügung gestellt. Auf Basis dieser Daten können Sie all seine Bewegungen dieser Zeit nachvollziehen. Die Geodaten haben wir zusätzlich mit frei im Netz verfügbaren Informationen aus dem Leben des Abgeordneten (Twitter, Blogeinträge und Webseiten) verknüpft.
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January 30 2011
December 25 2010
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Peter Purgathofer (@peterpur): The Radical Portfolio. "Actual learning is a collateral benefit of going to school or university" – and some steps he's taking towards fixing that. (via mamk)
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October 17 2010
Unlogo is a web service that eliminates logos and other corporate signage from videos.
This is the first step towards a future in which people who can afford to do so will be running around with diminished reality goggles to filter out all the invasive targeted advertising. Soon thereafter, a nimble clothing brand will discover that logo-covered merchandise now actually works as a cloak of invisibility and find new ways of capitalizing on that. At this point the government steps in, requiring that all computer-modified vision feeds be passed through state-owned servers for safety and fraud detection reasons...click here to order my upcoming dystopian science fiction novel for just three easy payments of $19.84.
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October 05 2010
“ Openness and Transparency is the Peace and Love of our generation. ”— benhuh
October 04 2010
Sal Khan at Gel 2010 – if you haven't perused the Khan Academy video library, you should. Thank you, internet, for once again letting the whole world benefit from some enthusiastic person's charitable efforts in their bedroom.
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July 31 2010
July 13 2010
“ Politicians, capitalists, and officials are flotsam bobbing upriver on the tide of invention [powered by the free, democratized, ever-increasing exchange of ideas]. ... We may soon be living in a post-capitalist, post-corporate world where individuals are free to come together in temporary aggregations to share, collaborate, and innovate, and where websites enable people to find employers, employees, customers, and clients anywhere in the world. ”— Reason Magazine
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July 02 2010
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Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, on the launch of Your Freedom. I like the sound of this.
"Mr Clegg has been effectively handed the reins of the government's civil liberties and constitutional reform programme, and has already secured the death of ID cards for British nationals, the ending of child fingerprinting and reforms to DNA storage."
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June 30 2010
Respekt.net
Projektbörse für zivilgesellschaftliche Projekte in Österreich: Vorhaben aller Art (Webprojekte, Veranstaltungen, Studien, usw.) zu Themen wie "Stärkung der Demokratie", "Verbesserung des Bildungssystems", Gleichberechtigung, Umweltschutz uvm. können eingereicht werden, Privatpersonen "investieren" dann ab 10 Euro.Zu den über 30 GründungsinvestorInnen zählen etwa Hans-Peter Haselsteiner und @oliver24, eine groß angelegte PR-Kampagne zur Bewerbung der Plattform läuft gerade an.
Die Menschen dahinter sind über jeden Zweifel erhaben, der Einreichprozess relativ schmerzlos: Also los!
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