Monthly Archives: January 2009

Lovelock: One last chance to save mankind

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 26, 2009
James Lovelock in The NewScientist about the ecology and global warming today: I don’t think humans react fast enough or are clever enough to handle what’s coming up. Kyoto was 11 years ago. Virtually nothing’s been done except endless talk and meetings.
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NSA wiretaps like crazy?

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 22, 2009
Former NSA analysr Russel Tice talks publicly about the wiretapping of the National Security Agency. Obviously the NSA patched into backbones of national telecommunication providers and scanned ALL communications. Complete organisations had their communication secretly copied and backed up for investigative purposes. See yourself: Update: There is a second interview with Mr. Tice the day [...]
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Competing with the iPhone

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 22, 2009
Ingo Hinterding wants to have a Plam Pre. The multi-touch, turning UI is clearly attacking the iPhone market share. I think the Palm Pre will not succeed as an “iPhone killer”.
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Seminar on »Slowness«

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 22, 2009
Here is a teaser for a seminar next semester: Read a more detailed (german) description here. Also: Overview about my teaching activities with links to other seminar weblogs.
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Fans on Technorati? How could I have missed that…

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 19, 2009
I just noticed that there is a “fan”-feature on Technorati. It may be on for years but it never really drew my attention. I have four fans! Beside of Marian Steinbach (whom I know, “Hello!”) I see three other people that I do not know: Tom Roper who is a Information Resources Development Coordinator for [...]
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I finally switched to WordPress

By Oliver Wrede | Published: January 19, 2009
After a long time of consideration I turned over to WordPress for this weblog and I will not be using Tinderbox to blog here anymore. Tinderbox is a great software for thinking and writing – and I love to have a more graphical/visual note taking approach to weblogging. But it was getting too clumsy to [...]
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