Category: Disruptive
Stanford on iTunes
This is really great: While others are still resisting the idea to webcast course content online Stanford moves along by integrating (at least some of) their educational content with the iTunes Music Store. Can you see the iTunes Educational Shop coming up? One-click shopping for lectures and files that use the same DRM protection like…
Rosa Parks
There are certain topics I never covered much in this weblog. Human Rights is one of them. Today news tells us that Rosa Parks died and she will probably remain in history forever reminding us that one moment of courage can change so much.
The Longhorn crisis
Well, I am personally tired of debating why to choose Macs over PCs. In every respect there are just two types of computer users: those who once lost their data and those who will loose their data. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Mac or a PC where your data was on… But if you…
ArsElectronica presentation as audio
ArsElectronica 2005 (1st-6th September) titled »Hybrid — living in paradox« has published most presentations as audio. There is a link »Webcasts« in the navigation, but it doesn’t contain any content yet. ArsElectronica has now a history since 1979. I’ve been to it in 1995 and it was quite an inspiring festival. I really think it…
Innovation in Organizations
Interview with Dr. Bettina von Stamm: »If you view design as outcome you are likely to have a different perspective on design than if you view design as a process and set of skills. With the former the contribution of design and designers is almost exclusively limited to tangible products. If you take the latter…
The future of broadcasting
Doug Kaye (host and producer of IT Conversations) suggests that downloading radio programs from the net is superior to the old radio frequency broadcasting: This started for me when I blogged about Doc’s suggestion that we all call our local public radio stations and request they carry the new show. It took me no time…
Apple and Intel
This is another major bombshell after the aquisition of Macromedia through Adobe: rumors say Apple is going to announce Intel chips in Apple computers tomorrow. Another interesting articles: Intel, Apple coupling could woo Hollywood Apple to Intel: Some advantage, lots of risk Update: So it’s true. I wasn’t surprised about the fact that Apple had…
Flickr blog
I am not getting tired of Flickr. If you love photos you got to read the flickr blog from time to time. It contains wonderful posts to astonishing photos or services based on Flickr content. There are so many stories captured in Flickr sets and the way users can comment, annotate and group is really…
The little engine that could
Robert X. Cringely thinks that a small $70 wireless router running on Linux is a disruptive technology.
How inventions change communication
On 1st July I’ll present some thoughts about “Once upon a time… an imaginary retrospective about the history of technology of the next 30 years” at the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt. I think the topic will be fun to talk about. I don’t really have any idea what kind of people will visit that…