The World Wide Web was invented as a hypertext document repository by Tim Berners-Lee who was working at the CERN research institute in Geneva. The OS Tim was using was NeXT (a predecessor to the MacOS X of today). There is
Category: Media
Seminar on »Slowness«
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.
Information Design and the Monetary System
I am personally interested in how the lack of information or proper presentation of that information led to the current financial crisis. Obviously the information was available — but not well understood, not correctly aggregated or falsely interpreted by politicians that were responsible for phony policies and flawed legislations.
Hobnox Evolution launched
Finally Hobnox has launched a »warm-up site«: The Hobnox Evolution. Creatives can suggest productions there and win several budgets totaling €75,000.
I will return to regular non-Hobnox posts soon, promised!
Feedburned my RSS feed
Most of the traffic on this site is generated by the RSS feed I provide. I wanted to have more reliable stats about this and thus I decided to republish it through Feedburner. There is no need to update the URL of my feed (there is a redirect).
It takes a while until I can see some fancy statistics on Feedburner. Right now I can only see how many people are subscribed to the feed.
Update:
FeedBurner shows how many people have subscribed to the feed with what software/service. It also counts how often a post is viewed and clicked upon.
Topical podcast day
If you are from Germany and you’re considering creating a podcast one day then maybe you should look out for Monday, 29th of August: there will be a podcast day about the german re-election in september.
I just learned that some people have founded a Association of German Podcasters…
Düsseldorf gets public MetroLAN
Today the city of Düsseldorf started the first public hotspots for wireless LAN access. THe hotspots are installed in public schools on top of the school network provided by Deutsche Telekom. Students, teachers and members of the city council have free access. Other users will have to pay a small fee.