details of a global brain
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Re-surrection
It has been quite silent here the last month. I was very busy and blogging had to be suspended for a while. This will change soon – there have been a lot of things going on. Here’s what is up next: 1. Election in US: a very bad decision to re-elect Bush. But it seems…
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Digital Difference
Cinematography nowadays almost is unthinkable without computers. I like this story of Kerry Conran trying to render a complex video composition of the upcoming movie Sky Captain in 1994 on a Apple Mac IIsi. After four years (and some hardware upgrades later) he finished six minutes of his feature film. Today it has become not…
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Comment spamming
I was hoping that with a custom comment system I would be immune to comment spamming. But unfortunalty that doesn’t seem to be the case. It is easy to clean up, but I think I will have to place a burden on that spam bots. Spam is the dirt of the Internet.
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Checking facts
factcheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Doing “fact checking” seems the be the latest trend and a growing obligation for US voters. Quoting out of context, twisting the words, exaggretating – all these techniques seem to be in the arsenal for Democrats and Republicans as well.
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Frontier Kernel Open Source Release
Finally Frontier has been released as open source package: This is a fresh start for the Frontier kernel, the technology under Manila and Radio UserLand, and in the future, possibly many more useful system and network applications. We’re releasing the code under the GPL, the rationale for this is explained in the FAQ and in…
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Userplane A/V blogger
More blogging sidecar tools arrive: Userplane’s Audio & Video Blogger service is an easy-to-use system allowing the creation of audio and video recorded messages for use in blogs, websites and email.The Userplane AV Recorder application will automatically detect your camera and microphone, and allow you to record up to a 10 minute recording. Each recording…
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Audioscrobbler
Napster was not only hot because of the easy sharing of MP3 files – but also because of finding interesting music in libraries of people with similar taste. Now that Napster is dead the P2P-netowkrs have taken over – but they don’t really offer something that comes close to Napster. So what other ideas people…
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Flickr export from iPhoto
There is a little iPhoto Plug-In that allows direct export to Flickr. It works as export filter and is used to upload images (but not manage uploaded images). So the best image collection management application meets the best online image sharing application. Bravo!
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Creativity Techniques
Here is a site that contains descriptions about creativity techniques: Below are listed a number of creativity techniques to help with creative thinking. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as…
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How Blogs and Wiki fit together
Julian Elve describes how he uses Weblogs and Wikis together: I’ve found the writing style that has started to evolve since I had this combination of tools is to scatter thoughts around the wiki-spaces until some juxtaposition forms that is sufficiently clear to create a blog-entry. The blog-entry becomes a picture of my thinking at…
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Partisan Radio
Adam Curry and Dave Winer started a series of two-head radio talk show called “Trading Secrets“. You can download the first show (60 MB). They talk about politics and some IT stuff. The show is basically like a long phone call. Dave calls via Skype from USA with his Windows laptop while Adamy Curry records…
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Software patents kill innovation
Martin Brampton from Silicon.com doubts that software patents are rarely as innovative as the simplistic argument for patents would suggest. A parallel debate is being fought in science. Governments have sought increased commercial involvement with university research, but the price has often been proprietary control over new ideas. Many academic scientists are opposing this trend,…
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Back from Frankfurt
The “Future of computing” presentation at the Museum for Communication went well although only few people appeared (among them was Jochen Robes from weiterbildungsblog.de who happened to read about it here). Jochen suggested I should have advertised the event more on my weblog, but I assume this wouldn’t have made much of a difference. I…
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Frontier Open Source
Dave Winer on the upcoming open source release of Frontier: “Technically, the software is ready to go.” I am curious if the old Frontier developers come back to life. There have been so many threads dropped after Frontier went commercial in 1996.
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The future of computing
I am currently busy to finish a presentation about the future of computing. I am going to present at the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt on Thursday, 7 p.m. If you have heard of a interesting technology, a future vision or application concept – please consider adding this to the Wiki here. Update: Someone anonymously…
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Back from stasis…
Here we go: after some vacation (sort of) I’m dropping back into a pool of work. Things come rushing in quickly so I’m not sure how blogging will increase as well.
Got any book recommendations?