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      13 May 2008

      Welcome to Liberty City

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      txt: Grand Theft Auto IV
      Welcome to liberty City, where people are angry and lonely, and the taxes sky high
      What does the American Dream mean today? For Niko Bellic, fresh off the boat from Europe, it is the hope he can escape his past. For his cousin, Roman, it is the vision that together they can find fortune in Liberty City, gateway to the land of opportunity. As they slip into debt and are dragged into a criminal underworld by a series of shysters, thieves and sociopaths, they discover that the reality is very different from the dream in a city that worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
      video: Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer 1 "Things Will Be Different" [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80K51DosFo]
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      9 May 2008

      Viva la Infolution

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      txt: Web 3.0: You say you’re on an infolution? Well, you know…
      Social web = democratic web Web 2.0 is the base for a democratic web. But like all democratic systems, the web needs basic democratic standards. Yes, rules. Simple democratic rules that apply to coding, design (usability is a form of politeness) and communication (not even Kramer has the right to insult). These rules are not there to bore, restrict or subordinate us, they guarantee to get the maximum out of a collective. They guarantee a maximum amount of freedom for the maximum amount of people. What is new in web 3.0? Nothing. Recently there is a lot of talk about Web 3.0. Phil Wainewright form ZD Net has written a series on the subject and relaunched the discussion of what web 3.0 would or should be. Basically he suggests that Web 3.0 is going to deliver a new generation of (business) applications that will be ubiquitous and technically more sophisticated, semantic (programs understanding human language). The question is: Is artificial intelligence what we really need? Is more technology the answer? Shouldn’t we rather bring to an end what we’ve started before we hype up the machinery even more?
      link: Web 2.0 unchains free market img: Revolution Lounge - gonzalo fernandez on flickr.com
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      7 May 2008

      Creating a World Without Poverty

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      txt: Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
      Three themes are central to this book. The first is poverty—its causes and cure. I will show that poverty is created by economic, social, and political systems, and by false ideas—not by the laziness, ignorance, or moral failings of the poor. The second theme is the role of women as drivers of the coming revolution. Current social arrangements especially victimize poor women. If the creativity, energy, and desire for family improvement that are latent in hundreds of millions of the world's women can be unleashed, nothing can stand in their way. The third theme is technology as a crucial enabler of the revolution. New ways of managing and communicating information are already changing lives the world over. Now these tools must be made available to everyone, including residents of the most remote villages in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The result will be decentralization of economic andpolitical power as worldwide markets in ideas, goods, and services become accessible to all.
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      6 May 2008

      Cognitive surplus, gin and art

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      txt: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - By Clay Shirky
      The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London. And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of things we like--didn't happen until having all of those people together stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an asset. [...] And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads. This is a pretty big surplus. People asking, "Where do they find the time?" when they're looking at things like Wikipedia don't understand how tiny that entire project is, as a carve-out of this asset that's finally being dragged into what Tim calls an architecture of participation. Now, the interesting thing about a surplus like that is that society doesn't know what to do with it at first--hence the gin, hence the sitcoms. Because if people knew what to do with a surplus with reference to the existing social institutions, then it wouldn't be a surplus, would it? It's precisely when no one has any idea how to deploy something that people have to start experimenting with it, in order for the surplus to get integrated, and the course of that integration can transform society.
      video: Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=862384&dest=-1]
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      5 May 2008

      Body and soul: the women art

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      links: Vanessa Beecroft Marina Abramovic Maureen Fleming video: Vanessa Beecroft - "VB55" (1 Of 2) - see also "VB55" (2 Of 2) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wut1PDf74Dc] video: Marina Abramovic [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pno1gCrbeVk] video: Maureen Fleming - Mother and Child excerpt [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1umh8mBLCA]
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      30 Apr 2008

      About happiness, do you have any advice?

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      txt: The Smiling Professor - New York Times By CLAUDIA DREIFUS - Published: April 22, 2008 At Harvard, the social psychologist Daniel Gilbert is known as Professor Happiness.
      Q. AS THE AUTHOR OF A BEST SELLER ABOUT HAPPINESS, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE ON HOW PEOPLE CAN ACHIEVE IT? A. I’m not Dr. Phil. We know that the best predictor of human happiness is human relationships and the amount of time that people spend with family and friends. We know that it’s significantly more important than money and somewhat more important than health. That’s what the data shows. The interesting thing is that people will sacrifice social relationships to get other things that won’t make them as happy — money. That’s what I mean when I say people should do “wise shopping” for happiness. Another thing we know from studies is that people tend to take more pleasure in experiences than in things. So if you have “x” amount of dollars to spend on a vacation or a good meal or movies, it will get you more happiness than a durable good or an object. One reason for this is that experiences tend to be shared with other people and objects usually aren’t.
      video: Hahaha - BlackOleg on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk]
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      29 Apr 2008

      Massconomy (dancing with gorillas)

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      txt: The Emerging Main Street Web - by Bernard Lunn on readwriteweb.com
      In the new web era, we will use that power to make a living. That is why I call this new era the Main Street Web. This is a nod to Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing The Chasm, the point in the adoption cycle when technology goes mainstream. The Main Street Web is about people who don’t care about technology or media, they just use it. Above all it is about really simple business models that work in the physical world as well as online world. The Main Street Web will empower small business and level the playing field with big business. [...] The final post in this series, “Dancing with Gorillas”, looks at opportunities for entrepreneurs in the emerging Main Street Web in a world dominated by a few big companies such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay and Amazon.
      link: The Whatchamacallit, Post Recession Phase Transition video: Dancing Silverback Gorilla [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk6kk1DWrT4]
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      26 Apr 2008

      Berlin? Nein: Rovereto ist FuturoPresente

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      txt: FUTURO PRESENTE - Art and new technologies
      Art and creativity in relationship to the new technologies is the theme of the IV edition of Futuro Presente, the festival that transforms Rovereto and Trentino into a privileged stage from which to view the people and realities of special significance for contemporary culture. The last three years have brought us into closer contact with the works of great artist like Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass and Bernardo Bertolucci , all masters at merging within their own very personal area of research, the languages of music, dance, theatre, the visual arts, cinema, architecture and design. This 2008 edition of the Festival will look instead at the links between art and new technologies and will host exceptional artists like William Forsythe, Ryoji Ikeda, Klaus Obermaier and Joshua Davis as well as making incursions into the newest creative forms and the most innovative tendencies in music, cinema and even virtual worlds and interactivity. [...] To complete the Festival there will be meetings and talks with Derrick de Kerckhove, Peppino Ortoleva, Domenica Quaranta, Maria Grazia Mattei, Lelio Camilleri, Bruno Fornara, Matteo Bittanti, Studio Azzurro, Giuseppe Baresi, N!03, Stalker Video, Umberto Fiori, Tommaso Leddi and the projection of particularly significant films.
      link: www.myspace.com/futuropresentefestival video: Gideon Talks: Joshua Davis - on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=860486&dest=-1]
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      25 Apr 2008

      Where is art?

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      txt: Art 38 Basel - Public Art Projects - on www.kopenhagen.dk
      On Messeplatz in front of the Art Basel fair, visitor’s can witness nine public art projects. The nine works are each very different and show a wide range of artistic techniques, interests and fabrics. From Wim Delvoye’s amazing and monumental reconstruction of a big trailer with a truck, to Tadashi Kawamata’s Tree Hut – a wood hut runned up in one of the existing flagpoles, to Paul McCarthy’s perverse Santa with Butt Plug, Mike Nelson’s exotic old bus, Elmgreen & Dragset’s flashy, melting postcard-selling kiosk, and the delicate 11-meter-high Baton by Not Vital, to the poetic and beautiful round, polished steel mirror of the sky by Anish Kapoor, the LSD-influenced work of Thomas Zipp, and finally the 1:1 funny house build by Vedavamazzei. Enjoy the pictures....
      img: crack - moufle on flickr.com
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      24 Apr 2008

      Intolerable Beauty

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      txt: Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption - Chris Jordan on www.chrisjordan.com
      Exploring around our country’s shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. I am appalled by these scenes, and yet also drawn into them with awe and fascination. The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical and ironic, and even darkly beautiful; for me its consistent feature is a staggering complexity. The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for the consequences. I fear that in this process we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and to our individual spirits. As an American consumer myself, I am in no position to finger wag; but I do know that when we reflect on a difficult question in the absence of an answer, our attention can turn inward, and in that space may exist the possibility of some evolution of thought or action. So my hope is that these photographs can serve as portals to a kind of cultural self-inquiry. It may not be the most comfortable terrain, but I have heard it said that in risking self-awareness, at least we know that we are awake.
      img: Consumism II - Marooned on flickr.com
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