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      16 May 2008

      Simplicity

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      txt: The Laws of Simplicity - John Maeda
      Law 1: REDUCE - The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. Law 2: ORGANIZE - Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. Law 3: TIME - Savings in time feel like simplicity. Law 4: LEARN - Knowledge makes everything simpler. Law 5: DIFFERENCES - Simplicity and complexity need each other. Law 6: CONTEXT - What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral. Law 7: EMOTION - More emotions are better than less. Law 8: TRUST - In simplicity we trust. Law 9: FAILURE - Some things can never be made simple. Law 10: THE ONE - Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
      video: John Maeda on the simple life - TED Talks - The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art -- a place that can get very complicated. Here, he talks about paring down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art, websites and web tools. In his book Laws of Simplicity, he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for simple living and working -- but in this talk, he boils it down to one simply delightful way to be. [blip.tv ?posts_id=502779&dest=-1]
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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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      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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      20 Apr 2008

      Open your network mind

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      txt: TED - Yochai Benkler: Legal expert
      Yochai Benkler has been called "the leading intellectual of the information age." He proposes that volunteer-based projects such as Wikipedia and Linux are the next stage of human organization and economic production. Why you should listen to him: Larry Lessig calls law professor Yochai Benkler "the leading intellectual of the information age." He studies the commons -- including such shareable spaces as the radio spectrum, as well as our shared bodies of knowledge and how we access and change them. His most recent writings (such as his 2006 book The Wealth of Networks) discuss the effects of net-based information production on our lives and minds and laws. He has gained admirers far beyond the academy, so much so that when he released his book online with a Creative Commons license, it was mixed and remixed online by fans. (Texts can be found at benkler.org; and check out this web-based seminar on The Wealth of Networks.) He was awarded EFF's Pioneer Award in 2007. He's the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (home to many of TED's favorite people).
      video: Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics
      Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, they're paving the way for a new set of economic laws, where empowered individuals are put on a level playing field with industry giants.
      img: Yochai Benkler - Joi on flickr.com
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      12 Apr 2008

      Itinerant consumers

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      txt: Nomads at last - The economist - Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places
      Humans have always migrated and travelled, without necessarily living nomadic lives. The nomadism now emerging is different from, and involves much more than, merely making journeys. A modern nomad is as likely to be a teenager in Oslo, Tokyo or suburban America as a jet-setting chief executive. He or she may never have left his or her city, stepped into an aeroplane or changed address. Indeed, how far he moves is completely irrelevant. Even if an urban nomad confines himself to a small perimeter, he nonetheless has a new and surprisingly different relationship to time, to place and to other people. “Permanent connectivity, not motion, is the critical thing,” says Manuel Castells, a sociologist at the Annenberg School for Communication, a part of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
      link: digital-nomads.blogspot.com video: Mongolian Nomads offer us a home - adrianHmay on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfK5YOP1s4s]
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      1 Apr 2008

      Age of too much wireless

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      txt: Silicon Valley meetings go "topless"
      "In this age of wireless Internet and mobile e-mail devices, having an effective meeting or working session is becoming more and more difficult," he wrote on his company blog in November. "Laptops, Blackberries, Sidekicks, iPhones and the like keep people from being fully present. Aside from just being rude, partial attention generally leads to partial results." "Face-to-face meetings have become a low priority because they're constantly being interrupted by technology, and many people can't figure out what to do," said Sue Fox, author of "Business Etiquette for Dummies." "What's more important -- the gadget or the person, or people, you're with?"
      img: you don't need a cellphone to talk to god - ties on flickr.com
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