This image shows some of the possible combination of materials and colours I played with for the 2nd series of this light object. Basically all 3mm materials could be used as a base. Ponoko has many exciting colours in their materials catalog.

Obrut light colour variations 1st set

L’ Associazione Culturale “IcreAttivi”

presenta

Medita 2.0 – L’editoria ai tempi del web
Tavola rotonda dedicata al mondo dell’editoria ai tempi del WEB 2.0

Con il contributo della Regione Lazio

Giovedì 26 novembre 2009 – Ore 16.00
Città dell’Altra Economia
Largo Dino Frisullo, Roma

L’editoria, il giornalismo, il pensionamento (o meno) del cartaceo, temi centrali della tavola rotonda durante la quale operatori del settore, sociologi, scienziati della comunicazione, librai, blogger, facebooker, citizen journalist e appassionati, potranno scambiarsi opinioni e cercare nuovi stimoli attraverso un dibattito libero volto alla creazione di un network dei network.

Il tema portante è la risposta alle seguenti domande: È la fine dell’editoria? È l’inizio dell’editoria? I partecipanti saranno invitati ad analizzare le questioni legate all’editoria tradizionale che si scontra/incontra con il web.

La moderazione sarà affidata ad Alessandra Sannella, Sociologa.

Introducono
Enzo Foschi – Vicepresidente della commissione Cultura della Regione Lazio
Giuseppe Gerace – Consigliere Municipio Roma II

Partecipano
Francesco Florenzano – Presidente Upter e Unieda e Direttore editoriale Edup
Paolo De Nardis – Professore ordinario Sapienza Università di Roma.
Luisa Capelli – Direttrice Editoriale Meltemi Editore.
Alberto Castelvecchi – Presidente Castelvecchi Editore.
Majid Abder Rahman – Amministratore Wikipedia.
Maria Laura Gargiulo – Comitato redazione Edilet, scrittrice e saggista.
Giacomo Bruno – Presidente Bruno Editore.
Carmelo Greco – Presidente Associazione Méditerranée – Esperto in Cooperazione Sociale.
Roberta Miracapillo – Presidente Legambiente Mondi Possibili.
Alex Giordano – Ninja Marketing.
Paolo Barucca - Circolo Letterario Wunderkammer, Ass. Cult. “Tavola Rotonda”

L’evento ospiterà al suo interno “Avatar”, esposizione artistica dedicata all’identità di rete nell’ambito della rassegna “(m)ARTE 2.0”.

Durante la conferenza sarà offerto un aperitivo biologico.

Per ulteriori informazioni e per il programma dettagliato:
http://medita2punto0.blogspot.com

Segreteria organizzativa:
+39 347 6877680, icreattivi@libero.it

Here the term “Disruptive” is in reference to a challenge to traditional thinking in order to bring about positive change (or transformation from instructivist to social constructivist) in learning.

“Why has classroom training taken such a hold in corporate training and development? To answer this question, we need to look at its origins and its history. The modern classroom is a learning technology that was first developed in Prussia in the 1700s, and then spread throughout the world. Sitting in rows, raising hands, short recesses, detentions, and other disciplinary practices all emerged over relatively short period as part of modern classroom technology.

The use of classrooms for corporate training is a recent phenomenon, rising sharply after World War II. Dr. Gary Woodill, Director of Research and Analysis at Brandon Hall Research, argues that the purposes of the modern classroom include the need to immobilize the bodies of learners, have them pay attention to the instructor, and instill a self-discipline that comes from sitting still for a long period of time. He also notes that the aim of social, networked and mobile learning is to break that pattern, which is why these new learning technologies are so disruptive of classroom based instructor led training.”

http://www.brandon-hall.com/webinars/webinars.shtml

http://mt201.centra.com/main/Customers/demo/Registrar/NewRegistration.jsp?event_id=0000002a46ea7301245c16d651007f8b&locale=en_US&source=W

Thoughts on Sir Tim Berners-Lee, mobility and beyond at the Web 2.0 Summit 2009

Tim Berners-Lee at the Web 2.0 Summit - "We didn't call it 'World-Wide' Web for nothing"

London schoolboy Tim Berners-Lee was just 14 when two computers talked to each other for the very first time 40 years ago via ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet. It’s safe to say this turned out to be a bigger deal than anyone knew at the time (except maybe young Tim).

When he first conceived of the World Wide Web 20 years later (in 1989), Berners-Lee knew it had to be a fully open, public-domain platform. As he explained in conversation with Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0 Summit last week in San Francisco, “otherwise it would not have worked.” The system had to be really flexible, without proprietary formats and constraints, “a very creative read-write space, like a sandbox — a group collaborative thing,” to enable it to spread its usefulness across the whole world as he had conceived it.  “It had to be — we didn’t call it ‘World-Wide’ Web for nothing.”

One score, the change of a millennium, and the “versioning” of WWW to “Web 2.0″ later, the Web is still trying to fulfill that promise. Berners-Lee acknowledges that Web platforms and blogs and wikis have approached that collaborative vision, but in an awesome perspective in his session which closed the conference, he reminded us that “only 20-25 percent of humanity actually uses the Web at all.”

While this begs the question how and whether the Web should extend to blanket the other three-quarters of the world, if you turn it around you can see that Web 2.0, now a kindergartner at five years old, is ready to be and continues to be itself disrupted through its reach — and hopefully by those who will need it the most.

The most recent, most potent disruptions are happening in the mobile, realtime, and local spaces and hence into the “everywheres and everyones” through the corners of the Earth. This year’s Summit did not disappoint along those lines both in terms of real news, cutting-edge developments, and a little bit of whimsey along the way.

On the local, realtime front, with a big kick in the pants by Twitter, the major search players are paying a lot of attention to the “everywhere, everyone, AND all at once” phenomenon (read Jeremiah Owyang’s good wrap from a business perspective on the related Google / Microsoft announcements). But one thing that was almost lost in the hype — almost buried in Marissa Mayer’s surprise announcement of  Google Social Search — is the local aspect.  Through the years we’ve witnessed the evolution of “finding things” from Browse (Yahoo) –> to Search (Google) –> to Share (Facebook) — and now we approach the next phase: all of the above, then add “Where” — and then EveryWhere.

Take a good look at the demo: first the Twitter-dare-I-say-Google-open-social-graph announcement has to do with bringing the particular GeoLocation of New Zealand closer to home, via your social circle.  But toward the end of the demo Google solidifies the geo/local aspect. Says Mayer, “You can see how analyzing these social networks can really improve the overall relevance, comprehensiveness, and quality of the results. And one of the biggest pockets we’ve seen where this can really enhance your search experience is on local information. Has one of your friends already seen that play? Have they been to that restaurant or have they been to that hotel?”

This is important because local may literally be “the last mile”  (thanks @donambridge…) of the three-quarters-of-the-rest-of-the-world for Web search, which starts to look more and more “old-school” the more people’s blogs are visited because of Twitter instead of because of Google.

Add the mobile component to realtime+local, and you have the game-changing combination.  Mobile is the “incremental driver of Internet user / usage growth” according to the always-excellent Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker session (PDF). “Next generation platforms (social networking + mobile) are driving unprecedented change in communications and commerce.”

Via mobile, the native intelligence of your (social) presence is flipping the “reaching beyond 25% of the world” question sideways — so that it’s not (just) about the fact that mobile reaches further, but mobile allows us to change the reach entirely.

Path Intelligence: Mapping the audience

Cell phone signals render humans as sensors (watch the amazing inventions on this panel), via multiple sensors in your iPhones, via where you are when, and via what you are sharing — explicitly or implicitly — about it when you are there.  From the “implicit crowdsourcing” that provides traffic and route information via maps and real-time feeds of Waze, to the entertaining audience statistics (and more) that Path Intelligence could glean by our (cell-phone-enabled) presence, to tagged, geocoded images that help you find invasive plants, to the incredible concept of “telemicroscopy for disease disease diagnosis” (CellScope), to the portal ultrasound gadget that GE’s Jeff Immelt brought with him to more… Needless to say, there is a huge wealth of innovation happening in the realtime mobile sphere.

Beyond mobile (since mobile infrastructure is not yet everywhere), we also saw some amazing satellite innovations at the Summit. Walter Scott of DigitalGlobe stopped by to give us a demo and some intriguing ideas about satellite imagery that we can now refresh two to three times a day. Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke did not even visualize this!

Aaron Koblin -- Visualizing Amsterdam SMS messages

And speaking of visualization, some of the innovations coming out of the piles of data we get through all these mobile, real-time, world-wide sensors can be very, very beautiful.   Aaron Koblin, an artist specializing in data visualization who introduced  GAFFTA (Grey Area Foundation for the Arts) while at the Summit, has an amazing sandbox of visualizations.

So while only one in four people have ever touched the World Wide Web at all, both the Web and these people are going further than ever before. Tim Berners-Lee advises us to concentrate on the emergent trends of GeoLocation and a move from Web pages to mobile and apps, as well as the upcoming standard of HTML5. And one key takeaway from him is that we need to “make sure the Web is designed appropriately for other cultures as well.”

And while we’re at it, let’s make sure we’re listening to those other cultures and watching for the beauty in the great big pile of data, because “the other 75%” of everywhere has at least as big a chance of disrupting the Web as the Web has of disrupting it.

Seconds away from writing a serious post on the Web 2.0 Summit last week in San Francisco, my head aches, I have a meeting in way less than an hour and a different project or three to manage, several other writing assignments, and I decide what’s important for the moment is to instead cover the wild whimsical wacky wardrobe world that was this year’s Web 2.0 Summit. Why do I feel compelled to do this? I have no idea. (If I don’t get that serious post up by the end of today, I’m probably abducted by aliens). And yet here I go.

Erin McKean's Tetris Dress

First and foremost in any wardrobe wrap has to be a gigantic shout out to Wordnik’s smart and sassy CEO and co-founder Erin McKean who pitched a great high-order bit on the excellent Wordnik as well as their newly launched API for the English Language, ALL in her hand-made Tetris dress.

Then there’s John Battelle, who always looks particularly natty in his blue jeans, dangling this teaser of a surprise Google spot and entreating us to guess who it is based on the shoes alone. To which my handy Twitter-mate @UberShoeDiva (who does indeed have the UberShoes) responded thusly: “What is he *wearing* on his feet?? Those can’t be shoes. I hope not. I really hope those are just some edgy socks.”
(Those by the way are Sergey Brin’s Vibram Five Fingers )

And actually I’d have to say John Battelle came in tied for first place for best jeans this year – and you’ll just have to scroll through this really excellent session on Humans as Sensors to see why (catch Mobilizy’s Markus Tripp in his excellent jeans – or you can just get a hint of them here).

Brady and UberShoeDiva (AKA Jaimee Clements) cut it up

In the same video, know that no wardrobe wrap would ever be complete without a mention of @brady’s gorgeous purple shirt, green plaid pants, and blue shoes. Once again this goes not unnoticed by UberShoeDiva.

One out-of-character note for himself and for the summit was Mr. Tim O’Reilly — who was constantly seen sporting a SUIT, making you wonder if he or we all had been abducted by aliens.

Contrast this with the baggy-jeaned teens – at least the one who uses Blackle instead of Google (to save energy) – from the excellent What Do Teens Want? panel – and you get an idea of why I really love the Web 2.0 Summit among all other conferences.

"the Zappos guys"

And I simply cannot ever forget @lwaldal’s commentary of the “Zappos guys:” “I’m sitting in the 3rd row and pretty sure that josh, liam, maynard and john onstage right now are all wearing the same shoes.” This observation even made Industry-Standard fame.

And finally, though what it has to do with wardrobe or what wardrobe has to do with anything I’m not sure, thanks to @lwaldal for pointing out “a chandelier for balloon boy” in this shot of how the Ballroom was decked out:

"A Chandelier for Balloon Boy" - @lwaldal

The conference was jam-packed and a lot of fun but tiring, so this shot perked me up just when I needed it.

And now with that off my chest…

Die Trainerausbildung ist die Wurzel allen Übels.
Für den VfB. Für Horst Heldt. Für die Fans. Für Markus Babbel.

Deshalb hat Babbel Maßnahmen ergriffen (viele werden die zahlreichen Hinweise bei Twitter in dern letzten Tagen gelesen haben), um seinen Lernerfolg zu optimieren und die Kölnaufenthalte weiter zu verringern: er lernt jetzt online.

Babbel.com ist ein mehrsprachiges Angebot, das auf Lernerfolg in der Community setzt, letztlich also eine konsequente Weiterentwicklung der bereits von Christian Ziege skizzierten Zusammenarbeit:

“Das ist wie in der richtigen Schule. Wenn da einer krankheitshalber mal nicht da sein kann, dann erklärt ihm der Nebensitzer die Hausaufgaben am Telefon.”

Dass das Ganze indes etwas moderner ablaufen soll, versteht sich von selbst:

“Die interaktiven Online-Kurse verbinden hochwertiges Lernmaterial renommierter Verlage mit aktueller Technologie und reichhaltigen Multi-Media-Inhalten. Im Ergebnis bedeutet dies ein abwechslungsreiches und neuartiges Lern-Erlebnis mit vielen Erklärungen und Veranschaulichungen, ein intelligentes Wiedervorlagesystem für langfristigen Lernerfolg und vor allem viel Spaß.”

Aus Vereinssicht stößt dabei insbesondere der folgende Aspekt auf Gegenliebe:

“Du allein bestimmst, wie, wann und was du lernst.”

Letztlich gewinnen wir alle. Der Verein, die Fans, die Trainerausbildung, der deutsche Fußball – und natürlich Babbel selbst, denn:

“Babbel is changing – for the better.“

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A wee rant.  I came across this conversation about online communities on Research Live.  There is a discussion of the pros and cons of research-based online communities, branded online communities, and right at the end a commenter who says that all this community talk is ridiculous and simply listening to internet buzz (via networks like) Facebook is the way forward.

Listen, my children. Many many years ago, I was a wee trainee research manager for a company that did a very boring thing.  We made the fragrances that go into washing powders.    We did not think this was at all dull.  We lived and breathed functional fragrance (quite literally, marketing was right next to the factory).  We researched all sorts of things. We did sensory research, perfume trends research, international laundry research*, brand positioning research.

The one thing we couldn’t do is listen in to a general conversation because for the most part the ‘moment’ we were researching was transient and private.

So it is with many products and brands.  For every Facebook and iPod and Easyjet and Carling Black Label, there is a product which is humble or private or low-key or taboo or just not terribly interesting.  It may be everything to its creators, but it doesn’t generate talk.   This does not stop the producers of these things from wanting to find out what people think.

A research community, like a survey or a piece of qualitative research, is a way of lining up your users and asking them to talk about something they may scarcely think about, day to day**.  When it comes down to it, your customers may have vivid experiences and strong opinions which would never see the light of day outside of the direct conversation between researcher and user, or brand and user.

Don’t get me wrong, online metrics are important and of course you should collect them; but in many cases they will be absent, deeply uninformative or even misleading.   Also: (deep breath) not everybody is online; not everybody important to your category is online.    They’re certainly not all on Facebook.    And I’m flailing in frustration now, but really, systematic research is one of the best methods of finding out what people think of your (slightly boring, not-dominating-Twitter) thing.

*Anyone who thinks that it would be impossible to talk about washing powder for very long is sorely, sorely mistaken.

**For example, blank video tape, back in the day.  Try mining that.

I don’t know if you’ve come across Aviary yet but they have a range of web based applications that are just great.

I realise that there are a lot of web2 apps out there now but I find Aviary to be really quick and intuitive – and best of all stable.

The new addition is a music sequencer – a really simple and effective ‘Garage Band’ equivalent.  Like all web2 apps it takes a little wile to load first time but  but restarting the app once you’ve downloaded it is quick and easy.

I loved it.

Aviary

Lors d’une de mes pérégrinations sur le Web, je suis tombé sur un très bel article du Wall Street Journal qui analysait les nouveaux outils de communications offerts par l’environnement Web 2.0 par rapport au traditionnel courrier électronique.

Comment communiquez-vous aujourd’hui? Sur Internet? dans la vie courante ? Pour quoi utilisez-vous Facebook, Twitter? Comment recevez-vous les nouvelles de vos amis lointains? Quel délai accordez-vous à vos correspondants pour répondre?… La liste des questions peut continuer à n’en point finir.

Les nouveaux outils de communication et leur omniprésence

Ce qui m’a bouleversé à la lecture de cet article, c’est la vision de l’auteure sur ce qu’on appelle communément “Le Profil“. Si du temps de l’e-mail, on était représenté par une simple succession de caractères alphanumérique, avec l’inévitable @ (arobase), aujourd’hui, les plate-formes en ligne vous permettent d’attacher une image à votre profil sans oublier les informations d’identité au point d’en faire de véritables CV.

Point important, l’omniprésence des questions “Que faites-vous en ce moment?“, “What are you doing/thinking?“… Si bien que certaines informations ne méritent plus leur place dans un courrier électronique. On enverra rarement aujourd’hui un courriel pour ce genre d’informations: “tu es où? où as tu passé tes dernières vacances? Je viens d’avoir un nouveau bébé“…

Plus loin, on aborde la question de l’utilité de ces outils: contribuent-ils à améliorer les conditions de vie et  de travail? Quel peut-être leur impact sur le rendement? Des questions qui ont déjà été débattues plusieurs fois sans pouvoir parvenir à des conclusions convergentes…

Bref, je vous exhorte à lire cet article dont voici un extrait:

Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.

In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine.

We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone. The always-on connection, in turn, has created a host of new ways to communicate that are much faster than email, and more fun.

Why wait for a response to an email when you get a quicker answer over instant messaging? Thanks to Facebook, some questions can be answered without asking them. You don’t need to ask a friend whether she has left work, if she has updated her public “status” on the site telling the world so. Email, stuck in the era of attachments, seems boring compared to services like Google Wave, currently in test phase, which allows users to share photos by dragging and dropping them from a desktop into a Wave, and to enter comments in near real time.

La suite, c’est par ici: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203803904574431151489408372.html

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There’s a nice tutorial at nokiausers.com on how to configure Nokia’s Shareonline service to add Youtube, Facebook, Picasa and Twitter (as well as the default Ovi, Vox and Flickr services).

First – signup online for the sites you want to add (YouTube, Picasa, Twitter etc…). If you already have logins to these you are good to go to setup Shareonline:

1. On your Nokia mobile phone web browser go to http://furtiv.mobi/beta_instructions.html, or scan the following QR Code to take you direct to download the Shareonline config files for YouTube, Picasa, etc…
   
2. Now click on each of the links you want to setup on Shareonline
3. After download, switch to Shareonline on your phone, select the new ‘ready for activation’ services, login to each and they will be activated
4. Happy Mobile sharing!

In the runup to the Web 2.0 Summit later this month, Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle have been outlining their vision of what comes after Web 2.0.  Their answer: Web Squared.  They’ve set this out in a white paper (also available as a 1.3Mb PDF), a webcast,  and a Slideshare presentation:

They say:

Ever since we first introduced the term “Web 2.0,” people have been asking, “What’s next?” Assuming that Web 2.0 was meant to be a kind of software version number (rather than a statement about the second coming of the Web after the dotcom bust), we’re constantly asked about “Web 3.0.” Is it the semantic web? The sentient web? Is it the social web? The mobile web? Is it some form of virtual reality?

It is all of those, and more.

They set out a vision in some detail – it’s well worth a read if you’re interested in what the leading lights of Web 2.0 think happens next.  In a nutshell (as you’d expect from O’Reilly) it’s  ’Web 2.0 meets the world’. The boundary between the web and the real, physical world is in some ways clear, but in other ways very blurred, and the transition across it is one I am fascinated by.

As with Web 2.0, of course, lots of the things they proclaim as part of Web Squared can be seen going on right now.  As William Gibson said, the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

There’s smarter algorithms to infer collective intelligence from the ‘information shadow’ of real-world objects, cast in space and time by more sensors and more input routes; and smarter ways of visualising and exploring the outputs, and delivering them to people in more contexts and situations.  And all of this happening in ever-closer-to real time.

The ‘information shadow’ and ‘new sensory inputs’ is exactly the potential that Speckled Computing is mining and looking in to (and I’m very interested in pursuing for learning).  And the increased sensors/input routes, building collective intelligence from many individuals collaborating with low effort is the sort of thing that iSpot is doing – using geolocations and photos from a wide range of individuals to build a bigger picture.

(As a bit of an aside, one ‘key takeaway’ is that ‘A key competency of the Web 2.0 era is discovering implied metadata, and then building a database to capture that metadata and/or foster an ecosystem around it.’ – I’m certainly convinced that’s a more scalable system than one where humans do the hard work of marking data up semantically by hand.)

The potential for the web to learn more and better about the world is huge – and as the web learns more, we too learn more.  As they say, we are meeting the Internet, and it is us. And we’re getting smarter.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BAA4BDDDE21A5E35

7 Videos de UN Taller Web 2.0

Miguel Arrufat

Video1: (Introducción y marcadores sociales) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMLk2jXO7aY

Video2: (Ofimatica online y sindicación) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqWgATTAwms
Video3:  (Blogs, wikis y redes sociales) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jxlXOzHkP0

Video4: (Podcast) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bg8m5xnC8o

Video5:  (Tecnologias emergentes) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ciBC6lTiI

Video6:  (Webs colaborativas y banda ancha) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScChF1Hx9Q

Video7: (Inteligencia colectiva)  – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMRfbEe_Iec

OK, OK so I’ve signed up for Google Reader. I add a subscription for a Web 2.0 newsgroup but only got posts from way back in 2008 despite their being recent posts from this Sunday (27th September 2009)! Not convinced by RSS as yet – but I’m sure it’ll grow on me.

Die eine oder der andere hat mitbekommen, dass ich vor ein paar Tagen einen Text veröffentlicht habe, der sich mit einem Thema befasste, dem sich Philipp in seinem Blog “Niveau ist keine Creme” bereits tags zuvor in ähnlicher Weise gewidmet hatte. Das ist grundsätzlich nicht weiter der Rede wert und ganz gewiss nicht schlimm; vielmehr wäre es sehr ungewöhnlich, wenn derlei Überschneidungen nicht recht häufig vorkämen, sei es zufällig oder gewollt, weiterentwickelnd oder gelegentlich auch mal plagiierend.

Was mich allerdings stutzig machte, war die Einsicht, dass es nicht unerwartet kam. Unter normalen Umständen, so glaube ich zumindest, hätte ich Philipps einen Tag alten Beitrag bereits gelesen gehabt und hätte mir meinen Beitrag entweder verkniffen oder, wenn ich tatsächlich einen anderen Schwerpunkt hätte setzen wollen, auf Basis von Philipps Daten eine Kettenstatistik (© @nolookpass) erstellt. Zumindest aber hätte ich sicherlich nicht die gesamten Daten selbst erhoben. Dass besagte normale Umstände derzeit nur bedingt gegeben sind, deutete ich kürzlich per Twitter an:

Irgendwie verlangt das andere Leben gerade sehr viel Aufmerksamkeit. Keine Klage (ganz im Gegenteil, eigentlich), nur eine Feststellung. Und das führt dann dazu, dass der Feedreader wieder einmal weit über 1000 ungelesene Elemente zählt, dass ich es noch immer nicht geschafft habe, mir die jüngsten Podcasts aus dem Sportblogger-Umfeld ausführlich anzuhören, anzuhören (und das, obwohl der geschätzte Kollege hirngabel vom Brustring die Situation des VfB analysierte) und anzuhören und -sehen, dass ich noch nicht auf die jüngste Ausgabe des Europäischen Fußballradars hingewiesen und viele andere Texte noch nicht einmal angelesen habe. Gar nicht zu reden von Printprodukten, wie den mittlerweile drei 11Freunde-Ausgaben (inklusive Sonderheft), die noch nicht einmal als überflogen gelten können.

Wie gesagt: nur eine Feststellung. Aber ein wenig auch der Anlass, die eigenen Prioritäten zu hinterfragen. Und dann kristallisiert sich immer deutlicher ein Gedanke heraus:

Vielleicht einfach mal ein, zwei Gänge zurückschalten im Social Web. Feedreader ausdünnen, Twitter ausmisten, insgesamt einfach weniger Informationen sammeln, öfter mal offline sein, sich nicht selbst unter Druck setzen, endlich mal wieder was zu bloggen, und so weiter und so weiter.

Und gerade, wenn man den Gedanken sacken lässt, ihm immer mehr gute Seiten abgewinnen kann und sich zu seiner vernünftigen Haltung beglückwünschen will, erhält man eine E-mail von einem unbekannten jungen Mann, der sich als treuer Blogleser zu erkennen gibt und eben dieses Blog in den höchsten Tönen lobt. Darüber hinaus hat sich der besagte Leser von jenem “Déjà vu”-Artikel animieren lassen, die oben angesprochene Kettenstatistik noch ein wenig weiter zu spinnen und hat weiter gehende Überlegungen inklusive Grafischer Aufbereitung erstellt.

Ich freue mich, denke, dass das irgendwie ganz gut zur Funktionsweise des eben noch beklagten Zeitkillers Social Web passt und komme zu dem Schluss, unbedingt darüber bloggen zu müssen wollen. Und dass es ein Jammer wäre, Feeds und Twitter auszumisten.

Anyone interested in web2 based fabrication, here is a ‘growing’ collection of bookmarks. You will need to have a ‘delicious’ account though. If you are logged onto ‘delicious’ search for designartsanu and you will find these links.

bookmarks for designer maker

These links are added for their relevance for making things from digital files eg images, text, vetor-based drawing (Illustrator) or 3D files in .dxf format. I have referred to these services in earlier blogs about making a catalogue or a light object. If you know about any further relevant links please let me know and I will add them.

There is now a new section on the MHS ‘Research Skills Online‘ portal called ‘Other Online Resources‘.

Currently there are three new resources available on this:

1. Good Clinical Practice (GCP) – (Click here to register and here to access)
2. IP Resource
3. Web 2 Practice for academics

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There’s a term being thrown out in the winds that seems to be everywhere and yet in some areas, nowhere.  And that is “social media…  or web2.0…”   For those of you who hear who’s on Ning and Twitter or Facebook, MySpace, Digg. And who has been tweeted or pinged or tagged or texted, you start to think these people are from a different planet.

Simply put, social media or web2.0 is a social phenomena of communication. We’ve always had it as human beings are social creatures. We like connecting with family, friends, acquaintances.  Even the spontaneous chat over the fence while we garden is a social connection.  Now we have a variety of tools that facilitate our conversations whether they are within the city or across the oceans.  Clay Shirky wrote about this environment in his book, Here Comes Everyone!  The power of organizing without organizations.

Watch this video that reveals the simplicity of this new environment we find ourselves.  Click here.