“Slow” kann in unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen daherkommen: Die einen kennen den Begriff vom Essen (Slow Food), anderevom Reisen (Slow Travel, CittaSlow) und wieder andere haben sich an San Nadolnys Buch “Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit” erfreut. Gemein ist allen Perspektiven, dass Menschen mit Slow einen Trend anstoßen, der weg von Beschleunigung, Termineffizienzoptimierung und damit gelegentlich einhergehender Oberflächlichkeit geht, hin zu langsamerem, bedachteren, überlegteren, nachhaltigerem Handeln. Um Interessierte an Slow zusammenzubringen, organisierten Sabria
Slow Media Camp #slow10
Web 3.0
Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.
Leo Laporte — Low Cost Broadcasting
8 employees, $2 million revenues, a low cost basis and high quality content broadcasted continuously – this is TWiT: a tech show on the Internet. Former radio anchor Leo Laporte serves tech pundits with audio and video content, as podcast or live. 6 cameras in the TWiT cottage are filming anything what Leo does: a chat channel with several hundred participants is showing him what people think of his show. Here we could have a new definition
Finding Relevant News
Many of us complain about information overkill these days. Others — one of them is me — reply with: There’s no information overload, there’s just selection failure. Anyway — those of us in the news business are trying to find ways to ease the daily consumption of news for the user by ranking, weighing, recommending etc. At YiGG we have launched the project ‘worldspy’ with that goal exactly: we
Rocking Michaelangelo — Hold Your Horses
70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L’Ogre on Vimeo.
The Web’s Next Big Thing: Reputation
Craig Newmark on “Who to trust online?” >br> via OM
Would you miss a Champions League Match of your favorite soccer team?
The beer brewer Heineken could make you miss the Champions League match of your favourite soccer team, couldn’t they?
Robert Scoble: The Role Of Social Media in Marketing
Robert Scoble, blogger and entrepreneur, discusses his thoughts on how ideas spread. The public session was part of the Stanford GSB marketing course, the Power of Social Technology (Dr. Jennifer Aaker). A panel of experts, including Robert Scoble, MC Hammer, and Loic LeMeur, discussed how social media can build successful brands.
Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize! Congrats to @riccardowired !
Congrats to Riccardo Luna! You’ve made it! The Internet has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize! The Internet has made the list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, going up against a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights activist among others. The nomination was made after a petition by the Italian version of Wired Magazine, which cited the Internet’s contributions to “dialogue, debate and consensus through communication”. Signatories include Iranian
YiGG Update: Per Bookmarklet Nachrichten als nicht eingeloggte Nutzer einstellen
Viele Websites bieten Ihren Nutzern sogenannte Bookmarklets an, mit denen sie Inhalte der Seiten in Soziale Netzwerke und Communities wie YiGG übertragen und weiteren interessierten Lesern zu Verfügung stellen können. Bisher haben wir nur angemeldeten Benutzern das Einstellen von Nachrichten erlaubt, hauptsächlich um Spam zu vermeiden. Jetzt haben wir jedoch einen Weg gefunden, dies möglich zu machen: Ab sofort können auch Nutzer, die YiGG nicht kennen bzw. uns zufällig gefunden