March 2011
“What is the elasticity of demand for illegal drugs? Intuition suggests that...”
– Why It’s Obvious We Are Losing The War On Drugs
“Die Begründung ist, dass ich als Vizepräsident des beratenden Ausschusses des...”
– Festspiel-Festredner ausgeladen - oesterreich.ORF.at
J. Ziegler, der Antisemit …
Google testet Seiten bei Google Docs →
“(…) 25 GB (…) Die Datenmenge soll ein Vorarlberger Skilehrer...”
– heise online - Kripo ermittelt wegen hoher Rechnung gegen A1 Telekom Austria
Dann kauft doch einfach ein Nokia Handy, mit dem man nur telefonieren und SMS versenden kann, ihr Idioten!
Google testet Seiten bei Google Docs →
“Facebook ist eine flüchtige Episode, deren Verfallsdatum bereits bedrohlich...”
– De:Bug Magazin » Statusmeldungen: Schreiben auf Facebook
“Irgendwann wird WikiLeaks auch Szenen zeigen, die beweisen, dass auch...”
– Frontjournalismus: Kriegsreporter chancenlos gegen Twitter und Youtube - Nachrichten Kultur - WELT ONLINE
Eurozine - America: Paradoxical icon of the new -... →
Europeans need to stop blaming the American Way of Life for the ills of post-industrial consumer society and start asking what American individualism has to teach about social cohesion.
“Wer ein guter Anarchist werden will, muss in die Schweiz reisen, wie Feyerabend,...”
– Richard David Precht (Quelle)
Tim O’Reilly über Filesharing und mehr →
“My entire class, if you like, of computer book publishers were all...”
– Tim O’Reilly on Piracy, Tinkering, and the Future of the Book - Jon Bruner - Datanaut - Forbes
“Wenn immer und überall messbare Gleichheit herrschen soll, wird die...”
– Eurozine - Gleichheit - Rainer Paris Ein systematisches Argument
“Dazu muss man allerdings verstehen, dass das Social Media Engagement in erster...”
– Das Schielen auf die großen Zahlen führt am Fan vorbei « kadekmedien’s Blog
Biology That Makes Us Tick: Free Stanford Course... →
“Social parasitism is unambiguously wrong, I think, when the parasites are...”
– Social Parasitism - Bleeding Heart Libertarians
Und genau das befördert ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen …
Search Is Google’s Castle, Everything Else Is A... →
“Die Schweiz ist von ihrer ganzen Mentalität auf einem anderen Kontinent und nur...”
– Und oben gibt es ein neues Preußen - Europa - FOCUS Online (in den Kommentaren)
Google investiert 1 Million Dollar in... →
Von Problemen, die man lösen muss, sollte man auch... →
In The Cards: Why Amazon *Has* To Make An Android... →
“Being a libertarian means opposing the use of force to restrain peaceful,...”
– Embracing Markets, Opposing “Capitalism” - Bleeding Heart Libertarians
Preschool lessons: New research shows that... →
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire.
Avis. Was ist ein Kunde? →
Reid Hoffmans Definition für disruptive Ideen:... →
Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive,... →
Everyone from President Obama to Ted Koppel is bemoaning a decline in journalistic substance, seriousness, and sense of proportion. But the author, a longtime advocate of these values, takes a journey through the digital-media world and concludes there isn’t any point in defending the old ways. Consumer-obsessed, sensationalist, and passionate about their work, digital upstarts are undermining the...
Ich will meine Rundfunkgebühren zurück! →
“Sometimes, when I see my friends finally join Facebook, it it feels like they...”
– SXSW: The Internet We Once Knew - Phoebe Connelly - Technology - The Atlantic
99 Cent Books →
Sci-Phi: Why elections are literally beauty... →
Is Belgium the test-bench for democracy 2.0?
FS: And what is the second reason for this crisis in Belgian politics?
DVR: It is the enormous change that new media have brought to professional politics: the involvement of citizens has become significantly more important. Every step a politician takes, every negotiation he is involved in, finds its way into the press immediately. Previously, discretion could sometimes be effective for months: politicians would get together and thrash out a compromise that they could all live with. Then they went and defended the compromise before their party and their electors. Now, every move they make is immediately a political fact. Politicians do not talk to each other any more – they have not been talking to each other in Belgium for months – but they talk to their voters all the time. They are, as it were, paralysed by the public, whose influence is becoming more and more evident.
FS: So, democracy is undergoing major change?
DVR: Yes, most certainly. The public today can follow the political process from one moment to the next but is only asked to give its opinion every four years. This is completely new. I think that we are approaching the end of representative democracy. The idea that elections are key moments no longer holds water, and you can see that everywhere. I am just reading The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane, and I entirely agree with his conclusions. Belgium, in my view, does not represent the surreal rearguard of European states. I think that what we are seeing here, a little earlier than elsewhere, the same challenges as people will have to face everywhere. The Belgian problem – linked with the country's constitution – is actually part of a much larger problem that could be summed up by asking the following question: what will democracy 2.0 be like?
De Gruyter testet nutzerorientiertes... →
MIT Media Labs’ new logo has 40,000 variations →
The Facebooking Of Identity | Stowe Boyd →
How Facebook streamlines our online identity.
Neoconservatism Unmasked →
Potential Open Source License Violations In... →
Saab rüstet Autos nun mit Android aus →
Abriss der Geschichte studentischer Korporationen... →
Begleitendes Bildmaterial zum WAC vom 02.03.2011 bei e.v. AV Goten Freiburg i. Ue.
Facebook Fan Page Impressions VS Actual Traffic to... →
“I’ve never had an iPod or a BlackBerry. I’ve never had a mobile phone of any...”
– LRB · Jim Holt · Smarter, Happier, More Productive
There. All said about Carr’s stupid book. Finally.
Cherchez La Femme Fatale - What killed the queen... →
In the restless middle of the 20th century, the femme fatale, the dark queen of film noir, jolted the silver screen with an electric sexuality and lethal cunning it had never seen before. She smoldered, she coveted, she hated, she schemed and, above all, she manipulated the men in her life — alternately offering and withholding the promise of love and a mind-blowing screw, playing the poor saps...
infed - colin ward: the ‘gentle’ anarchist and... →
Colin Ward (1924-2010) has left a legacy of radical ideas grounded in direct action. These were communicated through a number of thought-provoking and in-depth social histories. Indeed, Ward’s political beliefs shaped his objects of enquiry and can be clearly seen running through his arguments. His interests were diverse: planning, camping, housing, allotments and, significantly, education.
