Media-futurist Gerd Leonhard gaf op Picnic09 deze keynote (zie ook: deze presentatie op MoMo). Ik sprak met Leonhard op het vip-deck van Picnic 2009, inmiddels ten einde met de uitverkiezing van Vodafone Mobile Clicks als slotstuk. Voor Leonhard was #Picnic09 ‘a meeting of the minds. An amazing cocktail of people and topics.’ Belangrijkste mediatrend is volgens Leonhard: open platformen. “The whole valuesystem is shifting.” Een lesje mediatoekomst met Gerd Leonhard: awesome!

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"Increasingly I think the digital divide is less about access to technology and more about the difference between those who know how and those who don't know how," says author Howard Rheingold, speaking in front of King's College at Cambridge University. "The ability to know has suddenly become the ability to search and the ability to sift" and discern.

Earlier in the week Howard gave the keynote address at Reboot Britain, and he recounts some of them here. Among the Essential Literacies he cites are:

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Strange (talking headish) effects!

"Of course it’s the Aarhus Public Libraries in Denmark. Pretty cool stuff. I especially like the line about making the library about what the youth need from libraries, rather than what libraries need from youth."

'Shot In The Back Of The Head', David Lynch's Animated Video For Moby

In the video Rome is re-constructed quickly via a "grammar" that makes Rome-ish buildings. The CityEngine software can also mapped out their placement generatively as well. The artificial city "grows" organically.

This lovely short film presents an original scenario for a future interface to virtual world making. Like the famous Apple Navigator film from decades ago, or ATT's You Will series of ads, or the Minority Report's scene of transparent gesture interface, this fictional depiction is convincing and inspiring. I want one now.

Nog een kleine maand wachten ...

Talk Show Flashback: David Byrne Does His Best Joaquin Phoenix Impression For “Space Ghost”

For the first time, a spacecraft from Earth has captured hi-resolution images of a solar eclipse while orbiting another world.

see also: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/kaguyaeclipse/diagram.jpg

Since I wrote a tune and some words for Mr Clean's track various layers of meaning have been added- not the least of which is Marcel's animated video. Having first seen his work at a show by the Royal Art Lodge collective I wondered if there might be something in the water up there in Winnipeg. Here is the voice of God speaking through an old Oak tree- which seems perfectly right...and it complements the song perfectly, as do the ghosty spermy spirits at one point. anyway, I'm flattered and thrilled that th

Het begint om 1'01, als de aankondiging en het applaus zijn weggeëbt. Na 6'27 begint de commentator weer klassiek te oudehoeren.

Kirsten Fidel werkte bij Barak Obama in Chicago en vertelt over het gebruik van internet

het meisje van de slijterij:
http://www.meisjevandeslijterij.nl/hetmeisjevandeslijterij/2008/11/laten-we-het-ee.html

"Today we're launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users. We store your changes in your Google Account

"A male jumping spider trying very hard to excite a female jumping spider. That thing it does...with it's front legs... He taps, he scrapes, he turns and twists...he stops!... Make sure you turn up the volume on your speakers...the sounds are half the act"

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David Lee King And Michael Porter rock out in The Hi-fi Sci-fi Library Music Video. There's a larger version at Blip TV. There is a slew of Libraryland folks singing along in the video (mostly in the second half). Don't watch it, it'll get stuck in your head for days.
http://lisnews.org/dont_watch_hi_fi_sci_fi_library_music_video