As the final event of “NOW’s April edition – “Meetings in the present continuous” – Richard Stallman, the GNU-inventor and founder of the free software foundation, shared his thoughts and beliefs at the CCCB.

I really enjoyed the presentation of this godfather of free software, although it was more a religious mass rather than a lecture: Stallman talked about Free Software, Human Rights and the ideological term “piracy” (“pirates capture ships, not digital stuff”), always trying to convince the audience to switch to Linux. The exorcism-procedures included Microsoft-Bashing, Apple-Condemning and RealPlayer-Insulting.

comments

the installation drawn by zachary lieberman uses both analogue and digital techniques to create an intuitive experience:

drawn takes us back to one of the most simple and ancient expressions of creativity: painting.
in this case, the analog process is connected to a real time digital animation system. figures drawn with pen and ink seem to take on a life of their own and interact with the hands of its creators.

comments

finally i found the perfect web 2.0 online application to make easy bucks: bullshitr is a step-by-step introduction on how to make money within the actual web-hype:

1. Devise bullshit-compliant products and services with the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator™
2. Go to Brownpau’s Buzzphrase Generator for some excellent catchphrases with which to litter your site and marketing materials.
3. Name your new Web 2.0 site with Andrew Woolridge’s Web 2.0 Company Name Generator.
4. Go get yourself a snazzy logo with the Web 2.0 Logo Generator.
5. Lather, rinse, repeat.
6. ???
7. Sell your company to Yahoo!
8. Profit! †

as i followed these advices, my shiny new company will have a logo like this…

i will dedicate myself to create a fancy mashup that can be described as ‘tag-based apps via maps api’ and, based on this, i will make money spreading ‘citizen-media widgets’, due to my higher education and concerns as a media scientist student.

comments

die erfindung ist so simpel wie genial: der in italien lebende juan ospina hat per flash eine web-applikation entwickelt, die die erstellung kleiner (und auch längerer) animationen ermöglicht. flipbook umfasst auch eine galerie, in der sich die besten clips mit einem rating-system anschauen lassen.

kommentare