ALMBLITZ ... (... happens when shepherds and dairymades in the mountains come together ones a while. It's a narrative flash, it's stories, faces, specially charged moments in time. It's about making content happen.) : Kommentare

Cool: Flickr Related Tag Search

coyote05 — 2009-11-05T23:09:00Z

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DIE BILDER BEWEISEN ES

norte — 2009-10-20T12:37:00Z

(c) AP - Großer al-Qaida-Anschlag in Saudi-Arabien verhindert. Terroristen verkleideten sich als Frauen.

Die Presse, 19. Oktober 2009

ALMBLITZ liegen Informationen aus vertraulicher Quelle vor, die zeigen, dass es sich im Bild oben nicht um Terroristen handelt, die sich als Frauen verkleideten, sondern vielmehr um die Popgruppe No Angels, die im Rahmen der GTA (geheime Truppenbetreuung der Deutschen Bundeswehr in Afghanistan) mehrere Auftritte in Kabul absolvierte.

Music from a Tree

coyote05 — 2009-10-16T11:49:00Z

Diego Stocco - Music From A Tree from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

In the garden of my house there's a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it.

To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs by trimming them with a pencil sharpener. I used two Røde NT6 and a NTG-2 as microphones, combined with a customized stethoscope.

I recorded the tracks live on a Pro Tools LE system. I didn't use any synthesizer or sampler to create or modify the sounds. All the sounds come from playing the tree, by bowing the twigs, shaking the leaves, playing rhythms on the cortex and so on.
Below you can see the video and some pictures with more detailed descriptions.
I hope you'll like it.

Yes, we do!

THE PAST OF THE FUTURE, Vol. 1

norte — 2009-10-13T10:37:00Z

It will never be the same again.
See (you at) Twitter 2038.

Tinguely's Enkel

norte — 2009-10-08T10:16:00Z

Achim Stiermann: Leichte Schwerkraftmaschine

Die Ausstellung "Funky Machines" im weissen haus zeigt anhand von 10 künstlerischen Positionen jüngste Beispiele zeitgenössischer Maschinenkunst von Emanuel Andel, Gabriele Edlbauer, Max Frey, Peter Fritzenwallner, Korinna Lindinger, David Moises/Chris Janka, Leo Peschta, Achim Stiermann, Johannes Vogl, und Julian Wallrath. Maschinen als Technologien ihrer selbst. Präziser, also teilbarer Humor. Nichts ist schwieriger als die Leichtigkeit. Deshalb gibt's ja so viel schwere Kunst. Tinguely's Enkel grüßen.

kunstverein das weisse haus
Wollzeile 1, 4. + 5. Stock
1010 Wien
Österreich
Ausstellungsdauer: 07.10. - 07.11.2009

CONTENT CURATOR - a manifesto like job description

coyote05 — 2009-10-01T14:45:00Z

In the near future, experts predict that content on the web will double every 72 hours. The detached analysis of an algorithm will no longer be enough to find what we are looking for. To satisfy the people's hunger for great content on any topic imaginable, there will need to be a new category of individual working online. Someone whose job it is not to create more content, but to make sense of all the content that others are creating. To find the best and most relevant content and bring it forward. The people who choose to take on this role will be known as Content Curators. The future of the social web will be driven by these Content Curators, who take it upon themselves to collect and share the best content online for others to consume and take on the role of citizen editors, publishing highly valuable compilations of content created by others. In time, these curators will bring more utility and order to the social web. In doing so, they will help to add a voice and point of view to organizations and companies that can connect them with customers - creating an entirely new dialogue based on valued content rather than just brand created marketing messages.

found in the: Influental Marketing Blog

Honesty on the Internet

coyote05 — 2009-09-30T06:24:00Z

Weil ich nicht weiß, wer du bist, kann ich der sein, der ich nicht bin. Im Wissen, dass die Wahrheit nur eine aufgetakelte Lüge ist, sind wir uns nahe.

WikiLeaks, über das Unbehagen in der Kultur

norte — 2009-09-21T10:15:00Z

"Auf Wikileaks lassen sich Dokumente einsehen, die eigentlich nie für die Öffentlichkeit bestimmt waren. Das ärgert viele, doch es ist gut für die Welt." (Zeit Online).
Wow, denk ich mir zunächst und halte den Atem an: A small leak in an organisation, a big leap for mankind. Eine Web 2.0 Rakete gegen die Bösen der Welt. Das Time Magazine sagt: "... could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act," (WikiLeaks), DIE ZEIT wiederholt, variiert auf hohem Niveau, fühlt offenkundig das Unbehagen an der Deutschen Geschichte und löst das Problem:

"Der Vorstand des Whistleblower-Netzwerks e.V. hat eine öffentliche Stellungnahme herausgegeben, in der die Bilanz zu Wikileaks eher kritisch ausfällt: 'Wikileaks kann Aufklärung anstoßen und einfordern, leistet sie aber bisher kaum.' Dies berge eine erhöhte Gefahr für Angeschuldigte, insbesondere wenn es um Einzelpersonen geht denen keine Medienmacht zur Richtigstellung und zum Zurückschlagen zur Verfügung stünde. (...)

Das allerdings zeugt von einem Denkfehler. Denn Wikileaks behauptet nicht, die Relevanz der Dokumente zu kennen, Wikileaks überprüft lediglich, ob das Dokument selbst echt ist."

Netter Versuch. Genausowenig wie man Lecks mit Lecks stopfen kann, kann man einen (vermeintlichen) Denkfehler mit dem nächsten korrigieren. Den Gründern und Betreibern von Wikileaks unbenommen: die gute Absicht, ebenso die reale, positive Kraft der Plattform im politischen Diskurs. Es bleibt die Frage: kann man Verantwortung, ob journalistisch oder politisch, outsourcen? Do we have a cultural history of defamation - and where has it got us?

What is more viral than a good fake?

coyote05 — 2009-09-16T13:38:00Z

This is the original fake from Denmark Tourism ... quite authentic, isn't it?

And this is a fake of the fake - I like it better, I have to admit.

Interview: Guy Kawasaki on Social Media (Cafe Sperl, Vienna)

coyote05 — 2009-09-15T13:30:00Z

Interview with Guy Kawasaki: The State of Social Media from ritchie pettauer on Vimeo.

Worthy of discussion: To achieve more followers Guy Kawasaki wants to produce more interesting stuff about "everything".

Isn't it a bit like sacrificing personal profile to a vision of almightiness? And doesn't Twitter like blogging depend to a certain degree on opinion?

Conversation with Tim O'Reilly

coyote05 — 2009-09-04T12:34:00Z

Listening to Tim O'Reilly when he talks about the alignment of speech databases and search databases leaded me writing the following TWEET:

SINIWELER: The new search technologies create search highways - but what will happen with the offroad pathways? @timoreilly

TIM O' REILLY ANSWERED AS FOLLOWS: @siniweler My sense is that search produces both offroad pathways and highways. It's very analogous to the way physical roads formed.

SINIWELER REPEATED: @timoreilly - with maybe one BIG difference: in physical world roads produce traffic, in search world traffic produces roads

AGAIN TIM O'REILLY: @siniweler Actually, historically most roads started with traffic, not the other way around. Intentional roads a later development.

AND SINIWELER: @timoreilly - my approach was less historically but more philosophically or even ontologically. but thx for responding!

What happened here? I think it's a principal difference approaching this subject. The reason why I mistrust analogies with the real world when it comes to think about search development is, that in physical worlds/cities even the narrowest allies are still existing. They are maybe a bit scary to walk in, because they are dark and inhabited with awkard people, but they are there. Whereas in a search world/city wher the roads are just made out of traffic, these allies are are maybe also there because of the rules of statistic distribution but - and that is the main difference - there are not perceptible because we are lacking the tools.

Search tools are whores of statistics. And statistics are whores of numbers. Big numbers. Otherwise the visualization tools will relentlessly ignore them. Which means: not putting them on the map. And into existence.

Branding Yourself. Ever thought about?

coyote05 — 2009-09-02T09:09:00Z

The Talk: "The hallmark of any great brand is authenticity -- just ask Harley-Davidson, Coke or Apple, especially when all of these brands lost their way and learned from it. Same thing applies to Brand You. In every tweak of a template, upload and keystroke, you have an opportunity to be authentic or disingenuous. Know what makes you special and unique, and tap into those qualities as you build your personal brand online. Most people can spot a fake when they see one, so remember that being genuine is more important that presenting yourself in an artificially glossy manner. It used to be important for bloggers to "find their voice" -- now it's relevant to all of us."

Bio: David Armano is both an active practitioner and thought leader in the worlds of experience design and digital marketing. Author of the popular Logic + Emotion blog, he has been invited to speak at events hosted by organizations such as Google, Microsoft, OReilly and Ad Age. David currently works for Critical Mass, a veteran digital agency focused on the creation of extraordinary experiences. He also writes industry perspectives for Ad Age, BusinessWeek and is best known for his distinct brand of visual thinking, which can be found both on the Web and in presentations all over the world.

CULTURAL TRANCE

norte — 2009-08-31T09:12:00Z

is a condition that exists when large bodies of people have accepted something as truth.
Phillip Garrido

Existieren Sätze, deren spezifisches Gewicht die höchstzulässige Traglast von Twitter überschreitet?

Strandbeesten - walking wind machine

coyote05 — 2009-08-10T14:33:00Z

After Big Dog another walking machine. I prefer the latter one: the Strandbeesten Wind Machine ... more poetic but not less creepy!

STRANDBEESTEN_TRAILER from Alexander Schlichter on Vimeo.

The 10 Types of Twitter Personalities ...

coyote05 — 2009-07-14T07:35:00Z

It was in March 2009 when I came across The 14 Types of Twitter Personalities - trying to find myself there. Since then I was fascinated by the idea that "these personalities and how we present them to the world define our uses and intentions on the Twittersphere."

But 14 types? Too many!

Inspired by this article I started to find my own types of Tweeples - with the target to reduce them to 5 or at least 10. Here are the results:

1. Livestreamer representing more than the classical answer to a stupid Twitter question: "What are You doing?" Liverstreamer consider themselves that important that they are livestreaming even the uninteresting parts of their personal life. The more follower people have the more they start livestreaming: I call it the "celebrity issue".

2. Livestreamer with Dating Ambitions Tweeple who already lost the ability to be just for themselves - making a social movement out of every private cause. Typical: "I'm sitting in the train to Vienna. Who else is there? Shall we meet?"

3. Mindstreamer livestreaming the poetic/cognitive/political/etc. aspects of their personal experience. These Tweeple are kind of Twitter columns - rebounding the stupid Twitter question "What are you doing" into a meaningful one: "What are you thinking about?"

4. Journalists classical and important position in times of (natural, economic or political) crisis - complementing and threatening the monopoly of classical news media. Observing the world without rulebook.

5. Beta-Journalists tweeting just Re-Tweets. The secret power of Twitter.

6. Tastemaker pseudo-journalists with more opinion than fact. With this very special viral impetus. The vain side of Twitter governance.

7. Talkmaster always faking a dialogue. "Good morning fellowers! What are you up to today?" These kind of Twitter-Gurus act very suggestive and think that the community needs their healing words.

8. Spammer you can also call them SEO-Marketing-Gurus which is the same. They can not wait 5 seconds before the tell you how to make #Followers #Money etc There is no reason to make a distinction between these Semi-Spammers and the real ones. Both produce unfiltered garbage.

9. Troublemaker always attacking others Twitter behaviours. Accompanied by an aggressive/aggrieved undertone.

10. Metablogger tweeting about #Twitter and mirroring Tweeple. Important position, but sometimes overstressed like everywhere new cultural techniques emerge.

What kind of personality or better: what sample of personalities are you?

verstehe den kommentar nicht ... hat das irgendwas mit dem Post zu tun??

coyote05 — 2009-06-29T14:30:29Z

ad Michael Jackson Tweets: and did they add something to the community ???
nothing! just varying the same message again and again and again ...

die armen Server ?!

Flo (Gast) — 2009-06-29T14:23:50Z

Also zum Todestag von Michael Jackson sind die Twitter Server wahrscheinlich beinahe an ihre Grenzen gestossen, aber auch über diesen Weg wurde schnell Informationen ausgetauscht.Und über Twitter war man als erstes über den Vorfall informiert.

How Twitter can serve the community ...

coyote05 — 2009-06-25T15:24:00Z

O Reilly and Twitter credo #140conf: So I try to restrict the amount of O'Reilly content.

And, instead, I say, "How can I actually start to build the team, the people who I follow?" So I say gosh, if you're interested in venture capital, follow Fred Wilson. So I retweet Fred. If you're interested in the financial crisis, follow Paul Kedrosky. So I retweet Paul. If you want to follow energy, follow Chris Nelder, @nelderini. And so I retweet him. What I'm effectively doing is, I'm building a team. And I'm actually handing out assists. If you think of me, I'm a little bit like a point guard in basketball.

I'm trying to identify the best people in a community of whom I'm following, and I try to use my tweets to build their following so that the news I care about gets broadcast more widely.

Because I can't retweet everything they do, but I want to make sure that they're in the rotation; that they get the ball. And so in some sense, I'm trying to become the voice of the communities that I care about and to find an audience that cares about me, not about me, sorry -- about the same things that I do.

And I think that [is] one of the lessons here for anybody involved in Twitter, and particularly anybody who's thinking that Twitter is going to lead them to the next media empire. You see these people saying, "I could have millions of followers and have such an impact." That's really not the point. The point is to figure out how you can add value to the community that you're a part of. That's really the secret of social media. It's about amplifying a community.

There's a great example of this in some social network analysis that was done of congressional Twitterers. I forget who did it, but it was somebody in the UK. And they found that a relatively obscure Texas congressman named John Culberson is the central node in the congressional Twitter network. Now why is that? Turns out he's the guy who engages in the most conversations. He responds to his fellow congress people versus the ones who just broadcast themselves. And it was kind of interesting, I went to see Culberson. Politically, we're incredibly far apart. I'm quite liberal, Democrat in many ways. And he's an amazing Jeffersonian Republican. But I really warmed to the guy. We started talking, and we just had this immediate mind meld. I saw the connection between what he does and how he does it and Jefferson's vision of America. He waved under my nose this letter of Jefferson in which he talked about the delegation of authority between levels of government all the way down as it ends up to each man on his own farm. Okay. Well, we're not each on our own farm anymore. But the idea is that each of us matters and there's this nervous system effectively that extends from the center of our government out to each of us. And that our role is to be active synapses in that nervous system I think is central to a vision of how we can remake America and remake the world today.

We have to connect with each other. We have to build on each other. And we have to take the time and the effort to weave a community of people with common interests. We have to take the time to build up the people who we care about. I use a phrase at O'Reilly as a motto, which is, "Create more value than you capture." That is, if you're trying to think of what you do as a media practice, think about it as creating value for your community and eventually that community will create value for you. Thank you very much.

O Reilly about serving the community

coyote05 — 2009-06-25T12:58:49Z

So I try to restrict the amount of O'Reilly content.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/timoreilly-140conf-twitter-as-publishing.html

And, instead, I say, "How can I actually start to build the team, the people who I follow?" So I say gosh, if you're interested in venture capital, follow Fred Wilson. So I retweet Fred. If you're interested in the financial crisis, follow Paul Kedrosky. So I retweet Paul. If you want to follow energy, follow Chris Nelder, @nelderini. And so I retweet him. What I'm effectively doing is, I'm building a team. And I'm actually handing out assists. If you think of me, I'm a little bit like a point guard in basketball. I'm trying to identify the best people in a community of whom I'm following, and I try to use my tweets to build their following so that the news I care about gets broadcast more widely. Because I can't retweet everything they do, but I want to make sure that they're in the rotation; that they get the ball. And so in some sense, I'm trying to become the voice of the communities that I care about and to find an audience that cares about me, not about me, sorry -- about the same things that I do.

And I think that [is] one of the lessons here for anybody involved in Twitter, and particularly anybody who's thinking that Twitter is going to lead them to the next media empire. You see these people saying, "I could have millions of followers and have such an impact." That's really not the point. The point is to figure out how you can add value to the community that you're a part of. That's really the secret of social media. It's about amplifying a community.

There's a great example of this in some social network analysis that was done of congressional Twitterers. I forget who did it, but it was somebody in the UK. And they found that a relatively obscure Texas congressman named John Culberson is the central node in the congressional Twitter network. Now why is that? Turns out he's the guy who engages in the most conversations. He responds to his fellow congress people versus the ones who just broadcast themselves. And it was kind of interesting, I went to see Culberson. Politically, we're incredibly far apart. I'm quite liberal, Democrat in many ways. And he's an amazing Jeffersonian Republican. But I really warmed to the guy. We started talking, and we just had this immediate mind meld. I saw the connection between what he does and how he does it and Jefferson's vision of America. He waved under my nose this letter of Jefferson in which he talked about the delegation of authority between levels of government all the way down as it ends up to each man on his own farm. Okay. Well, we're not each on our own farm anymore. But the idea is that each of us matters and there's this nervous system effectively that extends from the center of our government out to each of us. And that our role is to be active synapses in that nervous system I think is central to a vision of how we can remake America and remake the world today.

We have to connect with each other. We have to build on each other. And we have to take the time and the effort to weave a community of people with common interests. We have to take the time to build up the people who we care about. I use a phrase at O'Reilly as a motto, which is, "Create more value than you capture." That is, if you're trying to think of what you do as a media practice, think about it as creating value for your community and eventually that community will create value for you. Thank you very much.

Zur Dialektik der Beschleunigung ...

coyote05 — 2009-06-22T06:41:00Z

Dieses ständige Berichten über das, was man gerade tut, hat leider auch einen Nachteil: Man kommt nicht mehr dazu, etwas zu tun. Deswegen benötigen die Twitterer unter den Juroren auch wesentlich länger für die Juryarbeit als die Nichttwitterer. Ist aber auch gut so: Die Beschleunigung des Alltages, die uns die technische Revolution gebracht hat, wird nun durch die gleiche Revolution wieder Schritt für Schritt zurückgenommen. Bald wird die Beantwortung eines Mails wieder so lange benötigen dürfen wie früher ein Brief.

gelesen im Standard am 21.6.2009

Twitter Fraud!!!

coyote05 — 2009-06-19T12:21:00Z

I swear, I was just there to see what they offer. Put in USERNAME and PASSWORD and then realized this stupid chain-letter-concept of twittertrain and logged out again. But this is not the end of the story. About 12 hours later I was confronted with this Tweet below I never did!!! What one can do about this???? I think this should be prosecuted as a crime!!!

Gestern am Schafmarkt ...

coyote05 — 2009-06-16T06:22:00Z

.... gabs ein unangenehmes Gedränge. Kein Wunder, dass er sich nicht für ein Lamperl
entscheiden konnte, zumal sie nur in 20er Packungen daherkamen und damit ohnehin nie in seine Gefriertruhe passen würden. Daher besann er sich auf den olympischen Gedanken und entschloss sich, einfach mitzustinken.

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Biz Stone on Twitter ...

coyote05 — 2009-06-09T07:17:00Z

Wir sollten nicht enttäuscht sein, dass die, die Twitter erfunden haben, eigentlich nichts zu sagen haben. Die Reflexion muss von anderen kommen, wenngleich ein bisschen Einsicht in Dinge hätte ich mir schon erwartet. Egal, ob er "social aspects" erwähnt, oder "news aspects", oder "commercial aspects" - its just the speed that counts ...

Ein Beispiel? 4:46"Getting information somewhere quickly is one of the most valuable things you can do on the planet!" Kein Wort darüber, wie diese Information aussieht, kein Wort über kritische Größen im Informationsmonitoring, kein Wort über Verarbeitungsressourcen, kein Wort über Qualität und was Echtzeit bedeutet, kein Wort über das Verhältnis von Ereignis und Kommentar, kein Wort, nirgends.

Biz Stones Denken ist pupertär und gehaltlos. Versöhnlich sind am Ende nur die letzten 15 Sekunden. Man sieht Menschen aneinander vorbeigehen und spürt, was intelligente Kommunikation verändern könnte.

Neulich im Radlager ... OFFLINE TWITTER 3

coyote05 — 2009-05-20T07:18:00Z

Was Freund Norge am Ostersonntag zustieß, passierte uns letztes Wochenende: Wir fielen in ein Offline-Loch und wurden gedehnt wie Barilli-Nudeln. Von außen betrachtet dauerte das Ganze nur einen unverschämt guten neapolitanischen Kaffee lang. Im Radlager in der Windmühlgasse, das Rennrad-Oldtimer-Reparatur und Kaffeehaus-Rastakultur zusammenbringt, ohne dass die handgeformten Powidltascherln vom Brunnenmarkt nach Kettenöl schmecken.

An dieser Stelle sei darauf hingewiesen, dass an diesem Ort auch eine andere, subversive Schmiere feilgeboten wird, die - dick aufgetragen - davor schützt, dass man im Facebook oder an anderen einschlägigen Web2.0-Orten markiert wird. Stattdessen erscheint dort, wo der Körper war, eine Überinformation an Farbe: (C=100, Y=100, M=100, B=100) - Schwarz! Sie sehen den Beweis, indem Sie meine bessere Hälfte nicht sehen. Und das ist ganz in ihrem Sinn.

Chapeaut, meine Herren!

Das war "Social Media" - ein Abgesang

coyote05 — 2009-05-13T06:36:00Z

Mit dem Wahlkampf von Obama waren Social Media plötzlich in aller Munde. Seit wenigen Tagen bestreitet die ÖVP ihren ersten Web20-Europa-Wahlkampf. Das ist der Anfang vom Ende. Social Media war eine Bewegung von unten, übrigens genauso wie der Life-Ball, den Gregor Auenhammer im Print-Standard retten möchte. Doch der ist als Mainstream ebensowenig zu retten wie Social Media.

"Wenn ernsthafte gesellschaftliche Anliegen wie die Forderung nach Ehe für gleichgeschlechtliche Paare in einer Wedding Chapel - sponsored by XY" verkitscht werden," und die "fantasievollen Konvertierungen eines Ich oder Über-Ich durch postulierte Motti wie "Märchen" oder "Weltall" zu Kostümierungen degradiert, perrvertiert werden, dann wird aus dem Life Ball der Villacher Fasching." Das ist stimmig.

Wenn Politiker ihre Dialogangst kaschieren, indem sie leise Twittern, oder, um authentisch zu sein verwackelte You-Tube-Videos posten und sich durch Facebook die Fortsetzung ihrer Freunderlwirtschaft erhoffen, dann mag das alles irgendwie lustig sein - es ist aber auch der Abgesang einer durchaus explosiven Technologie durch die totale Vereinnahmung der Kulturindustrie. So funktioniert die Dialektik - auch im 21. Jhdt. - Totgesagte leben länger.

Was natürlich nicht heißt, dass man Social Media nicht intelligent einsetzen könnte. Was aber sehr wohl heißt, dass der bloße Einsatz von Social Media überhaupt nichts mehr bedeutet. Und was heißt, dass auch in diesem Bereich die Zeit der Differenzierung angebrochen ist. Tut leid. Social-Media-Schunkeln ist vorbei. Da sollen sich alle Social Media Mitläufer hinter die Ohren schreiben. Der bloße Gebrauch dieser Technologien reicht nicht mehr aus, um cool zu sein!!! Sie haben ihre Unschuld verloren.

Nachsatz: Und wer glaubt, dass Werbung-2.0 bedeutet, seine Produkte auf Facebook zu vertreiben - Beispiele gibt es genug - dem ist ohnehin nicht zu helfen. Viel alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen.

und wo hoffnung ist ...

coyote05 — 2009-05-10T16:42:27Z

da wächst das Rettende auch ...

Kommentar im Affekt

norte — 2009-05-07T07:35:45Z

Habe das Manifest heute in der Früh gelesen. Ging gleich in den Garten, um es den jugendlichen Gurken, Marillen und Tomaten vorzutragen. Ja, nickten sie im Morgenwind, da ist noch Hoffnung.

Slow Blogging ...

coyote05 — 2009-05-05T13:34:00Z

Neulich traf ich einen alten Freund am Naschmarkt, exakt an der Grenze von Orient und Okzident. Er ist einer jener Dinos, die immer noch einen gültigen CompuServe-Account ihr eigen nennen. Ein Mann der ersten Stunde - damals in der ersten Stunde. Aber mittlerweile einer von allen Hypes gereinigter. Einer, mit dem man reden kann, ohne dabei twitternd vor sich hin zu stottern, dass man (noch) am Leben ist.

Er brachte mich auf das Slow Blog Manifesto, das bescheidener Weise nur aus 6 Thesen besteht, die ich Ihnen hiermit nahebringen will. Ohne Kommentar, weil diese Thesen eigentlich keinen Kommentar brauchen, sondern nur einen Geist, der offen ist und gut durchlüftet.

1 Slow Blogging is a rejection of immediacy. It is an affirmation that not all things worth reading are written quickly, and that many thoughts are best served after being fully baked and worded in an even temperament.

2 Slow Blogging is speaking like it matters, like the pixels that give your words form are precious and rare. It is a willingness to let current events pass without comment. It is deliberate in its pace, breaking its unhurried stride for nothing short of true emergency. And perhaps not even then, for slow is not the speed of most emergencies, and places where beloved, reassuring speed rules the day will serve us best at those times.

3 Slow Blogging is a reversal of the disintegration into the one-liners and cutting turns of phrase that are often the early lives of our best ideas. Its a process in which flashes of thought shine and then fade to take their place in the background as part of something larger. Slow Blogging does not write thoughts onto the ethereal and eternal parchment before they provide an enduring worth in the shape of our ideas over time.

4 Slow Blogging is a willingness to remain silent amid the daily outrages and ecstasies that fill nothing more than single moments in time, switching between banality, crushing heartbreak and end-of-the-world psychotic glee in the mere space between headlines. The thing you wished you said in the moment last week can be said next month, or next year, and youll only look all the smarter.

5 Slow Blogging is a response to and a rejection of Pagerank. Pagerank, the ugly-beautiful monster that sits behind the many folded curtains of Google, deciding the question of authority and relevance to your searches. Blog early, blog often, and Google will reward you. Condition your creative self to the secret frequency, and find yourself adored by Google; you will appear where everybody looks - in the first few pages of results. Follow your own pace and find your works never found; refuse Pagerank its favours and your work is pulled as if by riptide into the deep waters of undifferentiated results. Its twisted idea of the common good has made Pagerank a terrifying enemy of the commons, setting a pace that forbids the reflection that is necessary to move past the day to day and into legacy.

6 Slow Blogging is the re-establishment of the machine as the agent of human expression, rather than its whip and container. Its the voluntary halting of the light-speed hamster wheel dictated in rules of highly effective blogging. It is an imposition of asynchronous temporalities, where we do not type faster to keep up with the computer, where the speed of retrieval does not necessitate the same pace of consumption, where good and bad works are created in their own time.

Being social, being ignorant ...

coyote05 — 2009-04-23T14:46:00Z

"Twitter is the telegraph system of the Web 2.0", schrieb Nicholas Carr am 18. März 2007. Sie meinen, dieser Gedanke ist viel zu alt? Kann nicht mehr stimmen? Mitnichten! Er stimmt viel mehr, als alle Twitter-Splitter der letzten Woche zusammengepackt. Denn Echtzeit ist keine Qualitätskategorie für Gedachtes, Distanz schon!

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The great paradox of "social networking" is that it uses narcissism as the glue for "community." Being online means being alone, and being in an online community means being alone together. The community is purely symbolic, a pixellated simulation conjured up by software to feed the modern self's bottomless hunger.

Hunger for what? For verification of its existence? No, not even that. For verification that it has a role to play. As I walk down the street with thin white cords hanging from my ears, as I look at the display of khakis in the window of the Gap, as I sit in a Starbucks sipping a chai served up by a barista, I can't quite bring myself to believe that I'm real. But if I send out to a theoretical audience of my peers 140 characters of text saying that I'm walking down the street, looking in a shop window, drinking tea, suddenly I become real. I have a voice. I exist, if only as a symbol speaking of symbols to other symbols.

Clara Luzia at WUK, Offline Zone

coyote05 — 2009-04-17T06:46:00Z

Konzerte sind ja bekanntlich antiquiert und durch ihre Überlänge (more than 140 characters!) auch kaum mehr zu verarbeiten, ich weiß. Aber was Clara Luzia gestern im WUK auf die Bühne und in den Raum zauberte, war so etwas von Gegenwart, wie man sie in Twitter-verseuchten Environments nur mehr aus Erzählungen kennt. Ein Rohdiamant, der hoffentlich nie geschliffen wird (denke dabei sofort an Häuserschleifungen). Ein Lachen. Funkenflug. Aus den Ufern tretende Phrasierungen mit Pauken und Trompeten. Episch dimensioniert aber bescheiden dargeboten im Pixiebuch-Format. Ein Abend - ein Fest. Danke. Danke. Danke. Auch wenn man am Ende stinkt wie ein "Häusltschik".

Hier zum Einhören: http://www.claraluzia.com/fileadmin/mp3/MorningLight.mp3
Und seit letzter Woche gibt's ein neues Album. Meine Antwort auf die Knocking Bell in Dürnstein!