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.)

Cool: Flickr Related Tag Search

coyote05 — 2009-11-05T23:09:00Z

Sie wollen den Unterschied wissen zwischen dem Web und der realen Welt? Im Web ist Suche immer denkbar einfach ... klicken Sie und staunen sie!

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?