January 2008
4 posts
Think well before you act
This morning brought the first real low of the new year. Sometimes your actions can wreak havoc upon others as well as yourself. I had known for some time about a posting in a forum which sounded like a death threat to a colleague. It had originated in an outpoor of frustration and was just that. The wording was “Deaaath to Xyz ...”. There was nothing else behind it, no plans for...
monochrom →
Like so often I came across monochrom in a podcast. That was Chaos Radio Express. Following the chaos communication congress in Berlin Tim Pritlove talked to Johannes Grenzfurthner the founder of monochrom. The website shows what monochrom is and does and you can have a look at the magazine (yearbook) they publish. All the volumes which have sold out can be read online.
“Bruce Nazarian, newly-elected President of the DVD Association pays another...”
– Creative Planet’s Digital Production BuZZ - Archives What Bruce Nazarian said about the two competing standards in this interview was very interesting. First of all both standards share most of the media codecs (avc H.264, mpeg2 and vc1 for the video). Players have to be able to play these few...
Pew Internet: More teens are creating and sharing... →
This is a trend you can whitness in many countries. It’s important to recognize this trend and find ways to instrumentalize it in education. Teens use the internet to communicate, create and share material. In education this might offer ways to get students interested in learning and sharing.