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Web 2.0 Expo 2008: Clay Shirky (blip.tv) - ‘A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken.’

Clay Shirky, Gin, Television, and Social Surplus:

“I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she’s going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that wasn’t what she was doing. She started rooting around in the cables. And her dad said, “What you doing?” And she stuck her head out from behind the screen and said, “Looking for the mouse.”

Here’s something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here’s something four-year-olds know: Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won’t have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan’s Island, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing.”

Waxy, Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web:

“Lately, I’ve started collecting old VHS tapes about the Internet from the early- to mid-1990s. While most of these are pretty corny — think Gabe and Max’s Internet Thing — they also inadvertently captured pieces of the web that don’t exist anywhere else. The Internet Archive’s earliest snapshots were in late 1996, so anything before that is extremely sparse. The videos, silly as they are, still represent valuable documentation of the early web.”

Chris Anderson, Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business:

“Enabled by the miracle of abundance, digital economics has turned traditional economics upside down. Read your college textbook and it’s likely to define economics as “the social science of choice under scarcity.” The entire field is built on studying trade-offs and how they’re made. Milton Friedman himself reminded us time and time again that “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

But Friedman was wrong in two ways. First, a free lunch doesn’t necessarily mean the food is being given away or that you’ll pay for it later — it could just mean someone else is picking up the tab. Second, in the digital realm, as we’ve seen, the main feedstocks of the information economy — storage, processing power, and bandwidth — are getting cheaper by the day. Two of the main scarcity functions of traditional economics — the marginal costs of manufacturing and distribution — are rushing headlong to zip. It’s as if the restaurant suddenly didn’t have to pay any food or labor costs for that lunch.

Surely economics has something to say about that?”

“Classical-music culture on the Internet is expanding at a sometimes alarming pace. When I started my blog, I had links to seven or eight like-minded sites. Now I find myself part of a jabbering community of several hundred blogs, operated by critics, composers, conductors, pianists, double-bassists, oboists (I count five), artistic administrators, and noted mezzo-sopranos (Joyce DiDonato writes under the moniker Yankee Diva). After a first night at the Met, opera bloggers chime in with opinions both expert and eccentric, recalling the days when critics from a dozen dailies, whether Communist or Republican or Greek, lined up to extoll Caruso. Beyond the blogs are the Internet radio stations; streaming broadcasts from opera houses, orchestras, new-music ensembles; and Web sites of individual artists. There is a new awareness of what is happening musically in every part of the world. A listener in Tucson or Tokyo can virtually attend opening night at the Bayreuth Festival and listen the following day to a première by a young British composer at the BBC Proms.”

The New Yorker: The Well-Tempered Web. The Internet may be killing the pop CD, but it’s helping classical music

Rondetijden meeschrijven anno 2007

Schaatsen op schaatsen.nos.nl, met ondermeer live de actuele rondetijden, tussentijden en standen in beeld. (via)

Rogue Amoeba - Radioshift: “With Radioshift, you control Internet and AM/FM radio from around the world. Listen and record - Radioshift is radio on your schedule!”

“Op vrijdag 21 september 2007 reikt Bits of Freedom voor de vijfde keer de Big Brother Awards uit. Met de Awards worden de persoon, het bedrijf of de overheidsinstelling te kijk gezet die zich het afgelopen jaar te buiten zijn gegaan aan het controleren van burgers en afbreken van hun privacy. Vanaf vandaag kan iedereen nominaties indienen.”

Big Brother Awards 2007 - Nominaties gezocht!

Zie ook XS4ALL’s Opinie: Big Brother Awards.

The Guardian: “The BBC’s desperate attempt to lead the new media revolution has been fraught with controversy, delays and huge costs.”

Achtergronden bij het artikel: What’s happened to innovation at the BBC?

Anil Dash: “(…) But with the release of Web History, especially in the context of its recent acquisitions and announcements, Google may have crossed the line where regular users start to react with skepticism and caution instead of unabashed enthusiasm.”

Google Web History

Digital Web Magazine: “HTML5 will be the future of the web, so my advice would be to pay close attention to it.”

Yahoo! Pipes: “What Is Pipes? Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.”

Nial Kennedy: “Yahoo! released Yahoo! Pipes tonight, a visual editing interface for web feed manipulation and reconstruction.”

Tim O’Reilly: “Yahoo!’s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the internet. It’s a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.”

Anil Dash: “Is Pipes going to be a success? In many ways it already is.”

• xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
  “The Internet has always had loud dumb people, but i’ve never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos”
  (tags: cartoon youtube internet web)

• Geotagging Amsterdam on Flickr, hybrid view on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  Worthless for any location outside the US.
  (tags: flickr geotagging yahoo maps amsterdam)
• Times Withholds Web Article in Britain - New York Times
  ““On advice of legal counsel, this article is unavailable to readers of nytimes.com in Britain””
  (tags: nyt uk legal web)

• Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing
  “Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.”
  (tags: economics web crowdsourcing)
• From a Small Stream, a Gusher of Movie Facts - New York Times
  Portrait of Col Needham, founder and managing director of the Internet Movie Database
  (tags: imdb)
• Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | Louise Radnofsky: The secret Soviet rock list
  “In January 1985, the secretary of the Communist party’s youth wing in Ukraine sent out a secret list to its local committees, naming 38 “ideologically harmful” foreign groups.”
  (tags: ussr popmusic communism)
• TIME: Actors in Character
  “Photographer Howard Schatz asks an array of character actors to do what they do the best. “
  (tags: photography acting)
• trendbeheer » Toptelevisie: heel hard heel veel rondjes rijden
  “Formule 1 met maar 1 bocht heet Minneapolis 500 en dat is pas echt genieten.”
  (tags: tv jb trendbeheer)
• YouTube - Talking Heads ‘75 at CBGB’s - 96 Tears
  “Ultra-rare Talking Heads, performing at CBGB’s in December of 1975 as a trio. This is before Jerry Harrison joined David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth.” (plus 5 other songs)
  (tags: music video talkingheads)
• Forty Media - Blog - Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches
  “7. The United Colors of Megacorp: Does outsourcing to India count as being diverse?”
  (tags: photography design)

• The Morning News - 2006 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence, by The Editors
  “(…) the year’s very best sites are often both time-savers and time-wasters, enlightenments and entertainments, and even a few that are just plain strange.”
  (tags: web morningnews)
• Free Music Recommendation Services
  “In this roundup, we take a look at eight free music recommendation services.”
  (tags: music web lastfm pandora)
• Ingezonden Mededeling
  Meisje zoekt fijn plekje.
  (tags: listings)

• Flash: 10 ways, “information”
  “outstanding recursive photo mosaic browser” - (Waxy)
  (tags: photography)
• 75-day Getting Real book stats update - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
  “It’s been about 75 days since we released Getting Real, the book, in PDF format” “The revenue generated so far is a hair under $175,000.”
  (tags: publishing 37signals books)
• 80s videos
  “Los 80s: a gigantic list of 80s videos on YouTube.”
  (tags: music video youtube)
• The Longest Building I Have Ever Seen
  “It is totally windowless and stretches for at least a mile, although it seems to defy laws of space-time so it may be longer or shorter than that. “
  (tags: architecture)
• Guardian Unlimited Arts | Hockney painting likely to establish new record
  “Another art market world record is expected to be broken when one of David Hockney’s most significant works comes to auction.”
  (tags: art hockney)
• Wired News: The Eternal Value of Privacy
  “The most common retort against privacy advocates — by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures — is this line: “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?”"
  (tags: privacy security)
• if the earth were a sandwich
  “Never before have two pieces of bread been simultaneously placed on the ground directly opposite each other on the globe, thus making an EARTH SANDWICH. The fact that the earth has never been a sandwich is probably why things are so f*cked up”
  (tags: zefrank earthsandwich)

• American Photo: The Best Photography on the Web
  “After three months of clicking and cruising, we have found exemplary Websites from ten very different photographers, each of whom is taking the medium into new areas and new levels of communication.”
  (tags: photography art web)
• gladwell dot com - the talent myth - Are smart people overrated?
  “The talent myth assumes that people make organizations smart. More often than not, it’s the other way around.”
  (tags: psychology business culture enron mckinsey management)

• adidcolor: yellow (quicktime)
  ” neo-urbanism action drama “
  (tags: adidas color advertising)
• Quotenet - De Endstra Tapes
  “De Endstra Tapes beslaan 254 pagina’s en zijn opgenomen in periode tussen 20 maart 2003 en 28 januari 2004. “
  (tags: crime nl)
• Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots - Fresh Zero Content for Compulsive Clickers
  “In this period the three mayor search engines requested more than one million pages of the tree, from more than hundred thousand different URLs. “
  (tags: bots search dmwh web)