cruel to be kind

Take a look at the communities you engage in, and with communities I am thinking in a broader range not just any online social network. Which online or offline communities do you engage in and really feel they describe you…

I have been a bit more quiet than usual in the last few weeks, and one of the reasons for it is Sam Sethi’s new project called blognation which finally launched today with…

Original a comment for Robert Scoble’s “Plaxo 3.0, the new “Switzerland” of social networks, but…” but it won’t let me do so. Well, let’s go here again.

If you talk about social software and poking around your friends online,…

Yesterday night when I wrote about Flickr “enhancing” the German Service, the tag thinkflickrthink, it had 850 picture. Some 12 hours later, it is already at over 5400. The Flickr group “Against Censorship at Flickr”…

For the PR department of Flickr, this morning could be a bitter one. You would think that having suddenly a German interface (other languages startet as well) would give Flickr like a home run in the German sphere when it…

Probably my farest away recording – directly from Thailand. Michel Bauwens is founder of the foundation of p2p alternatives. His talk is named “The Politics of Web 2.0 and the contradictions of a sharing…

A conversational talk with Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, facilitator of reboot.

• the referenced talk with Stowe Boyd
• why human this year – to make again a central theme
• insight was: all what is happening currently is

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Stowe Boyd calls himself a cross between a researcher and an impresario with a focus on social tools. His talk is going to be “Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Traffic”

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Robert Slagter is a researcher at the Telematica Instituut in the Netherlands and is going to present “your ideal Working environment – what does it take to create an environment that stimulates productivity, collaboration and…

Dannie Jost, writer, philosopher and part time poet, is going to present a talk on “Theoretical Man – being human right there with public man”

Dannie and I talk about:

• why “human?” is one

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