There is one person in adski’s collective.
We got an email through to Clearleft from someone pointing out a certain similarity between our website:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/8719586981/
…and the website for a company called Kent Web Host:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/8720710854/
Hmmm …perhaps Clearleft were unconsciously influenced by Kent Web Host!
Just to set the record straight, I gave them a call.
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After inventing crowdsourcing with the Threadless, Harper Reed managed Obama’s data driven re-election campaign. So to speak, the fate of the world was in his hands. Therefore, failure was no option! For the first time in Berlin, Harper Reed gave a talk at NEXT13 on April 23, 2013 on how he succeeded as Obama’s CTO and on the three things that make up a good product:
/ build a great team / practice failure / microlistening
Audio rip, original here: http://nextberlin.eu/2013/04/harper-reed-big-data/
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In the closing keynote of NEXT Berlin 2013, acclaimed science-fiction author and journalist Bruce Sterling tackled a variety of topics like design fiction, start-up culture, and the mass adoption of disruptive technology. He sees science fiction as a form of design – design fiction that is part of the start-up world.
Audio rip, original here: http://nextberlin.eu/2013/04/bruce-sterling-fantasy-prototypes-and-real-disruption/
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William Gibson is the author of ten books, including, most recently, the New York Times-bestselling trilogy Zero History, Spook Country and Pattern Recognition. Gibson’s 1984 debut novel, Neuromancer, was the first novel to win the three top science fiction prizes—the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Gibson is credited with coining the term “cyberspace” in his short story “Burning Chrome,” and with popularizing the concept of the Internet while it was still largely unknown. He is also a co-author of the novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling.
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"This afternoon, I interviewed Tom Armitage. He’s a software designer who recently came to our attention because of a talk he gave recently, called "If Gamers Ran the World." In it, he puts forth the idea that in another 10 years, leaders who are the same age as Barack Obama or British Conservative Party leader David Cameron are now, will be children of the 1970s, and as such, more than likely the first leaders who grew up with video games as a core part of their way of interact with the world around them. What would that mean for how they would behave as leaders? A shorter version of this interview airs on the Jan 7th and 10th episode of Spark" — http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2009/01/full_interview_tom_armitage.html
I talk about my first online encounters before the Internet proper – over Wireplay, BT’s dial-up gaming service that simulated IPX networking for DOS games of the mid-nineties. And, more specifically, my time in MUD2, their recreation of the Essex MUD.
Original here: http://infovore.org/archives/2013/04/21/nostalgia-for-the-mud/
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We are all storytellers. Everything we create—from opinionated tweets to designed products—says something about who we are. At their best, these stories help us relate and call us to great acts. At their worst, they reduce us to absolutes like “Top 10 ways to win” or “Here’s how to fail” when the truth is rarely so clear-cut. Let’s consider what telling truer stories means, examine how storytelling operates in our work, poke at our hero myths and excavate hidden narratives. Along the way, we’ll learn how to get more from every story we tell.
Original here: http://vimeo.com/63525052
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Think of the formats we love and take for granted: books, two-hour movies, serial TV dramas, blogs… the list goes on and on. All of these formats had to be invented. As soon as you realize that, the media landscape gets really interesting, because you realize there’s still more to invent. What will the great new formats look like? They’ll almost certainly live on the internet—but where, and how? Walk through the secret history of media invention, talk about what it means to work like a media inventor today, and learn why we should bother at all.
Original here: http://vimeo.com/63008757
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BitCoin, Saredex e monete virtuali concorrenti del ₲abardino.
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This is episode 5 of Boing Boing’s newest podcast, Tell Me Something I Don’t Know. It’s an interview podcast featuring artists, writers, filmmakers, and other creative people discussing their work, ideas, and the reality/business side of how they do what they do.
http://boingboing.net/2013/04/09/tell-me-something-i-dont-kno-5.html
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