Knowledgeland, Sound & Vision, The Balie and other organizations host the conference ‘Economies of the Commons’ at debate-center The Balie in Amsterdam on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th of April . Leading experts and specialists from audiovisual archives (BBC, INA), libraries, frontrunners in open access and the music industry (Last.fm and Fabchannel), cultural producers, p2p- […]

A lot of personalisation in this presentation I gave at the Knowledge Society Forum - Telecities conference in The Hague. Web 2.0 is presented as a model for collaboration and exchange of value. Furthermore, Civil Sociey Media organisations and projects deliver the tools to the public to create and remix content online and participate in […]

As China’s economy is growing rapidly, cultural exchange between the western world and China is flourishing. However, one of the largest barriers is language. New media technology provides us with creative solutions. Chinese Radio Amsterdam (CRA) presents an overview of state-of-the-art media and technology to bridge the language barrier (e-mail, mobile, podcast, game, wiki).

Chairman Hong […]

Pablos is a hacker and a futurologist. He work at . He wears a black shirt, has medium long hair and talks quick and entertaining. He starts of with pointing out where some real innovation gaps are. He tried on almost all head mounted displays and they generally suck. Hackers are the frontrunners of innovation, […]

Professor Sugata MItra put up a computer-screen in a hole in a wall in some Indian villages. He attached the keyboard and touchscreen next to it and just let it be. Hundreds of childers would come and started to interact with the computer, even when they didn’t know any english. They learned parts of it […]

David Weinberger: ‘Everything is miscellanous’
In a nice and warm Extraction Room West which fills up during the morning, Weinberger kicks off the PICNIC Thursday. David Weinberger talks about the topic of his book ‘Everything is Miscelleneous: organisation and order in the digital age. In the physical world we can organize as much as we want […]

PICNIC ‘07 has started! Knowledgeland hosts several events and has sent scouts to others. Keep this blog open for the latest updates! 

The Economist runs an interesting article about the innovative power of computer slash music slash soon-to-be mobile-phone company Apple. It’s mercurial CEO Steve Jobs is a rare showman in the technology industry but has twice succeeded to start a whole new line of business.
The success story started in 1984 with the launch of the Macintosh […]

And finally the summary of the last talk of the day. Rod Beckström wants to leave us with a new toolkit for managing organizations. He uses an interesting metaphor by comparing the organization of the spider and that of the starfish. The starfish is a typical example of a decentralized creature. If you cut of […]

A strange machine with ten antennas which creates a superbroadband connection: Slurpr. It combines several wifi networks and combines it in a superlarge network. It looks as an ubergeek product with all the antennas sticking out.
Next is Respectance. Respectance is about sharing sorrow and mourning online. Respectance is a special community where we can remember […]