you might have heard that the Wikimedia Foundation and the National Portrait Gallery are having a bit of a row these days. At the core of the dispute lies the fact that in march an English wikipedia administrator by the name of Derrick Coetzee uploaded more than 3000 high resolution images of paintings held by […]

Felix Stalder has posted an interesting review of the recent Economies of the Commons Conference (organized by Knowledgeland in collaboration with the Balie, Images for the Future, p2p fusion and Creative Commons Netherlands) to the nettime mailing list.
His review highlights the increasingly difficult position that large archive projects (like Images for the Future) find […]

over the past two days i have been attending an workshop on the ‘The Socio-Economic Impact of Social Computing: validation and policy options’ organized by the Institute for Prospective Technology Studies (IPTS) in Sevilla, Spain. The IPTS is one of the 7 research institutes of the Joint research directorate of the European Commission and researches […]

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! 

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 […]