Monthly Archives: April 2004

The Collaborative User Experience research group of IBM has done some analysis on Wikipedia pages, visualizing change to pages in terms of a History Flow. history flow provides answers at a glance to questions like, Has a community contributed to … Continue reading →

I am going to give a talk on Blinkenlights at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, that‘s about to open it‘s doors today to the public. The talk takes place on Friday at 12:00 h, if you like to … Continue reading →

Tonight the english Wikipedia has passed the 250.000 article mark. Growth of the Wikipedia project has been enormous and is continuously rising. This is true for the variants in other languages as well: the german Wikipedia just welcomed it‘s 80.000th … Continue reading →

Fans are always a special kind of people. You notice it once you discover your are one yourself. And on the net, fandom has found its home in the early days already. Kate Bush – renowned artist and singer – … Continue reading →

Back in the times of the Cold War, the US Army had it‘s main radar field station on top of Berlin‘s artificial “mountain” known as Teufelsberg (devil‘s mountain). It has been closed for a while now, but since the follow-up … Continue reading →

Newseum – The Interactive Museum of News provides the front pages of (currently) 303 international newspapers, updated daily on their Today‘s Front Pages page. “Today‘s Front Pages” is an online version of one of the Newseum‘s most popular exhibits. Every … Continue reading →

There is going to be a demonstration against software patents in Brussels tomorrow. Whoever can be there, please join. Software patents are the biggest threat against open source technology and smaller companies on this planet. Don‘t let them win. There … Continue reading →

Tons of Flash (sigh), but worth a look: Genotyp is a demonstration on how to breed fonts by crossing them and/or manipulating them in a gene laboratory. Very well done. Tons of Flash (sigh), but worth a look: Genotyp is … Continue reading →

MediaWiki is the code behind Wikipedia and despite the fact that I am not the biggest fan of its MySQL/PHP underpinnings I do like the concepts that are behind it. First and foremost, MediaWiki does not support the concept implicitly … Continue reading →

I would have no success hiding my ongoing admiration for the Dylan Programming Language. It‘s just so fucking powerful, flexible and sexy that once you‘ve read either the Dylan Reference Manual you‘ll wonder why everybody would just think about using … Continue reading →