[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my camino tabs this past week]
online video killed …
Broadcast Yourself. – This is a collaboration between the WEF and youtube. people are asked to submit video messages, the best ones will get shown at next WEF. i react to this with a mixture between exitement and outrage. they think they can buy us that easy? plus: the question they pose reminds me of a Miss Switzerland election. “What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?”.
The End of the World – gw bush covers REMs “its the end of the world as we know it”. brilliant. [via bb]
free
“Free” – “a video of Wired editor Chris Anderson discussing the ideas in his upcoming book, called Free.”
Free is a risky transition – “Consumers are pushing the creative industries towards a free model, forcing a reinvention of monetization, a crucial element of the chain that “professional” artists obviously need.”
online flash games
Chain Factor – very simple yet addictive online flash game.
Flickr Memory Game – create a memory game form your flickr sets.
schmooze and abuze
“The plate is on the table”. – collection of missing image graphics. and this one is indeed very nice. [thx michael]
Burglar vocabulary: location-based tagging – “local police … told us that burglars use codes to annotate house. It’s generally tags like this, with black chalk that express relevant information for them such as the one exemplified below”.
RIP Borat And Ali G – “Sacha Baron Cohen is retiring the outrageously anti-Semitic, homophobic Kazakh journalist Borat as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapper Ali G.” cry! can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.
Scissors is the ‘psychological winner’ out of rock and paper in playground game – “Now stalwart players have come up with a strategy: Start with scissors.” erm, the scientists who study this … ???
UNICEF Photo of the Year 2007s – “Our men don’t want educated women.” oh my.
Africa Wages War On Plastic Bags – “Motivated by a climate of widespread environmental devastation, Africa has boldly moved to initiate a continent-wide ban plastic bags in an effort to eliminate the billions of throw-away sacs that are marring its cities and landscapes”. plastic to africa: get off my case.
swiss focus
tschüss mike shiva, tschüss U1 TV – “U1 TV wird von der Cablecom diesen Freitag aus dem Netz geschmissen. Das ist echt schade: Jetzt kann ich nie mehr Mike Shiva gucken.” fuck!
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