beautiful things, minimalism, stuff

<nettime> is not just a mailing list but an effort to formulate an international, networked discourse that neither promotes a dominant euphoria (to sell products) nor continues the cynical pessimism, spread by journalists and intellectuals in the 'old' media who generalize about 'new' media with no clear understanding of their communication aspects. we have produced, and will continue to produce books, readers, and web sites in various languages so an 'immanent' net critique will circulate both on- and offline.

Very interesting stuff in the archives, check it out.

Das ist gleichzeitig eins der Argumente, die gegen den hin und wieder auftauchenden Vorschlag eines websiteübergreifenden »Internet-Karmas« sprechen. Der Mensch ist nicht das kleinste Modul. Der zuverlässige Ebayverkäufer ist vielleicht andernorts ein Gliedvorzeiger, der Forentroll ein hilfreicher Berater in Fragen der Reptilienzucht, der kluge Essayist ein randalierender Blogkommentator. Es gibt keine erwünschten oder unerwünschten Personen, es gibt nur erwünschte und weniger erwünschte Verhaltensweisen.

"Every day: so many opportunities to connect...
What if you took just one?"

Looks like a great place to live in. The source has way more pictures like this.

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I think it's a cool concept, and a great companion to your daily morning coffee.

How many screens do you come across on a daily basis? You roll over in the morning and grab your smartphone to do a quick review of your inbox to see if anything exciting happened overnight. While noshing on your Tribbles n'Bits cereal, you catch the weather and traffic on TV. Then it's off to work, where you probably spend 8 hours staring at a monitor. A quick trip to the gym gets that cardio out of the way while studying zombie flicks on your iPod. Back home, you relax in front of the TV again to catch your favorite shows. That's a lot of screens [...]

Das derzeitige Referenzsystem für computergestütztes Durcheinander ist Facebook. Ziel der Entwicklung ist es, die Unübersichtlichkeit zu universalisieren. Jeder soll alles von überall aus durcheinanderbringen können.

In Echtzeit.

Cleaned up my living room a bit.