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pivot browsing
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Some people say, any data should be in reach with 2 or max 3 clicks. The concept of pivot browsing intends something completely different. Strolling along from point to point, offering constantly new views and routes to continue. Pivot browsing is not goal driven. The user becomes a flaneur. Or a stalker, occasionally.
news - data, information or vector?
Thursday, June 28th, 2007is about a, at a time b, at location c, comes from source d, relates to other information e1, is read by f. a+(b+)>d/e->f.
And what about information? An amount of bits according to Claude Shannon. A difference that makes a difference, says Gregory Bateson.
In short: how would we want our favourite news [...]
(web)stars
Thursday, June 21st, 2007They are born & here already. There will come more. The species appears as a result of personalized data mining, no privacy and real-time tracking. Some might be true (whatever that is), some might be fake. They will use sites like jaiku, plazes and twitter. And they will complain about paparazzis, but just to create [...]
monopolize functions
Monday, June 18th, 2007Many of the recent webservices can be described with a single phrase. They do something. The more specific, the better. The ultimate goal seems to monopolize a specific function.
programme is over. what comes next?
Monday, June 18th, 2007The fixed time structure of broadcast media may soon look like a nostalgic reference to the 20th century. But even with data flowing freely any time we will necounter parallel events, sequential orders and other specific forms of time.
relaunch non-blog
Monday, May 21st, 2007datenstroeme will be relaunched by june 1st. it will still run on wordpress, but not as a blog. as you can see, we will switch to english language.