In case you were wondering about “Mark Leggot’s project”, Islandora, the Drupal-based frontend for the other one that was supposed to be “a repository for every kind of human knowledge”, which was also capable of transforming its contents to any current useful format: Fedora Commons is its website. Fedora refers to the Flexible Extensible Digital …
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Cook sister blogs again (in Swedish)
My sister, the cook, is in Australia. Already she’s working. At Aqua, a restaurant. And blogging in Swedish about it (damn those partial RSS feeds!). View Larger Map I’ll keep you posted about her various useful occupational anecdotes, when they crop up.
Fallout Fandom
Never since… very long ago did I have a cultural product to long for. Computer game Fallout 3 has been one of those products. And it seems to be well worth the wait. Had it put aside yesterday, and today, the game’s Euro release date, I picked it up. Fanboy economy at work. “Review” after …
Skolmatsal
Kollegans kommentar om lunch Indian Flavour: “Det här var alltsÃ¥ mer skolmatsalsstämning än pÃ¥ La Empanada.” (Yes, in Swedish. Malmö-restaurant-related. Nevermind, you.)
Dictators names
Quoth Wikipedia: In 1972, Mobutu renamed himself Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (“The all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, goes from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake.”), Mobutu Sese Seko for short.
More FabLabbery, and Siert’s windmill
Rather than going back and editing my earlier post about that Icelandic guy, here’s some salient linkage on the subject. This is so exciting I almost skipped breakfast to watch it. Iceland’s FabLab wiki, which is run by Smári, from a previous post. A Dutch video with music about a FabLab workshop. Video unpacking and …
Storytelling is hard
I did a lot of thinking about storytelling this weekend. Marketing is good stories. “Stories my dad can tell” is my benchmark. No story has hit that mark better than Skype. His enthusiasm for it, and the simplicity of its value offer was refreshing. Talking to an American who’d moved to Sweden and taught himself …
FSCONS: Smári McCarthy on abundance
Smári McCarthy Originally uploaded by Wrote The man in the picture is Icelandic, outlandish, with lots of fancy words. FabLabs (a set of machines to make any plastic object up to 1 meter in size) point to a future, and McCarthy talked about that future. No scarcity, everything “non-exotic” (which is not imbued with aura, …
FSCONS: Conversations are the conference
Just had an interesting micro-conversation, with a man who spoke with a slightly Indian accent. Cambodia: No landlines, but quite developed mobile phone networks, never bothering with the previous stage of tech. Leapfrogging. Related: Ericsson deployed a solar-powered mobile base station there. That press release hits all points in the last paragraph of the leapfrogging …
FSCONS 2008, Sunday
Listening to a guy in a red t-shirt. He talks about Debian package structure. People ask questions. He is reading from a tiny-font control configuration file. Not so good for my concentration. But, he has a good voice, at least it has some melody. Yeah, a big corporation in search donated a Moleskine notebook in …