What is Favelas baile funk?

Posted on 30/10/2006 by Thomas

“It is a dance organized by the drug lords, where the violence and frustration explodes.”
Remember “City of God?” I recently watched this great movie again.

So, what’s the origin of violence and war? The answer seems simple: Angry young men. Sociologically this is summarized in the theory of the “Youth Bulge” which describes the battle of the sons for the powerful positions in a society. Happens all over the world for centuries, again and again. Terror and war are the most recent outcomes, the scientist Gunnar Heinsohn has written a fascinating book about the connection between the spare sons, fundamentalism, terror and war: “Söhne und Weltmacht” And now enjoy a short clip from the VICE travel DVD “Surviving the slums of Rio” Continue reading →

Lots of buzz – Technorati and the German blogosphere

Posted on 12/10/2006 by Thomas

I like this video. Science, fights, only the music is missing. Edelman brings Technorati to the German market and the German blogosphere watchs critically and pretty unethusiastically. Get used to each other guys, maybe one day you’ll be doing business together! (or not).

(you can skip the introduction)
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Geeky videointerviews

Posted on 27/09/2006 by Thomas

Videopodcasts done by prominent bloggers and charismatic heads from the internetscene have been popping up recently (like the one I referred to yesterday) and here’s a little top 4 of what I think is worth watching.

Robert Scoble started a videoblog with interviewing Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO

www.gruenderszene.de is a german videocast by one of the Spreadshirt founders Lukasz Gadowski focussing on German entrepreneurs like Continue reading →

Yochai Benkler interview

Posted on 26/09/2006 by Thomas

The other day, Peter and I interview Yochai Benkler about commons based peer production. He is a very smart and witty man and absolutely able to communicate his visionary ideas. We talked about the wealth of networks, collaboration on a global, individual scale and knowledge- and production sharing. We had twenty minutes, a little camera and could ask four questions. A very interesting morning, watch the whole interview at The Waving Cat. He also wrote a book and published it for free. For me, the most interesting question was how a theory of production can be generalized to producing other goods than media and his answer (click to continue) is fascinating. Continue reading →

Plans 2.1

Posted on 05/09/2006 by Thomas

Wow, so many plans and no time to realize it all. So, note to self: Do it, lazy boy!

1st: Integrate tags into stylewalker – I have enough content now to tag it more thoroughly and it would be cool to let people participate – suggest tags and if I like them they will be part of the categorization. Does anyone know a good WP-plugin?

Start a blog about organizational identity and weblogs. I am writing my master thesis and should export some wisdom to the net.

Buy a DJ! A friend is coming from Barcelona, Marco Delvai, you can book him for little money and big fun! Expect more information later.

A guide to MySpace – people keep asking me what to do there and I should write down all the things I tell each one of them.

And: A great mix at Miss Glitter – Bastard Cutz on bastard rec.
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Beobachtungen zweiter Ordnung

Posted on 01/09/2006 by Thomas

Systemtheoretiker und Konstruktivisten aufgepasst! Wenn wir die Welt nur durchs beobachten konstruieren (Matrix und so, vielleicht sind wir ja alle angeschlossen und keiner merkts, you know), dann ist das eine Beobachtung erster Ordnung, right? Wenn wir durch Medien wie TV oder Blogs die Welt beobachten, dann ist das wohl eine Beobachtung zweiter Ordnung.

Wenn Tita von Hardenberg, die eine eigene TV-Sendung hat, sich und Harald Schmidt mit der Kamera beobachtet und wir sie dann später auf ihrem Blog dabei beobachten, ja welche Beobachtungsordnung haben wir denn dann? Die Medien beobachten die Medien, wir beobachten die Medien und dabei die Welt und uns selbst. Mein Gott, als Systemtheoretiker muss man doch irgendwann wahnsinnig werden..
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Organizational identity by means of narrations in weblogs

Posted on 27/07/2006 by Thomas

ERCO light design in Hong KongThe story I am about to tell is the perfect example of how narration, discourse and computer mediated communication via weblogs work together to tell us about the identity of an organization.

About 4 months ago, Cem Basman published an article about the transformation of the company ERCO from a dull bed stand lamp producer to a worldwinde innovator in lighting. A new manager asks his employees the significant question: “What business are we in, actually?”. “Lamps” was the first answer, and he said “no, it’s light”.
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Playlist Generator and Dixon playlist

Posted on 24/07/2006 by Thomas

By vinyls at record stores! Photo by eanousa@FlickrDJ-Playlists are the currency of attention in the dance scene. People listen to the music in the club and in mixes, e.g. here, they read the titles and labels in magazines, emails and on websites. What scientists do with citations is the DJ-playlist in electronic music.

And it’s all there, there’s tons of playlists and charts on the internet and you can listen to many songs as snippets on Juno or the sites of the labels.

So, theoretically, you could put that together automatically, creating playlists with the corresponding links to the soundfiles, “playing playlists” so to say.
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Gernot Wersig

Posted on 05/07/2006 by Thomas

.. gestern habe ich über ihn geschrieben, heute lese ich, dass Gernot Wersig gestorben ist.

Bis zu allerletzt war er, so viel er konnte, am Institut, als brummig und sperrig war er bekannt, aber stets hat er sich für seine Studenten eingesetzt und den Fachbereich in schweren Zeiten am Leben erhalten.

Grenzen der Systemtheorie

Posted on 04/07/2006 by Thomas

“Wenn die systemtheoretische Beschreibung des Bohrens in der Nase bereits eine komplizierte strukturelle Koppelung verschiedener autopoietischer Systeme erfordert, ist dies letztlich nicht mehr operationalisierbar.” Gerade hier gelesen. Finde ich super. Von Gernot Wersig.

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