von Roland Hachmann | Nov 15, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture
It’s been a while, since I last recommended an online music offer, but this time it is well deserved. I have been listening to this excellent station via iTunes a lot, but the last couple of weeks it’s not accessible through iTunes any longer, for whatever reason. I didn’t bother because I thought this „temporary“ problem would resolve itself soon. Well it didn’t until today, so I googled for their website with a live stream instead: the DI.fm House channel
The House channel is operated by a loose collection of New York City-based DJs, producers and musicians, coordinated by house music veteran DJ Jolene.
Our silky vibe is a direct result of our participation in the NYC house music community. The programming is compiled from rare cuts, yet-to-be-distributed promo vinyl, original studio work, selected DJ mixes, live DJ sets and discriminating trips to NYC record stores.
To us, „deep“ means a feel that is rooted in the origins of house music, when talented vocalists, innovative sampling, and dynamic song arrangements play a strong role in each track. Today, producers incorporate live musicians, soulful vocal arrangements and thick danceable rhythms to create the deep sound we feature here.
Enjoy!
von Roland Hachmann | Nov 14, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture, Digital Marketing, Digital News
Logic+Emotion points me to the WOMMA Releases Blog Ethics Guidelines:
This document is a public draft of guidelines for marketers to follow when doing outreach within the blogosphere. It is neither a „how to blog“ nor a „what to blog“ document. Rather, its intent is to give clarity and guidance to marketers who are working and corresponding with bloggers, and to ensure that their efforts adhere to the standards set by the WOMMA Ethics Code.
1. I will always be truthful and will never knowingly relay false information. I will never ask someone else to deceive bloggers for me.
2. I will fully disclose who I am and who I work for (my identity and affiliations) from the very first encounter when communicating with bloggers or commenting on blogs.
3. I will never take action contrary to the boundaries set by bloggers. I will respect all community guidelines regarding posting messages and comments.
4. I will never ask bloggers to lie for me.
5. I will use extreme care when communicating with minors or blogs intended to be read by minors.
6. I will not manipulate advertising or affiliate programs to impact blogger income.
7. I will not use automated systems for posting comments or distributing information.
8. I understand that compensating bloggers may give the appearance of a conflict of interest, and I will therefore fully disclose any and all compensation or incentives.
9. I understand that if I send bloggers products for review, they are not obligated to comment on them. Bloggers can return products at their own discretion.
10. If bloggers write about products I send them, I will proactively ask them to disclose the products’ source.
Good to have this summary, even though this really should be common sense, since it means: act honestly and transparently. A basic prerequisite when dealing with people. (In theory.)
von Roland Hachmann | Nov 12, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture, Digital News
Again, german blogger Robert Basic pointed me to something interesting: the digital identity map by Frédéric Cavazza.
A „map“ with all the web2.0 names you could possibly sign up with nowadays. (Did we need to sign up for bloody everything during web1.0, too, or is signing up just a 2.0 phenomenon?)
Unfortunately, I still don’t read french perfectly, even after a year in Paris, but for those who do, check out the theoretical derivation of this map.
For everyone else, just check out the map, it’s self-explanatory enough as it is:
von Roland Hachmann | Nov 11, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture, Digital Marketing, Digital News
At Reuters there is a story of IBM moving into virtual worlds such as Second Life – with a considerable budget:
IBM is ramping up its push into virtual worlds with an investment of roughly $10 million over the next 12 months, including an expanded presence within the popular 3D online universe Second Life.
Now that is scary. Considering the still relatively small size of SecondLife, such an investment seems enormous. On the other hand, people already spend almost $1 mio. per day. (I had to check twice, coz I couldn’t believe it!) And who knows how much they’ll really spend in Second Life?
Apparently they have been active in this space already:
IBM has already established the biggest Second Life presence of any Fortune 500 company. It uses the world primarily for training and meetings but has also built a simulation of the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
One thing I found interesting, as further on they write about the adoption of VR within the regular internet user base:
„The essence of e-commerce today is built around the idea of catalogs. That’s very useful, it fits with the idea of Web pages and catalog pages, but most people don’t think of shopping in terms of catalogs and pages, but in terms of stores that they go into,“ said IBM chief technology strategist Irving Wladawsky-Berger.
Well, I don’t necessarily agree with what Irving is hinting at. Switching on the computer and logging on to a virtual world still isn’t the same as visiting a real store to go shopping. Not with todays user interfaces anyway, which lack 3D presentation and have no haptic sensation at all.
But I am sure we will get there. It’s just a matter of T&T (time&technology), as always. And most likely we’ll someday smile when we look back at the days when we had to surf the net with screens, mice and keyboards, moving in a two-dimensional space with most of the content displayed in writing. I hope I will remember to link back to this post, once this has become reality.
(via PSFK)
von Roland Hachmann | Nov 11, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture, Digital News
In an article with the headline „DIGITAL UTOPIA A new breed of technologists envisions a democratic world improved by the Internet“ Dan Fost writes about the Hippie-esque dream of the social web:
Dubbed Digital Utopians by some, and Web 2.0 innovators by others, this latest wave of tech gurus champion community over commerce, sharing ideas over sharing profits. By using Web sites that stress group thinking and sharing, these Internet idealists want to topple the power silos of Hollywood, Washington, Wall Street and even Silicon Valley. And like countless populists throughout history, they hope to disperse power and control, an idea that delights many and horrifies others.
All very idealistic, and considering the following quote, Web2.0 seems to simply follow on an ageless debate:
The core of the Web 2.0 movement resurrects an age-old debate about governance and democracy, one that was argued by political philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Alexis de Tocqueville: Are the benefits of democracy — taking advantage of what Web 2.0 proponents call the wisdom of the crowds — worth risking the dark side of mob rule?
Tim O’Reilly, who coined the term, doesn’t quite see it that way:
Yet while people, perhaps reacting to the greed that fueled the IPOs of the dot-com years, saw in Web 2.0 a chance to create a new collectivism, O’Reilly said, „I don’t see it that way at all.“
Web 2.0, he says, is about business.
He says many tech movements start out with similar idealism, only to give way to capitalism. For instance, O’Reilly says, Napster introduced file sharing, but now iTunes has people comfortable with paying for music online.
Interesting article, and an inspiring (yet rather useless) discussion.
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