Hypernarrative.com is the personal weblog of Wilbert Baan. I'm co-founder of SOMEHOW. On my personal blog I write about art, media, technology and things I do, think or make.
Yahoo is where the cool things happen. Google is more structured and better in getting attention for new (beta) productlaunches, but Yahoo is knitting all their applications together into this incredible grid of everything.
Bruce Mau Design is working on the project Massive Change and is searching for a superior thinker, stategist or designer and asks them to answer three challenging questions.
1. In the future, how will we communicate?
2. Will we shift from the service of war to the service of life?
3. How will we eradicate poverty?
I think for a company or organization a candidate answers to (these) questions are much more valuable than exchanging resumés. Could this be the new de facto for job applications? Art schools already ask you to do certain tasks or answer questions when applying.
The BBC reports blogs will peak at a maximum of 100 million next year. 200 Million blogs died already. I think social network websites could largely replace private blogs. Most networking websites already offer blogging-like funtionalities.
Here in the Netherlands the discussion about bluespamming is living up. Is it allowed for unknown broadcasting equipment to intrude your personal life (mobile phone)?
Maybe someone should create an anti-spam directory/library where a transmitter needs to get authorization (by public votes) before intruding. In this way we can keep the art and get rid of the spam.
On Bruce Sterling his blog there is an essay by Tom Sherman about vernacular video. Video-art is moving backwards from avant garde to protectionism. When video is everywhere. Vernacular video, read the essay.