Tonight Dj David Star played in Eclectro Directo, a weekly talent room on Eclectro. In Eclectro Directo we ask a Dj to broadcast a dj-set live from his or her living room using Ustream. We visited David Star and helped him out with some of the technical details and made some promotional material.

We did two pilot episodes of Eclectro Directo and I think the idea is great. After the summer holiday we will launch this for real. We are looking for partners, sponsors and dj’s. Contact me if you are interested in participating in any way.

Episode #1 me spinning records live

Tonight we are broadcasting live from the living room of Dj David Star, tune in.

Bob made a new video and it is wonderful. Colours, music, weird guy, atmosphere, everything is there.

We thought up something new at the Eclectro Music blog. Every week at 21.00 C.E.T. we will do a live Dj set on the web using Ustream.

A Dj streams his one hour set via line-in and webcam from his living room and we just gather on Eclectro to listen and chat.

Since I opted the idea I was the one to start the first show. This was fun after not using the dj-set (or buying records) for over a year.

Next week Dj David Star will be showing his skills. If you are a dj or electronic artist and would like to perform live on the web in front of a live Dutch audience, send me an e-mail.

These new applications creating a live web amaze me every time. Blogging and chatting live with your audience at a concert using Kyte.tv. Streaming a dj-set using Ustream. Making a weekly program using Operator11. Redifing the definition of friends on Twitter.

All these things are on a high amateur level right now, everything is an experiment. But all these experiments are great and taking interactive communication to the next level. The web was always about publishing and pre-recorded material (you needed serious infrastructure to stream). These new applications are all about interactive streaming of words, images and sound. Right here, right now.

Below is the Dj-set I did last night. This is the recording, it was much more fun live ;) See you next friday @ eclectro.

Grip is a video clip for the band zZz. Grip is a one take, top shot videoclip with professional trampoline gymnasts simulating typical video effects. The video has been recorded live as part of the opening ‘Nederclips’ at the Stedelijk museum ‘S-Hertogenbosch SM’S (Curated by Bart Rutten).

via Dutchcowboy on Twitter

And the mp4-link for the podcast subscribers

Next year is an election year in the US. This isn’t probably news to you. In this upcoming election year the web will play an even more substantial role in fundraising and community building then ever before.

The past US election was all about blogs and bloggers, about articles, essays, the truth. This online election race will be about social networks, friends, and your face on YouTube.

Elections connect to people personally. When people get involved into something they believe in it stimulates them to be creative. I’m sure we will see a lot of really interesting, confronting, critical and funny things this election year.

Instant YouTube hero ParkRidge47 made the video above this blog post. The changed Apple commercial is so right for many reasons. A social web isn’t just a channel for spreading your word it is about communicating. If you’re not joining the conversation you’re not there.

There is an excellent article in the Guardian about this video, you should definitely read it. (via Textually TV)

In this video Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen talk about Jaiku and life streams with Robert Scoble. Jyri is very good in explaining everything that is good about life streaming. (video via @Bakkel)

Since I started using Twitter I noticed I spend less time reading feeds and make longer blog postings. I’m not sure why I’m reading less feeds. I think the most interesting things come up in Twitter anyway. Or maybe Twitter takes up rss time?

I think I like the changed setup for this blog, less link dumping and more thinking, or at least more questions.

Will life streaming (and social bookmarking) in general will influence the popularity of link-dump-blogs?

Guest articles
If you would like to write a guest article on hypernarrative let me know.

I would love to host your thoughts on things or questions about new web services, media and technologies. How new technology influences the things we are used to do or how we will use applications in the future. Please let me know.

There are no rules other than that the text contains at least a relevant hyperlink, audio, photo or video (it is the internet after all) and more important it has to make you think or confuse for a little while.

Email me what you would like to do to hypernarrative@gmail.com, I’m looking forward to it.

Timo Veikkola is a future strategists. His job is to think about the future. And the future his innovation groups at Nokia focus on is 2010. For some of you 2010 isn’t really the future. Well, If you’re working in mobile devices 2010 is.

In his presentation he talks about something wandering through my head ever since I watched ‘the merchants of cool’- documentary about how MTV works a few years ago.

Large corporations targeted at young people research youth cultures with anthropologists and sociologists. Analyze ‘the ghetto culture’, getting it to the design and concept team. Adapt the culture to your business strategy and enlarge the culture until it collapses. In other words until it isn’t ‘cool’ anymore.

You might like it or not, but so far there isn’t much wrong with this. Streetculture grows, blooms and dies and a new streetculture is waiting. The King is dead. Long live the King!

The only way for an organization to be up to speed with the latest trends is to make sure to find the trendsetters. Follow what they like and where they are going to and you will know where the mass is going.

In the Netherlands (and I’m sure this discussion is global) we talk about youth culture a lot. Especially video-clip culture. How hip-hop and rap video-clips are creating a polarized image of the ‘real’ world. The discussion often ends in self regulating television stations afraid of being regulated by government rules.

If you take a closer look at how trends develop. It starts with a small group. Usually a cool hunter finds them and makes sure the trend accelerates. The trend itself is not created by MTV or Nokia. The trend is magnified.

Social networks and social television are taking over the role of MTV. A trend spreads faster around the globe than the Nokia researcher can fly around it.

What if the channel MTV isn’t the magnifier anymore. What if the real magnifiers for a trend are social networks? Can they be held responsible for stimulating the bloom of youth cultures and creating a polarized image of the ‘real world’?

No they can’t. And will this be a problem? No I don’t think so, youth culture is a very healthy ecosystem changing and shifting as soon it grows. This is why you need anthropologists to track it.

Within a few years youth culture itself will be totally self regulating without parental control or government interference. Better have some trust.