InVisible

The European Internet Project (EIP) that was founded after reboot7 tries to bring together european people working on or for the internet project. It is trying to counter balance the US domination that has been the way of the internet for the last decades. While I applaud the idea, I think there are larger things in the making. The talk that Ben Hammersley ( pdf ) gave at reboot has got me into thinking: ...

There is both a video and audio recording of the Q&A session as well as a transcript of the complete event available. Also Ross Mayfield has some more background information on the demo and the reboot7 event that we witnessed. [via crueltobekind] Technorati Tags: reboot7

There are lot of echos on the blogosphere about reboot. The best summaries I have seen so far are from Laurent Haug, who blogs at bohellz. Check them out! And sorry Laurent, that I didn’t manage to show RoR to you - are you in Zurich any time soon? Technorati Tags: reboot7

reboot is over, I missed the party last night, but I’m almost on the plane back to Zurich with a couple of hours of sleep. reboot was a great experience and I there was enough food for thought there to keep me occupied quite some time. What would be needed now is a couple of days quiet thinking time. Unfortunately my family and the pending move to a new house next week will make that impossible. ...

The thing that pains me most about this conference, are the chairs. There are three different models in each of the halls, and they compete in the “which is the most uncomfortable” category. There is no clear winner, all of them are extremely uncomfortable in the long run. They therefore can’t be of danish design because danish design not only looks good, but serves their intended purposes. These chairs clearly don’t. ...

Ben Hammersley delivered a great presentation. He spoke about the history of blogging – all the way back 300 years ago to The Tatler as the proto-blogger. A very good and entertaining presentation with lot’s of food for thought. One patter of though is, that our society must come up with new social norms and acceptable behaviors to cope with the rapid change of technology. We even aren’t used (as a society) to the walkman - a 25 year old technology. ...