Floblogg http://www.brody.org/blog The Medium is the Memory Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:17:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Le film du jour – L’Homme qui plantait des arbres http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/03/le-film-du-jour-lhomme-qui-plantait-des-arbres/ http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/03/le-film-du-jour-lhomme-qui-plantait-des-arbres/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:16:36 +0000 brody http://www.brody.org/blog/?p=326
L’Homme qui plantait des arbres -Giono

Hans recommended this movie – this is a very good version.

]]> http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/03/le-film-du-jour-lhomme-qui-plantait-des-arbres/feed/ 0 ZukunftsWebinar Nr.3 … neue Kulturtechniken im Web: Feb 25 at 1530UTC http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/02/zukunftswebinar-nr-3-%e2%80%a6-neue-kulturtechniken-im-web-feb-25-at-1530utc/ http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/02/zukunftswebinar-nr-3-%e2%80%a6-neue-kulturtechniken-im-web-feb-25-at-1530utc/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:30:03 +0000 brody http://www.brody.org/blog/?p=315 I’ll be speaking at the 3rd ZukunftsWebinar (webinar for the future) produced by Zukunftsweb, an organization based in Vienna, working on semantic Web models and next generation Internet solutions. The topic of the Webinar is “Neue Kulturtechniken im Web” - roughly translated “new cultural technologies on the Web”. Traditionally understood as reading / writing / mathematics – there mat be new human cultural technologies emerging from a digital network. We’ll see. I will prepare a brief introductory statement and look forward to the conversation with Jana Herwig, a media researcher based in Vienna, who also moderates the event and  Corinna Bath, PhD, researcher in Web sciences at the Humboldt-University Berlin with a focus on gender-specific issues of the Semantic Web.

Register at  www.zukunftsweb.at/webinare/webinar-0210

Connect live on Feb 25 at 1530 hrs UTC (Vienna 16:30, San Francisco 7:30 AM):

The discourse will probably happen in German; I will try to post part of my contributions in English on the blog.

]]> http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/02/zukunftswebinar-nr-3-%e2%80%a6-neue-kulturtechniken-im-web-feb-25-at-1530utc/feed/ 0 Metamorphoses – A workshop at Lift@Austria Enable Conference http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/02/metamorphoses-a-workshop-at-liftaustria-enable-conference/ http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/02/metamorphoses-a-workshop-at-liftaustria-enable-conference/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:32:07 +0000 brody http://www.brody.org/blog/?p=288 The Lift@Austria Enable! conference is shaping significantly different from your “usual” convention. The team is working hard to enable all participants  to experience an innovative and creative environment. After all that’s the topic of the event. The event takes place in a factory building of a company developing equipment for bartenders and some plastic parts. So this is going to be an interesting venue.

In addition to giving one of the keynotes on day 2, I will also contribute to a workshop on “metamorphoses”. That’s the title the conference organizers came up with. I’m not sure if the title should be Metamorphosis – a  term is usually only used for butterflies and other animals that change in form and in a variety of art pieces including Kafka’s “Die Verwandlung” [ see Wikipedia for disambiguation] or Metamorphoses by Ovid et al. Vladimir Nabokov [Wikipedia] [Zembla], who was a Entomologist as well as a professor for literature and a world-class writer – well versed in all sorts of metamorphoses would be the right person to ask about butterflies and human change.

I submitted a first piece for discussion for the metamorphoses workshop: “For a Change – take a Risk” that is also available here as a pdf:  FBrody – Metamorphoses .

UPDATE: The Lift Enable! conference program has been posted and the newest version of my abstract is here

Post a comment if you are planning to participate or  interested in discussing the topic in general.

The conference blog is here.

]]> http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/02/metamorphoses-a-workshop-at-liftaustria-enable-conference/feed/ 0 Banking and Finance Site covers Enable! Conference http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/02/banking-and-finance-site-covers-enable-conference/ http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/02/banking-and-finance-site-covers-enable-conference/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:17:08 +0000 brody http://www.brody.org/blog/?p=299 The banking and finance industry urgently needs to look at innovative solutions and bestbanking.at, the Austrian portal for the finance industry covers the Enable! conference, an event definitely not in the management consulting / suit-and-tie space. The conference venue is an old factory building on the outskirts of Vienna and the event format is positively not your usual business conference. The article picks up on the idea of “Free Money”: every attendee receives EUR50 to “pay” for  outstanding presentations and workshops. The funds loose value over time – so better spend it. It’s funny money but can be converted into legal tender at the end of the conference.

http://www.bestbanking.at/

Article in German: bit.ly/9DhCSI

]]> http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/02/banking-and-finance-site-covers-enable-conference/feed/ 1 Waste Water while obsessing over Germs http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/02/waste-water-while-obsessing-over-germs/ http://www.brody.org/blog/2010/02/waste-water-while-obsessing-over-germs/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:36:49 +0000 brody http://www.brody.org/blog/?p=296 I recently found this serious and interesting sign in the bathroom of a reputable restaurant in San Francisco: ”Employees Must Wash Hands etc etc.”

Towards the end it gets interesting: “Turn off water with paper towel” – read “waste water for 45 seconds while drying hands, turn off tap with paper towel to protect yourself from disgusting and dangerous germs that may be stuck on the tap handle and then never touch anything again – especially not the door knob to get out of the bathroom.”

Oh – and please consider the drought in California and serve your patrons water only upon request.

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