The semantic web and interesting thoughts about web 3.0

This film, by Kate Ray, is indeed worth watching for anyone interested in what a so-called web 3.0 might look like. It’s major theme is the concept of the semantic web, which, during the film, is also explained for those unfamiliar with the idea. Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

The decade in icon-infographics

The New York Times have presented an irresistible info-graphic by a guy named Philip Niemeyer picturing the last 10 years on the global scene. A fun way to reflect over the decade we just left behind us. See it in full scale by clicking the image or here.

Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In ’08

On a more curious note, I stumbled upon this funny technology article today that tells about a study at University of California estimating that the information consumption per American per day is stunning 34 gigabytes. It reads: “Metrics can get really strange — especially on the scale of national consumption. Information consumption is one such [...]

Violent police raid against Iraq fugitives in Copenhagen last night

Last night, Danish police raided Brorsonkirken (Brorson Church), which has served as shelter for a large group of Iraqis that have been denied political asylum and are awaiting being sent back to Iraq. The case is highly controversial and has split the country into two groups; those in favor of the repatriation and those – [...]

Inspiring writer’s advice

Jeffrey Zeldman, New York-based writer and designer and editor of popular blog Jeffrey Zeldman Presents, just made an inspiring blog post about the dilemma of being under time pressure when working as a creative professional. His mantra, write when inspired, rest when tired, and subsequent argumentation makes good sense. Check it out if your work [...]

Freeform101.org in hibernation for 2,5 weeks

As this is being written, I (the editor of freeform101.org) am sitting in Heathrow Airport waiting for my flight to Bangalore, India, where I will meet up with my girlfriend and head out into the wild! We’ll be backpacking around south India. This means that freeform101.org will go into hibernation until June 21st, 2009. By [...]

Internet being bombed back to the stone age tomorrow?

Tomorrow will be a big milestone in Internet-, technology-, copyright-, music-, movie- and civil right history: The Swedish court will announce their verdict in the so-called ‘spectrial‘, where the people behind The Pirate Bay (TBP) have been accused ao. of assisting copyright infringement. Although both parties will appeal the sentence if being ruled against, it [...]

Statebook: because knowledge is power

The Open Rights Group (ORG) has launched ‘Statebook’, a website that lists all the information the British authorities hold on each individual citizen in the United Kingdom. It’s really, really scary to see how much and how detailed information is being collected. ORG writes in their blog: “Today we launched a campaign site, portraying the [...]

Fictitious Capital

Was Marx right? Richard Metzger asks in this thought-inspiring post at the Boing Boing blog. Here’s an excerpt: “Watching the news with the G20 protesters in London carrying banners reading “Capitalism Failed Us” and “Marx was Right!” I felt quite good about the day’s events. In 1983 and 1984, I was living in London and [...]

aXXo – superstar of the new millennium

As the world is constantly changing, so are it’s celebrities. We’ve been used to people worshipping reality-tv stars and tracking every single move they make. Now, in this web 2.0 world, however, a new sort of superstar is rising, namely the anonymous, faceless web supergeeks – such as ‘aXXo’, one of the worlds most renowned [...]