Something we would have needed for the iTrip Disco!

https://www.broadcastyourpodcast.com/



BYP enables and encourages podcasters to break out of the net and into local radio space.

BYP offers podcasters the chance to transmit their podcasts on FM. BYP units are handmade FM transmitters made by BYP following the circuit design of micro radio pioneer Tetsuo Kogawa. By connecting a BYP unit to your computer or mp3 player podcasts can be transmitted on FM to your neighbourhood.

https://www.broadcastyourpodcast.com/

Zack Rosen blogs about why RDF research sucks and has written a mail to the Simile mailinglist for comments. No comments from me, but a general agreement on his suggestions for a way out:

So what can we do about it?

1. Researchers need to stop thinking of themselves as researchers and start thinking of themselves as implementors.
2. Research institutes need to join forces with emerging businesses looking to adopt semantic technology. This breaks the current model of business / research institute collaboration since startups do not have money to contribute to fund research, but tough noogies.
3. Researchers need to build their tools in real-world development environments, i.e. as modules for LAMP web-publishing tools such as Drupal and Wordpress. They need to find more organizational partners to deploy their solutions. They need to do something other than build widgets.

In this post i collect some sources I am going to present in 5 minutes to my friends.

• https://del.icio.us/leobard
• youtube playlist

The last two weeks, Ingrid and me went to the burning man festival, together with Lars Zapf and a friend of him, Holger Rath. It is a weird task to explain the event to others, but I will do an attempt using a mashup of videos, photos, reviews, blog posts, google maps, and personal experiences.

if you never heard of it, just look at the pictures to get an impression:
https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=burningman&s=rec

here is a brief attempt to explain
https://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/

To generate an open and relaxed atmosphere, we will drink beer and move this event to the evening, and go to a nicer location than 372 (at the coffee corner or, if possible, outside?)

thursday, 18:00

We want to order pizza for this, if you want to have pizza, we will order together at pizza attack.

if you can, please bring some beer, and contact me about how much you can contribute.
all Hiwis, friends, relatives welcome.

I am back from burning man. No way to describe it. I will try to compile some words about the experience and the community there and how I experienced it, will take a few days. In the meantime, I already uploaded some videos:

https://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=leobard

update: there are also pictures (added this link in 2010....)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leobard/sets/72157594286473194/

I am off to burning man 2006!

The Man burns in 9 days

Ingrid & Lars & Holger & I are going to be there. see you all on the other side. I am back online on 13th September.

Getting up and reading news this morning, and still thinking about yesterdays ramblings how we could benefit from our ideas, TRB's greetings reached me at the right moment:

Welcome to the Nepoverse, by Thomas Roth-Berghofer
Yesterday morning I woke up with this greeting on my mind, a greeting to all those who are interested in the goal of the Nepomuk project: the Social Semantic Desktop. And it got even better: the Nepoverse did not exist in the Googleverse. Until now!
As you may know, we–the Nepomukians–strive for providing you with new tools for better working with (your) knowledge. We want to change the way we, as knowledge workers, live in and with the digital world, not only by providing cool Nepomuked applications and a feature-rich toolbox, but by building a community around the Social Semantic Desktop. Thus, we are shaping our own universe, don’t we?

Yes Thomas, you are right. We want that, and I need that. I don't feef exactly like "our own universe" but would put it more like Stefan Decker often tells the story: Nepomuk is a seed of a community, it starts at one point and gets bigger in circles, bigger, bigger, circling, ...

As I said yesterday night:
Our discipline is a crossover, we need results from artificial intelligence, web 2.0, usability, personalization, databases, data integration, software engineering . . .

And what I should have said then was: we got Nepomuk. There are many people in this project that make exactly this crossover possible, through their different characters and backgrounds.

If you now wonder what we are all blogging about,

• read the Nepomuk Website
• look at the gnowsis beta, a prototype of parts of nepomuk
• checkout the Semantic Desktop search engine Beagle++
• read some blogs that use Nepoverse
• and join the mailinglist

, see the