ACTA protests around the world, curtesy of KillACTA.org, where you can sign the petition against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

Join in. I, for one, don’t like the idea of my packets being probed, especially not by a private thinkpol.

Passing this on:

YKON – game MINE-YOURS-OURS Festival in Rijeka / Croatia

The YKON Game is a world simulation game for up to 30 players. It’s based on a simple thought experiment: imagine that the world is brought to a complete halt. Everything stops. No more business as usual. With the world frozen, you and your fellow players can tinker with it as you please. What will you change? How do you convince others to go along with your changes? And what about the consequences?

Through the 1960′s, Buckminster Fuller was developing the “World Game”. It was to be his masterplan for the planet Earth: a tool that would formulate a comprehensive, design science approach to all the problems of the world. Inspired by the ideas of Fuller, we have developed the YKON Game, a more poetic perspective on the future of our world.

Instead solving the problems that we know, The YKON Game seeks to uncover the ideas that we’re still missing — sometimes wonderful, sometimes terrifying thoughts that could forever alter the world, and the way we live in it. For its players, the game poses an existential challenge: they will have to think about what kind of world they truly want.

So come and change the world. You don’t need to be an expert: everyone is welcome.

Time
FRIDAY, October 16
18:30- 24:00

Location
Molekula
Delta 5
51000 Rijeka

Contact/Info/ RSVP
info@ykon.org

Tim Hwang is at Molekula tonight at 8pm. Here’s a short info ripped from Weekend Media Festival in Rovinj where he held a talk:

Tim Hwang is the founder of ROFLCon, a series of conferences on internet celebrity and web culture. For his work he has appeared in Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times Bits blog, and the Guardian UK. He is the founder of the Web Ecology Project, a multidisciplinary effort to better understand the systemwide flows of content and community online. Currently, he works as a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He blogs at brosephstalin.com and is on Twitter @timhwang.

Talk Title: “Web Culture as Web Ecology”

Talk Description: The last two decades have seen a dynamic universe of cultural content and community emerge online. Through experiences with planning and organizing ROFLCon, this talk will explore the increasing influence of this online universe on the traditional mainstream media landscape. It will review how traditional content producers  and “social media experts” have been attempting to understand and shape web culture. It will suggest that the current thinking suffers from serious drawbacks, and that a new approach is needed.

To that end, the talk argues for a new field of web ecology. It will advocate for thinking about culture on the web as an interconnected ecosystem, and for rigorous, quantitative research. It will debut some of the newest work being done in this vein on the mechanisms of viral growth and community formation. The talk also discusses the conservation of web ecology, and how developers can work to promote and preserve a vibrant cultural space online.

Organized by: Drugo more
Partner: Multimedijalni institut
Donators: Ministry of Culture RH & City of Rijeka

New version of the popular Processing software, developed by John Maeda’s ex-students Ben Fry and Casey Reas, has been released. It’s a step away from the previous naming convention as this one is not Beta – yes indeed – here’s v1.0. It brings us some new features, bug fixes and a slight interface touch-up.

I would post a link to their press release, but I can’t reach the site at the moment.

I wish you the very best with the future of development to come. Restecp.

I’ve put up the first batch of project on the projects page. I’ll do some sorts of categories when the list becomes too big. More to follow soon.