Too Bad You Never Knew Ace Hanna

Recently I started reading Václav Havel’s memoirs To the Castle and Back which he wrote in 2005. In his State of the World 2010 Bruce Sterling mentioned Havel’s memoirs as a good illustration of the imp of the perverse:
People don’t need what they want, and don’t want what they need. My intuitions about this [...]

This feels a bit like old news. But who says information has a sell-by-date?

In November Christoph Bieber, Martin Eifert, Thomas Groß and Jörn Lamla published the book “Soziale Netze in der digitalen Welt” to which I contributed a chapter on the political uses of Twitter. And the first reviews are in:
Jochen Zenthöfer for politik-digital.de: Wer [...]

Looks like I actually will be able to get some reading done between christmas and new year. It’s about time. The ratio of read to unread books in my flat has become rather embarrassing. So this is the list:
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry M. Bartels
Throes of Democracy: The [...]

“Daemon” by Leinad Zeraus, a pseudonym by the author Daniel Suarez, is a great piece of speculative fiction. It reads like a worst case scenario of a networked society gone spectacularly wrong.
The death of Über-Game-Designer Matthew Sobol sets a surprising chain of events in motion. Before his death Sobol designed a computer program that automatically [...]

To Seth Godin we are living in a new world. A world where success does not depend on doing things the way they were done in the past. A world where playing it safe actually means betting the house. A world where the best way to success is to break with everything that seemed true [...]

A few days ago @zenpundit wrote on his blog about the concept of the quantum library. Jay@Soob has tracked this idea back to a posting on The Innovationist blog. Here a quantum library is defined as containing
the layer that co-exists as a member of both the Library and the Anti-Library. It is something you may [...]

In June, on a previous incarnation of this blog, I wrote about my antilibrary. Since meanwhile the concept of the quantum library makes the rounds I decided to reblog my antilibrary post as a preparation for the libraries to come. If you already read this please bear with me and wait for the shelves to [...]