Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos form the culture jamming duo The Yes Men. Through their actions, they try to raise awareness about problematic social issues, in their sense. In order to do this, The Yes Men impersonate people of high economical or political influence to expose lies and injustices.
On July 3 1884 Charles Henry Dow together with his colleague Edward Jones composed and published an stock average - called the Dow Jones Railroad Average -, which contained nine railroads and two industrial companies. He developed the stock index as part of his market research and it was meant to serve as a reference value to determine fluctuations of the stock market.
Yesterday 11 years ago, famous writer Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy) passed away. Read the Blogpost and watch the videos about him on #yovisto
Yovisto Blogpost about Diana E. E. Kleiner, who in her lectures explores the civic, commercial, and religious buildings of Pompeii as part of her lecture on 'Roman Architecture'. She is an art historian known worldwide for her expertise on the art and architecture of the ancient Romans. Watch her impressive Yale lecture series on "Roman Architecture" http://www.yovisto.com/lecture/4288
Every second, one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube. That’s 24 hours every 24 seconds... or a decade every single day. Discover more time-bending stats at www.onehourpersecond.com
A story about the Semantic Web Interviews with: Tim Berners-Lee Clay Shirky Chris Dixon David Weinberger Nova Spivack Jason Shellen Lee Feigenbaum John Hebeler Alon Halevy David Karger Abraham Bernstein
Immer mehr Hochschulen und Fortbildungseinrichtungen erlauben es Lernenden, Vorträge und Seminare per Internet wahrzunehmen. US-Forscher haben nun eine Videosuche dafür vorgestellt.
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he`s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
S. Fussell, R. Kraut, and J. Siegel. CSCW '00: Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, page 21--30. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2000)Versuchsbeschreibung: wieviel bringt audio und video für kollaboration
wurde mir von Steven Dow empfohlen, klingt sehr spannend.
M. Melenhorst, M. Grootveld, M. van Setten, and M. Veenstra. UXTV '08: Proceeding of the 1st international conference on Designing interactive user experiences for TV and video, page 31--40. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)
K. Everitt, S. Klemmer, R. Lee, and J. Landay. CHI '03: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, page 553--560. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2003)
K. Okada, F. Maeda, Y. Ichikawaa, and Y. Matsushita. CSCW '94: Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, page 385--393. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (1994)
O. Morikawa, and T. Maesako. CSCW '98: Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, page 149--158. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (1998)
J. Tang, and S. Minneman. CHI '91: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, page 315--322. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (1991)The idea was evolved in 1991! Why didn't it get a successful product??.
Y. Ichikawa, K. ichi Okada, G. Jeong, S. Tanaka, and Y. Matsushita. ECSCW'95: Proceedings of the fourth conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, page 279--292. Norwell, MA, USA, Kluwer Academic Publishers, (1995)