an interesting take on a interesting topic….

I started a website to help vloggers share information, blog about vlogging, connect and collaborate. As I think we have shared agendas I hope for you to join the website and help support the global vlogging community with your interaction.

Keep up the good work

Cheers

Jason

Sachs has lots of good ideas. But he’s associated himself so strongly with the Millenium Goals — and with gargantuan fund-raising efforts tied politically to various initiatives under the UN umbrella — that it’s increasingly difficult to separate the politician’s spin from the academic’s best advice.

He’s doing himself and his cause a world of harm with this sort of over-the-top approach.

i know little about the entire situation, but it is clear that aid to africa has helped little compared with the cost. corruption is an issue, as in anywhere in the developing world. accountability, transparency and good governance are key in making aid work.

stop aid? perhaps not yet. but we can take steps to make sure that dependence on dole-outs will end someday.

All kind of tobacco is harmful, no matter how it is manufactured, said doctors. For example they found that smoking tobacco described as ‘light’ and ‘mild’ is not better for health and is not safer to smoke compared with smoking regular tobacco. do…

You run a rather long or dark perspective in your recent posts (this one and http://dltq.org/2009/02/26/the-luxury-of-privacy/) yet I can somehow agree on your concerns and discomfort concerning the hunt and hype for one or another type of actuality.

Yet, on the other hand, don’t you think that our ‘new’ sharing culture soon has reached the point where ‘novelty’ is just this… novelty. And where friends are friends and information is information – or where information simply… is.?

Although the time-span from today back to the first blog is rather short, I do enjoy it ‘already now’ to visit blogs (new ones, those I followed since a long time ago or those newly discovered ‘old’ ones) and to dwell on what is ‘present’. Timestamps are in such a dwell or time lag a most welcome oddity like for instance when I today again visit your post on ‘keeping it simple’ (http://dltq.org/2004/12/28/keeping-it-simple/) – gee, that was in 2004!!!

Novelty – with its tools of novelty – is just a bore, I agree very much on that. Novelty disturbs and does only provoke a hype (speak: another novelty). Twitter sucks and so does the idea of putting culture into 140 characters… Yet, it is still for us to discover what the new information-topography really does contain for us to surf on, dwell on and grow on – and that beyond the notion of the ‘new’.

The new media is probably still too young in order for us to overcome the idea of its novelty (and to link it to the idea of producing actuality) and it will take some more time until we’re able to adapt its true organic and vital nature. When that moment has arrived, timestamps will be the only structuring value of that otherwise completely open and free landscape.

Without the architecture of the timestamp there would be no space made distinct and everything would remain without form, character and content. The Timestamp is the new Gutenberg. If only people could stop ‘NOT writing comments on my own blogspot’…!

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and thank you very much for crossposting the lovely ‘fun with muybridge’-video from wreckandsalvage!! I missed it on their site and thanks to you I once more am reminded of their enjoyable work!

Greetings from Oslo
b.k./LOMEG_ROM