Oddtag goes (almost) offline this summer, until Summer Bank Holiday (more or less). No travelling but hard work, sweat and sun. Have a look on the Venetian Writings (in italian), be good, have fun.
img: A coffee please - oddtag on flickr.com
“Senza paura, poesia gettata all’onde.“
Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presenta la mostra Scala Mercalli (www.scalamercalli.it) a Roma, lanciando migliaia di barchette di carta con le poesie nel Tevere.
“Without fear, poems thrown on the waves“
Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presents the exhibition Mercalli Scale (www.scalamercalli.it) in Rome, launching thousands of boats of paper with poems on the river Tevere.
video: Ivan street performance [...]
via: Conscientious
txt: Click here to disappear: thoughts on images and democracy
Has democracy increased with the growth of the internet? Obviously not. It has diminished significantly. Why? Because the desire for public, democratic participation has been displaced onto consumer goods and services and dispersed into isolated individual speech. Whatever else it is, the internet is primarily [...]
1. ok, think about the content
2. but consider it also as a sort of digital graffiti
Interesting in both cases.
via: readwriteweb.com
slide: The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work - sachac on slideshare.net
txt: Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Three themes are central to this book.
The first is poverty—its causes and cure. I will show that poverty is created by economic, social, and political systems, and by false ideas—not by the laziness, ignorance, or moral failings of the poor.
The second theme is the role of women [...]
txt: The Emerging Main Street Web - by Bernard Lunn on readwriteweb.com
In the new web era, we will use that power to make a living.
That is why I call this new era the Main Street Web. This is a nod to Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing The Chasm, the point in the adoption cycle when technology goes [...]
txt: Walter Benjamin (1936) - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; - Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005.
The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize [...]
Looking at the sea
While my ferry’s approaching:
I won’t look back.
—-
Guardando il mare
arriva il mio traghetto:
non mi volto più.
img: seagull parade - oddtag on flickr.com
text: wikipedia - easter egg
A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many western nations.
This practice is analogous to hidden signature [...]
txt: kindness - wikipedia
Kindness is considered to be one of the Knightly Virtues, and is a recognized value in many cultures and religions (see ethics in religion). It is considered to be one of the seven virtues, specifically the one of the Seven Contrary Virtues (direct opposites of the seven deadly sins) that is the [...]
txt: Digital kids ditch homework for networking
British 15-to-19-year-olds admit spending significantly less time doing homework than they used to as a result of their use of social-networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, according to research published today.
While teachers and parents will be dismayed, the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey also makes uncomfortable reading for [...]
txt: Pirate Coelho
Hi there to all!
I listed ED2K links for all books of Paulo Coelho that I found on the net.
There is nothing wrong with that, if you can catch what I mean. I just googled his books and show you here what you can find about him.
Plus, he likes what I’m doing. [...]
