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Johnny vom Spreeblick hat heute mit einem Blogbeitrag zum groben Komplex Podcasts und Aufmerksamkeit argumentiert, dass mit der Technologie des Podcastings nicht notwendigerweise Gutes und Neues bei rum kommt, wenn doch die etablierten Macher aus den konventionellen Medien (Fernsehen und Radio) die Podosphäre mit banalen Krimskrams zu müllen und die Aufmerksamkeit aller beschränkt ist. Dazu gibt Tim vom CCC einen Antwortbeitrag auf seinem Blog. Beide Artikel sind lesenswert, da meiner Meinung nach die Frage der Aufmerksamkeit hinsichtlich der Zeit und des Ortes — also welchen Anbietern die Nutzer sich zuwenden — von groszer Bedeutung ist und sein wird.

Niko Henrichon’s site features some illustrations that are plainly gorgeous to look at. I also chose this picture as it really is a salient piece of them.
 
via Drawn!: Niko Henrichon

Besides bikescape and Bike Talk there is The Bike Show, a third anglophone podcast covering bikes, cycling and mobility, as a whole. It is produced in Britain and describes itself as follows:

The Bike Show, broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm. A weekly show looking at the art, science, politics and transcendental pleasure of cycling, in London and further afied. From the Tour de France to Critical Mass, from cycle commuting to Kraftwerk…

I just listened to the episode on Kraftwerk and Cycling published August last year. The interesting thing is that the pioneers of electronic music have created such innovative music along the main theme of mobility with tracks like Autobahn, Trans Europe Express, and Tour De France covering cars, trains, and finally bikes as means of modern transportation.

Dutch illustrator Erik Kriek has some pretty nice pieces on his page gutsmancomics.com, that are kind of retroish picking up how the future looked in the past. Go there, waste some time.

via Drawn!: Gutsman Enterprises

A very nice implementation of black-and-white photography with designated colorful areas. The picture set Tokyo Blues by Nurri Kim points the viewer’s attention to blue tarpaulin that is covering things that are subject to change.

via Space and Culture: Transitional blues

CoverFlow, was der Redaktion als ‘TechDemo’ vorliegt, packt die Albumdeckelkunst in einen OpenGL-Kontext und lässt den Musikkonsumenten durch seine digitale Musik brausen. Das macht richtig Spasz. Dröge textbasierte Musiksammlungen, die immer noch nicht via Tagging organisiert sind, können da nicht mithalten. Dagegen sieht FrontRow lahm und langweilig aus.

via DeBug: Endlich wieder Platten blättern…

Dutch graphic artist Eline van Dam has created
some beautiful, yet stirring pieces.

via Drawn!: Zeloot

Ich sitze in einer Psychologievorlesung und meine müden Augen ruhen sich auf farbenfrohen Mustern aus Brasilien aus. Der Künstler heiszt Wagner Campelo und lebt in Rio de Janeiro.

via Drawn!: Patterns, patterns everywhere

Pretty cool and totally web 2.0. This Ruby tutorial is working through the wonders of Ajax within your Javascript-enabled browser. Very nice! You don’t need an installation or something. It’s all there. Now, which web space provider offers Ruby on Rails support?

Instead of “taking the Apple logo in vain”, as Steve Jobs has put it, the keyboard shortcuts to menu items had to be something different than the emblem of the computer manufacturer. Susan Kare, a bitmap artist at Apple, had found a symbol for the key that is known today to many Macintosh users as the command or apple key. Originally though, this icon “was [and still is] used in Sweden to indicate an interesting feature or attraction in a campground.”

More background on this and other matters regarding macintosh trivia can be found on folklore.org.

via digg: How the unusual symbol for the Apple “Command Key” came to be