Slydial is a voice message service Photos of the World bäst i världen på interaktivitet - DN.se Publicerad 2010-04-30 11:00 Dagens Nyheter vann första pris i marknadsförings-VM för sina initiativ att skapa interaktivitet och lojalitet med sina läsare. DN vann i kategorin Public Relations i INMA Awards i New York i konkurrens med tidningar från hela världen. Det är olika initiativ som DN-galan, DN under jord och DN:s utrikesdag som nu uppmärksammas. – Vi kallar det för DN Live, som vänder sig till våra trogna läsare med DN-kortet, säger Johan Othelius, upplagedirektör på Dagens Nyheter. – Läsarna är på plats och kan ställa frågor och träffa de som framträder – det har kommit över 10. 000 personer vid varje tillfälle. – Roligt är också att vi blev nominerade i fyra klasser totalt, och i konkurrens med 535 tävlingsbidrag från 47 olika länder. Dela med dina vänner
THE Q&A: DIETER RAMS, INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER In the realm of industrial design, Dieter Rams is Yoda. The foundations were laid during a 40-year tenure as design director of Braun, a German electronics manufacturer. Rams helped to usher a functional modernist agenda into households the world over. Elevating audio speakers from the carpet and removing the record player from its heavy wooden tomb, Rams ignited a design revolution with a philosophy of “less but better”. He took a functional and aesthetically streamlined approach to everything from alarm clocks to cigarette lighters, and then to arm chairs and shelving units while at Vitsoe, an international furniture manufacturer. His Ten Principles of Design are routinely referred to as “commandments” in the field. Now London’s Design Museum pays tribute to Rams’ body of work with “Less and More—The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams”, a definitive retrospective of his career. More Intelligent Life: You’ve always emphasised the importance of functionality in design. DR: No.
The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS] A new study from security firm Barracuda Labs provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the stats say that most of its users aren't very active. The study looked at around 19 million Twitter accounts (PDF) in order to figure out how people are using Twitter. It started with one assumption: An active or "True" Twitter user has at least 10 followers, follows at least 10 people and had tweeted at least 10 times. By that definition though, only 21% of Twitter users are active users. There's a great deal of interesting data in the breakdown. In terms of tweets, the report estimates that 34% of Twitter users hadn't tweeted even once, while a whopping 73% of Twitter's users tweeted less than 10 times. Barracuda Labs also analyzed Twitter's growth over time, and the numbers are consistent with previous reports that show while Twitter grew like wildfire in early 2009, it has dramatically slowed down in recent months.
data exhaust n. The digitally trackable or storable actions, choices, and preferences that people generate as they go about their daily lives. Some firms will make a living based entirely on mining “data exhaust”, the bits and bytes produced by other activities. One example is Google’s PowerMeter, which not only lets users check their use of electricity online but gives Google access to lots of data to analyse and, not least, sell advertisements against. In Brin’s way of thinking, each of our lives is a potential contribution to scientific insight. We all go about our days, making choices, eating things, taking medications, doing things—generating what is inelegantly called data exhaust. 1998 (earliest) Merchants have a larger problem when it comes to collecting data about customers. Data exhaust is also sometimes called digital exhaust, a term that dates to about 2008. Did you like this entry? © 2015 Logophilia Limited
A Swedish brownshirt jailed for plotting the theft of the Auschwitz entrance sign. An interesting way to become famous: A Polish judge has jailed a Swedish man for two years and eight months for plotting the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" Auschwitz entrance sign. Anders Hoegstroem, a former neo-Nazi leader, admitted theft under a plea bargain last month and will be moved to Sweden to serve his sentence. The infamous sign was stolen in December last year and recovered in three pieces three days later. The judge in Krakow also jailed two Poles for up to two-and-a-half years. One of the pair, named as Andrzej S, apologised in court for the offence, Polish media report. The 5m (16ft) wrought-iron slogan which translates as "Work sets you free" is a potent symbol of many of the Nazi-era atrocities. The sign has since been repaired although it now hangs in the Auschwitz museum and has been replaced by a replica at the entrance to the former death camp. Three other Poles were given prison terms earlier this year for the theft which was thought to have been ordered by another Swede still at large.
Questions Without Answers for John Baldessari John Baldessari, Portrait: (Self) #1 as Control + 11 Alterations by Retouching and Airbrushing, 1974. A major exhibition devoted to the mercurial conceptual work of John Baldessari is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Here, on the occasion of that retrospective, the master painter David Salle puts some probing questions to Baldessari, his friend and former teacher. I have always felt a deeply humanistic undertone in your work, despite its use of irony and obliqueness. But I am hard pressed to account for why I feel it and sometimes think it's because I have known you for a long time. Is a Conceptual artist different from any other kind of artist? A lot of ink has been spilled about art as the new religion, with the museum as its church. Here's a fan question: How did you come up with the idea of singing LeWitt? What’s the one thing an artist must never do? John Baldessari, Noses & Ears, Etc.: Blood, Fist, and Head (with Nose and Ear), 2006.
3D printer could build moon bases (PhysOrg.com) -- An Italian inventor, Enrico Dini, chairman of the company Monolite UK Ltd, has developed a huge three-dimensional printer called D-Shape that can print entire buildings out of sand and an inorganic binder. The printer works by spraying a thin layer of sand followed by a layer of magnesium-based binder from hundreds of nozzles on its underside. The glue turns the sand to solid stone, which is built up layer by layer from the bottom up to form a sculpture, or a sandstone building. The D-shape printer can create a building four times faster than it could be built by conventional means, and reduces the cost to half or less. The printer can be moved along horizontal beams and four vertical columns, and the printer head is raised by only 5-10 mm for each new layer. Dini said his ultimate dream is to complete Guidi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, which has been under construction since 1882 and which is not expected to be completed until 2026 at the earliest.