Unter Retro-Futurismus (http://www.retro-futurismus.de/) das Design von Gestern für Heute. Das ist ein schöne website die die Zukunft von Gestern abbildet. Eine schöne Refernz um RFID Tags, Navigationssysteme, verschiedene Visionäre und deren Visionen im witschaftwunder zu reflektieren.

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In den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts dachte man über die Zukunft der Welt
optimistischer als heute, wo vielen Menschen dazu als erstes die Wörter “Globalisierung” und “Klimakatastrophe” einfallen.
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This is nice video of new applications with multitouch screens and a startup building these ;-).
http://perceptivepixel.com/

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I like discussion about web 2.0 especially those of dilbert. are you web 2.0 ready?

So did you ever have such discussions with your colleagues? Lets stop buzzword bingo !

a very nice tool to use one keyboard and a mouse with two macs is Teleport. Or you can do it also with a Mac and a PC .-) with Synergy.

had some audio things lying around for some time so listen to some new experimental audio tracks 😉

marcuspecht’s audiocaster:
1. ever been to Catholica ?
[audio:http://www.marcuspecht.de/audiocaster/numero7.mp3]
and
2. have you heard me cooking (alias “topfsammplers”)
[audio:http://www.marcuspecht.de/audiocaster/numero9.mp3]

This is a really nice application of a game controller. Check out the amazing rolo site and the Wii LoopMachine, so you can use it on your mac and with a standard WII controler to manipulate and Live Mix Samples with the WII Mote.

Great Creativity Pusher Thing 😉

ind more at http://www.theamazingrolo.net

online mindmapping leicht gemacht, der mindmeister kommt.

I think this is a very nice example for a real web 2.0 application considering sharing, networking, cooperation and a very nice online GUI.

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Hi all,
small OSX hint today. I always had the problem of getting several PDF files when printing to PDF out of word with a document of several sections.

So check out CombinePDF‘s Freeware for easy merging of several PDFs.

Nice one thanks!

Recently a new article appeared I have written together with Daniel Burgos about modelling adaptive learning support with IMS-LD:

Abstract: The paper describes a classification system for adaptive methods developed in the area of adaptive educational hypermedia based on four dimensions: What components of the educational system are adapted? To what features of the user and the current context does the system adapt? Why does the system adapt? How does the system get the necessary information? Based on this taxonomy several classical methods of adaptive educational hypermedia are classified. In a second step the paper gives an overview of key features in IMS-LD for implementing adaptive educational methods and gives some examples. In the last section the work is integrated and IMS-LD features are identified which can be used for the four dimensions of the classification system.

See at http://jime.open.ac.uk/2007/08/

Stephen P. Robbins Ph.D. has written a new book on “The Truth About Managing People” just had a glance on his chapter about motivation of workers. He highlights three questions about the point often heard by managers: “people are just not motivated to work”.

• “do employees believe that if they give a maximum effort, it will be recognized in their performance appraisal?”
• “do employees believe that if they get a good performance appraisal, it will lead to organizational rewards?”
• “are the rewards the employees receive the ones that they want?”

I think these are essential points not only for organizational structures but the right design of rewarding or performance appraisal system is essential also for learning networks and the mentioned questions are undoubtful highly related to intrinsic motivation that has shown to be a key factor of working communities of practice.