Flipping through the swedish Eco consumer magazine "Camino" I stumble upon an article that catch my eye. It's called Book 2.0. It's about books. It's about the digital threats/possiblities the book business will face. The exact same difficulties that the music and movie business have faced will soon face the book publishing business. Everyone interviewed in the article, publishers and such people, are certain of this.
Still, they seem to be very calm about it. Although no solution is in sigh. The Amazon Kindle reading device is mentioned.
When it's time to ...Read More
Take a look at these pictures: Hasselblads empty head office
It's pictures of the abandoned head office of legendary camera maker Hasselblad in Sweden, taken by an Urban explorer that takes pictures of abandoned places.
The caption to the images are in Swedish, some of them goes like this, freely translated:
"The head office of Hasselblad is EMPTY! What happened? Did lighting strike?
- Moores law struck
The law was formulated by Gordon Moore in 1965. He did an observation: it was possible to do computer chips twice as powerful every 18th month, to the ...Read More
Sooooo, I finally did it. Some four weeks ago, came the end of an era. I switched to Mac after 13 years of obsessive PC use. I know this is not a big thing to you, the reader, but for me it was huge. Anyways, some weeks into Mac use it feels 100% great. I think the DC client Shakespear is not too bad, there were loads of free software to replace all the earlier PC stuff. Everything is just peachy in the rosegarden with me and my Mac. There ...Read More
You have all heard about the long tail. All of you have now also heard about how the 'biz' as in the 'music biz' and the 'movie biz' was slow to react. They were shutting down when they should have been opening up. And so forth.
They are now on the case though. Last week we were in a hearing at the swedish parliament where the topic was "Copyright Law on the internet". A lot of things were said, one line that got stuck in my head was when a guy ...Read More
We are exited as hell and the time has come to start this digital renaissance. So here we go with a long passionate text, slightly edited, written at the beginning of this year.
What's up in the contemporary world of culture? One thing is for sure, what is lacking is not more complicated shit for people. If you do not know what complicated shit translates as in the music biz we will give you a short tutorial here. Complicated shit means having trouble copying songs you bought to a friends harddrive ...Read More
