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Archive for July, 2004

July 31st, 2004

EmoteMailI’m not sure if this is the right way to enhance email. Isn’t it that we hide the production process on purpose. Or are we in the midst of changing our habits and cultures of production. Is it all about disclosure?

Is email the way we would go to disclose the process of producing or do we have other tools that help us to disclose.

After all: I could manipulate the context-messages that are conveyed EmoteMail.
(Win and Mac Client available)

EmoteMail project: email with facial expression

EmoteMail project is an email client that conveys context and tone made by Jussi Angesleva & Carson Reynolds (Media Lab Europe & MIT Media Lab).

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July 31st, 2004

HauptalleeJust having breakfast.

The never-ending story unfolds once again.

Mabye it’s just another instance of talking about innovation. As long as we have no adequate concepts of talking about an innovation, that means as long innovations are not internalized by a society or community, we struggle to describe it in terms of well-known traditional concepts because it doesn’t fit exactly or is even something different.

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July 30th, 2004

Here we go!

A new tool for videoblogging

A videoblog Java client to download for free if you use Blogger or MovableType: vBlog Central.
See a list videoblogs who use this tool there.
(Via mediaTIC blog).

[Smart Mobs]



July 30th, 2004

sudo /etc/postfix/post-install create-missing – that saved me lots of blood, sweat, and tears today. Thanks to Marcus