Reminder: Participate in Online Storytelling!

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Thursday, July 16th, 2009 – 09:42 CEST

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottishlibraries/2530928014/

In the online world, where our identities are mostly unknown, people don’t always have a chance to meet each other in person. However, we can still create something together.

So, let’s write two stories together in English!

Whether it’s a love story or a thriller, you can make it happen by adding your part to the Online Storytelling project today.

This storytelling project is part of the week of Identity (August 24th-30th, 2009), one of the final weeks of the 80+1 festival.

Mr. Christopher Hütmannsberger will be our reader for our stories. No doubt, it will be full of surprises.

Story telling Live:
Dates: August 26th, 27th 2009
Time: 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: Base Camp at Linz’s Hauptplatz (Main Square)

Posted in Identity, The Internet

Mobile phone service comes to Nauru

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 – 13:28 CEST

It’s hard to believe that even in late 2009, there are still countries, full-fledged independent countries, that do not have mobile phone service.

That list got smaller this week as the Pacific island nation of Nauru finally got access to…

30.08.2009: Cosplay Party

Posted by YuHan, Monday, August 31st, 2009 – 19:50 CEST

Tonight we had a grand gathering with many Cosplayers from all over Austria…

28.08.09 Live Bit Presentation: Microbloggingsuit for an industrial worker

Posted by YuHan, Sunday, August 30th, 2009 – 14:35 CEST

Flaviu Moldovan brought us to his microblogging world through his art project; Microbloggingsuit for an industrial worker. The repetitive actions from three workers in Romania were verbalized into live twitters. They were not known, but now are connected to the…

28.08.09-30.08.09 Second Life Weekend Trip

Posted by YuHan, Sunday, August 30th, 2009 – 14:26 CEST

In the virtual world we visited the key places of 80+1: a journey around the world. The difference between the the reality and second life is sometimes hard to be seen. Beijing, Dubai, Okinawa and many more were in our…

28.08.2009 Web 2.0 Concert

Posted by YuHan, Saturday, August 29th, 2009 – 22:50 CEST

DJ Bernhard Pusch defined IDENTITY in his unique way. How people talked about, sing about , discuss about identity and Internet was remixed into the beats of the music, which served as the battery for the whole concert. Different identities…

26.08.2009 Web love and thriller story reading session

Posted by YuHan, Saturday, August 29th, 2009 – 22:26 CEST

On August 26th we read the two stories created online. The whole session was flavored up by the guitar music that brought everybody into the scenes. We were curious about how the stories we wrote ended…

Internet addiction center opens in a Seattle (USA) suburb

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Friday, August 21st, 2009 – 16:00 CEST

After Internet addiction centers have opened up in South Korea, China, and Japan, now the United States has just opened its first facility in Fall City, Washington, in Pacific Northwest region of the country.

The institution, formally called reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery…

Austrian, Mongolian partner to unearth buried Buddhist artifacts

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Friday, August 7th, 2009 – 08:37 CEST

Last weekend, Austrian online media producer and amateur archeologist Michael Eisenriegler (above) and his Mongolian colleague, Zundoi Altangerel, uncovered two crates worth of irreplaceable artifacts, including manuscripts, Buddhist statues and clothing.

It was shown live and online last weekend at the Hauptplatz in…

March 18 Movement Fights for Bloggers’ Rights

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Monday, June 29th, 2009 – 17:47 CEST

On March 18, 2009, Iran gained the dubious honor of becoming the first nation in the world to have a blogger die while in custody.

That first victim was Omid Reza Mirsayafi, a 29-year-old Iranian blogger and journalist who wrote largely…

North Korea as Revealed by Google Earth, Citizen Activists

Posted by Florica Vlad, Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 – 16:12 CEST

For many years, citizen activists have been pooling information about North Korea in order to reveal the locations of hidden prisons and other sites of interest in the humanitarian effort to effect greater transparency on the isolated regime.

However, according to…

Facebook Creates Online Civil Society Clashes in Iran

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Monday, May 25th, 2009 – 22:53 CEST

There’s been lots of online activity in the run-up to the Iranian presidential election, which is coming up on June 12.

There’s a four-way election currently going on between the two main conservative candidates, including incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohsen Rezaei,…

Local Economies and the Church of Life After Shopping

Posted by Florica Vlad, Thursday, May 14th, 2009 – 22:17 CEST

The New York-based activist, Reverend Billy is an Elvis-inspired, white-suit-clad iconoclast and self-ordained minister of his own Church, the Church of Life After Shopping. As reverend, he preaches the evils of consumerism.

But with a 40 member choir and a feature…

New Scientist: Eight things you didn’t know about the internet

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Thursday, May 7th, 2009 – 23:12 CEST

The internet is a tool that we all use every day. It’s arguably one of the greatest inventions of the last half century. But it’s had a profound impact on the way that we interact with each other and with society…

More bandwidth coming to Africa

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Monday, May 4th, 2009 – 11:09 CEST

There’s been much discussion lately about how Africa’s bandwidth is too little, and too expensive. I’d argue, in fact, that this bandwidth problem, coupled with insane bureaucracy and corruption have kept prices in Africa largely artificially high.

OLPC News makes the…

Cornell researchers use geotagged Flickr photos to create maps

Posted by Cyrus Farivar, Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 – 13:08 CEST

Occasionally when I upload a photo to Flickr, I’ll add some geotagging information if I have it readily available. Geotagging, for the uninitiated, is way to to tell Flickr where (down to the intersection) you took a particular photo. Basically,…