I read your messages when I received them but have simply had no time to
react. So much is happening right now and at the same time I must try to
struggle through this economically disastrous life, that is, to work hard
to get some money for rent and food. I do consider the presentation
important but it probably won't save me from starvation right now so the
priority has gotten lower :(
On Friday I was awfully busy working for the 1st International Browser
Day. Those 17 hours in paradiso.nl organised by http://www.waag.org/ where
I'm at now were perhaps the most important event in my life. In total 38
new browser concepts were presented and some of them were brilliant!
Moreover they were made by art students (graphic design, interaction
design etc.) who previously knew nothing about the Internet, some had not
even used computers before. Still those young students, about my age, were
able to conceptualize the net and come up with good presentations of their
own ideas in one month! Obviously the teachers in the participating
schools did their share but still I find quite remarkable that those so
called normal people, ie. non-netheads, could come up with such brilliant
results. Times are really changing and net is coming wonderfully
mainstream! A lot of the browsers approached the net from a house-wife
perspective and critisized the former engineer minded world strongly.
Obviously I loved it. And am reporting it back to Finland to get some
food which unfortunately takes most of my time now.
In the evening there was a political debate over the Public Domain 2.0,
ie. the role of public domain (the Dutch concept) in the future society.
Most of the talk was in Dutch so I couldn't follow everything but it was
fun to meet friends there and amazing to see how the hackers (hac-tic,
hippies from hell, xs4all.nl etc), politicians (members of parlament),
media broadcasters (tv, radio, newspapers), authors (poets, journalists,
musicians), public library people got together to talk. Also some
http://www.isoc.nl/ people were there and staid to drink and party the
night.
Today there's some kind of videoconferencing theatre here at the Waag.
It's hopefully visible at http://www.waag.org/live/ (2000 CET)
I'm trying to find out if the same technology they use for creating the
theatre play over the net could be use for our shared presentation in
July. We are all not that visual, though, and not so into video but if
people really go to forests the environment would be fun to see for the
conference audience.
Actually <pp>, one of Net People back home in Oulu, is working for the
Mobile City project there and putting up media servers for live video.
Nokia is with in the MC and they're trying out some wireless mobile
gsm-telephone like devices that are capable of at least receiving video.
Perhaps they could come up with a nice way to send the streams out from
the forests too :)
So I'd like to finish the paper but have very little time now from other
works I need to do to simply survive. Thank you a lot from the comments
anyway and please let me know if there's still time.
+ an + ~ Toni ~ : (t . !