See the crowd.Great discussions on blogging and Germany. Now I know why such deep thinkers and philosophers come from Germany.
My brain’s overheating trying to keep up with the German, though.
I’ve never received a Bluetooth virus before. Today, I got hit twice.
The first one was as I was jogging across the bridge in front of the Tour Eiffel. There were few pedestrians but a ton of cars stopped in traffic. I was recording a video and by pressing the buttons I almost installed the virus.
The second one was in the airport in Berlin, and there were only about 10 people around, most of who worked for the airport, and unlikely to be carrying a Series 60 smartphone.
Weird.
NOTE ADDED 25 APRIL 2005:
I find it interesting how many of you have been talking about the virus here. I thought to close the comments, but since they seem helpful, I’ll leave it open for longer. I just feel guilty that I don’t participate here at all. Nonetheless, you are free to keep talking amongst yourselves.
NOTE ADDED 03 NOVEMBER 2005:
Comments here have died down and are no longer useful, so I am closing comments. Read the existing comments to learn how to remove the virus, where to find removers, and what’s it all about. Tchau!
Everywhere you go in Paris, you are respectfully reminded of those who have contributed to France in some way, foreign or national. This sign is a memorial to a fallen French Resistance soldier who died during the Liberation of Paris.
But, there are also roads named after foreigners who have been friends of France – FDR, JFK, Churchill. The French honor their heros, foreign or national, and their memory is long.
Now, think of how much the French have helped the United States. In many ways, they were more helpful than the English. We went to war with England in 1818 (the burned the White House!), and the British blockaded the Union Navy during the Civil War. The French helped us as they could, during the Revolutionary War, many fighting alongside us. We owe them a lot for the Enlightenment that formed the basis for our country. They were close allies in World War 1 and 2 (ok, so was Britain).
All this has made of think back to the childish antics encouraged a few years back when the French disagreed with us on the Iraq War. I think we treated a very close friend unfairly. If I had a best friend who deeply disagreed with me on something important to me, I wouldn’t destroy that friendship. I would either listen more to my friend, or amicably agree to disagree. A long-term friendship is more important than any single disagreement.
I think a disagreement of a year or so is no foundation for destroying a centuries-long friendship.
How sad. How petty.
Sigh…
Link: Golden Swamp: Lifeblog for Learning.
Lifeblog for Learning
Nokia proudly announced in a recent press release a software and service called Lifeblog. It powers a cell phone to collect images and video which the software then organizes chronologically and makes available for reuse. This principle would be ideal for gathering materials for learning something, like lesson assignments and page scans. The kids already have the phones. But the way schooling is set up the wireless world is turned off. That is increasingly a reason school is becoming irrelevant, or at the least, out of touch.
Link: TANKERx – Thoughts, Meditations and Brain Dumps: SMARTPHONE: The Difference Between Cool and Brill!.
Take, for example, my favourite piece of software at the moment, Nokia Lifeblog. I don’t have to do or know anything about my Smartphone to use it. I take my photos or videos, plug in the phone and there they are, on my PC, organised in a TimeLine with the messages that I have sent and received presenting me with a virtual account of my day! I mean, that’s just brill! It’s not efficient, it doesn’t make me work any better, quicker or quieter – it just does what it does, complimenting the way I do things (just look at my Moblog), enabling me to be who I am and not what I need to be to make it work.
Thanks to Marius for pointing out that I am some sort of panelist at the blogger meeting in Berlin tomorrow. I thought I was just going to lurk about. Nope. Sneaky Heiko and Loïc are making me sing for my snacks.
Link: Blogger-Treffen Berlin.
2 Vortr�ge stehen bis jetzt fest:
1. Dr. Thorsten Wichmann: �bersicht �ber Entwicklung von Weblogs in Deutschland
2. Charlie Schick (Nokia): Vorstellung des Konzepts der LifeBlog-Software von Nokia
You can get more info here.
What?
LifeBlogger allows you to post your Nokia Lifeblog favorites to your blog.
Your images, text notes and videos can now be effortlessly posted to your blog using FTP (Blogger, etc.) or via the MetaWeblog API (Movable Type, Radio UserLand, etc.) [More…]
Link: LifeBlogger.
I haven’t used this in a while, since I use TypePad, so no problem blogging from Lifeblog 1.5. But it should be nice for those who use other blogging providers or those who think we are trying to build a proprietary protocol for blogging and rule the universe (bwahahaha!).
Let me know how it works.
And, way to go Erik.
If you haven’t read her yet, do so now!
Link: mobilegirl.
14feb – Thanks, Guillaume, for the correction!
