The NY Times put an interesting and variable infographic out about how different people spent their day. “The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.” (via)

“In Berlins Start-up-Szene hält sich die Angst vor der Krise in Grenzen. Die Branche der kleinen Internet-Firmen, die mit ihren Laptops die Cafés bevölkern, hat aus alten Crashs gelernt.”

Die taz hat heute einen interessanten Artikel über die Berliner Start-up-Szene und das Agenturleben in Berlin-Mitte rausgebracht. Lesenswert.

“Recently, there has been a quality renaissance in the discussion about the economic future of journalism. While some are still touting the one miracle solution (usually alluding to Google’s business model and success), a lot of ideas have arisen that will probably make up for the economic future of journalism as a whole. Time for a summary.

(…) The future of journalism is not what Google would do – way less spectacular, it’s little bit of everything that I summarized above.” – read command.

Andrew Savikas wrote a long and good article about Content is a Service Business on O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publising. Excerpt:

“Whether they realize it or not, media companies are in the service business, not the content business. If you are going to a restaurant, you are paying for the preparation of the food and the experience of eating it in the restaurant, not the food (content) itself.”

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Paris, Zurich and now Berlin: ILLUSTRATIVE 2009 will return to the creative capital to celebrate the cutting-edge works of contemporary graphic art for the fifth time around. From the 15th of October to the 1st of November, works ranging from drawing, graphic prints, painting and monumental mural collages to graphically inspired 3D-illustrations, book art and animation will be on show. With more than 60 artists from all across the world, ILLUSTRATIVE brings together an inspiring cornucopia of visual contemporary culture in the Villa Elisabeth located in the heart of Berlin.

Peter Sennhauser schreibt auf netzwertig.com, dass twitter der erste wirkliche Dienst ist, der die drei wichtigen Eigenschaften des Web – Echtzeit, öffentlich und durchsuchbar – kombiniert und bislang kostenlos und uneingeschränkt anbietet, und gar nicht in einer technisch-neuen Errungeschaft gründet.

“Viele Dienste haben bereits eine Verknüpfung zweier dieser drei Eigenschaften geboten. Blogging zum Beispiel ist zwar öffentlich und durchsuchbar, aber Echtzeit-Information stand nie im Vordergrund. Auf Facebook verbreiten die Teilnehmer zwar in Echtzeit Updates über das, was sie grade tun – aber die sind nicht öffentlich. Und die Urform der Echtzeit-Kommunikation im Web, der Chat, war zwar öffentlich, aber nur für die aktuellen Teilnehmer und nicht durchsuchbar.” (via)

Apple’s iPhone became one of the most popular cameras in the flickr community (via)

The BBC Two is planning a documentary series in four parts about ‘digital revolution’, presenting the way the web changed our society, in an open source cooperation with the internet community, showing the users some stuff to comment on and allowing them to make proposals to develop the plot.

Right now the users are able to comment on blog entry by Aleks Krotoski, who will present the series. Next step after the iPlayer BBC now connects the ‘old’ TV with the web society. (via heise)

Your Majesty finally unveiled a new site showcasing their extremely nice projects from the past few years. Be sure to check out the download section for some nice wallpapers as well. ;)