Die iPod-Hülle zum selber designen, selber ausdrucken und selber falten ...

Sie sind einer von über zwei Millionen stolzen Besitzern des iPods oder iPod mini, aber haben bisher noch keine Tasche gefunden, die exclusiv genug wäre, Ihren liebsten Begleiter standesgemäß zu kleiden? Dann sind Sie hier richtig. Wir bieten Ihnen den iWrap. Diese stylische iPodhülle ist ein "muss" für jeden überzeugten iPod-Besitzer. Schützen Sie den besten MP3-Player der Welt mit der individuellsten Hülle der Welt - dem iWrap.

iWrap - The real iPod Case inklusive Faltanleitung.

[Via: http://www.ipod-fun.de/]

....oder lieber Kaffee ?




Via: http://www.netdisaster.com/

EarthCore is the world's first podcast-only novel: you can't find it in stores, you can't download the full audio, and the only way to find out what happens is to subscribe to the podcast. My goal is to generate 5,000 subscribers to this book, which will demonstrate the power of Podcasting and generate attention from publishers.

This novel is a cross between episodic modern-action fare like "24" and classic sci-fi movies like Predator and Starship Troopers.

http://www.scottsigler.net/earthcore/

Marc Glaser gewährt in der Online Journalism Review einen Blick in die Praxis der Citizen Media Editors:

There's something inherently like the "Odd Couple" about the pairing of citizen media with a traditional newsroom. If citizen media is about being all-inclusive, with news as a conversation, old-line media has been about news coming from the mouths and pens of journalists, with the readers left to fend for themselves in the "Letters to the Editor."

But when those old-line news organizations go online, they must compete with local bloggers, Craigslist, Slashdot and any online source that lets readers do the talking. So it's not surprising that the more industrious news sites have started to ask their readers to take on citizen media projects, submit photos, start a blog or give live online feedback that runs beneath each staff-written story.

But who do you put on the front line? Who can oversee these efforts with a light but discerning touch, allowing free speech without inviting lawsuits?

Part chat moderator, part copy editor and part ombudsman, the citizen media editor is such a new role that no one really has that title, yet. ...


Vollständiger Artikel:
How to succeed as a citizen media editor
There's a new animal in online newsrooms -- the editor in charge of citizen journalism and blogs. These pioneers share best practices and tips.
[Quelle: http://www.ojr.org/ via notebook online journalismus ]

Erich Kästner - Der April

Der Regen klimpert mit einem Finger
die grüne Ostermelodie.
Das Jahr wird älter und täglich jünger.
O Widerspruch voll Harmonie!

Der Mond in seiner goldnen Jacke
versteckt sich hinter dem Wolken-Store.
Der Ärmste hat links eine dicke Backe
und kommt sich ein bisschen lächerlich vor.
Auch diesmal ist es dem März geglückt:
er hat ihn in den April geschickt.

Und schon hoppeln die Hasen,
mit Pinsel und Tuben
und schnuppernden Nasen,
aus Höhlen und Gruben
durch Gärten und Straßen
und über den Rasen
in Ställe und Stuben.

Dort legen sie Eier, als ob's gar nichts wäre,
aus Nougat, Krokant und Marzipan.
Der Tapferste legt eine Bonbonniere,
er blickt dabei entschlossen ins Leere -
Bonbonnieren sind leichter gesagt als getan!

Dann geht es ans Malen. Das dauert Stunden.
Dann werden noch seidene Schleifen gebunden.
Und Verstecke gesucht. Und Verstecke gefunden:
Hinterm Ofen, unterm Sofa,
in der Wanduhr, auf dem Gang,
hinterm Schuppen, unterm Birnbaum,
in der Standuhr, auf dem Schrank.

Da kräht der Hahn den Morgen an!
Schwupp sind die Hasen verschwunden.
Ein Giebelfenster erglänzt im Gemäuer.
Am Gartentor lehnt und gähnt ein Mann.
Über die Hänge läuft grünes Feuer
die Büsche entlang und die Pappeln hinan.
Der Frühling, denkt er, kommt also auch heuer.
Er spürt nicht Wunder noch Abenteuer,
weil er sich nicht mehr wundern kann.

Liegt dort nicht ein kleiner Pinsel im Grase?
Auch das kommt dem Manne nicht seltsam vor.
Er merkt gar nicht, dass ihn der Osterhase
auf dem Heimweg verlor.

Erich Kästner (Quelle)

SwissBlogs, one of the best-known Swiss blog directories, has become too much for one person (me) to maintain, even with a little help (Matt). Plus, you all know by now, that if I’m pretty good at having ideas and launching stuff, I’m much less good at keeping them going. I guess that’s just who I am.

I am therefore looking for motivated (and multilingual!) people to help me keep this directory going, and improve it (it has hardly changed since I quickly threw a few lines of dirty code together over 18 months ago).

I would like to put together a team of 5-6 people.

Alles weitere hier.

[Via: Stéphanie Booth ]

Stéphanie Booth empfiehlt einen zwei-sprachigen Artikel zur Weblog-Thematik zur Lektüre: A Coeur ouvert sur la toile - Willkommen in der Blogosphäre, (obacht PDF !)

Der Autor des Artikels führt übrigens auch ein eigenes Weblog: http://www.bonpourtonpoil.ch/bptp/

[Via: Climb to the Stars - Stephanie Booth ]

Hat eventuell jemand das neue Moleskine Reporter Notebook schon in "echt" gesehen?

[Via: 43 Folders]

Übrigens, auch immer wieder gerne gelesen: http://www.moleskinerie.com/

Hier gibt's den Artikel im Baslerstab zum Bloggertreffen in Basel vom letzten Samstag zum Nachlesen. Der trans hat schon darüber berichtet und auch matti, Stefan ....:
4. Schweizer Bloggertreffen - Das Internet als Tagebuch.

Aus dem NASA-Newsletter:

NASA Science News for March 21, 2005

It's hip. It's trendy. It's ... NASA? Actually, it's NASA on your iPod.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/21mar_podcast.htm?list561489

The Science@NASA Podcast feed is available at http://science.nasa.gov/podcast.xml.

ourmedia (alpha) jetzt seit rund einer Woche online mit beeindruckenden Ankündigungen:

Come on in, the media's fine!
Submitted by JD Lasica on March 12, 2005 - 1:19pm.

We are in the midst of the greatest boon in grassroots creativity in ages. Tools once available only to a professional elite are now being taken up by everyday citizens. Just as weblogs let millions of people become part of "the media," so too are new tools empowering individuals to create video, audio, playlists and other works of personal media and to share them with a global audience.

The personal media revolution is turning multimedia. Digital stories, video diaries, documentary journalism, home-brew political ads, music videos, fan films, Flash animations, student films – all kinds of short multimedia works have begun to flower. Alas, the most compelling ones are scattered across the Web or hidden away on thousands of PCs, laptops and closed networks. These works deserve a wider audience.

Ourmedia.org is an open source media project that seeks to expose, preserve and advance works of grassroots creativity. Individuals, communities and organizations have begun telling digital stories that enthrall, entertain and often move audiences to take positive action. Plain text or the cool detachment of "objective" media do not come close to matching the emotional power of multimedia stories laced with personal narrative.

Ourmedia is three things in one:

1. a destination web site at ourmedia.org that serves as a repository; we offer free storage and free bandwidth for your media, which gets exposed to a global community;
2. a media registry based on open schemas that will let other web sites tap into the network and share their own media content;
3. soon, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing amateur, hobbyist, semi-professional, and professional works.

Unlike other initiatives that are pure-play stand-alone web sites, Ourmedia's vision is to bring personal media to millions of desktops through playlists, video jukeboxes, visual albums, and built-in media libraries. Members upload works with a range of rights, from Creative Commons-licensed works to public domain works to fully copyrighted works.

Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive are supporting this project with free storage and bandwidth for grassroots media. But Ourmedia is more than a repository that preserves works for the ages. We'll serve as a resource center and learning toolkit for creating rich and compelling works; our members are creating their own topical community spaces; and we’re building tools that will let anyone search for digital media, download it and reuse or remix it, with proper attribution.

Supporting this project are thought leaders in the creative community, technologists, educators, and digital-preservation librarians. Rather than relying on a paid staff, we have built a do-it-yourself platform that lets users anywhere in the world upload material, download shareable media, rank their favorite works (coming soon), and offer commentary and tutorials. All for free.

Over time, we expect Ourmedia to grow into the world's largest collection of home-brew media. (Quelle)

http://www.ourmedia.org/

[Via New Media Musings]