[Original German Blog-Post] Remember that time is money. Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Tradesman When Benjamin Franklin had “snatched the lightning from the skies” with the lightning rod and “the scepter from the tyrants” with the American Independence, it was hardly possible to doubt words of this titanic hero of the enlightenment. His most […]
Author: Joerg Blumtritt
Joerg Blumtritt (*1970) is data scientist and blogger. He co-founded the companies Datarella and BAYDUINO, based in Munich, Germany, and Baltic Data Science in Gdansk, Poland. Datarella develops data-driven products for the Internet of Things, BDS delivers data-science-as-a-service, BAYDUINO builds open source hardware.
Before that, Joerg had worked for media companies in Europe and the US. Having graduated in statistics and political sciences with a thesis on machine learning, Joerg started as a researcher in behavioral sciences, focused on nonverbal communication.
As political activist and researcher, Joerg works on projects regarding future democratic participation and open source IoT. He is co-author of the Slow Media Manifesto and blogs about media and art at slow-media.net, about data and the future of social research at beautifuldata.net, and about the IoT at datarella.com.
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Wired Magazine
[Original German Blog Post] “We know a lot about digital technology, and we are bored with it. Tell us something we’ve never heard before, in a way we’ve never seen before.” That is the vision of Louis Rosetto. And motivated by this vision, he founded Wired in 1993 – the very year, when the Mosaic-Browser […]
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Virtual Broadcasting
[Original German Blog-Post] “What men share with all other forms of animal life was not considered to be human.” “Action, the only activity that goes on directly between men without the intermediary of things or matter, corresponds to the human condition of plurality … this plurality is specifically the condition — not only the conditio […]
[Original German Blog-Post] “Lord Weidenfeld peut opposer à ces violentes critiques [des médias], d’une part la dette de la démocratie envers les médias, dits lents, que sont le journal et le livre. Ils ont beaucoup contribué à l’éveil et au développement de la démocratie. Et il peut aussi mieux que tout autre, par son action […]
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Paper and Sustainability
[Original German Blog-Post] “Sustainability” says the man in the video on the screen, “means to do the same things all day. The opposite of flexible” – For me this marks one of the most impressive moments of the Mediamundo Congress for sustainable media production that took place in Berlin these days. For some this term […]
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Theodore Gray: The Elements
[Original German Blog-Post] Empedokles postulated in the 5th century B.C. that the world should consist of a finite number of different elements. His philosophy of The Four Elements became the base of occidental science for the next 2000 years. Not until the 17th century, the idea of various compounds of fire, water, air and earth […]
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Slow Media Camp 2010
[Original German Blog-Post] The first Slow Media Camp #slow10 will take place on June 9th 2010. New Media Hype or Media Denial? Slow Media is about a third way to follow. In the sessions we will present examples of Slow Media, discuss how Slow Media will evolve in the future and especially in howfar valueable […]
[Original German Blog Post] Eternal must that progress be Which Nature through futurity Decrees the human soul; Capacious still, it sthttp://en.slow-media.net/wp-admin/edit.phpill improves As through the abyss of time it moves, Or endless ages roll. Its knowledge grows by every change; Through science vast we see it range That none may here acquire; The pause of […]
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[Original German Blog Post] What is call ‘standard model’ of particle physics – model implying the provisional character – gives an impressive interpretation of many aspects of our world.Spektrum.de / Weltbild vor dem Umbruch Today the great day has arrived at LHC – the large particle accelerator at European research institute CERN. Why is it […]