Crichton, the media guru

Refresshing read, this article by bestselling author Michael Crichton on the future of the American media ... especially the part about the media being part of society's problems or the big ego's of self-indulged media personalities ... which reminds me somewhat of the attitude problems even our tv journalists seem to develop.

The amazing thing however is that this 'Mediasaurus' essay was written in an issue of Wired in the fall of ... 1993.

Entertaining read from a visionary proclaiming the death of traditional media long before we even had a widescale Internet.

we choose the moon (bis)

The more I look @ this site, the more I'm impressed with the concept behind it. Just think about it. When they actually landed on the moon 40 years ago next week(did they?) there was a certain kind of scepticism about it actually having happened. 'they never landed on the moon! It's all fake! It's all part of o giant conspiracy against the USSR! It was filmed in a studio somewhere in a desert in California! ...'

Now we are watching a so-called realtime recreation of an event that happened 40 years ago. Great concept!

But to me, the logical next step would be watching a real time recreation of something happening now that is not taking place or has never happened.

If you can do this, you basically can do anything, right? So why not have a www.thekingsfuneral.org to watch in realtime with realtime meaning ... euh .. nothing while other stuff is going on? I find that fascinating and not just a little bit scary ...

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we choose the moon

I was 9 and our parents woke us up in the middle of the night to watch it but for those who never did, wechoosethemoon.org is an online recreation of the famous Apollo 11 flight to the moon. They have already been launched, the mission is in stage 6 at the moment, somewhere between earth and moon. The really cool thing is that you can follow the live transmissions of the crew on ... twitter (actually there are 3 tweets: from Houston control, from the crew and from the Eagle). This is really cool stuff!

Life made simple ...

... by using a simple idea. How do you visualize 250 million people on Facebook? OK, that's a lot of people, zillions, 23 times the size of the Belgian population, 1/24th of the world population, ...You can also just make a cute little movie. With thanks to jevedebe.