reBlog from Gerd Leonhard on November 23, 2009: MediaFuturist: Brilliant video: Douglas Rushkoff at Web2.0: radical abundance and how we get past "free"

I found this fascinating quote today:

Brilliant video: Douglas Rushkoff at Web2.0: radical abundance and how we get past "free" His message: we need to change the operating system of MONEY. Watch this and think. Peer-2-Peer value exchange - here we come.Gerd Leonhard on November 23, 2009, MediaFuturist: Brilliant video: Douglas Rushkoff at Web2.0: radical abundance and how we get past "free", Nov 2009

Though... by reblogging this I contribute to the very essence of the criticism on free...

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Mobile me in Barcelona

Checked in with my mobile - welcome to the 21st century - though printing on paper is much cheaper than checking your internet abroad I can tell you.


La Bodengraven and me, by La Pia

I won a price in a photo contest once

Did I ever tell you? Checked my name with google (yes yes, vanity is my middle name) and there it was: at the Holland Herald photo gallery.

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Lesser gods do not exist

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Poster for Children’s Foundation Bodhgaya made from paper leftovers and scrap. This foundation aims to help homeless Dalit (the so-called ‘untouchables’) children in Bihar, India and offers them education, medical care and a place to live. Design by Vos Broekema & Melanie Drent from Dutch agency I DON/T BUY IT. Photography by Arjan Benning.

Hotdocks Sweet 'n Sticky reminder

Being ill in the 21st century

Eva, whom I share my workspace with, and I are working apart together - thanks to flu and skype.

Not feeling to yummie

This weeks accessoiries: handkerchiefs, vitamine pills, liquorice for my throat, laptop, oranges and a warm sweater. Bleh.

Concert hall's friends 75 years

Daphne invited me to this special concert at the concert hall in Amsterdam.
Artists marked the occasion on the outside of the building.