In 2006, the artist and computer scientist Jaron Lanier published an incisive, groundbreaking and highly controversial essay about “digital Maoism” — about the downside of online collectivism, and the enshrinement by Web 2.0 enthusiasts of the “wisdom of the crowd.” In that manifesto Mr. Lanier argued that design (or ratification) by committee often does not result in the best product, and that the new collectivist ethos — embodied by everything from Wikipedia to “American Idol” to Google searches — diminishes the importance and uniqueness of the individual voice, and that the “hive mind” can easily lead to mob rule.

Zoals beloofd in dit topic en tot 't nut van 't algemeen, post ik hierbij een korte beschrijving van de hoekzoeker DR-6 van Nikon.

Er zijn genoeg fotografen die er niks mee hebben, maar persoonlijk zweer ik bij een tekentablet voor het bewerken van foto's. Zelf werk ik al een aantal jaar op een Wacom Graphire4. Van Wacom kreeg ik hun Bamboo model ter review opgestuurd en dus moest mijn Graphire hier een paar weken het veld voor ruimen.

Asus may be pushing the Eee PC 1002HA as the new and improved Eee PC 1000H. The new model is thinner, lighter, and better looking than its predecessor. But after having spent a few months with an Asus Eee PC 1000H I can say there are some reasons you might want to choose it over the 1002HA.

Maar hoe verhoudt dit album zich tot het eerdere werk van Folds? Voorganger Songs For Silverman - uit 2005 alweer! - vond ik een hoogtepunt in Folds' oeuvre en daar komt 'ie met dit album eerlijk gezegd niet overheen. Dat wil echter niet zeggen dat Way To Normal een tegenvaller is. Integendeel. Met het eerder genoemde "You Don't Know Me" en het fraaie "Cologne" staan er geheide livekrakers op en het algehele niveau is onverminderd hoog.

Audio Hijack Pro. It’s a piece of software designed to capture audio input and output from your computer, and route it into a file. This is one of those tasks that it does not necessarily occur to you to do—until you play back a video and realize you want to capture a piece of dialogue for a ringtone, for instance, or wish that you could listen to your favorite radio show on your iPod. Or, you want to record a podcast. It doesn’t really matter how it works, but essentially, it wiretaps the system audio stream, which can be split up by application or taken as a whole. Then, it can apply filters to it, and then convert the file (natively, an AIFF) to the format of your choice. Ta-da!

Author Keir Thomas has dropped by with an end-user's perspective on the all-new Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). This is something Keir knows all about, having written two best-selling books about Ubuntu: Beginning Ubuntu Linux and Ubuntu Kung Fu (recently excerpted here).

There are a million things people take for granted when talking about either Lightroom or iPhoto – for starters, that one is a professional tool and the other is a toy. But toys can become quite sophisticated, and professional tools tend to go mainstream as technology matures – plus photography is a field where that distinction is fast blurring, to a point.

It is precisely this level of scientific research that makes True Enough interesting. Manjoo doesn’t simply say that we live in a fractured society where people can choose their own reality. He provides extensive psychological research that proves why our brains function that way.

George Soros had het al voorspeld: het idee dat de markt uit zichzelf naar evenwicht neigt, is achterhaald. Juist in steeds extremere koersstijgingen schuilt het gevaar, schrijft hij in het onlangs verschenen De internationale kredietcrisis (Contact, € 19,95). Zijn vooruitziende blik blijkt ook al uit een boek van tien jaar geleden: ‘George Soros slaat alarm’ kopte Boeken toen (4.12.1998): ‘Het centrale thema van zijn boek is dat „marktfundamentalisme een grotere bedreiging vormt voor de open samenleving dan welke totalitaire ideologie dan ook.”’

It's always interesting to read a smart person's intelligent yet devastating take-down of an argument, partly because it's so difficult to do. The intellectual scene is littered with personal attacks, sweeping generalizations, or humorless nitpicking that leave even agreeable readers feeling sympathetic for the person on the other end. If you want an example of a professional, thoughtful, detailed, and nonetheless devastating critique of a thesis, read Jon Chait's review of Naomi Klein's bestselling book The Shock Doctrine in the New Republic.

Woot! Today I get to be among the very first to share with you the planet’s newest camera: the much-anticipated Nikon D90. You may have been attuned to all the recent leaks, buzz and rumors of a new Nikon camera coming soon, but I can assure you, this here ain’t no rumor. It’s the real deal and I know so because my crew and I spent several weeks testing and experimenting with this gem months in advance of today’s release, and our efforts make up the launch campaign.

The Kodak Zi6 is a handheld, flash-memory-based video camera. You press the power button, wait about a second for it to start up, then hit the record button. Hit the record button again and the video is saved. Just plug it into a USB port and drag the video files to the desktop.

I’m a huge fan of Ubuntu Linux. I’ve used many flavors of Linux over the years, and Ubuntu is my favorite by far. So it pains me to write this. For my needs, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is worse than 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). I cannot recommend Hardy Heron a

Van Eizo Nederland ontvingen we de Eizo CG241W monitor en een bijpassende X-Rite DTP94B kalibrator. Deze 24,1 inch (61 centimeter) breedbeeld monitor is gericht op de professionele fotograaf en serieuze amateurs. Met een prijs van rond de tweeduizend euro

I have been getting a lot of questions from other photographers about how I use my SB-800 speed lights with the Elimchrom Skyport remote radio triggers. When I started with remote flash I first used the cheap e-bay triggers but started to get frustrated w

Head's argument is much like that of David Noble in Forces of Production: we had a choice about how to use new technology. We could use it to turn employees into ever-more-skilled craftspeople, allowing them to be more effective and creative in their jobs

"The 11th Hour picks up where An Inconvenient Truth left off by drawing the connections between seemingly disparate environmental and humanitarian issues (global warming, deforestation, poverty, globalization, etc.) and defining the space where the viewer

Ollywomp.us Nokia N800 category.

Initial impressions of the Thinking Rock application that implements the Getting Things Done philosophy on your desktop.

Thom Hogan's Nikon area, including reviews ofSLRs, lenses, predictions on Nikon, and the Nikon Field Guides.