After annual Wikimania – International Wikimedia conference in Taipei, two interesting articles/readings (New York Times): interview with Jimbo Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the other on presentations, panels, discussions during the conference.
Category: media
William Gibson interview on his new novel, futurism, SL
The sci-fi he novelist, famous for inventing the word ‘cyberspace’, William Gibson, is launching these days his latest book Spook Country . In the interview he reveals the relationship between technology and society ever since his cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, also what he missed in it, why he’s not a technophile, …
4 – my home town meme
Seems that tagging and writing memes are popular these days, so I’ve been tagged by Robyn, to write 4 memes on Belgrade, my favourite corners or places, which idea came first from Robert from Middle Zone Musings. This is hard as each corner of the city has its own charm, …
Charles Simic in US Poet Laureate
The news via and from LoC, say that first Serbian Poet laureate joins a long line of distinguished US poets. Charles Simic (b.1938, Belgrade) moved in the 60’s to US and began his career working at the Chicago Sun Times. More about his work and selected bibliography here.
Finally Babylon Virtual Library!
Today via we could find out the Open Library has very interesting and ambitious project to create the world online catalogue of every book in every language ever published. Aaron Swartz, leader of the technical team working on Open Library, suggests that every book ever published needs a single authoritative …
Van Morrison in Belgrade
This summer’s refreshments in the city, for those who are staying, are culture, music, art, design. Van the Man, Irish singer & songwriter, author, poet, artist with rich biography, known officially as Van Morrison, who is on tour, and is coming to Belgrade, on September 21st. The concert will take …
BELEF 07: Here and There is Over Here
Belgrade is the main center of the art, culture, contemporary international scene this summer. This year’s Belef07 (Belgrade Summer Festival) offers diversity and richness of culture programe during the summer with lots of events from July 23 – August 12 2007. Program of Belef presents the greatness of events in …