Bookmarks for April 30th through May 1st
These are my links for April 30th through May 1st:
- Liquide Demokratie statt Mauer-Taktik: Flüssiges Wissen | Netzpiloten.de – das Beste aus Blogs, Videos, Musik und Web 2.0 – Mit den Möglichkeiten der Vernetzung im Web erhöht sich allerdings die Wahrscheinlichkeit enorm, auf kluge und weise Menschen zu stoßen, die einen hilfreichen Beitrag zu einem Thema leisten können. Es reduziert die Möglichkeiten der Meinungsdiktatoren in Wirtschaft, Politik und Medien, Wissen zu horten und über monopolisiertes Wissen Macht auszuüben. Das Ganze ist unglaublich anstrengend. Wer sich gegen die vielen Stimmen im Netz durchsetzen will, muss sehr gute Argumente haben und ein wahrer Überzeugungskünstler sein beim Bohren dicker Bretter, wie es Max Weber formuliert hat. Bedenkenträger sind aber unverzichtbar, um Innovationen und neue Ideen durchzusetzen
- 4 Key Insights From The 57-Day, Blitzkrieg Redesign Of Google+ | Co.Design: business + innovation + design – So what did the designers at Google actually do not just to make their product so much more beautiful, but so much more beautiful than Facebook? Co.Design talked to Google+ lead designer Fred Gilbert to unpack the subtle brilliance behind their awesome redesign–a redesign that was completed in less than two months–and his notes are full of lessons that could hone the experience of almost any product.
- Google+ Badge – Google+ Platform — Google Developers – The Google+ Badge allows you to connect your website to your Google+ page or your personal profile on Google+. Adding the badge to your website helps you connect with friends, fans, and customers. Since Google+ pages and profiles are different, we offer two slightly different versions of the badge: one for each case. Badges that link to Google+ profiles allow people to easily find you on Google+ and add you to a circle directly from your website. Badges that link to Google+ pages include these features and add some additional functionality. They help Google consolidate +1’s from your website and your Google+ page, and make your website eligible for Google+ Direct Connect.
- The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business – Harvard Business Review – Welcome to the worst decade since the Great Depression. Trillions of dollars of financial assets destroyed; trillions in shareholder value vanished; worldwide GDP stalled. But this isn’t a financial crisis, or even an economic one, says Umair Haque. It’s a crisis of institutions-ideals inherited from the industrial age. These ideals include rampant exploitation of resources, top-down command of resource allocations, withholding of information from stakeholders to control them, and a single-minded pursuit of profit for its own sake. All this has produced “thin value”-short-term economic gains that accrue to some people far more than others, and that don’t make us happier or healthier. It has left resources depleted and has spawned conflict, organizational rigidity, economic stagnation, and nihilism. In The New Capitalist Manifesto, Haque advocates a new set of ideals: (1)Renewal: Use resources sustainably to maximize efficiencies, (2) Democracy: Allocate resources democratically to foster organizational agility, (3) Peace: Practice economic non-violence in business, (4) Equity: Create industries that make the least well off better off, and (5) Meaning: Generate payoffs that tangibly improve quality of life. Yes, adopting these ideals requires bold and sustained changes. But some companies-Google, Walmart, Nike-are rising to the challenge. In this bold manifesto, Haque makes an irresistible business case for following their lead.
- Warum Gestalten… | designkritik.dk – Aus Gestaltersicht kann Design fast alles – und doch muss sich eine ganze Profession eingestehen, dass sie an den wichtigen Veränderungen der Welt nur geringen Anteil trägt. Dennoch findet das Potential des Entwerfens Anklang: Der Philosoph Peter Sloterdijk z.B. nennt Design “das Zeug zur Macht”, weil es die Menschen mit Kompetenzen ausstattet, mit der Welt zurechtzukommen.
- Lab 21: Servo motor control :Embedded Lab – A servo motor is a special geared DC motor equipped with an electronic circuit for controlling the direction of rotation, as well as the position, of the motor shaft. Because servo motors allows precise angular positioning of their output shaft, they are used extensively in robotics and radio-controlled cars, airplanes, and boats to control the motion of their various parts. In this lab session, we will first explore what a servo motor consists of and how it works and then illustrate how to interface it with a PIC microcontroller.
