Posts Tagged ‘ culture ’

Cat Interlude

May 27, 2010
By bicyclemark
Cat Interlude

Greetings once again from the neon streets of Tokyo. The TBLI conference is in full swing here and that means yours truely is working hard to make sure technology works during this two day event. Ther
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bm257 Filesharing Philosophy with Peter of the Pirate Bay.

April 7, 2008
By bicyclemark

In some parts of the world people still use the term "steal" to describe getting music through bittorent or other systems. At the same time, many people use the term filesharing or downloading to des
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Dutch Parties Shrinking

January 16, 2008
By bicyclemark
Dutch Parties Shrinking

I'm fascinated by associations, groups, unions, fanclubs... well maybe not fanclubs.  But if there is a group of people dedicated to something, and they have meetings and membership cards, I'm intere
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Fading Language, Losing Culture

July 5, 2007
By bicyclemark
Fading Language, Losing Culture

I'm sitting in the Portuguese Consulate in Rotterdam today, for what is always an entertaining adventure. While there isn't an enormous amount of Portuguese flocking to live and work in the Netherlan
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Rotting American Image

June 4, 2007
By bicyclemark
Rotting American Image

During one of my very fun nights out on the town in Berlin my two new friends offerred to show me their favorite night spots. And as we walked town the now typical hipster street, we ran into a big c
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85% Voter Turnout

May 6, 2007
By bicyclemark
85% Voter Turnout

Greetings from an almost secret location in Belgium where I'll be stationed for a few days. Coincidentally, just close enough to France so that everyone is this area is clinging to the French electio
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bm183 Amsterdam Creative Spaces, The Story of OT301

February 7, 2007
By bicyclemark
bm183 Amsterdam Creative Spaces, The Story of OT301

The city of Amsterdam is famous for many things, among them, the great movement of creative people who occupied abandoned buildings over the past 30 years. Yet slowly the movement is changing, as ar
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An Inspiring Amsterdam Movement

January 9, 2007
By bicyclemark
An Inspiring Amsterdam Movement

Over the years, I've often mentioned the war-on-squatters being carried out by the government here in Amsterdam, and seemingly - throughout European cities. Everywhere you look there seems to be som
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