Posts Tagged ‘ technology ’

Our Gadgets, Our Planet

Our Gadgets, Our Planet

May 9, 2011

  This week I will meet up with David Kousemaker of TechTravels to interview him about his work on the issue of where our old gadgets end up. More specifically we will delve into a topic that the mainstream world only occasionally alludes to when they mention how "somewhere in...

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Getting to know Fairphone

Getting to know Fairphone

May 3, 2011

  For the past few months I have been watching online and listening to conversations offline about the initiative by a group of people here in Amsterdam which looks at how mobile phones are made and how their production effects people and the environment around the world.  It is one of those...

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Hacker Camp 2009 Impressions

Hacker Camp 2009 Impressions

August 15, 2009

In many ways it is as if we never left. 2 years ago I sat at a picnic table under a tarp on the Polish-German border on the site of a former East German military base with a couple of thousand hackers and general purpose nerds.  2 years later...

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bmtv54 Chaos Communication Camp 2007

bmtv54 Chaos Communication Camp 2007

August 10, 2007

One of the world's largest and most notoriously crazy open air hacker camps is underway here in Germany, and as luck would have it, I'm here too! I am after all, an information-news hacker. This vlog entry contains clips from my first three days here, free of comment, with...

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