Tractatus
> Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. — Wittgenstein
A Learning Network for Berlin
There’s a **long road ahead to bring Europe’s “start-up darling” Berlin up to par with learning & and the web.** Digital literacy and simple computational competencies are often lacking; and there’s no indication yet that Berlin schools will step to fill the gap.* There’s an…
republica recap
A recap from [republica](http://re-publica.de/12/): ## Open Video ## I hosted a **workshop on Open Video and Popcorn.js** together with [Henrik Mitsch](https://twitter.com/#!/hmitsch) and [Cole Gillespie](https://twitter.com/#!/theCole). I gave a 15min intro to Popcorn, showed some demos, and then we broke into groups to discuss opportunities with open…
Smart Garbage
>”Smart garbage”: objects self-disclose how to fix, disassemble and recycle them. — Mike Kuniavsky, [Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design](http://books.google.de/books?id=-WLyUCBBUVAC&lpg=PA82&ots=HA1-u1xpox&dq=Mike%20Kuniavsky%2C%20smart%20garbage&hl=de&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false). Inspired by a Bruce Sterling lecture in 1999: > Smart garbage doesn’t fester in darkness, ignorance and denial. It becomes a resource.
Quality
> Motorcycle riding is romantic while motorcycle maintenance is purely classic. > — Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Sitting in Prinzessinnen Gärten, enjoying the first outdoor lunch of the season, I got to talking with a Berlin transplant about Quality. In…