This month
THE AVANT/GARDE DIARIES
by sbrothier
The Avant/Garde Diaries is a digital portrait magazine that documents personal views on the avant-garde.
Rather than labeling people avant-garde, we try to see through the eyes of people, who we admire for what they do. For each article we ask contributors from the creative field to introduce someone or something they consider to be ahead of time and explain why. The result will be a compendium of various, very personal perspectives that disclose new ways of thinking and spread inspiration.
Corresponding to this digital platform, three-day festivals will be hosted in metropolises around the world. Each event will be curated by an expert from the creative industry, showcasing his or her personal view on avant-garde. For information on upcoming and past events please check the Event category on this site.
The Avant/Garde Diaries is a project initiated by German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz. All content remains editorially independent.
Syzygy 20things 2011
by gregg
We've taken 20 seminal events from the Internet in 2011 and weaved them into a single artwork.
Your challenge? Name all 20.
December 2011
John Lewis launches private accelerator DojoBoost | The Rude Baguette
by oseres (via)
Earlier this month at LeWeb, I ran into entrepreneur, professor and startup mentor John Lewis. Having been funded at least 6 times by my count, John Lewis has been living in Paris for quite some time, helping startups at LeCamping, mentoring at StartupWeekend events, and as a professor of finance at both HEC and IAE Gustave Eiffel. Using his experience launching and running software startups, John Lewis has announced the launch of DojoBoost, a new startup accelerator which may receive its first class of startups as early as March 2012.
Storefront for Art and Architecture | Exhibitions & Events: Exhibitions: Strategies for Public Occupation: Exhibition
“Strategies for Public Occupation” which invited submissions from architects, artists and citizens at large to offer their ideas for enabling acts of communication and action between the civil society and the structures of economic and political power. Gathering expertise from the various acts of civil occupation throughout the world during the last months
How To Use WordPress Custom Post Type Query to Sort by Date | DesignHammer Website Design and Development in North Carolina
by mozkart (via)
One thing we were trying to achieve was an Events listing solution that was fundamentally simple. Date, times, location and a description.
Many of the events plugins out there seem to store their data in a database table specifically created for the plugin, something that won't play nice with MultiSite. The ideal solution would be a list of events that stores its data in each network site's unique database table structure. Therefore, we chose to set this up as a custom post type with a date picker attached to a custom meta box. We would store the date in a custom field. Simple enough. One thing that had us racking our brains for a while was how to sort the dates in a useful way.
Wordpress: Sort Order by Custom Field for specific Category - PHP - Snipplr Social Snippet Repository
by mozkart (via)
Put this before the loop in archive.php to have posts in the archive for category '26' sorted by custom field 'date'. Assign sortable values like '090501' or '2009-05-01' to those fields when editing posts and your Upcoming Events will be sorted by the future date at which they will take place.
November 2011
Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: griotism
DATA GRIOTA few months ago last.fm started looking for a data griot – in their words, a griot “must … have the ability to extemporize on current events, chance incidents and the passing scene. His wit can be devastating and his understanding of history formidable.”
October 2011
n0tice
by gregg
Today, a major paper is getting into the community messaging game: The Guardian is launching n0tice, a social news platform that draws a little from Craigslist, a little from Foursquare, a little from Ning.
“It’s a place where you can share news, post details about forthcoming events or let people know you have something to sell or share,”
Eventize.me - free online email message scheduler / reminder
by oseres
Are you tired of forgetting important events like birthdays, anniversaries, or maybe taking out the trash on the 27th next month?
Try eventize, no registration or subscription is required. Just enter your and recipient emails, pick up a date, and you’re good to go.
September 2011
bildstein* büros,
by 84GHz
Ludwigsburg - Kommunikation, Marketing, Events, SEO, barrierefreies Webdesign
Server-Sent Events
This specification defines an API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications from a server in the form of DOM events. The API is designed such that it can be extended to work with other push notification schemes such as Push SMS.
krohling/ArduinoPusherClient - GitHub
would be better to use server sent eventsPusher is a Push Notification service that uses Websockets for relaying messages back and forth between clients.
August 2011
Ikumen: raising new father figures in Japan | Japan Pulse
Ikumen parenting events focus of encouraging men to take part in activities together with their children.
Why Irene Is a Remarkable Storm - Brian Resnick - National - The Atlantic
The past two active cycles (1930 to 1960 and 1870 to 1900) each saw six or seven major mid-Atlantic events.
Volatile and Decentralized: Measuring the mobile web is hard
The W3C Resource Timing API provides an expanded set of events for capturing individual resource timings on a page, which is essential for deep analysis. However, this API is still in the early design stages and there seems to be a lot of ongoing debate about how much information can and should be exposed through JavaScript, e.g., for privacy reasons.
CSS pointer-events to allow clicks on underlying elements - Robert's talk
by srcmax (via)
Ever placed an element on top of another element, but wanted the one under to be clickable? Now it’s doable, with CSS pointer-events!
July 2011
[OR]EDU: Online Education in Photography, Visual Storytelling and Multimedia. Objective Reality Foundation :: [OR]EDU
by HK
About
[OR]EDU ONLINE EDUCATION IN VISUAL STORYTELLING
[OR]EDU is an innovative online educational initiative focused on visual storytelling launched by the Objective Reality Foundation in 2008. The project offers free online workshops in photography and multimedia, as well as resources on the practice of the market, educational and project opportunities, contests and grants.
Taught by international photographers and media professionals the workshops focus on the need to develop and maintain a personal vision, and to effectively market that vision as a product.
Originally targeted at the talented young photographers and students from Russia and the CIS the project is expanding in two directions: geography and diversity of our community.
In 2010-2011 we are taking [OR]EDU to the international level and introducing new comprehensive online educational events to support contemporary narrative and engage the public in navigating the wide range of social issues through visual storytelling.
June 2011
Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil By Donald Thomas
by jenny82
The Case of the Zimmermann Telegram, the author uses Holmes to explain the events that led to the exposure of the telegram transmitted by the German Foreign Office through the US diplomatic pouch as a courtesy and then sent by commercial telegraph service to the German Counsel in Mexico City.
The Peloponnesian War By Lawrence Tritle
by jenny82
The Peloponnesian War resonates with contemporary events like few other episodes in ancient history. Though a democracy, Athens warred with its neighbors for decades in a doomed bid to secure its Aegean and Mediterranean empire. The ambitious city-state's eventual reward was defeat and tyrannical rule, effectively ending Athens's Golden Age
May 2011
Pennant
by gregg
Pennant is an interactive history of baseball like none other seen before. Using Pennant's rich interface fans can browse and view data from over 115,000 games that have taken place from 1952 to 2010. Seasons, games and events are graphically represented in a clear, easy to interpret manner that takes them beyond the numbers.
