For a photo report and some nice links to youTube favorites:
this link. More on Video Vortex can be found on the masters of media site

well as 2008 has started, lots has to happen. With recent news that virtually no blogs at all are actually read (and the notion that blogging seems narcissistic) I too have to give my contribution to what is is called the blogosphere.

After a first semester of being properly introduced into the blogosphere and its up- and downside, I do believe in its additional value being that not only of self-publishing , but moreover that of sharing. Where discussion concerning open source, copyright and the value of wikipedia have been discussed widely one cannot deny that experience, facts and fun are more easily shared and do get read (once in a while), with the ever-lasting tension of that one comment. Without being able to back it up I do believe the blogosphere does give alternative to a physically diminishing public space, where the digital gives an opportunity to reclaim the otherwise commercialized and often capitalized way of interacting with the each other, society and the world. And yes it is less face-to-face, and yes probably it does reveal a certain narcissism we mankind have. So be it. Whether it is yet another lolcat-blog, or yet another political-activist blog, screaming for a minority to give it attention, it is a new medium where things go round, where activity is taking place. Share your fun, share your crap, share your whatever! Read you in 2008.