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Why Slideshare Sucks – Fucking Short Version

Birger Hartung — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:51:08 +0000

Slideshare makes it easy to upload and share presentations, documents, videos for free. I would like to thank the team for making this possible. But there are some things making me mad, I don’t know how many time I did like they do in The Big Lebowski:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXT0gOk1Ogw

The Big Lebowski Fucking Short Version

F**k the upload tool
It’s great approach to build an user interface with as few steps as possible. Kudos for that. The upload tool itself works pretty well, but every upload gets published automatically, without the permission of the user. I’m missing a final preview allowing me to publish the upload after hitting a “OK” button. Another way to solve this problem would be to add a “hide” option when the user selects a file for upload.

F**k the type recognition
The document type recognition automatically sets the type of uploaded files to presentation, document or video. While video files are easy to distinguish, the recognition fails at differing presentatios and documents. I admit: Every time the document was recognised as the opposite type -- for example as presenation when I think it was a document -- it was my foult, the file was created with wrong settings by me. Nevertheless the lack of commuincation between the service and the user is a big part of the problem. After uploading a document, my file shows up in the wrong section without telling me. Please communicate with me why the file is recognised as a document or presentation. Actually there is no way to control or change the type.

F**k this retarded interface
A least the interface of Slideshare is retarded. It’s not about the design, it’s all about the interface lag. When I’m uploading different documents and they are wrong, I have to delete them. In this case a lot of my actions are not recognized or displayed properly. Did I deleted a file? Did I changed a name? It still looks the same. After logging out of Slideshare misterious things happen: The wrong files are deleted, unwanted uploads still appear. That’s why I’ve started to log out and log in every time I’m changing something on Slideshare only to avoid this. Please Slideshare team, prevent this interference and keep the interface up to date!

WTF VUVUZELA

Birger Hartung — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:14:25 +0000

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrYb9qtO8OQ

Youtube: The Vuvuzela -- Legendary Horn!

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGygEbhvOOU

Youtube: Raw Video: World Cup Crescendo From Vuvuzela

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-rKemC0QI0

Youtube: ESPN commentators hate the Vuvuzela’s at the Confederations Cup

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K7DY_L-P_0

Youtube: Tuning Out Vuvuzelas at the World Cup

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIGIAh2GTOA

Youtube: Hyundai Giant vuvuzela -- the sound test

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3xDWk9vbNw

Youtube: Vuvuzela 2010 for iPhone and iPad

Interstellar Technoverse Futurism

Birger Hartung — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:42:14 +0000

A few days ago I saw the La Roux “Bulletproof” music video for the first time. I was surprised by the visual style, reminding me of the early Cindy Lauper (80′s pop rocker), the “Tron” movie (clean and simple) and design elements I have seen before in Daft Punk music videos (lens flare, colors). What really strucked me: This video has been published in May 2009 – a year ago!

Yesterday I saw the “On a mission” music video performed by Gabriella Cilmi. This track has been released in January 2010 and is much more a classic dance music video than La Roux. It is set into a space frontier plot and is a great reminiscence to the visual style from the late 80′s and the interstellar science fiction/fantasy art from the 50′s and 60′s.

While I was searching for videos which remind me to these styles, I stumbled upon the Tron 2 trailer. I think all these examples proof that our culture is heading into an new era of design: Post-Futurism. The “new thing” seems to be that technology which surrounds us today – like Smartphones, Tablets, Websites, Online Services, Mobile Internet – make visions from the past more tangible than ever. Which is great, because the imagery of classic futurism is shared with equal ideas across the world: Unity, freedom, new frontiers.

La Roux – Bulletproof (2009)

Gabriella Cilmi – On A Mission (2010)

Daft Punk – Robot Rock (2009)

Tron 2 – Trailer (2010)

Robert Babicz did it again

Birger Hartung — Sat, 08 May 2010 07:49:36 +0000

One hour of amazing electro music introduced by the whispering voice of Robert Babicz himself:

Robert Babicz – SYSTEMATIC SESSIONS MIX by robbabicz

47 comments and 55 favorites within five days – this mix is already famous! If you want to have the track, subscribe to Roberts Website and he sends you the download link within a few days.

Notes 2009

Birger Hartung — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:57:03 +0000

Within the last twelve months I did a lot of research about social media, online communication and conversation measurement. To collect useful bits of information I wrote small paper notes, an approach I borrowed from the GTD method. The notes took thier place on the notice-board, reminding me on the relevant topics while I was surfing through the web of infite distraction. The close of the 2009 is near and it’s time for a wrap up. Yesterday I took the notes down and created a mindmap. Feel free to watch and comment the mindmap. Meanwhile I am sitting before an empty board, thinking about 2010 topics.

Welcome to the psychiatric hotline

Birger Hartung — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:18:16 +0000

“Welcome to the psychiatric hotline.”
If you are obsessive compulsive, please press one repeatedly.
If you are co-dependant, please ask someone to press 2.
If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you are paranoid/delusional, we know who you are, what you want, just stay on the line so that we can trace your call.
If you are a schizophrenic, listen carefully, and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are manic depressive, it doesn’t matter which number you press…no one will answer anyways.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGnAS79lQBU

This C to the E to the R to the N

Birger Hartung — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:09:00 +0000

CERN: The Large Hadron rap!
Two in one: Viral video and visual explanation. Well done!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

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Birger Hartung — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:12:11 +0000

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