May 21st, 2012 § Comments Off on and the geeks shall change the world… of politics § permalink
Springfield, Illinois, USA. Barack Obama, his wife Michelle, and daughters. “The Future First Family Waves. Senator Obama’s family was on hand for the announcement, and he invited them on stage to wave to the crowd before he began his speech.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Everyone around the world remembers Obama‘s superb grassroots campaign nostalgically, knowing that something so organized won’t happen anywhere else anytime soon.
Well, now at least we are getting a proper campaign management system:
Joe Green and Jim Gilliam, the founders of a new software platform called NationBuilder, envision a world where any campaign — from local school board to issue-based protest movement, without regard to ideology — could access the same versatile, inexpensive suite of software and instantly have at its fingertips the ability to connect with voters and donors online, a capacity that was supposed to reshape American politics in the age of the Internet, but has yet to be fully realized.
Via The Atlantic
next step? NationDashboard.
May 17th, 2012 § § permalink
yet another crazy fellow slovenian!
Matevz Lenarcic, a Slovenian pilot, biologist and photographer, opens the door of his plane after landing from an around the world flight, at the Ljubljana Airport. -AFP Photo LJUBLJANA: Slovenian adventurer Matevz Lenarcic successfully concluded a 100-day eco-friendly trip around the world on Thursday in an ultra-light plane boasting super-low…
via: dawn.com
as I usually say, we have a long and proud history of eccentric mad scientists and extreme sportsmen. cheers to all!
May 3rd, 2012 § Comments Off on iTunes Match begins rolling out in Slovenia! § permalink
first: itunes match is awesome! not because it makes your music ‘legal’, but because it manages to reduce the storage space needed on the planet by several orders of magnitude. the fact that all the music is on all devices is just a bonus 🙂
and secondly, wow to have it available in slovenia! we are not third digital world anymore!
Apple has slowly rolled out its iTunes Match service worldwide over the past few months, but today it looks like more countries were added, because the music matching service began rolling out in Italy, Portugal, Greece, Slovenia, and Austria.
via: 9to5mac.com
March 15th, 2012 § Comments Off on Slovenia’s Big Pay ‘Wall’ Has Made €26,000 § permalink
it’s actually not a bad result, they managed to reach everyone possibly interested in just a month.
slovenia has 2M population, but the largest print daily newspaper had 200k circulation. so it’s safe to assume that only 0.5M people read newspapers, and 5000 customers online is exactly 1%. that’s the penetration you can always count on, regardless of what you’re doing.
I’ll bet that they will never get above that 🙂
Piano Media, the online news payment system which first launched in Slovakia last year, says it made €26,000 in its first month in Slovenia this year. Users pay €4.90 per month for access to new paid parts of all nine participating sites from the country’s main publishers. So I calculate Piano has 5,306 paying customers in Slovenia.
via: paidcontent.org
February 16th, 2012 § § permalink
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A friend of mine mentioned a while ago, that after listening to tv news about fishing disputes with Croatia, she went and checked how many fishermen there are actually. She is from the coastal region, so she suspected there might be something wrong with the facts.
she found out, that there is in fact, just over 100 people in this “sector”. to quote the “National strategic plan  for development of fishing in Slovenia“:
StatistiÄni podatki kažejo pomembno poveÄanje v Å¡tevilu delovno aktivnih oseb v gospodarskem ribolovu in akvakulturi skupaj za obdobje 1996-2004. Å tevilo delovno aktivnih oseb v ribiÅ¡ki predelavi se je v istem obdobju rahlo zmanjÅ¡alo. Vendar je bilo v letu 2005 okoli 142 zaposlenih v morskem ribiÅ¡tvu, kar je 2 manj kot leta 2004
from: Ministry of Agriculture
The document i’m quoting here is 38 pages of dense text about the status and the plans to develop a commercial sector of 150 people. Fishing has it special place in our national budget, with 10,740,533 EUR allocated for it’s development in 2012. Yes, that’s 10 and 6 zeros following it.
I like fishing, I like the sea, I like fishermen.
But for crying out loud, how can our country survive the financial crisis if the Ministries are spending time, resources and energy on, I’m sorry, projects with no impact on national level?!?!?!
February 15th, 2012 § Comments Off on Calypso Cases § permalink
Didn’t get a chance to write about them earlier, but this Ljubljana-based company is truly amazing.
the little case you see on the picture bellow – it’s made of 17 different parts and materials. I was privileged to see the drawer with all the variations they’ve built for testing purposes – 3 feet long row of cases of all shapes and sizes, with one common denominator: they all fit the phone perfectly, and they are all without a sew.
I’ve been heavily testing (read: beating up) a new Calypso Case for more than a month and it’s easy to say simply put, I’m impressed. Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia the founders are hand making iPhone 4 cases which are simply perfect in fit, function and design. They’re made of conite, titanium, leather and specially designed microfabrics.
via: joshspear.com
great work guys!
February 12th, 2012 § Comments Off on kako se v medijih reproducira manjvrednost § permalink
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z mediji in novinarji v sloveniji in njihovim kolektivnim in posamiÄnim odnosom do bralcev in okolja je marsikaj narobe, ampak danes me je zbodla na videz najmanj pomembna bodica. morda se bo kdo strinjal da odseva Å¡irÅ¡e težave.
v sobotni prilogi Dela sem se razveselil Älanka o Leonardovih veÄnih ženskah. razveselil iz dveh razlogov – ker je tema razstave zares zelo zanimiva, in ker imam to sreÄo da se obÄasno znajdem v Londonu in si vedno z veseljem vzamem kako uro za obisk kake galerije.
žal sem bil ustrezno razoÄaran že po prvem stavku. Älanek se zaÄne z besedami:
pravijo da je bila to razstava tisoÄletja. vrste pred londonsko nacionalno galerijo so bile, kljub mrazu, vsak dan neskonÄno dolge.
vir:Â delo
vse je jasno, razstava je že zakljuÄena, priložnost zamujena.
uredniÅ¡tvo ali novinar, ali oboji, paÄ domnevajo da piÅ¡ejo za bralce v dolini Å¡entflorjanski, in da je njihova naloga fascinirati z nedostopnim, ne pa obveÅ¡Äati o priložnostih. Slovenski bralec se lahko zgolj naslaja nad izbranima dvema reprodukcijama in sanja o ‘resniÄnem svetu’.
Äe bi Älanek pisal o finanÄni krizi bi naÅ¡teval podatke brez konteksta, zato da bi ‘nedostopnost’ zamaskiral v ‘nerazumljivost’; Äe bi pisal o uspehih bi govoril o tujih podjetjih; konÄno sporoÄilo je vedno: “itak se niÄ ne da spremeniti, pa tudi Äe bi se dalo itak ne boste niÄ spremenili.”
zavedam se da sem izbral izjemno nepomemben primer za to poanto, ampak ravno zaradi svoje benignosti je najbolj iskren.
February 9th, 2012 § Comments Off on Slovenia’s Ambassador to Japan issued this incredible apology for signing ACTA § permalink
i’ve tweeted about this, i’ve blogged about it, i don’t think we said enough. I also don’t think it was right for us to stay quiet until it was too late.
can’t wait until geeks take over governance.
Slovenia‘s Ambassador to Japan has made a quite incredible apology after she signed the ACTA agreement on behalf of the Eastern European country, as Techdirt reports. After being deluged by complaints, Helena Drnovsek Zorko apologised to her nation, but first her children, for signing the act.
via: thenextweb.com
January 28th, 2012 § § permalink
po spletu odmeva ena zanimiva kvintesencialna infografika:
The budget explained in simple English – Mr. Conservative
Something as complicated as the United States debt simplified in a way we can all understand… Lets remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household income.
www.mrconservative.com
us budget deficit in simple english
… zanimiva je ker ne poskuÅ¡a biti na silo vizualna, pa je Å¡e vedno izjemno povedna. mislim da rabimo razliÄico za Slovensko realnost…
Nekaj podatkov o Slovenskih javnih financah (2010):
- Prihodki od davkov: € 7.011.901.071
- Drugi dohodki (EU & obresti): € 1.613.100.580
- ProraÄun: € 12.333.046.786
- ProraÄunski primankljaj: € 3.708.045.135
- Dolgovi države: € 3.621.773.371
- PrivarÄevano z intervencijskim zakonom: € 65.000.000
Ce odstranimo 5 niÄel se lahko pretvarjamo da je to družinski proraÄun:
- Leten dohodek družine: € 70.119
- Donacije Älovekoljubnih sosedov: € 16.131
- Denar, ki ga je družina porabila: € 123.305
- Nov minus na kreditni kartici: € 37.080
- ObstojeÄ minus na kreditni kartici: € 36.217
- PrivarÄevano: € 650
ni videti bistvene razlike. oboje je strašljivo.
April 7th, 2011 § Comments Off on If anyone ever wondered how big Ljubljana is… § permalink
