Peter Bihr
Peter is from Berlin , has some followers and follows great people. You can find Peter’s tweets at @peterbihr and website at thewavingcat.com.
»One hundred years from now, the role of science and technology will be about becoming part of nature rather than trying to control it.«
»I wasn’t interested in managing, but as I started to do it, I got more comfortable. I think it’s that first leap that everybody takes. For me, it was the transition from being someone who was a little bit the student who liked to throw spitballs. So you make that transition to being the teacher, and you have to be in charge, as opposed to being the person who can cause trouble, instigate and provoke, which I always found a much more comfortable place to be. At some point, you go even further, and you become the administrator, and you’re setting policies.«
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Peter Bihr excellent interview on leadership, and growing into new roles
»The challenge is no longer the technology, the challenge is in running a successful business and getting those products in people’s hands in ways that feel natural, useful and delightful.«
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Peter Bihr Alex D-S about building everyday IoT products. Spot on.
»If we had that much situational awareness about you and at the same time we were building this very high-level map of the world, and I don't just mean where Starbuck's is, but all sorts of things like historical footnotes and people you might want to meet. I started thinking about games that we can build that would allow us to triangulate you in that space and build that deep situational awareness. There will be all types of games, but the key will be focusing the experiences, including multiplayer, within the real world and away from the fictional world that games currently invest in.«
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Peter Bihr Sounds like Will Wright is building a serendipity machine.
»The way I see it, there’s a lack of need for any legislation at all. As a publisher, I have a very deep experience here, and the fact is that piracy is not a significant problem. Yes, there are people who are pirating my books, there are people who are sharing links to places where they can be downloaded. But the vast majority of customers are willing to pay if the product is widely available and the price is fair. If you have a relationship with your customers, and they know you’re doing the right thing, they will support you.«
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Peter Bihr This comes from a man who understands both sides very well - technology and publishing. Take it from him that we don't need SOPA, or any of the other similar bills.
»The people who feel this way have always been a minority of the readership, a fact obscured by print bundles, but made painfully visible by paywalls. When a paper abandons the standard paywall strategy, it gives up on selling news as a simple transaction. Instead, it must also appeal to its readers’ non-financial and non-transactional motivations: loyalty, gratitude, dedication to the mission, a sense of identification with the paper, an urge to preserve it as an institution rather than a business.«
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Peter Bihr Where paywalls are involved, things get tricky. Clay Shirky analyzed how the New York Times managed to successfully launch their "porous" paywall.
»Warum ist das anders geworden? Unter anderem deshalb, weil die Mediengesellschaft über viel mehr und größere Gebläse verfügt als die Gesellschaft vor 30 und 40 Jahren. Vielleicht auch deswegen, weil es den Amtsbonus immer weniger gibt, der selbst demjenigen Amtsinhaber eine Aura gab, der keine hatte. Diesen Bonus hat das Internet in einen Malus verwandelt, weil es dort eine besondere Lust daran gibt, aus Dreckkübeln, die in ausländischen Servern gefüllt werden, ungestraft auf Hass-Subjekte zu schütten. Wulff war und ist da eines der Opfer.«
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Peter Bihr WTF, Süddeutsche? Woher kommt denn bitte in diesem ansonsten recht zurückhaltend geschriebenem, eher arrogant-analytischem Kommentar dieser Wutausbruch? Und woher die "in ausländischen Servern gefüllten Dreckkübel"?
»ShortTask, the second-largest U.S. crowdsourcing site studied, was found to be 95 percent crowdturfing tasks«
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Peter Bihr yeah well, that sucks.
»When you have a signed letter from the engineers responsible for creating the Internet pointing out that this bill would jeopardize our cybersecurity, balkanize the Internet and create a climate of uncertainty that would stifle innovation, it seems odd to ignore it. As a general rule, when the people saying that this will have a horrible, chilling impact on something are the ones who created that thing in the first place, and the people who are saying, “Oh, no, it’ll be fine, it only targets the bad actors” are members of the Motion Picture Association of America, it seems obvious whose […]«
»Neoteny, one of my favorite words, means the retention of childlike attributions in adulthood. Childlike attributes include learning, idealism, experimentation, wonder, and creativity. In our rapidly changing world, not only do we need to continue to behave more like children - we can teach our children to retain those attributes that will allow them to be the world-changing, innovative adults who will help us reinvent the future.«
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Peter Bihr Joi Ito on innovation, and what helps us keeping innovating.
»But if you believe, as I do, that many of those institutions are so mismatched to the task at hand that most of them face a choice, at best, between radical restructure and outright collapse, well, in that case, you’d probably find the smartest 25 year olds you know, and try to convince them that now would be a pretty good time to start working on Plan B.«
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Peter Bihr Clay Shirky responds to criticism about his - and some of his colleagues' - view on the Future of News. Which is: to experiment and rapidly iterate. It's not one of his highlight posts, but a solid read & good overview of the state of affairs in journalism.
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mjays I believe the quote holds true for more than just Journalism.
»I'd quite like for more people to try to make good stuff. The worst that could happen is that, you know, it's shit, and fails, and some people learn something. And the best thing to happen is something new and brilliant comes into the world.«
»That's the hard bit. Working out how to make it work with a business model that's set up around something else, or on the other hand keeping your model nimble enough to stretch to a different output on every project.«
»I see far more parallels with DIY stores: a moderately large number of components that let you do 80% of what you might ever need, whether it’s gardening, plumbing, building a kitchen, wiring a room. This is computing that should live in your real world: it’s half aesthetics, half knowledge and craft.«
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Peter Bihr Dentsu London's fantastic Chris Heathcote on the way Arduino and other DIY hardware enfranchises people. Great!
»“I don’t think of what’s here and what’s not here as separate,” he said. “Like I’ll be out with my mom and if I look at my phone, she says I’m being anti-social. I say, ‘I’m being social, just not social with you.’ ”«
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Peter Bihr again, a generational thing, or a tribe thing?
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Peter Bihr Spot on, as always.