I work on a lot of projects and love doing the concepts. in parts I consider myself an Artist and Explorer. My qualities are a good sense for abstraction and having a broad knowledge (as opposed to specific expertise) and knowing how to communicate between people. The tech side is often too much work and to complicated for me to go beyond a proofs of concept, but as I do most just to satisfy my own curiosity I'm feeling great with this.

My Passions are structuring knowledge, perception, society, art, sound, music and love.

I'm not so much career focused, but I'll see what opportunities I can find, once I finished my Diploma:

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1. PostPriori - combining news aggregation with twitter like personal subscriptions, exploring weighting of content beyond:

- a suggestion engine (not yet good enough for the finesse of a personal taste, scary because out of direct control, biased towards easily digestible content)

- democracy (simply does not scale. Might work for niches, but look at the shift in reddits audience. It has to become mainstream. Subreddits are a fix, but not a very elegant solution I think)

- doing it chronologically (one needs to filter the mass of input, making actuality so important is not the right way I think and a huge problem in the media. I'm also incapable on using twitter as is because of this.)

I have a few things to try on how to keep all the ratings very human and hand-choosen by those you personally trust.
I also want to try to enhance viral distribution and allow for semi-classical editorial institutions.

Further discussions about it are very welcome!

It will become my Diploma in Arts, so I'm free for now from commercializing it. You can subscribe to a newsletter which I will send out once beta-testing starts:

http://signup.postpriori.com/

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2. All of It - A personal, local Wiki.

I recently started making a wiki out of my notes. I will yet have to see on how to cramp the naturally ribosomal information there is in to some hierarchy with cross links.

To stay true to the nature of information I'd need a more associative indexing, but i won't build another google or some other brain. :)

I'm using markdown, http://wikitten.vizuina.com/ and owncloud.

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3. musical experiments

- I'm writing sort of a firmware for a midi keyboard to play quarter tones. (using this http://www.keithmcmillen.com/products/qunexus/ it has 2 pressure sensors per key, so I can split keys easily once I have the raw data)

- I'm planning a responsive, randomized effect array.

From my instrument (a trumpet for now), I try to extract how I play (pitch, volume etc.) and randomly assign effects to certain locations in this matrix. Once I like a certain location I will fix it and shuffle everything else. Over time a a spectrum of curated effects will be fixed on the range of my playing.
I hope for something like bending down a loud C and having it distorted, than when I go silent it suddenly becomes roomy with a reverb and things like that.

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4. I'll join another startup on monday. I want to build something to make money, not just sell my time/workforce.

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5. I do some freelancing as a web developer, throwing together and customizing CMS'.

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6. a relaxing students job at the state television

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7. Other small jobs: media installations for exhibitions and artists, photography, proofreading (in german, spare me my mistakes here :)

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edit: added projects and edited a bit