Korean media are starting to cover Lift Asia, and I was the happy guest of Talk2man on monday morning (two hours after I landed from a 15 hours trip, I'm still awake it's not too bad ;). Check the video below.

Today we had coverage on 매일경제 (don't ask me to translate ;) and I hear the Korean blogosphere is buzzing with stories about Lift!

PS: and thanks to gut4u who blogged me and a hamburger tonight ;)

Our newest partner is Korea's fourth largest daily newspaper, the Hankyoreh! Hankyoreh is a special organization with strong values and an original ownership system with 62,000 citizen shareholders, none having more than 1 percent of the shares.

The Hankyoreh is a progressive newspaper, decisively committed to journalistic freedom, democracy, peaceful coexistence and national reconciliation between South and North Korea, which were divided by external forces after World War II. The Hankyoreh is unrelenting but fair in coverage. It does not negate the philosophy of the free market economy, individual liberty and personal freedom. But it accepts that the more detrimental effects of an unbridled market economy should be regulated by various means.

Its distinct feature is its unique ownership. Unlike most traditional Korean newspapers, under the ownership of a family or business conglomerate, the Hankyoreh is owned by about 62,000 shareholders who joined the original drive for the paper's inception. They are from all walks of life in Korea, ranging from teachers to university students to housewives. Even though their backgrounds are different, they have one value in common: a desire for a genuinely independent newspaper and for full-fledged democracy in Korea.

The Hankyoreh has a Korean and an English website.

QR codes are very cool as they link electronic media with real-media.

http://reader.kaywa.com/

Wouldn't it be great if the LIFT09 conferences badges had QR codes!

Here are a few links:

http://www.microlearning.org/micropres07/ml2006_presentation_kaywa.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DlxCpvAx84
http://www.kaywa.com/rss2/

It was interesting to hear Kevin Warwick predict that in thirty years we will all have chips implanted in our brains and will be able to communicate by thought.

We think digital marketing is exciting now, but what’s it going to be like when we can send ideas and thoughts directly into people’s minds?

During a recent interview (in French) for Couleur3, the chair I was sitting on broke while I was speaking. I almost died ;) and these 5-6 stress kilos I take just before the event made themselves felt a bit too much.

The whole interview is archived here, the incident happens one minute into the first file, and yes it was broadcasted to a national audience Saturday morning ;)

And if you speak French, here is a special show that Nouvo did on LIFT08, featuring interviews of LIFT08 speakers Heewon Kim, Kevin Warwick and Rafi Haladjian.

I did a long interview on World Radio Switzerland with Bruno Giussani to present LIFT08. It is in English and in mp3, downloadable here.

Bruce Sterling's presentation at LIFT evening Korea on Industrial Products And Ubiquity. Bruce talks about sustainable design, recycling, total life-cycle management, tags, radio-frequency identity, search engines, locative media, computer fabricators, industrial design, user records, metadata. web commerce and ubiquitous computing in the service of sustainability.