Nikio

Two days ago I had a talk here in Ankaran about the Internet, Creativity, Copyrights and how it is all connected. The talk is very much inspired by Lawrence Lessig, in the terms of the content and also execution. Unfortunatelly I have had a little bit of a cold, so my voice is not what it should be... Hopefully you will understand my English

Many thank to Joe Nicolosi for letting me use his awesome video

I would just like to inform you, that I updated my official portfolio at photo.net (here on my.opera I usually keep recent stuff, coverages and more day-to-day photos). I would like to post some more (weddings perhaps), but limitations on that site are very tight, so that should do it for now. This is the selection that I am most proud of.

You are more than wellcome to visit it here:
http://photo.net/photos/marjan

In 1997 I was taking part in a summer research camp as an ordinary adolescent kid. Mentors of such camps are usually notable experts and thinkers, who try to inspire new generations to think differently when they grow up to be artists, scientists, business people (etc). One of those mentors was an architect and painter Teo Tavželj. Eventhough he could never fit the profile of a "computer geek", he said something that I've remembered to this day. His words were: "During the history, whoever held the right information had an important key to power and success. With the growth of the internet, information will be less and less valuable because it can easily be obtained. Therefore people with ideas will rise up and intelectually dominate the world." It's quite obvious today how right he was (remember, it was 1997!).

But with internet network becoming larger and larger something else happened. Sharing! I think sharing intellectual property (movies, photos, music) can be ethically disputable, but sharing ideas and knowledge is actually a great benefit for the whole world and for me personally. This is what blogs are all about! One day I am reading about biology, then about nuclear physics, some other time about a rock concert in Germany or maybe about flods in China... My global awareness has never been greater! Everything that seems so distant on TV, feels so close to me on blogs!

So I felt obligated to contribute my part. By using Opera, as my favourite browser, I was naturally attracted to take a look into My Opera community. I wasn't surprised to find how well it is organised and how much more this blogs have to offer against their competition. I decided to give away a fraction of my time to share my life(views), ideas and knowledge. By doing this properly, we have a tremendous tool to make the world a better place.

This is the basic reason why I became a member of My Opera community. Other providers usually destroy the whole idea of contribution with tons of ads and pop-ups. Opera software and My Opera community are different. Beside being free and free of rubbish, they are intelligent, ellegant, robust (yet highly costumizable), and simple to use. So the decision for this software and blog was simple. At this moment I have my personal blog and several other accounts which I use together with groups of students to share and connect our work on a greater distance. It's practical, educational and a lot of fun. Like the internet should be!