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Open Design & Tinkering in Berlin
Lately so much has been going on in Berlin that has to do with the whole field of open design, tinkering, DIY – and last week was another highlight. I had the chance to drop in at the Open Design Workshop at Betahaus. (Sadly I could only pop in for a few minutes, but that [...]
Ignite Berlin: 1 March 2010
We’ve mentioned it before (all posts), so now it’s time to get more concrete: We have date and location for Ignite Berlin. The basics:
Date: 1 March 2010
Location: Festsaal Kreuzberg
Website: igniteberlin.de
Twitter: @igniteberlin
Speaker proposals: submit here
Facebook page: here
Hashtag for Ignite Berlin: #igniteberlin
Hashtag for Global Ignite Week: #giw
Why Ignite Berlin? Because of Global Ignite Week
In case you’re wondering: [...]
Event Sponsoring DOs and DON’Ts
Just a few very brief notes on how event sponsoring should and shouldn’t work since I encountered a very annoying thing the other day. (Not naming the failed sponsors here because I have a lot of respect for the organizing team.)
To put the following into context: Since I’ve organized a number of small to mid-sized [...]
News from the Twitter Farm
Five journalists using only Twitter and Facebook as news sources to provide their reporting, that’s the basic setup of an experiment going on for five days. The headline, by the way, of this post is just a translation of “Nachrichten aus der Twitterfarm“, the title of a blog post announcing a news-gathering experiment by five [...]
I am not going to miss Xing
Xing, the social business network, is dead. Well, not really, but I just canceled my premium account. Why? I just had the pro account for a client project a while back where I had to look up a lot of contact info. Then I forgot to cancel. Big deal? Probably not. But it made me [...]
iPad, so what?
So Apple announced the tablet after all. Going by the name iPad it’s just that – a tablet computer, or maybe rather a tablet phone as it runs on the iPhone operating system. A quick recap: the iPad does have wireless, a browser, multi-touch, motion sensors for gaming and many ways of purchasing content through [...]
Liveblogging DLD10 with Berlinblase
Like I mentioned before, I’ll be liveblogging DLD10 with the Berlinblase crew. (Full disclosure: Paid gig.) So while we’re setting up base in the DLD press center, here’s the links in case you want to follow what’s going on:
Official DLD liveblog
Berlinblase DLD Behind The Scenes
we’ll be posting a few photos on Flickr
and of course we’re [...]
Some Geeky Web Culture Graphics
No context, no hidden meaning, just a few slightly geeky graphics that made my day. It’s likely you’ll see them again since I love them and just might try to squeeze them in somewhere, sometime.
Retro Games With Modern Themes by Penney Design
This and many more like it by Stéphan Massa-Bidal (some rights reserved: CC by-nc-nd)
As [...]
New York Times getting ready to charge readers? Fail.
New York Times is supposedly getting ready to charge online readers:
What makes the decision so agonizing for Sulzberger is that it involves not just business considerations, but ultimately a self-assessment of just what Times journalism is worth to the world. This fall, Keller told the Observer that at some point, the decision is a “gut [...]
Covering DLD Conference with Berlinblase
Together with the Berlinblase crew I’ll be heading down to Munich next week to cover Burda’s DLD Conference. (Full disclosure: paid gig.) Needless to say, I was thrilled to hear that the DLD team invited us down as the official live bloggers. It’ll be four of us – Florian Krakau (@dotdean), Johannes Kleske (@jkleske), Igor [...]
