blogging
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 [...]
Rediscover Blogs You Love
In the olden days you used to hear blogs being compared to lovers – blogging was perceived to be an intensely personal, sometimes intimate thing, and the relationships between bloggers was pretty intense. Now, of course that kind of romanticizing was somewhat over the top. There was a small number of bloggers in a vast [...]
Some Impressions: Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum
Just coming back from Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (GMF) – and on my way to Barcamp Cologne 3 – I’m in a little cafe in the middle of nowhere (sorry dotdean), where Cappuccino still tastes like early 90s cappuccino, and where laptop dwellers in cafes are still greeted with curious stares. It is, to [...]
Music, Video, Links: Some Brainteasers for the Weekend
Hey there. Since an appointment just got cancelled I figured I might as well put together a post with some brainteasers and fun stuff I stumbled upon over the last couple of days. In other words: Welcome the weekend! First up, I strongly recommend you check out TheSixtyOne, a great music discovery and sharing service. [...]
Berlin Munchies: New Berlin Food Blog
A new pet project of mine is all about food: Berlin Munchies is a blog about food in Berlin. Not exactly haute cuisine, but down-to-earth, day-to-day food encounters. My collaborators Michelle and AlienTed and I take snapshots of food we encounter in places we like, and add a brief description. We focus on restaurants and [...]
Once and for all: A beta test isn’t enough to create buzz
It’s old news, it really is. But since I get confronted with invitations to beta tests everyday (in my role as a blogger, as a freelance consultant and as project lead for German blog magazine blogpiloten.de), I can promise you that a lot of PR agencies still think a beta test is enough to get [...]
Blogger Program: Deutsche Gamestage / Quo Vadis
Deutsche Gamestage / Quo Vadis (@DGQV) is the leading German games developer conference, and when I was asked by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg if I could help out with the blogger program, I was psyched. Now sadly I won’t be in town during the conference, which takes place 21-23 April at Urania in Berlin. However, the program [...]
re:publica – Day 3 Resume
It’s day 3 of re:publica, and so it’s time to draw a first resume. To get it out of the way: Yes, wifi hasn’t been working well all through the conference. And no, I don’t find it as bad as you might expect. (Or as I expected myself, really.) I didn’t even bring my laptop [...]
re:publica 09: Let’s meet up!
Starting tomorrow, it’s going to be three days of re:publica craze. For those abroad: re:publica is arguably Germany’s biggest and most important blogger conference, organized by the great folks over at Newthinking and Spreeblick. This is, I believe, my third time at re:publica, and last time I had a blast. This year, I’m told, is [...]
Livebloggers wanted in Germany
Recently I’ve been getting more and more requests for liveblogging events. Since I rarely have the capacity to do this kind of stuff myself, I’m happy to pass on these requests. So I decided to start a little pool of folks who are willing to blog live from events. (I’m leaving this so vague on [...]
