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Chinese Anti-CNN Campaign
Note: I won’t touch the politics behind this campaign in this post. If you were looking for any political opinion on this subject, feel free to skip this post.
Over the last couple of days, I’ve been getting increasing amounts of propaganda material spam (pardon: information) related to China’s campaign against the CNN.
(When I say […]
Re:publica 08 #2
Today is day 3 of re:publica 08, the last day of this year’s installment of this conference. Re:publica is the biggest and most important blogger & social media conference in Germany, organized largely by the Newthinking Team (i.e. the net activists whose most prominent member is probably Markus Beckedahl, author of Netzpolitik.org. Thanks Markus, and […]
Forrester: Online Community Best Practices
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Forrester’s Jeremiah Owyang shares this great presentation about Online Community Best Practices. It’s 51 slides packed with useful advices for those of you who are planning to launch an online community of any kind. Note that this presentation won’t save you proper consulting and/or experimenting. But it contains excellent […]
Must-Read Books on Social Media
Taking a hint by Chris Brogan, who has compiled a great set of resources to show your bosses, colleagues or friends how the social web works, I’d like to give you my recommendations of must-read books on this topic.
If you are interested in social media, participatory media or conversational marketing, you might want to […]
US Writer’s Guild still on strike…
… and I don’t quite know what to make of the fact that I care more about the strike of entertainers a few thousand kilometers away than about a strike of the whole train system in this country here. Oh well, so be it.
(It will not come as a surprise that I support the […]
Video: Consumers Have Changed, Advertisers Haven’t (And That’s Bad)
Just stumbled over this not-so-new-but-still-very-good movie produced by (if I’m not mistaken) Microsoft. In just two minutes and seventeen seconds it shows exactly just what is wrong with advertising today: While consumers have changed considerably over the last few years, advertisers often still try to stick to their old methods - and worse: to their […]
exPhone.org: How to create a simple but rich web application in just three days
Citizen Agency’s Chris Messina shares his story about a very cool pet project of his, going by the name of exPhone.org.
exPhone is one of those examples of how the web can (and should) be applied to find great, quick solutions for a problem.
Chris had a simple enough question: What to do with your old […]
Fox attacks Bloggers (brief video round-up)
This video is hilarious: A collection of some of the more - shall we say - rhetorically enthusiastic attacks on left wing non-right wing bloggers. The accusations go all the way from “hate speech” to “overthrowing the government”. (And that’s for DailyKos. Err… right.)
The one thing it does show pretty clear, though, is the importance […]
Peer-to-peer networks a threat to national security, or: How to track who pays your Congressman
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks allegedly threaten America’s national security, according to US Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.).
Pardon me?
Waxman said…
… he was troubled by the possibility that foreign governments, terrorists or organized crime could gain access to documents that reveal national secrets.
Like, how? Oh, wait, here it comes. Summarizes ZDNet:
…peer-to-peer networks can […]
German Blogosphere: No Political A-List Bloggers in Germany
So far, I haven’t mentioned on this weblog a whole lot about the masters thesis I’m writing. Partly because it didn’t seem to me to be interesting for external readers (that sounds wrong, doesn’t it?) you, partly because I’m simply not sure about the formal regulations surrounding the thesis: Is it allowed to publish any […]
Election campaign videos: Obama campaign goes for video, big time
With videos being considered the hot stuff (or was it social networking, or SMS campaigns? oh well…) for the ongoing election U.S. campaigns, Obama Girl’s I got a crush on Obama was probably the one that stuck out most in terms of coverage. (Hillary Clinton’s song picking contest and Soprano Spoof were far out, too, […]
The Great Firewall of China: Blocks some websites, doesn’t others.
China’s approach to filter & censor huge chunks of internet traffic within China - the so-called Great Firewall of China - has been troublesome to Chinese dissidents and human rights advocates alike for quite a while. To at least make the issues somewhat more transparent for those outside China, a non-profit group of webbies and […]
Eve Online makes users become real citizens
Who rules a virtual world? We’ve talked about this quite a few times lately (like here).
Well, in one case that question has been answered: Eve Online will be governed by the users, says a New York Times article:
The kingdom is in crisis. After pledging to treat its citizens equally, the government stands accused of […]
IFPI rhetorics imply that file-sharing supports terrorism
A few days ago, IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) put out a press release titled “ten inconvenient truths“, which claims to offer new insights into the dirty world of digital piracy.
Apart from the fact that the titles is a rather weak reference to the movie about Al Gore and global warming (”An Inconvenient […]
Fundraising model: Weblogs for a good cause
Just stumbled upon something at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) which I hadn’t noticed before: RSF offers weblog hosting. For a monthly fee (5,90 or 14,90 Euros depending on the plan) you get an ad-free blog and RSF’s promise that they won’t work with the police in restrictive countries by giving out your details. (Like Yahoo […]
My name is Peter Bihr. I live in Berlin, Germany. As a freelancer, I consult on web strategies, communities, blogging and social media. In this weblog, I jot down random thoughts, ideas and news. Hopefully, you'll find some are interesting for you, too. 