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[citation needed] Challenges Ads, Truthiness
On Michelle’s new blog, I just stumbled over a very neat art (or rather: protest?) project, all sticker-based. [citation needed] questions the factoid and claims we encounter in everyday life - ads, for example, are full of them.
Wikipedia has a simple way of asking contributers to validate their statements: The ubiquitous [citation needed] tag that […]
Re:publica 08 #1
So far, I haven’t been able to blog about re:publica 08, Germany’s top blogger & social media conference. Not because it hasn’t been interesting - quite the contrary - but because I ended up chatting with a lot of cool folks. Which is, let’s face it, the main point about this kind of congregations. The […]
Tim Berners Lee Explains Web Philosophy In Two Minutes
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Two minutes is all it takes for internet pioneer Tim Berners Lee to explain the basic philosophy behind the development of the web as we know it - namely, that sharing, open source and collaboration are the very basis the web is built on.
Why Small Organizations See The Internet As A Chance, Big Ones See It As A Challenge
There is a thing about the internet, a notion that has been around since the early days: That the internet offers a chance to anyone to do something big, to start their own projects, companies, or even movements.
While this is true, what’s easily forgotten is that anyone refers mostly to individuals, or small organizations: […]
CNN launches iReport, gets serious about Citizen Journalism?
CNN will launch a new Citizen Journalism portal, reports Mediaweek. Going by the name iReport, the project will be a portal for user-generated video news.
The CNN has been accepting photos and videos (called, in CNN speak, I-Reports) by their viewers since 2006. So the TV channel has a little bit of experience with user-generated […]
How do you get your daily info shot?
Recently, I was asked how I go about getting my daily information. And since I’m quite an info junkie, that got me thinking. So I sat down and jotted down where I go to get my daily info shots. What’s in your info diet?
Here’s what I scan:
A few basics:
Spiegel (German) and New York Times for […]
Wikia Search: First Reviews Are Coming In
Today’s the day Jimmy Wales’ open search project Wikia Search goes alpha, bringing in a new flavor of a human-machine-hybrid. (Some thoughts on human vs machine based search.)
By now, the first reviews of the Wikia Search alpha are coming in, with so so results. Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington rips it apart for not involving […]
Human vs Machine: What’s Better In Search?
The next few months should be interesting to watch: Monday, Wikia Search goes online. So there we have another powerful player in the next wave of search engine wars.
For the last few years, Google with its (mostly) machine-based search algorithms has been the dominant player in the search market, producing more or less the […]
Must Read: Social Media 100
Social media allstar Chris Brogan has started a great series of posts on Social Media recently. By now, enough material has come together to dive right in. Every single post has one or more insights more than worth the time. Clearly, a must read for folks in the social media space.
You won’t be surprised I’m […]
I heart Miro: How to Build Passive Support for Your Good Cause
I Heart Miro is a simple Firefox extension to support the open-source internet TV project Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player). When you buy books at Amazon, you do it through the Miro Firefox extension, and Miro gets paid for every sale through the Amazon affiliate program.
I Heart Miro is a simple, yet great example […]
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 […]
Less bad product designs with redesignme.org
Redesignme (Flash, HTML) is a good implementation of a simple, but powerful idea: Users submit really bad product designs, then propose what could be done better and how.
That’s it.
But that’s pretty cool, too. After all, it’s the users who know about the bad usability and all the problems. It’s a pain to use? Chances […]
How Creative Commons Can Interact With Commerce
Over the last couple of years, Creative Commons licenses have become pretty widely adopted in the non-commercial field. (You’ll find a great number of blogs and podcasts under a non-commercial Creative Commons license.)
But what about commercial use? Are Creative Commons licenses the natural enemy of commercially used contents? By no means, quite the contrary. Here’s […]
How to build your own mesh network?
As you may know, I’ve been obsessing about the One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) for awhile, for both its aims and potential. Here’s another project that ties right in, a simple guide on how to build your own mesh network. (The OLPC laptops support meshing out of the box, but if there’s no network […]
Mashup Online Magazine That Writes Itself
That’s an art project I’d love to see one of these days: An online magazine that writes itself, based on a calendar, a pre-written set of tags connected to the calendar, and a bunch of RSS feeds.
Imagine, just for simplicity’s sake, a lifestyle magazine for women. (Of course, every other type of magazine would […]
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. 