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Bits exist to be copied / LIFT Talks

Through Oriol Miralbell’s blog I just stumbled over this conference talk. Maybe the headline sounded familiar to you? Right, it’s Cory Doctorow on Digital Rights Management, here filmed at LIFT ‘06. As always it’s a great talk.
(update: I removed the embedded video because it automatically started to play. Please click here to watch Cory […]

Workshop on social media in higher education (follow-up)

As mentioned before, earlier this week I had the chance to hold a workshop on social media in higher education at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). (Slides below or on Slideshare). It was a great group, very active and engaged despite their completely different backgrounds and the language barrier. (Thanks guys!)
Special thanks, again, to Josep […]

Tomorrow: TechCrunch/CrunchGear Meetup Berlin

Tomorrow, there’s a TechCrunch & CrunchGear Meetup in Berlin. Should be good fun to see Germany’s web people congregate in this (kind of) intimate round of 250 invited guests. (Also, thanks to the sponsors.)
Looking forward to meeting old & new friends there! If you’re there, make sure to say hi. For easier coordination, there’s a […]

Meet up at Dresden Future Forum 2008

Thursday, I’ll be blogging from Dresden Future Forum 2008, more or less live. (Probably, I’ll be twittering, too.) (If wireless permits.) If you’re there, make sure to say hi! Should be fun. There’s one thing on my to do list that I’m very excited about - an interview with Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics. Should […]

Berlin Web Buzz This Fall: Web2Expo & BarCampBerlin 3

This fall, Berlin will be buzzing with web stuff once more: O’Reilly’s Web2Expo will be in town, and it’ll be surrounded by a lot of smaller events. Most notably the way-more-intimate BarCamp Berlin in its third installment, aka #BCB3. Last year, this meant a week or so full of web events as the Twitterati flocked […]

next08: wrap-up

Back in Berlin after a day of liveblogging at next08 in Hamburg. You can read our coverage (mostly German, some English) on Fischmarkt.de.
Good fun & nice folks and a number of good panels. Also, it was interesting to see how our group live blogging developed - between the four of us we tried to cover […]