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Social Network Use By Country
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French newspaper Le Monde has this great chart showing which region prefers which social network. (Funny: Friendster is even bigger in Asia-Pacific than I thought, and Germany doesn’t seem to have any social network preference. I guess StudiVZ should be listed here, no matter […]
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.
Video: Don’t Feed The Troll
The basics of online etiquette, explained in a neat 8bit video.
How To Behave On An Internet Forum
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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: […]
Avoid Clichés: Destroy The Web 2.0 Look
What happens if an aesthetic gets over-used? It becomes a cliché. (That’s bad.) This is what happened to rounded corners, reflecting logos, diagonal stripes, also known as: The Web 2.0 look.
Elliot Jay Stocks gives good advice: Destroy the Web 2.0 look - and thereby avoid clichés.
Here’s how, and why:
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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 […]
Tim O’Reilly tells his parents: What’s Web 2.0?
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At Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, Tim O’Reilly kindly agreed to try solving the one issue all of us are sharing: How to tell our parents what we do? So here’s Tim, explaining to his parents: What’s Web 2.0?
“So Web 2.0: First off, it’s the idea that the Web, rather than the personal computer is […]
Beijing Wide Open: Bloggers detained in Beijing for live blogging for a free Tibet
Tibetan-Canadian Free Tibet activist and director of Students For A Free Tibet Lhadon Tethong has been liveblogging from Beijing. The activists have gathered in Beijing exactly one year before the Olympic Games are about to start - tonight, there will be the official countdown ceremony.
Their live blog Beijing Wide Open has declared their goal to […]
“ITV News falls into the citizen journalism trap”
…says Paul Bradshow on the Online Journalism Blog, and well, he’s right:As the Guardian announced (free registration required), ITV News will “allow members of the public to post video clips on the Uploaded website via mobile phone or webcam, responding to a daily “debate of the day” set by ITV News.”
I guess they think that’s […]
The geek / non-geek split in your social network (and why old media feel so stale)*
Recently I’ve noticed again a certain, shall we say: split in my everyday life, which I’m sure some of you are familiar with. It’s a number of related splits, really.
And no, I’m not talking about the kind of work/free time aka day/night split most people feel in their offices at times. Rather, I’m talking about […]
Cory Doctorow: New column about copy-friendly business models
The Guardian has started a 5-part column (”Copy Killers”) by Cory Doctorow. In the series, Cory shows what is so bad about Digital Rights Managements (DRM, also dubbed Digital Restrictions Management), and explain copy-friendly business models.
DRMs are often designed by ambitious, well-funded consortia, with top-notch engineers from every corner of the industry. They spend […]
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 […]
Banksy @ Palestine Video
Banksy has been the street artist for a few years. Even if you’re not particularly into street art you’ve probably seen a number of his works. He does a lot of stencils, but he’s also sneaked his works into art galleries, disguised as regular exhibits. His style is amazing, ironic, and often very political. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. 