somewhat political
[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 […]
Creative Commons for German Public TV Could Save Costs, Archives
German public TV and the Some Rights Reserved content licenses by Creative Commons don’t seem to be a natural mix.
Then again, maybe they do.
As NDR, one of Germany’s regional public TV stations, proved by putting some shows under Creative Commons, open licenses and public TV may be a pretty good match indeed. (This goes […]
Re:publica 08 #3 (Law)
One of the best panels My favorite panel at re:publica was Henning Krieg’s panel on law and blogging. At pretty much every other conference I missed out on Henning’s quite famous talks, and it was no surprise to find the room packed to the limits. Relaxed, informal and funny presentation, a lot of value for […]
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 […]
My Masters Thesis On Weblogs And Political Journalists: Now Available On Amazon
Exciting news (well, for me): My masters thesis on the Relevance of Weblogs for the Work of Political Journalists just went into print. (It’s German only, sorry, but you’ll find the abstract at the end of this post.)
The thesis is now available through amazon.de:
Author: Peter Bihr
Publisher: Vdm Verlag Dr. Müller (March 2008)
ISBN-10: 3836464292
ISBN-13: […]
Social Network Use By Country
(Click the image or this text to jump to the original map.)
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.
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: […]
What’ll happen to our data after Facebook jumps the shark?
Facebook has, very recently, made it possible to delete accounts instead of just deactivating them. Deleting the account is the only option to really make Facebook let go of your personal information, and until recently this was notoriously hard to accomplish.
Facebook has pretty decent privacy features, or at least privacy control features, as online social […]
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 […]
re:publica 08: Program online, ticket sales are on
As Markus pointed out, the (drafted) program for re:publica 08 is online and tickets are for sale as of now. This year the conference is subtitled “critical mass”, referring to the exponential growth of successful web services.
If you’re not familiar with re:publica, it’s a Web 2.0 conference in Berlin. Last year the conference was a […]
Facebook, Google & Plaxo Join the DataPortability WorkGroup
This rocks: Duncan Riley just has a scoop on Techcrunch announcing that Facebook, Google and Plaxo are joining the DataPortability Workgroup
Duncan had been hinting at something big on Twitter, and what can I say, he was right: “I don’t joke when I say that the post I’ve written changes the entire game.”
DataPortability, and particularly being […]
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 […]
Thesis Key Findings: Political Bloggers Hardly Relevant in Germany
For my M.A. in Communications and Media Studies (Freie Universität Berlin) I did research on how political journalists in Germany use weblogs. The thesis is available in (German) full text here: “The Relevance Of Weblogs For The Work Of Political Journalists” (PDF, 1MB). (More info about the thesis here.)
As the masters thesis is available in […]
Die Bedeutung von Weblogs für die Arbeit von Politikjournalisten: Meine Magisterarbeit ist online
Gerade habe ich die Nachricht erhalten, dass meine Magisterarbeit bewertet wurde. Das heißt auch, dass ich sie jetzt online veröffentlichen darf. Für die Arbeit habe ich Politikjournalisten interviewt, die bei deutschen Tageszeitungen (Print und Online) sowie bei Nachrichtenagenturen arbeiten. Thema: Welche Bedeutung haben Weblogs für ihre Arbeit und wie nutzen sie Weblogs? (Sie nutzen Weblogs […]
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. 