somewhat political
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 […]
The Relevance of Weblogs for the Work of Political Journalists: My Masters Thesis is Online
I just received news that my masters thesis has been graded (1.0 = “very good”), which also means I’m now allowed to publish it online. For the thesis, I interviewed political journalists working at German newspapers (print and online) as well as news agencies about the relevance of weblogs for their work, and how they […]
Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants: Too Simple A Metaphor?
The term Digital Natives has been around for a little while. It’s being used to describe those of us who move naturally in the digital world, as opposed to those who have a hard time finding their way into this new world. (Please note that all of this, and particularly the term Digital Immigrant, isn’t […]
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 […]
The Long Tail, explained in a brief video
This video is admittedly somewhat old. On the other hand, a great idea well visualized is always worth noting, and so I’ll do: This super brief video (less than 1:30!) explains Chris Anderson’s idea of the Long Tail. It’s actually a promo video for just that book. Why aren’t more promo videos as good and […]
One Laptop Per Child Project Launches Social Media Campaign
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a huge fan of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, which aims at giving kids in developing countries a rugged laptop so they get easier access to educational material and so they get a chance to bridge the digital gap on their own.
If you’d like to support the […]
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 […]