The Big Picture: Stories told in photos by Boston Globe

I don’t know how I could have missed The Big Picture, the Boston Globe’s amazing photo blog. (It has been around since June). The Big Picture tells stories by featuring stunning, awesome, sometimes scary (and always: huge, i.e. 990px wide) photos, put in context by a paragraph of text.
Waxy interviewed Alan Taylor, the programmer […]


perspctv: Who’s talking about McCain, Obama?

perspectv visualizes who’s being talked about more: McCain or OBama. Or as TechCrunch calls it: “An Election Mashup That Proves Nothing, But Looks Good Doing It“.
And guess what? It’s just that:
This project presents different perspectives in our world, including that of Mainstream media and user-generated content on the Internet. (…) What we think vs. what […]


What will The Next Newsroom look like?

Mainstream American media have experienced shipwreck and newsrooms need to transform themselves to survive. Sounds harsh? Not if you ask Journalism That Matters (JTM). New media and the Social Web are both the challenge and the solution. How so? That’s the big question and there are no final answers yet.

News Tools 08: The old […]


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 #2

Today is day 3 of re:publica 08, the last day of this year’s installment of this conference. Re:publica is the biggest and most important blogger & social media conference in Germany, organized largely by the Newthinking Team (i.e. the net activists whose most prominent member is probably Markus Beckedahl, author of Netzpolitik.org. Thanks Markus, and […]


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: […]


Subscribe-To-My-Twitterfriends’-Blog Day*

Julia Roy, social media consultant and Twitter fan extraordinaire, says:
Everyone rejoice! It’s the day we show our love for our Twitter friends and subscribe to their blogs. If you Twitter your blog URL to me, I will subscribe.
I have a folder in my NetNewsWire RSS reader labeled “Twitter,” I like to check once a […]


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 […]


Local Girl’s Doodles: More Fun Than Text Posts

What really made my day (except for it also being Xmas and all, that is), is Local Girl’s Day in Pictures, as recommended by boingboing.
Caroline Clifford’s take on blogging is to draw doodles instead of the usual text or video posts, creating a really compelling (and very fun) blog style. Great stuff, and […]