KonzeptioNerd

Experimental Stoneage

Last Sunday, the ARD showed the first of four episodes of their recent historical reenactment series Steinzeit - Das Experiment (Stoneage - the Experiment).
Last summer, seven adults and six children had moved into the recreation of a Neolithic lake dewlling near the Bodensee - 3.200 B.C. Unlike precursors like Das Jahrhunderhaus or Das Schwarzwaldhaus, Steinzeit [...]

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Live / Life Blogging

I hate it when I live-blog at the MedienMittwoch and people commend my speed-typing (which, to be honest, may look good in a chick-with-MacBook sort of way but leaves way too many typos) but rarely my writing. Of course - I’m often the only one with a laptop, so no-one sees the blog until after [...]

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MedienMittwoch revisited

Last week’s MedienMittwoch Ist das Internet eine Marketing-Seuche was a compact little (1 hour) event with a verbalized and (rare treat!) controversial panel. After a bit of position-fixing, the main topics were:
a) the need for classic and new media agencies to buy in(to) complementary know-how
Integration and convergence has been a large topic for advertisers since [...]

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medienmittwoch m2 in Frankfurt

Tonight, I’ll be blogging live from the medienmittwoch.
medienmittwoch is a joint initiative of several media companies in Frankfurt / Mainz (Germany), BlueMars among them.
This month’s session wonders whether the internet is nothing but a marketing epidemic. Volker Schütz (Horizont), Hansjörg Zimmermann (Das Goldene Vlies), Florian Ruckert (IP Deutschland), Laurent Burdin (SinnerSchrader) and Frank Vahldiek (Vodafone) [...]

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Schrödinger’s Cat

My late night and red wine discussions tend to gravitate toward the paradigm of Schrödinger’s Cat
and the un-peg-down-ability of it all. xkcd has the ultimate cartoon on this matter: xkcd: Schrodinger. I think that henceforth, I’ll carry a printout of this in my wallet.

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Community Summit Revisited

Communities are IT. Everybody wants one. Everybody’s starting one.
Community-hype and hyper-communities
The trend is already expanding and people are starting to launch meta communities. Meta communities are frameworks that give users the means to start their own branded (or at least semi-branded) niche communities, allowing providers to cache in on the long tail without having to [...]

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Intershop Roadshow

Intershop is one of the success stories of the first internet boom in Germany. Named after the convertible currency based retail chain of the German Democratic Republic (DDR), Intershop created one of the first full-fledged ecommerce softwares. They have recently gone together with Soquero, search engine optimization specialists. They have also pimped their ecommerce suite [...]

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Increase font size - and print it!

Via the excellent Bown Craggs BCTips newsletter:
Simply adding controls to your website that allow your visitors to change the font size on your site is so yesterday. The really neat thing is to transfer such custom font settings to the print style (as seen on the Newspaper Association of America website).
Link to the site: “About” [...]

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Why I cannot seem to Twitter

I’m currently at Community Summit 2007 in Wiesbaden. Hope to blog a coherent summary later. If you can’t wait, check out the Community Summit eventblog where the organizers summarize the presentations. They also have a Twitter Panel for brief, fast comments.
Twitter is acutally the perfect tool for conference-blogging: it favors sequentiality even more than the [...]

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