KonzeptioNerd

Information-Brands = Curators of News

In an interview with Haaretz.com, Arthur Sulzberger from the NYT said (in Feb this year):
We are curators, curators of news. People … want reliable news that they can trust.
(Eytan Avriel, “NY Times publisher: Our goal is to manage the transition from print to internet”, Haaretz.com. Feb 8, 2007)
Via Jilltxt (feed only)

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Fun with interfaces

Via Adverblog: A Spanish advert for donating blood pulls the interface into the diegetic level of the video. Very smartly and effectively done: The progress bar doubling as vial suggests that giving blood is really as easy, smooth and everday as starting a video stream.
Playing with the interface is a proprietary technique of digital [...]

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To Blog or Not To Blog

Bloggers 0 - Journalists n/a
I was at Mainz university a little while ago, to talk to a group of journalism students about the web 2.0 and the traditional information media.
I was prepared to talk about readers who have grown accustomed to managing their own media and information, to write back, to look for context and [...]

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Disposable Identities (Was: “Are You Dr. Jekyll or Mr Hyde?”)

PR-Blogger Klaus Eck muses (in German) about the mashup of private, business and public identities in the Web 2.0 (Sind Sie Dr. Jekyll oder Mr. Hyde?. His gist: There’s no significant split between on- and offline identities (or personalities). The reason: Jykell can split off his more aggressive traits into Hyde and then disclaim responsibility [...]

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Deviant advertising

Via the ingenious Adverblog: Toyota online-advertise their new Scion car with a deviant little website: LittleDeviant xD. The site is quirky, inapproriately violent for even a SUV (which I don’t think the Scion is, anyway) and looks like someone played a lot of Silent Hill 2 with a little bit of Donna Leishman’s Deviant - [...]

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In Retrospect

Rather busy and (therefor?) rather unventful week. Saw nothing but my desk - except for the Brotfabrik during Web Montag Frankfurt.
Martin Kliehm talked about Accessibility. Dan Theurer of Yahoo! talked about the very basics of the Web 2.0 (probably due to incomplete target group research?). And PaulinePauline very graciously ceded me the last bowl of [...]

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Thanks. (Good Design 07 award)

Das Ende des Schweigens won a silver Good Piece at the German Designers’ Club’s (DDC) Good Design 07 award. This must be number 15, but we’re still proud as anything.
The companion book, Gute Gestaltung 07; Good Design 07, a fat squat volume with a padded black cover is a nice browse and looks good on [...]

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