KonzeptioNerd

Google or: more than two ways of looking at things

A few weeks ago, German weekly Die Zeit dedicated half their busiess section to Google and its machinations: Google weiß, wo du bist, Nichts zu verbergen, Homo Faber 2.0. Great scepticism all around: it can’t be ok for a company to know what you’re doing (unless its your streetcorner grocer, your hairdresser, your banker, the [...]

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Quo Vadis, TV?!

But, seriously. The current issue of German weekly Die Zeit dedicates an entire Dossier to the quality crisis of German public television (”Unser Gott, die Quote”, not online (yet)). On four pages, they manage to mention the internet not once. Oh no, wait, it’s worse.

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MedienMittwoch: Twittin’ about WebTV

Apparently, last month’s MedienMittwoch left me kind of wordless. Klaus Kofler tried valiently to address the looming economic crisis with the pure teachings of LOHAS. 40 minutes stage time left him just enough room to rehash the same points of analysis that we’d been reading in every editorial for the past four weeks and a [...]

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Sechzig Grad

Probably the next thing after diet-blogs: book-writing-blogs. Sechzig Grad is probably not the only example of book-written-in-blogfor-cum-blogging-about-writing-blog (or, more generally, of self-motivation-by-publication-blogs).

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