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In case you wonder: if I’m not here, look for me there: Leo Burnett’s Cultural Fuel.

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Blog Comment Ethics Dilemma

Assuming I write a blog where I post the occasional restaurant review (and I do). And assuming there’s the occasional unfavorable review (there is). What if someone comments on such a review, totally disagrees with me, raves about the restaurant and calls me a nitwit. Do I approve said comment? Sure! But …

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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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De schrifft de blifft

Those who write will remain. Old German saying. Not so, apparently, in this digital day and age. Especially not if you’re a wikipedia editor.
Mark Bernstein (see Wikipedia and Eastgate or More Wikipedia) is currently rather peeved at wikipedia editing-slams which appear to result in deletion-tagging entries on Eastgate and their currently strongest product, Tinderbox.
And looking [...]

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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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Courage and Writing Impediments

Swiss sales guru Umberto Saxer has started to mail out his podcast (”Audio-Minutentipp”) to his newsletter-subscribers. This first installment I received is concerned with courage.
Those of you who understand (Swiss) German can check out the episode here: Minutentipp 07-20: Thema Angst vor dem Nein gesprochen von Umberto Saxer und Wolfgang Niedermeyer.
Saxer and Niedermeyer talk about [...]

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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 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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Blogstudie 2007

And while I’m at it: Leipzig University (Universität Leipzig - Communication Management Department) and Search Engine Ask.com (Ask.com) have conducted a study on Searching information on the internet - blogs a new research-tools (Blogstudie 2007. Informationssuche im Internet - Blogs als neues Recherchetool. by Ansgar Zerfaß and Janine Bogosyan).
The study calls blog-readers “investigative multiplicators” [...]

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