KonzeptioNerd

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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Don’t Touch

With half a free day in London on Sunday, I skipped into my favourite Science Museum. After five minutes or so I realized my mouth was hanging open in a rather stupid manner. But that was fine, as in most other museums, I catch myself after five minutes muttering agck agck under my breath. The [...]

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The Four Copywriters of the Apocalypse

Did Rewe really mean to call their vitalizing shower gel (green bottle to the right) The Day After???
 

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m2 August 08: The Aura of Dead Trees

C. complained that I didn’t blog the last MedienMittwoch on Corporate Publishing. The dealay is probably explained by the fact that the thing that struck me most about the event was that it’s been another four weeks already since I last posted here (except for comments on comments on the LOHAS MedienMittwoch).
The m2 CP was [...]

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Health, Sustainability and the Web 2.0

This week’s MedienMittwoch concerned itself with the LOHAS movement und their relationship with marketing.
The acronym LOHAS stands for Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability and if you’d like to read more (and care to read German), please to go my latest post on the MedienMittwoch-blog: Heute ist es hier so voll, weil man mit LOHAS Geld [...]

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Banging Things into Shape

Norbert Bolz’s “design manifesto for the 21st century”, bang design makes a good companion read for Sterling’s Shaping Things. Bolz writes in reaction to developments similar to those Sterling picks up: The future of the thing in the age of its digital taggability1, and the “body in the age of its technical reproductability” (p. 135).
bang [...]

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Web Trends Screensaver

Oliver Reichenstein of Information Architects Japan updated his Web Trend Map 2007 (Version 2.0). It’s available in various formats for screen and print viewing - and as a screensaver (Mac OSX only).
Neat!

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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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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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