KonzeptioNerd

IPad Keyboard Live Test

Alright, Guss. i’m writing this on a real-Life iPad. Benefits of vorging Inn an international Network Agency… We got One Sent over from. Hicago for tesitng.
So, I’m Witting in the easy chair in our office, Full lean-back Mode, iPad on my knees in prtrait Mode. Keyboard Sound on - nie Feedback. What you See here [...]

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Google and Privacy (brief overview)

The other day, a colleague asked me about Google and privacy. I checked round a bit and wrote him the following email which I’m posting below, mainly so that I don’t lose the info, but also in case anyone is looking for a brief overview (in German, though):

Wenn du bei Google registriert bist (z.B. für [...]

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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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Nackt unter Journalisten

I fianally yielded to social pressure (”*Have* you read Spiegel on social networks?!”) and actually bought 10/2009 of German weekly Der Spiegel to read what they feel needs to be said about life in online communities. And I shouldn’t have.

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Aw, come on, let’s close down the internet already

ZDF Spezial had rather weird things to say about the internet a pro pos of the Winnenden massacre. First of all, the reporters appeared half surprised, half disappointed that the gunman had virtually no internet footprint: no hints, no threats, no weird social networking profiles. At least he appears to have played ego shooters every [...]

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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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Conflagration

I’ve fallen among the advertisers, and since Oct. 1, I’m helping to make Leo Burnett Frankfurt become a little more digital every day. And no sooner was I on bord than they sent me to an ADC conference. Yes, that’s ADC as in Art Directors Club Germany. The event was the Brands and Ideas Congress, [...]

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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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Intranet 2.0

Yet another article I’ve been working on earlier this year (together with BlueMars’s Tobias Kirchhofer) has made it between cardboard covers at last:
“BlueMars Intranet-Relaunch nutzt Web-2.0-Techniken” in: Frank Martin Hein, Elektronische Unternehmenskommunikation, Deutscher Fachverlag 2007.
We’re in good company with contributors from businesses such as Microsoft, Bertelsmann AG, Allianz SE, Meta Design, Kaufhof, Philips, SAP or [...]

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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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