Is the internet really a tool for promoting democracy in authoritarian states? Is it just a relay of the existing societies mechanisms? Markus Beckedahl of netzpolitik.org asked me whether I’d like to participate in an interview with Evgeny Morozov for his podcast series. Evgeny, a Belarus born researcher at Georgetown University and contributing editor at Foreign Policy gave us a lot of insights in his very interesting research. Thanks a lot for both, the interview and the opportunity to do it.
The interview is available as MP3 (62 MB) and OGG Vorbis (46 MB).
I’m so sorry. I didn’t keep you up to date. Didn’t post about what I’m doing at work, what I’m feeling, what’s going on in my life.
Oh, well. I never did. But since you didn’t complain, you didn’t miss me. Right? Doesn’t matter. Now this blog is going to come back. Maybe just for a moment, maybe for a longer time. Starting with a question to the few english language readers of my twitter account: do you think I should set up a second, english language account? I guess it would be more serious than my sometimes mixed but mainly german one. I guess it would be the more professional one. But: do you feel uncomfortable with reading messages in a language you hardly understand, talking about topics you luckily don’t have to deal with? As a first step, I promise to write this blog a little more frequent. Which is easy to do.