http://www.falklueke.com media, politics and the web - a german point of view Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:25:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A song makes it way around the globe. Ooops! It wasn't meant to do that?! Once something is published on the internet, you won't get it back anymore. That's the lesson the management of the german belch rock band Rammstein has to learn, which is better known for being a chanty ... http://www.falklueke.com/2009/07/25/no-links-2-3-4/_63 I don't have to complain to Chris Anderson. I heard his book 'free' mostly on the subway. The audio book was free in it's german double meaning of 'umsonst' (free of charge/without any effects) in any meaning. The time I spent was 'too small to meter', just to quote Andersons ... http://www.falklueke.com/2009/07/19/too-small-to-meter/_62 When I entered Facebook, some friends were quickly available. Ok, most of them did not apply to the same friendship scheme as my ‘real life friends‘ -- the main qualification was: we both used facebook and met before. Those were the days of early adopters. Now these days are gone. And ... http://www.falklueke.com/2009/06/21/whats-a-friend-on-facebook-today/_61 While, and maybe caused by that, the world is troubled by a financial and economical crisis, people start thinking about questions of payment, of money transfer, of currencies on the net/the web. One of the driving forces is the expected start of Facebooks digital credit system. It seems to become a ... http://www.falklueke.com/2009/06/01/a-thought-on-digital-currencies/_60 Dear readers/subscribers. Some of you might miss updates, most of you won't even have noticed yet. I never ran this blog on a regular basis, my time schedule never allowed me to do. With the beginning of february, I joined the german consumer protection federal organisation (verbraucherzentrale bundesverband), where I work ... http://www.falklueke.com/2009/03/12/being-busy-for-you/_59 Some weeks ago there was a lively discussion on the reporting and / or journalism quality Twitter allows, influences or stands for. My position was: without referencing, twitter is nothing. Today, a plane went down at the Hudson River in NYC. Within seconds it was reported by several Twitter users, for ... http://www.falklueke.com/2009/01/15/when-a-plane-comes-down-and-twitter-is-up/_56 Over there at my german language blog, I write some more or less lengthy and more or less fictionary stories during christmas time. This is one of them, though I think it loses a lot of it's very own character due to the translation. It was a nice winter day in ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/12/07/advent-season-stories-at-the-pulse-of-mitte/_55 Over there at TechCrunch, people discuss whether Twitter is a news source. I think it's easier than you might think it is. Twitter is a close-to-real time reporting medium. You usually do not follow the guy at the place where "it" happens. You probably do follow a guy that follows a guy that ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/11/27/twitter-as-a-news-source/_54 Joe Trippi, one of the most highly reputated online campaigners on earth, asks whether it's time to establish an equivalent of my.barackobama.com after he succeeded in the US presidential election: a platform my.whitehouse.gov to get people involved into the needs and deeds of the next president of the United States. I ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/11/06/mywhitehousegov-yourwhitehousegov/_53 The world is looking on the United States today: the results of todays US presidential election will surely lead to one thing - a new president of one of the most important, maybe politically still the most important country on earth. So it's time to think about the man who's going ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/11/04/thanksnothing-day/_52