http://www.falklueke.com media, politics and the web - a german point of view Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:32:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was asked to contribute as a guest author to economist.com/debate on online privacy regulation, which I happily did. There are two kinds of learnings for me: the first is a matter of the subject, the second a matter of online debates. Regarding the first issue, I have to admit that ... http://www.falklueke.com/2010/09/03/learnings-from-the-economist-debate/_70 Have you ever heard a talk of Jeff Jarvis? He's a brilliant speaker, invited to many conferences due to that. He's able to provoke the audience, to convince and to influence - by stating the obvious. But I never heard anything either new or even seriously complex from Mr. Jarvis. ... http://www.falklueke.com/2010/08/25/how-would-google-fail/_69 Last week, Google announced that it will launch StreetView for Germany this year. At the same time, they said to publish a new tool for objections against having your house or flat or the one you are living in right now (yes, many houses and flats are just rented in ... http://www.falklueke.com/2010/08/18/google-hitting-the-high-street/_68 In case you wonder about one of the trending topics on Twitter right now: Blumenkübel means flower bucket. This german meme was created based on an article by a regional newspaper of Münster (Westphalia), reporting in a dramatic story that a flower bucket on the street in front of an old ... http://www.falklueke.com/2010/08/05/blumenkubel-a-meme-during-saure-gurken-zeit/_67 About one year ago I sat in my kitchen, sketching a platform for a convertible attention currency. I had just stopped working on the idea of a Berlin web magazine, because I found that the economic situation is lacking the infrastructure to run something like that in a way I'd ... http://www.falklueke.com/2010/05/27/somewhat-better-than-flattr/_66 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 ... http://www.falklueke.com/2010/04/13/interview-with-evgeny-morozov/_65 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 ... http://www.falklueke.com/2010/04/12/are-you-feeling-uncomfortable/_64 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