http://www.falklueke.com media, politics and the web - a german point of view Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:55:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No real. Just Social Web vacation. See you (your favorite rss reader will notify you, when I'm back). http://www.falklueke.com/2008/08/05/going-on-vacation/_51 Today, I attended the speech of Barack Obama at Street of the 17th of June/Siegessäule. As I did, another estimated 200.000 people came to hear Obama speak. On my way back, on an escalator at central station, I was asked by two nice elderly US citizens why I've been there ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/07/25/barack-obama-in-berlin-take-a-closer-look-on-this-city/_50 With Markus Beckedahl of netzpolitik.org, one of Germanys leading bloggers, I published a short study on Politics and the Web 2.0 in Germany (PDF, german) today. Our key findings were: German politicians and parties are yet unable to adapt online campaigning techniques such as established in the US or France for ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/07/01/short-study-kurt-beck-has-no-friends-politics-and-the-web-20-in-germany/_49 In Europe, the presidential campaign is widely noticed. Since most of the population shook it's head over the Bush ./. Gore fiasco in 2000, was pretty upset and astonished by the re-election of "Cowboy George" (god damn, he lied on iraq, promotes only the interest of the wealthy oil and ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/06/29/oh-my-god-obama-is-not-a-european-liberal/_48 The microblogging service Twitter is felt to be 2/3 of the day "over capacity", means: not working. Some of it's features have fully or partly been disabled due to it's server overload. But: that's no surprise at all. Don't mind about Twitter. It is a perfect proof of concept whether microblogging ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/06/24/no-need-to-fix-twitter/_47 Everything seems to be social. We have OpenSocial, CorporateSocialResponsibility, SocialNetworks, Social Democrats (diminishing) and Social Welfare (diminishing, too). I've been to SocialCamp in Berlin this weekend (my now main employer newthinking communications was one of the co-hosts). Two days with the aim to find out which web 2.0 techniques may work ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/06/15/whats-social-nowadays/_46 It's football season in Europe again. Not american football, it's the real football (some people call it "soccer" and think it's a sport only played by women such as Mia Hamm). Two days ago the European Championship Euro 2008 in Switzerland and Austria began. Football is the most political game in ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/06/09/euro-2008-feet-over-head/_45 I'm one of those who usually run several chat clients at the same time. Jabber, Skype, IRC are the main protocols I'm using. Now that Facebook added a chat application, I tried to find out how it works for my purposes. Not to make this entry much longer than needed: It ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/06/07/the-facebook-chat-feature/_44 http://www.falklueke.com/2008/06/06/tramspotting/_43 The german Chaos Computer Club got some very benevolent media coverage during the last days. The Hackers club with more than quarter of a century of history is going popular while topics like data retention, fingerprints, cctv and other surveillance technics as well as voting computers are earning increasing attentiveness. ... http://www.falklueke.com/2008/05/22/hacking-goes-pop/_41