Lovie Awards Judge
A while ago, I was asked to become a judge for the Lovie Awards: named after Ada Lovelace, they’re the European counterpart to the Webby Awards (and also…
Category: cyberculture
Umcomfortable Talk: Digital Disruption
Uncomfortable Talk #2: Digital Disruption – Third Wave Berlin from LHBS Consulting GmbH on Vimeo. Igor, Johannes and I were invited down to Vienna to give this talk…
Tron:Legacy
Last night I had the chance to watch the press screening of TRON:Legacy. In case you’ve lived under a rock over the last six months, here’s the trailer…
Slides “Neue Medien – Fluch oder Segen”
The other day I visited Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) for a day to give a keynote speech and a workshop for FES stipends at the summer academy. (Full disclosure: paid…
Thoughts on the mainstreaming of openness
Disclaimer: I’m strongly biased towards openness. I prefer free and open software over closed systems, I prefer an open and decentralized web over a closed and centralized one.…
iPad, Wired App, ecosystem. Or not.
I’m a big fan of Wired. I read it online all the time, I used to have a Wired US subscription (that didn’t work out that well both…
If Murdoch endorses the iPad, it’s bad
In the Guardian, soon-to-be-ex media mogul Rupert Murdoch continues to claim Google steals Murdoch’s journalistic content, while the iPad might save journalism. Faced with the statement that consumers…