Google, the FTC and Germany: Public vs Private Media
There’s a war going on, and it’s not pretty. The old conflict between publicly funded and private media, and the fight about who regulates the whole sphere. Of…
Category: politics
Google Collaboratory Report #1
It’s done! Over the course of the last few months I’ve been part of the German Google Collaboratory “Internet & Society”. The expert group is part of Google’s…
TV shows at the barber shop & why the internet isn’t the end of political discussion
In a New York Times article about how the internet shapes political discourse, this lovely quote crossed my path (it paraphrases Professor Cass R. Sunstein’s ideas): In the…
Lobby lists for total transparency
Reinhard Bütikofer, member of the European Parliament for the German Green Party, publishes a list of all his meetings. Whoever he meets up with, whether they’re lobbyist, interest…
My Two Cents on the German Pirate Party
Lots of discussions about the Pirate Party (PP) lately, and their role in German politics. With federal elections coming up in late September and some very salient web…
German Young Voter Campaign Copies U.S. Don’t Vote Video
All of them are looking the same. In the Imperial Army that’s probably good. In political campaigning, not so much. Now here I’m in a bit of a…
Iran
Not to get too deeply involved in Iranian politics which I know comparatively little about. But earlier today I emailed a young woman I had the chance to…