At the moment I’m writing around my BA subject (which means I collect and order not having started the big text yet) which is about Wikis and their impact on the idea of collboration and I’m very much a proponent of the Wiki system.There are still enough people opposing the idea of Wikis, some for probably right reasons but many … Read More
Open Source Software – eine Liste
Es scheint immer noch vereinzelt Menschen zu geben, die nicht Wissen was Open Source-Software ist. Obwohl da ein komplexer gesellschaftlicher, semi-religöser und philosophischer Zusammenhang dran hängt, werde ich versuchen mich kurz zu fassen. Open-Source-Software (etwa: quelloffene Weichware) ist Software, bei der man nicht nur eine lauffähige Version in Maschinensprache bekommt (so, wie man sie üblicherweise auch im Laden kaufen kann) … Read More
The software awards scam « Successful Software
The software awards scam « Successful Software Al Lowe brought me to this one. It’s really interesting how spam is actually not only unwanted text messages, e-Mail, blog comments and such but can obviously also be software. I very much knwo this because if you start looking for a decent software tool to serve only one purpose (like e.g. undeleting … Read More
Doctor Who or One more reason why german TV sucks
Deutsches Fernsehen ist eine sehr eigenartige Angelegenheit. Qualität ist offenbar für viele Verantwortliche ein Fremdwort. Obwohl fast alle großen Privatsender mit ihren tollen Spielfilmen um Zuschauer werben kann kein Sender diese tatsächlich qualitativ hochwertig verwerten. Ein 90 Minuten Spielfilm wird Dank sinnfreier Werbeunterbrechungen zu 120 bis 130 Minuten aufgeplustert, wenn der Film länger ist, wird er auch schon mal gekürzt, … Read More
gulli: Deutsche Post macht virtuellen Laden in Second Life zu / Star Wars Clone Wars
gulli: Deutsche Post macht virtuellen Laden in Second Life zu Es ist fast schon lustig zu sehen, wie sich langsam aber sicher die versammelte Firmenprominenz aus dem zweiten Leben zurueckzieht mit den unterschiedlichsten Begruendungen. Sicher ist SL tendenziell schwerer zu bedienen als vergleichbare Online-Rollenspiele. Und da es sich eben nicht um ein Spiel handelt, welches sich verpflichtet sieht seine Nutzer … Read More
It's been a while…
Yes, it’s taken some time, but here I’m back, blogging for world domination, world peace and cheaper jokes. There’s several interesting thing to blog about so let’s get started: Microsoft to buy Google Yes, the big M has made an offer for Yahoo! the second biggest force in web search and provider of Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Widgets and other services … Read More
Official Zooomr Blog : Zooomr 2008 Release Schedule / And my take on Steve's keynote
Official Zooomr Blog : Zooomr 2008 Release Schedule Ok, I have been very close to giving up on Zooomr a few times since the launch of Mark III because on several occasions upload or other features did not work and many things I would consider basic stuff weren’t available. And then there was kind of an dead pause after the … Read More
Post Christmas Post
Yes, we’ve again made it through the breathtaking days of christmas during which we celebrated the birthday of Jesus Christ (just to remind those of you who wondered). And the world (or at least a considerable part of it) was again wrapped up in joy and warm feelings. I could bore you to death with what I did on christmas … Read More
Acagamics / SmugMug / Sunday Poem
Mal ein Blogeintrag auf deutsch. (Sorry, if you don’t understand anything, it’s german!) Podcast #1: Was ist das eigentlich, Acagamics? + Spiele. at Acagamics Ok, erste Neuigkeit: Acagamics ist ein Studentenclub für Spielewentwickler an meiner Uni, dem ich schon seit einiger Zeit angehöre. Wir machen interessante Projekte, die im weitesten Sinn mit Computerspielen und deren Entwicklung zusammenhängen. Womit wir uns … Read More
The Famous Side of MySpace
I just got the MySpace newsletter. To make that clear, I’m not on MySpace meaning I do not actively use my account there. I don’t even think I put any information up there. However, I do have an account just for the sake of completeness (because I do have account on most web 2.0 services to do research and geek … Read More
what i read / wil wheaton / news / sunday poem
In a constant effort to add more geek- and nerdiness to my life I’ve recently subscribed to some large web 2.0-related blogs including techcrunch.com, scobleizer and Pulse 2.0. Everyday for the last two weeks I therefore had about 40 to 50 Posts to go through and it takes some time but I understand many pro bloggers have to go thrpugh … Read More
Sunday poem – fourth edition
And another poem, but this time it is a completely new, freshly written and unpublished piece of which I’m not sure whether it’s as funny as it should be. Or even entertaining. Or good. But read for yourself. Oblivious Rain drops smash against the windowdawning clouds are hanging lowLights turned on in every roomoutside no lights find space to bloomHome … Read More