January 2009
13 posts
Assumptions which lead to 3.1415 and other blur
Just had a conversation about one of my tweets with a FB-friend via Skype;
Things are changing faster than they ever have. (Applies to pretty much every thing in our life, [new chapter] but what’s the cause?)
And it came to me like a lightning bolt.
we are much more people (brains) and we are growing rapidly (tick, tick, tick)
it’s in our DNA, its human nature. to strive for...
Reaching out for the world with your bare hand.... →
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence...”
– Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
To Do: drink coffee @ Kilau Coffee Shop in...
Place is here. And here is the Facebook Page. And have a look at the pictures from Myriam Ceglarek (till end of Feb 09). They @twitter and blogging too.
We don't know nothing and not everything
RT @juliandarley: Der Spiegel: Russia Unveils Aggressive Arctic Plans http://is.gd/hKKW “the Arctic must become our main strategic base for raw materials”
Why don’t we just wreck our planet now? Right now? Why we just start war right now do decide which nation gets the last non-renewable resources of our planet?
“It cannot be ruled out that the battle for raw...
“Confidence is a funny thing. Worse, it is a fickle thing. Just when you think...”
– Here via @tferris (tweet)
RE: Some Things Need To Change (Michael Arrington)
Dear Michael,
I am sorry to hear about these incidents, about your well being, security and family. Maybe it’s time to go back to the small Mexican Village. And enjoy life again.
Like Marcus Aurelius the roman emperor said;
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Respectfull yours,
Michael Jung
How the faceless and amoral world of cyberspace...
… aged 13, performing oral sex on a boy in the garden. The boy was standing and videoing the event on his mobile phone.
… there are a number of things shocking about this event: the casual nature in which such an intimate act is performed in public, the young age of the participants and last, but by no means least, the fact that it is being filmed.
Read on here.
German socialism erodes because of child poverty →
This article is from DER SPIEGEL and you have to use google translate. The article is about child poverty in Germany. The calculus for family support from the gov seems to be unconstitutional and was finally won in a case against the federal social court. Experts have discussed this kids issue for months and the aftermath of agenda 2010 could be seen in real examples. Not just numbers.
From Steve Gillmor ...
What the future holds for us (or should be or what we want to see) and what to learn from the failures of others (real estate, wallstreet, banks) » Here.
… harness the viral power of the social media wave and its central driver … there’s the lack of intelligence in managing these multiple windows … it’s that Google doesn’t appear interested in opening the platform up at...
To Do: eat out @ Chiquito, Aberdeen Esplanade →
More infos here: http://www.chiquito.co.uk/
Social Networks after the 'recession'
Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK wrote about AOL might want to sell Bebo and quoting someone from a media agency;
“I don’t blame Bebo as much as the agencies who don’t know how to engage with Bebo users, and made bad decisions. We are now moving away from a walled garden in social networks anyway. You don’t just have to be on one social network in the way we thought we did two years ago.”
Well,...
