Les Blogs 2 in Paris
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Sebastian
LES BLOGS 2 has officially begun. Again I am not there, due to absent sponsoring. Maybe next time. More on that later in the day.
It’s been, one week
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Sebastian
since Bild.T-Online started Ein Pixel fuer Kinder, the rip-off of The Million Dollar Homepage I wrote about. I said then that, apart from it being a stolen idea, it won’t work in Germany, especially without strong corporate involvement. And despite placing the fund-drive prominently on Bild.T-Online.de, first as a content box, then as an encompassing […]
Rumble in the German blogosphere (Update)
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Sebastian
It started on Tuesday when Johnny posted about a picture that was mailed to him. The key is the text on the picture, "Denn Du bist Deutschland." At the moment there is a big "get up"/motivational-campain running in Germany, called "Du bist Deutschland. (You are Germany.) It has already received a lot of criticism (spin-off […]
Do you trust me? Who do you trust?
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Sebastian
To start things off, I will score two cheap trackbacks, one from Jason who is bound for Asia and one from Shel who is already in Hawaii. The reason being of course that on Monday I’ll fly to Tel Aviv to join my wife for two long awaited weeks of vacation. I hope to squeeze […]
The Looming Attention Crisis
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Sebastian
Fred at A VC posted an interesting quote by Umair Haque: Herbert Simon said it in 1971, which is that “What does an abundance of information create?” A scarcity of attention basically, right? He goes on to say: Most of us have day jobs. Many of us have families. So we have a limited amount […]
Original Art: The Wandering Moleskine Project
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Sebastian
Do you use a Moleskine? This is a great idea coming via Moleskinerie. They send Moleskine journals on a trip around the planet, letting each participant fill one page and scan it. You can look at when each book was where and the scan here. A great, simple idea.