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“Decay”, a zombie film, relocates the zombie apocalypse to an unusual place – and despite certain flaws, shows what independent films are capable of.

The ancillary copyright law (Leistungsschutzrecht) is casting its shadow: the Bundestag will debate it this week in its first reading. If the German Newspaper Publishers and Publishers Association is to be believed, this has a lot to do with shoplifting. Read on to find out why that is not true.

Opinions on search engine optimization vary widely. For some, it is a simple necessity, for others a passion, and for still others, the biggest pain in the neck on the web. Eric Kubitz, managing director of Contentmanufaktur and author at the blog “SEO Book”, has now published the German video training “Suchmaschinen-Optimierung – Schritt für Schritt zum optimalen Ranking” with SEO knowledge for beginners and advanced users, which is intended to dispel the clichés.

On Media Studies Day, the Trier Media Studies Department celebrated its 15th birthday with exciting topics. Stefan Raue’s lecture on trimediality at MDR convinced with practical relevance, but remained pale when it came to the internet. The central question of the panel discussion: Can journalists help shape the digital future at all?

Is the new social media world a good fit for traditional theater? An interview with Karin Janner, organizer of the first Barcamp on theater and social media, about marketing with and the challenges of social media for the world of theater.

Science Fiction, made with the help of free tools, available to anyone. The free short movie “Tears of Steel” takes the viewer into a world broken by a broken heart.

Gaining insights under the night sky – Trier hosted a long night of science yesterday, City Campus. I was out and about with my camera – here is a selection of my photos.

So there it is, the ancillary copyright. A done deal, search engines are to pay publishers license fees. An unprecedented fight against networking is imminent.

This article is overdue: About six months ago, I started a small series with basics of QR codes, methods for analysis and evaluation and popular fields of application – and announced a fourth part with analyses.

George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” (1968) is one of the genre defining zombie movies – and, due to an unintentional mistake, the American version is freely on the net.