Digitalization & Media

The coalition agrees that a ancillary copyright law for press publishers is essential to ask commercial linkers to pay. This is “a black day for copyright”, and there will be repercussions here as well.

Becky Hogge has published the free book “Barefoot into Cyberspace”. She focusses on the digital counter culture and writes about hackers and visionaries—people who see opportunities of communicating technologies to create a more liberal society. Does the book helps its readers understand the digital counter culture?

Ansgar Heveling is a trending topic. The member of parliament for the CDU made a guest appearance in the Handelsblatt, expressing his views on the internet community (Tim Pritlove has set the article to music) and reveals so many argumentative weaknesses that one wonders whether he really means it.

A couple of days ago, I stumbled upon an interesting post by Jonathan Stray about journalism as an editorial search engine. It describes journalism as a system for learning about the world.

iRights.info and the Heinrich Böll Foundation have published a new e-book on digital copyright..

“A ♥ for blogs” is entering its third round, this time started by Marcel. This time, I have selected three examples: two on photography and one on education. All three are available after the jump.

Since I already took part in the first “A heart for blogs” campaign, I do not want to miss out on the link: http://stylespion.de/ein-herz-fuer-blogs-2-am-161009/4918/ text: second edition) either. So here we go!

Nice idea: Today, the Stylespion calls on you to take part in the “A ♥ for blogs” campaign and to introduce German blogs to encourage networking in the community. The procedure: Today, April 21, 2009, the entire (well, maybe just part of the) German blogosphere is publishing a post with the same title) and doing nothing more than pointing to other blogs worth reading. Over at the Blogpiloten, I have already submitted a few suggestions that should appear during the course of the day, but there is of course more to say. So here we go.

Malcolm McLaren, the well-known artist and music manager, has put together a new video installation called “Shallow 1-21”.

It is finally here: Steffen Büffel has put the results of last year's newspaper study online, which I was allowed to work on. The values are based on a full coverage of German newspapers and should therefore be unrivaled in this country.