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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.

Last Tuesday, Thomas Stiren gave a presentation about “Social networks and the opportunities for companies” at the Trier Chamber of Commerce. The rdts managing director gave many valuable tips for the conception of successful social media campaigns, which I would like to pass on to you here – however, the entrepreneur remained unclear about his sources and terminology.

The demo scene create digital artworks in tiny files of 64k, building on effects calculated in real time by the computer, often exceeding technical limitations of the devices. A free documentation und a creative commons BY) license describes the development of the scene and introduces some of its protagonists.

An exciting interview for in between: Girl Talk talks about mashups and his inspiration for them..

A few weeks ago, I already expressed my concerns regarding the ancillary copyright (Leistungsschutzrecht) for press publishers. The draft law that has now been made public shows that it also affects users and poses a threat to the democratic exchange of opinions.

On May 25 and 26, I was able to attend the 30th Multimediatreff in Cologne – thanks to the podcast Technikload. Topic: Development of mobile applications. Read about the basics of Phone Gap, iOS and Android – and why Windows Phone 7 was able to surprise. You should also not miss the recommendations for a meaningful user experience.

Now, a couple of days after the first part of my review of the event Media Day, which focused on the professional topics like responsive web design and apps, it is time for part 2. This post covers the technological and political foundations regarding broad band in Rhineland-Palatinate, and why this is often still lacking.