Medien

Interview: "The Philosopher and the Wolf" is a bestseller and a philosophical textbook at the same time. Mark Rowlands explains the fundamental issues of morality, mortality and human intelligence against the background of eleven years with a wolf - examining what we can learn from the attitude of a wild creature.

Media are a window to the world; that's a legitimate view. They show things we would not see without them. They don't, in the first place, create things. It's worth to have a closer look on how media shape trends and support cultural changes - but that's another story.
Today I'm just wondering about the assumptions that make teachers, journalists, parents and who else wants to join the choir of the concerned grown ups worry about new online media as place, tool or even cause for increased mobbing among kids and teenagers.
How can media create violence?

Future Network 2009 Review part 2: This year's technology outlook showed, that technology is about to lose it's key role in innovation - even among technologist. This is not a bad sign for technology, but a good sign for increased usability, increased usefulness and better planning. The road from innovation leads from a social aspect (a problem a need) towards technology - and not anymore the other way round.

Microblogging, Microfinancing - does everything have to be small and does it have to move fast? Because there is no time anymore for "real" business?
Micropublishing is sometimes used as a synonym for microblogging. I look at it differently. Blogging is Blogging - that's a way to quickly sketch some thought, spread information, start a discussion.
Publishing is on the one hand more onedirectional (to me), on the other hand, I think of it as a more structured and targeted process: Publishing is not dealing with ideas and sketches, it's not using media as tools, publishing to me means to create products that cover a full process, an idea and it's conclusions from beginning to end.
That's why I think of books, when I think of publishing. And when I think of micropublishing, I think of books from the fringes and for the fringes.