Barack Obama disguised as Batmans's Joker ("The Dark Night"-Version) - a photoshop experiment attracted tens of thousand users on Flickr. And was now banned - officially for copyright reasons...

Even if we are curious - we don't always want all the informatoin we could have. It just provide too many options, too many new ways to consider, and information makes us feel less comfortable with our opinions and decisions.

Spending two days with the annual New Media in Corporate Communications Conference in Amsterdam, I learnt a few new things:

• Financial Services companies are far behind on adopting and promoting new online media (well, that's not really new).

Wie Online-Medien unseren Sinn fuer Hoeflichkeit und Informationsgehalt im Gespraech veraendern: Tiefgruendigkeit oder in der Kuerze liegt die Wuerze? Expertenausfuehrungen oder dialogorientiert gefuehrtes Crowdsourcing? Wollen wir ueber alle moeglichen Facetten und Entscheidungsvarianten eines Themas reden oder nur ueber die, die uns tatsaechlich interessieren? - Neue Online-Medien bieten eine Fuelle an Optionen, die uns kaum noch deutlich sind.