After Us
“Being Dead” by Jim Crace is a weird book, “easier to respect than to love”, wrote Gary Krist in the original Salon review. Well, I can ...
Author: Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer
Back from Berlin
Were I more faithful a blogger, there would have been plenty of opportunity for daily writing. I’ve met a dozen interesting people, had wonderful talks, v...
Without Whom Not
So Cory Doctorow hates Facebook. I think that is too strong an emotion. But I like Doctorow and respect his judgement. The value of a virtual network is ultimat...
Taking stock
What a nice day. Someone acknowledged a heartfelt compliment, good work has been done among wonderful colleagues, a villain was nailed, a great project settled....
Facing Facebook
I have joined the thousands or so netizens who are playing around with Facebook these days. There is something very compelling about this environment, and it...
Noise
Demolition work always cheers people up. Whenever there is one of these modern equivalents of a Tyrannosaurus Rex eating away at some concrete structure you can...
Rules of Engagement
I’ve been thinking a lot about User Experience recently. What sounds like just another buzzword at a closer look turns out to be one of these magical conc...
Gender
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, ...
“The DNA of the future of journalism”
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is a blog-turned-online-magazine from New York City. With their mixture of news aggregation, investigative reporting and commentary, J...
Staring At A Wall
My improvised work place at the living room table provides me with a cinemascope view of the opposite house front in modernist yellow-greyish colour, a hue like...