On Loving McDonald’s (Aren’t We All?)
In times of crisis it’s ideas that count. That much has just been forcefully argued by Paul Krugman in the New York Review of Books. You might think, well...
Category: Bullshit Detection
Public Image Ltd.
“So is the public image of China really that bad in Germany?”, a chinese friend asked me today. Well, yes. Judging from the pre-olympic Tibet craze ...
Small Is Beautiful
Mit einem herzhaften Gruß nach München: “Not only do small (Long Tail) publishers monetize their content at 3-5 times the rate of the larger publishers in...
Trauerspiel SpOn (Forts.)
Sie begreifen es einfach nicht. Die Bürosessel-Korrespondenten bei Spiegel Online können sich einfach nicht vorstellen, dass nicht alle Chinesen entweder unterd...
More on the “Chinese Killer Robots” Campaign
Just found another voice of reason in the German media subculture: “Spiegelfechter” Jens Berger (I guess the title of his blog is not meant to be ad...
Domestic Dirt
There are few things more disturbing than the taking over of politics by uninformed emotion. One thing that actually is more disturbing is when media are using ...
Sloppy SpOn
Spiegel Online has earned a reputation for hyping up their articles with blatantly sensationalist and biased headlines. Latest exhibit is an interview with ZEIT...
Goodbye, Jack Crawford!
We are living in bleak times. No, I’m not talking about the Bush junta or islamist terrorism, nor about climate change or no more Harry Potter novels. I&#...
At the Dinner Table
Three males exchanging their expert opinions on female elegance, high heels, emancipation and eating disorders.
News from the Professional Enthusiast
TimesSelect is dead. It was a cynical act doomed from the start. With it goes any hope of charging for content online. Content is now and forever free. Jeff Jar...