[bracketing the big topics]
Posted in Announcements on Apr 18th, 2010
Our chinese brothers and sisters (especially the sisters) are watching the ashflow-induced European situation with sympathy and growing concern. They send their sincere greetings and express the hope that by the end of next week we will still have enough milk, and green vegetables, and pork and beef, and honey and bread.
Isn’t it good [...]
Posted in Announcements on Sep 4th, 2008
In der rechten Spalte gibt es jetzt eine Liste längerer eigener Texte, hier aus dem Blog und aus anderen Quellen, die mir besonders am Herzen liegen.
Posted in Announcements on Apr 13th, 2008
Okay. Es wird Zeit für eine wahrscheinlich längst überfällige Entscheidung. Dieses Blog wird künftig wieder auf Deutsch erscheinen. Es auf Englisch zu führen, war ein Experiment und eine interessante Erfahrung, aber das Resultat ist in zweierlei Hinsichten unbefriedigend.
Erstens erhöht die Sprachbarriere für mich als Autor die Schwelle, überhaupt Beiträge zu schreiben: [...]
Posted in Announcements, Sports et divertissements on Mar 16th, 2008
Watched Howard Rheingold trying to get a little Attention into his classroom. That reminded me of something from a former life: 7 o’clock in the morning, sitting in an unheated dojo in Hamburg-Ottensen, before Aikido training. Sitting in seiza or full lotus, 20 minutes of breathing, counting breath, 1 to 10, and again. The beauty [...]
Posted in Announcements on Nov 18th, 2007
Even though it is still pretty much under construction, I want to point to another new project of mine. The weblog is part of a fledgling research project on Chinese Online Media that will keep me busy throughout much of the coming year, and who knows…
(The title of the blog is a tip of the [...]
Posted in Announcements, Online Publishing on Oct 12th, 2007
Today is the starting point of a semester project that is going to be fun. Online journalism students of the 2nd year will cover the campaign for the upcoming Hessen state elections in a group weblog, starting from November and ending with the election day, January 27th, 2008. We will focus on our local Rhein-Main [...]
Posted in Announcements on Oct 2nd, 2007
Every once in a while I am tempted to give up my habit of blogging in English. That’s in those rare moments when I wish I were rich and famous and well-loved by a broad, wildly engaged readership. Then I tend to imagine my present audience of a dozen or so, and sigh. Wouldn’t [...]
Posted in Announcements on Sep 2nd, 2007
I’ve updated this blog to a newer version of Wordpress and a different appearance. Meanwhile, its patron saint, Domenico Scarlatti, has had his 250th death anniversary. Daniele Dell’Agli’s well-informed and thoughtful essay about this great composer had been rejected by all major german-language papers, thereby providing justification for its author’s low opinion of the german [...]
Posted in Announcements, Social Software on Aug 22nd, 2007
Another topic, another blog, another identity.
Posted in Announcements on Mar 26th, 2007
Wir wollen, dass praschl in den Matador-Editorials endlich seinen flickr-Photostream verlinkt.