[bracketing the big topics]
Posted in Famous First Words on Mai 10th, 2013
Pierre Bourdieu once said: “Journalism is one of the areas where you find the greatest number of people who are anxious, dissatisfied, rebellious, or cynically resigned”. After a career of more than ten years in the news, I hope that I can lose my fear, conquer my greed, maintain my rebelliousness, not curry any favors. [...]
Posted in Famous First Words on Jul 10th, 2011
Eigentlich hätte ich mir dieses Fundstück bis zum 10-jährigen Jubiläum aufheben sollen, aber dafür bin ich zu ungeduldig. Besonders schön finde ich den Beitrag zu einer – schon damals so wahrgenommen – endlosen Diskussion: Archivierter Beitrag: Weblogs und Journalismus Lorenz LorenzMeyer am 13. 01. 02, 10:58 AM CET Die Weblog-Szene diskutiert über das Verhältnis zum [...]
Posted in Famous First Words, Social Engineering on Okt 7th, 2010
Dieser Tage wird der Pop Science-Journalist Malcolm Gladwell sehr gelobt für einen Artikel im New Yorker mit dem Titel “Small Change. Why the Revolution will not be tweeted”. In diesem Artikel argumentiert Gladwell, dass wahre politische Bewegungen mehr benötigen als die ‘weak ties’ von virtuellen Netzwerken. Und er bezieht sich kritisch auf den (ebenfalls in [...]
Posted in Famous First Words, Mind Works, Online Publishing, Social Engineering on Jan 9th, 2010
2009 war für mich persönlich ein annus horribilis, das vor allem im Zeichen trauriger familiärer und privater Ereignisse stand. Gleichzeitig war es aber auch ein Jahr, in dem sich objektive, zeitgeschichtliche Prozesse mehr und mehr in den Vordergrund gedrängt haben. Ereignisse wie die fortgesetzte Finanzkrise und die völlig inadäquate, hilflose Antwort der Politik auf diese [...]
Posted in Famous First Words on Nov 20th, 2007
Whenever an Indian demographic appears as a numerator, the resulting number looks big. But whenever its population is in the denominator, the number looks small. Its like looking at the same phenomenon from opposite ends of a telescope. Simon Cox: Running fast, in: Economist, Nov 10, 2007
Posted in Famous First Words on Nov 18th, 2007
So, finally this Weblog has gotten back to its original visual identity: The header shows the beginning of the score of Domenico Scarlatti’s otherworldly beautiful Sonata in b minor (Kk. 87), a melancholic little masterpiece accessible even to the piano novice.
Posted in Famous First Words on Okt 15th, 2007
“[...] I didn’t give a goddamn about the mythology and all the names and national flavors of Buddhism, but was just interested in the first of Shakyamuni’s four noble truths, All life is suffering. And to an extent interested in the third, The suppression of suffering can be achieved, which I didn’t quite believe was [...]
Posted in Famous First Words on Sep 5th, 2007
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, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, [...]
Posted in Famous First Words on Jun 5th, 2007
“The earth sighed as it turned in its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along in the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas [...]
Posted in Famous First Words on Okt 27th, 2006
“I’ve gotten plenty of flack for my views, which have been oversimplified into a rather banal ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend.’ True, I’ve supported the Taliban and even Pol Pot in my time, but I’ve got no regrets. I’d do it again if the right situation presented itself. But to dumb down [...]