The word says it all - but only at second glance: Selfregulation means "Don't dare", "You better...", "You can do it on your own or we will do it for you" - it's just a euphemism for early submission and voluntary slavery. But it seems to be a common idea to talk about regulation, too, if the actual topic is online media and trust.
Freitag, 20. November 2009
Interview: "You are perfect just the way you are" - Doing Less
Marc Lessers book "Doing Less" is a very tempting promise. It's supposed to explain how to achieve more by doing less - but doing less does not mean to work less, it means to do less unnecessary things, to focus better and to care less for distractions, and to answer three important questions: What do you want? What do you have to do to get it? Can you pay the price for it?
Kulturindustrie fuer alle?
Natuerlich haben die Giganten des Mainstream schon lang die neuen Marktplaetze besetzt. Nischen, die in Angrenzung vom Massenmarkt entstehen, koennen ohne diesen nicht existieren und werden bald von diesem verschluckt. Georg Seesslen warnt im neuen "Freitag" vor grossen Erwartungen der alternativen Kulturindustrie an das Longtail-Konzept von Chris Anderson.
Die nutzbaren Nischen werden immer rarer, weil die grossen sich auch in diese Bereiche vorwagen: die gleichen Wege, die es den Kleinen leicht machen sind eben auch Moeglichkeiten fuer die Grossen.
http://www.themashazine.com/loesungen/micropublishing/gratis_kulturindustrie
The Philosopher, the Wolf, the Dog and the Fleas
Interview: "The Philosopher and the Wolf" is a bestseller and a philosophical textbook at the same time. Mark Rowlands explains the fundamental issues of morality, mortality and human intelligence against the background of eleven years with a wolf - examining what we can learn from the attitude of a wild creature.
http://www.themashazine.com/blog/kbex/philosopher-and-the-wolf
Cybermobbing and the Art of War
Media are a window to the world; that's a legitimate view. They show things we would not see without them. They don't, in the first place, create things. It's worth to have a closer look on how media shape trends and support cultural changes - but that's another story.
Today I'm just wondering about the assumptions that make teachers, journalists, parents and who else wants to join the choir of the concerned grown ups worry about new online media as place, tool or even cause for increased mobbing among kids and teenagers.
How can media create violence?
Experts on Trust - Digest of Trust and Censorhip in Online Media #3
This week's issue of themashazine's Trust Digest covers book censorship, traditional media and the trust problems they face according to the Harvard Nieman report, growing online censorship in southeast asia and really stupid doctors who publish private patients data on facebook.
http://www.themashazine.com/trust-exchange/experts-on-trust/trust_digest_3
Micropublishing Basics
Microblogging, Microfinancing - does everything have to be small and does it have to move fast? Because there is no time anymore for "real" business?
Micropublishing is sometimes used as a synonym for microblogging. I look at it differently. Blogging is Blogging - that's a way to quickly sketch some thought, spread information, start a discussion.
Publishing is on the one hand more onedirectional (to me), on the other hand, I think of it as a more structured and targeted process: Publishing is not dealing with ideas and sketches, it's not using media as tools, publishing to me means to create products that cover a full process, an idea and it's conclusions from beginning to end.
That's why I think of books, when I think of publishing. And when I think of micropublishing, I think of books from the fringes and for the fringes.
http://www.themashazine.com/loesungen/micropublishing/manifesto
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