The New Media Diva

Month: January, 2008

Digital Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Wired Mag has an article online about an estimated US$30 million effort at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology to literally piece together the work of East Germany’s Stasi. Researchers at the Institute are using digital methods to tape together the 5 percent of surveillance files ripped up by the Stasi during [...]

I really, really dislike Google Calendar right now

I’m trying not to use the word “hate” because it’s just not a nice word. Last year, my editor-in-chief and I started using Google Calendar as a collaboration tool to schedule stories. She’s in Sarajevo. I’m in Zurich. The Calendar seemed to be the best way to schedule stories in real time with both of [...]

links for 2008-01-27

The Next Social Network: WordPress – GigaOM Late to the party with this one, but here’s a great argument for WP to get into the social networking business. (tags: wordpress socialnetworks blogging)