My personal highlight of the  Scoopcamp 2010 conference in Hamburg on September 29 was definitely Aron Pilhofer ‘s keynote. (last year it was the keynote of Everyblock founder Adrian Holovaty). Pilhofer leads a team of ten programmers and interactive news specialists which is responsible for the excellent interactiven visualizations at nytimes.com. As he showed us [...]

It finally happened – the famous Mission Chickens Elvira, Chiquita, Frida and Dolores who got their names through crowdsourced suggestions on their blog Mission Chicken are now official name bearers. Thank you to Tanja, Donna, JP and Frank for a great party and a beautiful (and funny!) namegiving ceremony. Want to know what this is [...]

Cynthia Typaldos from Mountain View, California (renowned as world headquarters of Google), is the woman behind  Kachingle. That’s the name of one of several social micropayment systems, whose medaillons and buttons are popping up on more and more blogs and other websites. (another such system is flattr). Kachingle now has a network of almost 160 [...]

This is an interview with Jeff Jarvis who teaches entrepreneurial journalism at City University of New York. His main points: Journalists must learn and understand the business side of journalism, even if they don’t want become entrepreneurs. Traditional media companies should reckon with the force of destroyers – new media entrepreneurs who sit in their [...]

(switch to the German version) Everyblock has facilitated access to hyperlocal information since January 2008. The database journalism project, founded by the journalist and web programmer Adrian Holovaty, was financed initially by by a 1.1 million dollar grant from the Knight Foundation. In August 2009 Holovaty sold the plattform to MSNBC. And this doesn’t sit [...]

(switch to the German version) Most journalists would probably agree with the following statement: it’s a professionally written story which turns raw data into a journalistic gem.  Adrian Holovaty thinks out of the box: At the Hamburg Scoopcamp, the 28-year-old Chicago journalist and web programmer held a fantastic keynote and at one point during his [...]

At the web conference  next09 in Hamburg I interviewed Jeff Jarvis about the new opportunities for media in the digital age and the link economy in the US and in Germany. (switch to the German version) Your current book has the title „What would Google do“? – meant to be read as a piece of [...]

A special event at the Global Media Forum hosted by Germany’s global broadcaster Deutsche Welle is the  symposium “Re-Inventing Journalism? Journalistic Training in the Social Media Age”. I will be discussing the topic of social media journalism on a panel with Kevin Anderson (Blog Editor of Guardian), Marcus Bösch of the DW and other experts. [...]