[Original Post in German] Facsimile of the 42-line Gutenberg bible from the copy at Berliner Staatsbibilothek Preuss. Kulturbesitz. Peagant, NY 1964 “Gutenberg has in fact invented nothing: Already in the middle of the second millennium BC it would have been possible to print books in that sense. All technical requirements (presses, ink, pagelike pads, also […]
[Original German blog post] During the debate about the changes in media and the future importance of the Internet, you could get the impression lately, that the age of printing would come to an end after 500 years. In deed many industries that make a living from printed media are in a state of retreat […]
[Original German Blog Post] Some text are said to have influenced a whole generation; some are even called centennial. But the content of two books have been infusing our so called occidental couture and particularly art and literature over the span of the last two thousand years: this is the bible and Ovid’s Metamorphoses Claude […]
The real innovation blogging brought to our media landscape has never been real-time. No, the most important difference between “regular” websites or portals and blogs is their archive and the beautiful possibilities for fostering slowness (philosopher Odo Marquard coined the phrase “Langsamkeitspflege” for a very similar concept). When German blogger and journalist Don Dahlmann wrote […]
[see german post] Yesterday the printing house in our neigboroughood was getting rid of unuseful things. Lots of printing and typesetting tools, drawers and letter cases were on the street: bulky waste waiting for the garbagemen. Yesterday I already took a big “O” and three small letter cases with me to give them a new […]
[Original German Blog-Post] “Lord Weidenfeld peut opposer à ces violentes critiques [des médias], d’une part la dette de la démocratie envers les médias, dits lents, que sont le journal et le livre. Ils ont beaucoup contribué à l’éveil et au développement de la démocratie. Et il peut aussi mieux que tout autre, par son action […]
[Original German Blog-Post] “Sustainability” says the man in the video on the screen, “means to do the same things all day. The opposite of flexible” – For me this marks one of the most impressive moments of the Mediamundo Congress for sustainable media production that took place in Berlin these days. For some this term […]
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