[Original German Blog-Post] Remember that time is money. Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Tradesman When Benjamin Franklin had “snatched the lightning from the skies” with the lightning rod and “the scepter from the tyrants” with the American Independence, it was hardly possible to doubt words of this titanic hero of the enlightenment. His most […]
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Virtual Broadcasting
[Original German Blog-Post] “What men share with all other forms of animal life was not considered to be human.” “Action, the only activity that goes on directly between men without the intermediary of things or matter, corresponds to the human condition of plurality … this plurality is specifically the condition — not only the conditio […]
When more than thirty years are told, As good as dead one is indeed Goethe, Faust II “Why Slow Media?” This is certainly one of the questions we get asked most frequently on events and in many conversations. “Why do you ask for more slowness in media?” For me, Hippocrates’ famous aphorism Ὁ μὲν βίος […]
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What remains of printing
[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 […]
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Paper and Sustainability
[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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Slow Media Camp 2010
[Original German Blog-Post] The first Slow Media Camp #slow10 will take place on June 9th 2010. New Media Hype or Media Denial? Slow Media is about a third way to follow. In the sessions we will present examples of Slow Media, discuss how Slow Media will evolve in the future and especially in howfar valueable […]
[Original German Blog Post] Eternal must that progress be Which Nature through futurity Decrees the human soul; Capacious still, it sthttp://en.slow-media.net/wp-admin/edit.phpill improves As through the abyss of time it moves, Or endless ages roll. Its knowledge grows by every change; Through science vast we see it range That none may here acquire; The pause of […]
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This is the End of Publishing
(auf us.penguingroup.com)
[Original German blog post} “Every time I hear about Twitter I want to yell Stop. The notion of sending and getting brief updates to and from dozens or thousands of people every few minutes is an image from information hell. It scares me, not because I’m morally superior to it, but because I don’t think […]