One of my apartment mates sent me a link to a piece by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung entitled “Architekt entdeckt unberührte DDR-Wohnung” (Architect discovers untouched apartment from GDR times). In it the author reports how an architect discovers an untouched apartment in Leipzig 9 years plus some months after the fall of the Wall. It [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
The lens eye
Sarah Perez’ post over at ReadWriteWeb entitled “Technology is Great, but Are We Forgetting to Live?” resonates with me. I don’t like to view everything through a camera lens and thus do not record everything that I see. Seeing fathers film every move of their families on vacation from the moment they wake up until [...]
Between good and bad
Making decisions is not always easy, especially when you need to decide between the good and the bad, but sympathize with the in-between because you can see the advantages and they seem to outweigh the disadvantages when the product / service is used as intended. I’m not making sense? Well, hopefully it becomes clearer in [...]
ZZ are going to be top: First look at the Zotz plug-in for Zotero
Thanks to my Twitter network, I learn about interesting, funny, stunning, awesome, academic things to do, to read, to view, to reflect upon, and to wonder about.
Last night, I saw @zotero’s latest post on a new plugin that would allow Zotero users to export library collections to the web. As I am a happy Zotero [...]
Playing the Social Media Game
At the beginning of October I read Michele Martin’s blog post “The Social Media Game – Remixed and Some Comments” in which she shares her material and experience of playing that game at a conference. As I had just started teaching an optional module in our bachelor on “(Peer) Tutoring for the Learning with New [...]
