Monthly Archives: September 2011

Chicken, Chicken, Chicken: Mother of all Presentations

Everyone was laughing, except me. Since 2007, when Doug Zongker, a software engineer at Google, published a seminal paper honoring those who had suffered going through an inscrutable scientific talk, and made a memorable presentation. I mean, how is it … Continue reading

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Storytelling (Or, Why I loved Forbrydelsen – The Killing)

Making remakes of successful movies is certainly an art. Some are even better than the original, many are not. It is nevertheless a treat and a hazardous business at the same time for the newer version’s director and crew. Sometimes, … Continue reading

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delicious Zeitgeist 26 Sep 2011

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Decline of an Empire

The recent reporters “discovery” of Amazon’s third-world human-labor practices in the civilized USA prompted a lot of disdain. The New York Times wrote about The Fraying of a Nation’s Decency, issuing the thesis that the US is at a low-point … Continue reading

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The Closed Web

Amen. The Closed Web is here. I don’t want to sound apocalyptic, because the situation is not dire yet and because there are efforts to keep and sustain the real, open Web. When Robert Scoble, an enthusiast Web observer, wrote … Continue reading

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