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“TV or it didn’t happen” – on Russia’s media landscape

I am currently back in Novosibirsk for a week-long exchange organized by djo, Sibirischer Bär and Jugendbund dealing with “freedom of media and the press”. Special thanks to Ira for the invitation!

Today was packed with talks on both main stream media and the blogosphere in Russia. While the country’s blogosphere is extremely huge – a [...]

Why I like Twitter’s new RT feature – and why you should use it

It’s not exactly that new – and it seems as if people are beginning to accept it – but still many users have not come to understand why Twitter’s retweet functionality is a great addition rather than an annoying feature.
From the beginning there has been considerable resistance against the feature. That’s quite the usual, seems [...]

Newspapers: They just don’t want you to pay, it seems.

I didn’t think I would ever agree with an executive from the Axel Springer publishing company. But today, I did – at least kind of.
Earlier this week I attended a panel discussion on related rights. There has been a discussion going on in Germany for some times, started by newspaper publishers that are lobbying for [...]

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