Ein Gastbeitrag auf “bildblog.de” mit dem Titel „Wie ich Freiherr von Guttenberg zu Wilhelm machte“ verdeutlicht, wie sehr Wikipedia einerseits auch von seriösen Medien als Quelle akzeptiert wird. Andererseits wird klar, auf welch wackeligen Füßen die Vertrauenswürdigkeit der Online-Enzyklopädie steht…
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11 Februar 2009
Zur Verlässlichkeit von Wikipedia: “Wilhelm” zu Guttenberg
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11 Februar 2009
Internet-Blogs im Unterricht
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Ein Interview über Blogs im Unterricht, das der Deutschlandfunk mit Juniorprofessor Christian Spannagel führte und am 29. Januar 2009 ausstrahlte:
Deutschlandradio Kultur: Internet-Blogs im Unterricht – zum Nachlesen…
11 Februar 2009
Twittern oder nicht?
Posted by rip under Computer, Internet | Schlagwörter: twitter |Kommentar verfassen
Jetzt.de, das vormalige Jugendmagazin der Süddeutschen Zeitung, das vor einigen Jahren aus Geldmangel vom Print- zum Webmedium wurde, bietet ein lesenswertes Streitgespräch über den Wert von Twitter-Texten und Facebook-Statusmeldungen.
24 Januar 2009
(1) Recommended:
Happy Christmas by Geoffrey Pullum.
NB: It’s “Happy Christmas” – maybe “merry” is getting a little dated? 😉
(2) “Christmas under fire (1940)” – well worth watching because this is what many people in Britain still remember when they think of “the Germans”:
[Another valuable find at the Open Culture blog.]
24 Januar 2009
Rebecca Carrington – cellist, comedian, impressionist and singer
Posted by rip under Cultural Studies, Humour, Internet, MusicKommentar verfassen
If you haven’t heard of Rebecca Carrington – Cellist, singer, impressionist and comedian – well, have a look:
24 Januar 2009
Are you feeling tired, exhausted, unable to cope with the demands of a harsh reality? Shrug it off, and get an energy boost through forty inspirational film speeches in two minutes 😉
via Open Culture – thank you!
24 Januar 2009
… and a game.
Ich bin bei solchen angeblich so menschenfreundlichen Internetspielen immer etwas skeptisch. Aber dieses hier scheint mir erstens gut gemacht und zweitens habe ich Spaß daran gefunden, mein geographisches Wissen zu testen.
Gefunden bei Jochen Lüders, der vermutlich gleich nach der ersten Runde sein Ergebnis festhielt. Ich muss zugeben, dass ich die erste Runde […]
24 Januar 2009
The “News on the Rialto” blog, dedicated to all things Shakespearean, has drawn my attention to the BardBox.
BardBox is “an attempt to bring together some of the best and most interesting of original Shakespeare-related videos on YouTube”.
Among other things, there is a page where you can look for videos connected with a particular play, and […]
24 Januar 2009
Sign Language: Intriguing Telegraph Galleries
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The online edition of the Telegraph has a varied collection of galleries, among them “Sign Language”, at the moment already in its 21st week.
Have a look at this week’s gallery, which – among other things – has a pretty road sign at the foot of a hill, reading “Hill blocks view” 🙂
Sign language: week 21
It […]
19 Oktober 2008
Queen Elizabeth II visits Google’s British HQ
Posted by rip under Internet, Sociology | Schlagwörter: google, queen |Kommentar verfassen
Oh! it is a glorious thing, I ween,
to be a regular modern queen.
With this subtle allusion to a classic British piece of world literature, I’d like to draw your attention to the fact that Her Royal Highness deigned to visit the Headquarters of Google UK. And what did she do there, you may well ask? Well, she … uploaded a video to YouTube, or, to be more precise, to her own Royal Channel on YouTube:
As the Guardian puts it:
with the click of gloved finger [she] uploaded footage onto her own YouTube channel, surrounded by a gaggle of its most popular users and the video website’s 31-year-old founder Chad Hurley. It was not, alas, a video of a Corgi on a skateboard or a family pratfall — although YouTube already contains plenty of opportunities to relive the embarrassment of It’s a Royal Knockout 21 years ago. The topical choice was archive footage of her 42-year-old self meeting Olympic athletes in 1968.
The staff at Google felt so much honoured that they created a new logo version for their UK website. It IS pretty, isn’t it? And when you click on Her Majesty’s Head, you get search results on “Queen Elisabeth II”. Awww. 😉
And the Guardian site tells us a little more about the romance between the Queen and modern technology:
According to the Palace, the Queen was the first monarch in the world to send an email, at an Army base in 1976. And her Palace advisors have been quick to recognise the need to use the latest technology to promote the royal brand at home and abroad. It was, after all, the Coronation that led to an explosion in TV ownership.
The Queen has had her own website since 1997, while her Christmas speech has been available as a podcast since 2006. The videos on the royal YouTube channel have had 4m channel views since it launched in November 2007. Which sounds impressive, until you hear that Geriatric1927 has had more than 7m. And that footage of a laughing baby that was shown to the Monarch has been seen 63.3m times. “I think she enjoyed it, everyone enjoyed it. It’s hard to resist a laughing baby,” concluded Hurley.
I’m particularly happy about the proper use of the present perfect, by the way (”has had her own website”) – a mark of grammatical impeccability not always adhered to elsewhere.
This entry with proper links: TulgeyWoody
Adventures in the Tulgey Wood 