Archive for July, 2009
Ur rockstars are not mine…
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Posted in Julian F. Müller | 1 Comment »
Feeding body&brain – browsing rss while having lunch
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009You may have had a first look on our rss radar by now (if you haven’t, it’s about time you do now!).
What do you think of it so far? We haven’t had any feedback yet, so we were wondering what people are thinking about getDocued in generell and more specificly about our rss radar – cuz it’s new. ^^
As for me, I found the rss radar quite comfortable, when it comes to finding new documentaries, which I can add to our archive – meaning they have their own link on the front page and a short personell description and rating. Today, I did exactly that, while having lunch. I’ve developed the habit of watching something while eating. That is probably quite a normal thing to do, at least I’ve seen it on sitcoms or movies all the time. Usually, people would chose the TV to eat in front of it, but since we do not have a television, I stick to the internet.
Thanks to getDocued, it has become quite easy for me, to find new online documentaries. Feeding body&brain at the same time seems quite efficient to me, eh?
You can find the result of my today’s rss radar scanning on the frontpage – I listened to Jeffrey Kluger talking about the first landing on the moon 40 years ago. Quite interesting, more than I’d thought at first, to be honest!
Something I noticed while browsing the rss radar is though, that is rather hard to find something interesting for someone (quite frankly) like me, who’s not interested in economics/market/liberal theories a.s.o. as our rss feeds in the english speaking section seem to be focused on exactly that. Is that just my imagination?
Also, I noticed that there seem to be more lectures and talks and just few documentary movies. I am not saying, that lectures/talks are less interesting, but in order to keep a certain balance, we might have to find more feeds on documentaries, maybe more on culture/travel/history and such. Any suggestions?
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Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Saturday, July 25th, 2009That is the subtitle of a new book by Dambisa Moyo: Dead Aid, which I highly recommend. Moyo knows the facts – and she knows Africa.
Watch her discuss about how we can make poverty history with development expert William Easterly at the Templeton Foundation
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Some thoughts about newspapers …
Saturday, July 25th, 2009I wonder why there are no personalized magazines (newspapers)? In my opinion old big magazines and newspapers worked, because they could cover the interests of many people. Since 20 years now we have an ongoing trend of diversification of interests. I guess fifteen years ago, there were just two major sports in Germany, soccer and tennis. Now everybody is jogging, climbing mountains, riding bike, playing volleyball, water ball, counter-strike, badminton and what god knows else.
Now, since the interests of people are so diversified – at least in my humble opinion – it is time for personalized magazines. My magazine for instance would consist out of:
News about Germany: welt.de
Tech-News: netzwertig.com
Economics: zhe economist.com, mises.org, cato.org
E-sport-News: team-liquid.net
Inspired Talks: www.ted.com, getdocued.net
Foreign Affairs China: foreign magazine, giga institute
And so on.
If a news-company just would give me the possibility to compile MY newspaper, I would buy it definitely.
I just don’t want to buy magazines and papers anymore, which half their content annoys and bores me (Like health, music, cooking stuff). I don’t want to read a magazine which aims at everyone and no one, but I want one which 100% fits my interests. And this shouldn’t be a problem anymore in the days of modern media.
This idea of personalized papers also has some further advantages:
1. It nurtures specialization
2. It gives specialized institutes and blogs a possibility to reach more ppl and earn more money
What do you think about that idea?
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How Did The West Get Rich?
Friday, July 24th, 2009Watch economist William Bernstein talk at Google Talks about his fascinating and fact-filled book The Birth of Plenty – How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created, in which he explains why there was almost no growth at all until about 1820, when the world suddenly changed forever:
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