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Session report: How barcamps can change the world….
Written by yvonne eich
A promising title- yet only few participants in the session. Were there no believers at the barcamp? Perhaps.. Indeed the title is very grandiose and my expectations about hearing a magic formula with which to cure the world were quite high. Of course I didn’t hear any such thing. BUT… […]
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Between theory and reality – My day at the fc_org barcamp “How the internet changes our reality”
Written by yvonne eich
The venue of the fc_org barcamp on “How the internet changes our reality?” was a more than 100 year old church now transformed into an event location. This impressive building symbolizes the theme of the barcamp and the spirit of our time quite well: The internet – a medium for […]
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The internet and democracy – An unlikely couple? German blogger Michael Seemann and Ingolf Pernice professor of law
Written by yvonne eich
The topic of this session was rather broad and in an area which is already widely discussed by political and social scientists on the one hand and the official elements of democracies, the people “the demos” and the “sovereign” the state, on the other. What I really liked about the […]
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Pluses and Minuses of the Berlin Barcamp
Written by Alexey Sidorenko
Conferences and barcamps can be really great or they can be a dismal failure. The measure of success depends on the structure of participants, organization, topics and one element that is hard to describe even though it’s one you can actually feel – the ‘atmosphere’. Organization Despite the fact that […]
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The Age of Too Much Information and How to Deal With It
Written by Alexey Sidorenko
“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with”, Marshall McLuhan said on The Best of Ideas on CBC Radio in 1967. As with many of McLuhan’s other quotes, this one […]
