The NetCircle

McDonalds Germany just started their TV and Radio Campaign to promote their Asian Products, that are released due to the Olympics as McDonalds is one of the sponsors. I’m wondering if there are other Countries lucky enough to get a Beef Lang Tzu or Shrimp Lemon Burger. Trying to find out what “Lang Tzu” could mean in Chinese I learned that Tzu doesn’t exist in Pinying, the writing of Chinese language with western letters. So why would McDonalds want to fool us with a “fake” word? Or – by doing so – did McDonalds develop a fine sense of irony. I don’t think so but I would have appreciated it.

Anybody out there a victim of McDonalds Olympia Specials too? I haven’t found anything particularly interesting in Shanghai so far.

Pic by: sheilaz413

Yesterday I started writing an innocent blog entry. Starting with the fact that due to being German I might just get about 82% of the English articles I read. On top of that there’s far too much information which makes me skip through stuff, so how much information might get stuck in my head at the end of the day and how distorted it is by then?

Doing some research on the topic to find out how others deal with that, Nicolas Carr added the concern to not only miss out and distort information but also loose the ability to concentrate and in the end become stupid . Well, I freaked a bit but thinking about it we might acquire more than we loose. I already dealt with the realization that I can’t read every book every written and a fair amount might not even be worth it, same with the Internet. But I’ll still be proud of every finished book I put back on the shelve and every article I’ve read and mostly also learned something from.

So I finally calmed down, believing the information overflow is not really a problem it’s just the way things are. Then ProBlogger Darren came along with the brilliant idea of connecting all his readers social media stuff. I clicked and added and read and even finally joined Twitter.

It’s a total catastrophe and I love it!

“Nostalgia for the accidental scarcity we’ve just emerged from is just a sideshow; the main event is trying to shape the greatest expansion of expressive capability the world has ever known.” (taken from the brilliant answer to the Nicolas Carr article by Clay Shirky)

Listening to Zuckerberg could have been an interesting session but it turned out to be more a comedy. The interviewer asked questions that in my opinion would have been suitable to a cosy interview on TV for the audience who wants to know about the person behind facebook. Unfortunately it was the wrong audience. It might have been an attempt to make Zuckerberg feel more comfortable and open up but there was only one Zuckerberg to feel better and a hall full of people who wanted to learn more about facebook..

They wanted to know about where facebook is going, what they are going to change about usability, privacy aso. I guess nobody was really interested in her promoting her book either. Anyway, here are some headlines summing up the desaster: “Zuckerberg Keynote Descends Into Chaos as Audience Takes Over“, “When geeks attack – twitterati lashes out at interviewer after zuckerberg keynote“.

Those who want to get an own idea of what happened and are also interested in the information that was nevertheless hiding in the interview can watch the whole Zuckerberg Interview on viddler.

(for the german audience: Das Interview wird auch beim Handelsblattblog Indiskretion Ehrensache behandelt)

On of the best statement regarding the whole Linkpopularity vs PageRank debate. The amazing fact is that this strip was made 1999 or better known as the Golden Age of Keyword Stuffing.

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