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Ich mach was mit Gutenberg und brauche eure Hilfe

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Alex
– 16. Mai 2012Posted in: Für tolle Sachen

–In German again, but I will write about this project in English in a few weeks.–

Im Grunde trage ich die Idee schon seit Anfang des Jahres mit mir herum und so langsam wird es ernst. Ich möchte eine Podcast Serie über den Mainzer Medienunternehmer Gutenberg und die von ihm ausgelöste Revolution machen. (Weil ich jetzt schon ein paar mal gefragt wurde, ich meine den Mainzer Buchdrucker und nicht den doppel T Plagiator) Danach werde ich mich auch auf die Suche nach der aktuellen Medienrevolution machen und versuche die Gutenbergs von 2012 zu interviewen.

Dieses Projekt würde ich gerne zu einem Teil über Crowdfunding finanzieren, aber bevor ich da den virtuellen Hut herum geben kann, brauche ich eure Hilfe. Ich brauche 25 Fans und würde diese gerne erreichen ohne das Projekt an die große Glocke zu hängen (Die will ich erst läuten, wenns ums Geld geht.)

Auf Startnext erfahrt Ihr auch mehr über das Projekt: http://startnext.de/gutenberg


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beyond democracy

By
Alex
– 12. Mai 2012Posted in: Für euch, Welt

Democracy is one of the best ways to organize society till today, but we shouldn’t stop there.

Democracy is a dictatorship of the mass

I have my problems with democracy, because I’m a free mind and my personal freedom is often limited by laws. I think some laws are really important, like you can’t kill someone and I think there should be a force to prevent that from happening, but why can the majority decide who is allowed to allocate resources? Who owns the land? And why is there no place to leave this system. There are so many rules, that have nothing to do with our nature. You should have the chance to have a life without any interaction with the government, as long as you do not hurt someone else.

I think we ask the wrong questions. We should discuss about this topics instead of politics. We have to find more effective ways of organization and provide opportunities for everyone instead of forcing minorities to deal with it.

If you are born in Germany this days you already owe 25,000€ to someone else! This is great for the majority, because people younger then 18 don’t have a voice in the democratic process. An other question is: How to use oil. This is a Jackpot for humanity, but if we have used this boost of energy, the young have to deal with it.

I like to decide on my own

Democracy was useful when we couldn’t meet everyone on a daily base, but this is possible today. Why can’t I decide on my own? Just log in to Bundestag and check “YES” or “NO”. And if I don’t want to make a decision I can pass my vote to someone I trust? We should although discuss on which topics we have to make decision on what scale. And we need some basic rights for everyone like some place to go, basic health, water and food.

Every bird has more rights than most human.

What do you think? What are better alternatives?

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Act!on at re:publica 2012

By
Alex
– 7. Mai 2012Posted in: Für mich, Veranstaltungen

I was at the re:publica at Berlin and it was the second time for me after 2010, but both events are hard to compare. The good thing about the new location was there was enough place for all the visitors. At some session I had to stand but thats ok. But I felt lost between so many people. Although the first sessions I attended were some kind of boring, but it got better. I started to switch sessions and found a lot of interesting ideas and opinions.

Act!on

I arrived at Berlin on Mai 1st, it’s a holiday in Germany, we call it “Day of Work” and it was amazing how the city had changed. I was in Berlin on May 1st 2003 and have seen riots, flying stones and burning cars. This was the a problem in Berlin for years. But this year I walked through the same streets and there where stages with Bands and DJs. I don´t know how many there where but I can remember six. But we just went some streets. Berlin was dancing on the streets till 1am and the bass was moving.

This had nothing to do with the re:publica, but it was most of the action I found. ACTA, SOPA, Popel, BLABLA. To much politics but no real action. The so called Netactivist just write nice E-Mails, I hoped for some more action, how about a new OS for our society or at least a gamechanging platform to combine our power?

TED lag

I have a TED lag from TEDxSummit. Most of the TEDxOrganizers i met there are action focused and the Talks where world class. But stop complaining, the only way to handle this problem to spread some of this spirit and I will figure out how.

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ABOUT rebranding Gutenberg

By
Alex
– 6. Mai 2012Posted in: Für mich, Für tolle Sachen, Kommunikation, Präsentation, Veranstaltungen, Wissen und Workshops


Yesterday i made a pecha kucha talk at ABOUT – Independent Publishing Fair about Gutenberg. I wanted to raise some awareness about the man of the millennium here in Mainz, because I live in this city for 9 years and I didn’t knew a lot about him. My interest was caught by American authors like Clay Shirky or Jeff Jarvis and not by the city itself and I want to change this. So you will read some more about Gutenberg in the next month. At the moment I’m planing some videointerviews for youtube. They will be creative commons, so everyone who is interested can use them for his own documentation. I will start this project here in Mainz, because here is so much knowledge about this great guy and how he started mass-media. After that I want to travel to Silicon Valley and New York to see what is happening now at the end of his era. What’s up with social media? Who are the next media entrepreneurs who will shape our future? And maybe I will find an idea what will follow that. Will we have direct Brainwaveconnections?

Here you can find my presentation. It’s based on one of the most manipulative and successful uses of Social Media: Kony2012 and contains some slides made for my audience of Graphic-designers ;)

Gutenberg2012 – Pecha Kucha about
View more presentations from Alex Boerger

I wanted to make this presentation in English, but one day of preparation was not enough for that, so I switched to German. It is really hard to speak English if everyone else around you is speaking in your native language. Interesting experience, it was much easier to speak English at TEDxSummit.

facebook.com/gutenberg2012

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