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About two weeks ago I started a blog carnival on the Best and worst gadget of 2008. Since a couple of bloggers didn’t yet have time to finish their entries, I’m extending the deadline: the carnival now ends on the 31st of January. So if you want to come aboard, you can enter your posting until next Saturday. Obviously, not everything that glitters is gold – or even silver. But let’s face it: the web 2.0 revolution has turned us all into beta-testers. But geeks usually love do-it-yourself attitudes anyways Read the rest of this entry »

A new year has just started and I’m happy to invite all my readers to datadirt’s first blog carnival: I’m curious about the new hardware you bought during the last year. Which shiny piece of technology is your favorite gadget, and which not-so-shiny one disappointed you? Feed the inner geek, write about satisfaction and disappointment. I’m sure that most of my readers experienced both scenarios, so let’s just share them and spread the knowledge Read the rest of this entry »

How you’re doing? I hope you had a great start into the new year, and believe me: 2k9 is gonna be a wicked year for web 2.0 folks, and I mean “wicked” in the good, old-school jungle way. I do have the impression that the European commercial community is just waking up, and I’m seriously looking forward to bigger budgets being spent on web 2.0 advertising as this will boost the whole scene. My personal 1st of January had a very nice surprise in stall for me: datadirt received a Pagerank update and is now proudly sporting a 5. Read the rest of this entry »

The last election parties have ended by now, the USA are looking forward to a new era of fairness and social improvement. Will the new president be able to live up to his promises in times of an economic crisis? Looks like Barrack Obama has got to deal with a difficult situation, as the crisis is now spreading from the finance sector to old economy and car manufacturers start facing serious troubles. Of course advertising budgets will be cut, which will eventually lead to more and more online-money being spent for performance based marketing. A rather bleak scenario for traditional advertiser, but definitely not the worst news for affiliates. Read the rest of this entry »

Blog action day 2008 is fighting global poverty by raising collective awareness in the blogosphere: Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.. This year, the international grass-roots fight against inhumane living conditions aka poverty form the topic of one of the largest blogosphere campaigns ever. Read the rest of this entry »

Here and there is not a music video in the strict sense and definitely not your average youtube short movie: the result of the collaboration between Eoghan Kidney and musician Simon Cullen is a very interesting hybrid with hypnotic qualities – watch for yourself:

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Matthew Inman has taken over the extremely difficult task of reducing all current web trends into one simple page that says it all: and indeed it does. Mr. Screwturner pointed me to this great and all-so-well fitting masterpiece: The State of the Web, Summer 2k8.