Was man alles kaufen kann…

… für 62 Milliarden USD, die alleine AIG verschlungen hat. Hier steht es. Was nicht drin steht: Wie viel diese 62 Milliarden bald noch wert sind, wenn der Staat weiterhin alte Industrien wie Automobil und Banken stützt und deren Schlappschwänze wie bisher weitermachen lässt.

Merkel ist von gestern

Bin ich der Einzige der bei diesem Statement seinen Kopf schüttelt? Haben wir wirklich 2009 oder 1999? Kann es wirklich sein, dass in Deutschland 730.000 Haushalte keine Chance auf Breitbandanschlüsse haben?
Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass Bundespost-Minister Schwarz-Schilling in den 80ern lieber seine eigene Kabel-Firma gepimpert hat als Rückkanal-fähige TV-Kabel verlegen zu lassen. Deutschland ist Entwicklungsland, weil die dortigen digitalen Medien immer noch die “Neuen Medien” genannt werden. Nach mehr als 20 Jahren…

Promises

Interesting Website to show Obama’s campaign’s promises kept, broken or stalled. I wonder what Bush would write below “kept”. Unfortunately not: mouth shut.

Change the Change

Suddenly everybody wants get rid of Bush as soon as possible (Who the hell voted for him then?). Now, “change” has become a buzzword like “freedom” and “terrorist” before. But how do you change “change” into politics? By using the media. And the basic media of Obama 2.0 is the Web. So here is change.gov to start with a change. Well, hopefully the only tired change during the next months.

Users follow the news

This is what numbers of cnn.com-users tell us about yesterday. 276 millions of page views where there are “only” 35 millons normally. Not that bad. There have been more on 9/11, but the circumstances were definitely more comfortable yesterday.

Here is another way to show the wave of requests. UNfortunately, sport events do lead the pack if you look back.

Banners from Hell

Austrian rightwing politician Jörg Haider died in a car crash yesterday. While searching for more information, I stumbled upon this pretty disturbing banner on ORF.at:

People die... but banners go on full throttle.

Ask Palin….errr, better not

SMS project to ask Palin and McCain some questions. The one I have not seen: How come a 44 year old no-nothing with bitbull rhetorics is meant to co-rule worlds powerfull country? Are you a Dada happening?

Palindroming

Need for Palin rhetorics? Not a big deal, here are computer generated statements of Mrs. I-am-republican-and-stupid-and-alaska-only.

what is Flickr about ?

The american-band NINE INCH NAILS publishes photos taken from their Concerts on Flickr.
And they use very interesting tags….