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VERY MONO

Monday, February 15, 2010

‘Collapse’ is a documentary that describes our civilisation on the verge of destruction. It follows the course of a single interview conducted over a few days in a basement somewhere in LA, during which Michael Ruppert – a former LA police officer and investigative journalist – sets out a bleak vision for [...]

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YOUR SOUL VS. YOUR MONEY

Saturday, February 6, 2010

iPad. OK, might be cool, but the new wheel it certainly is not – at all. Although neither will be the rumoured Google Tablet PC, but it is hinted (alas, in German only) to be much more versatile than Apple’s iPad which is being bashed for being no more than an ultra-cool remote control for [...]

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@socialmediaweek #smw #smwberlin

Friday, January 29, 2010

Next week, Social Media Week conferences take place simultaneously in multiple cities around the world. The aim of each event is to advance the use and understanding of social media in the corporate, public and non-profit sectors.
The second annual conference will take place between February 1st – 5th, 2010 simultaneously in New York City, Berlin, [...]

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PORN WORLD VS. REAL WORLD

Friday, January 15, 2010

Although TED might be known amongst most mono.blog participants, this is definitely worth another if not first visit.
Cindy Gallop (!) gives a lecture not only about porn vs. this thing called love but also introduces to her new web project Make Love Not Porn. It’s not that heard-a-thousand-times-and-999-times-even-better stuff but funny, plain and really real.
So, [...]

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MONO - LITH: GOOGLE vs CHINA vs WORLD WIDE WEB

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

In 2006 Google traded in their corporate slogan ‘Don’t be evil’ for a more flexible standard of ‘Look at the bright side’ when they accepted the Chinese government’s censorship regime upon their Chinese operation. They suggested that the benefits of increased access for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed the moral problems [...]

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SAME OLD STORY

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Seeing James Cameron’s Avatar is like seeing a mashup of modern myth. The question has been asked – for $300 million, couldn’t they pay someone to write a new story? I’d say for 300 million, they probably couldn’t afford the risk.

And while I doubt the wisdom of lamenting the derivative nature of a Hollywood [...]

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NONE THE WISER

Friday, December 25, 2009

I’ve come to really appreciate Christmas, but mostly for the reason that it affords the luxury of time: time to sleep in, time to talk to people you have lost sight of for a while, time to read that issue of mono.kultur you never got around to finishing, time to think, time to kill time. [...]

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I FORGOT ABOUT IT

Monday, December 7, 2009

Well, I did it; again. Forgot to blog - on time.
So, why does this happen? Why do I and hopefully a huge we as well forget to remember and do things we think of as more or less important?
Check here for a possible solution. And, try to remember!

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AND NOW

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

and now. Female artists from the GDR
The exhibition and now traces the work of a selected group of female artists from the GDR – among which some have been discussed only sparsely in the overall German art historical field. 
The exhibition shows work from the 1980s made under ’socialistic conditions of production’ and as well [...]

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LOST IN TRANSLATION

Sunday, November 8, 2009

It’s really a very small and tenuous link to our current cover star but  ‘Chinglish’ and Ai Weiwei do both originate from China. With so many English-speaking tourists and businessmen now traveling to China, the Chinese are translating their signs to help visitors.  Sometimes though the message gets lost and the results can be amusing and [...]

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