Isn’t it funny? When I started using a tablet pc in 2003 I thought the paperless era had just begun. Seven years later I feel we really come close to an age without paper. But it’s not because we have digital ink but virtual keyboards, multitouch and E Ink …

Ok, this one is a MUST SEE. Inception by Christopher Nolan. Whenever a great director gets to direct one of his own ideas, it’s likely that the result is: fantastic.

I won’t tell you too much, but if you like films like Brazil, Total Recall and Vanilla Sky or books like Der Spiegel im Spiegel from Michael Ende, this is your film. And yes, Leonardo just keeps getting better with every film…

Also, if you saw the movie, check out this YouTube clip, deconstructing the score of the movie. It will only make sense once you’ve seen Inception …

… it’s been a while.

Ever since I started writing professionally, blogging hasn’t been — let’s say — exactly my first priority. Especially the tech/tablet pc part has become obsolete: everything I want to write about tech, I now do over at my work place. And since that Twitter and Facebook thing has become big, I talk about all the other stuff there. I think many other blogs have suffered from that blogging fatigue. But somehow now I feel like blogging again. But I will change a couple of things.

1) English. I always wanted to blog in English to include all my English readers that have been using Babelfish and other translation programs in the past to read my blog. It sucks, I know.

2) No more ink. At least for now. I love handwriting and I’ve tried making blogging in ink as comfortable as possible. But it still is way too much work, and I still need my tablet pc around to do it. As soon as I find an easy solution for ink blogging, I probably will go back.

3) Less tech. If you want to read my thoughts about tech, check out heise.de/mobil
I will however still write about tech and especially about tablets whenever I feel it fits in this blog…

Anyway, hope you still enjoy it :)

Das Blog medienlese.com, das leider von Blogwerk zum 30. April eingestellt wird, hat eine schöne Dokumentation über den Newsroom der Daily Titan, einer College-Zeitung in California ausgegraben.

Die Fotos und Texte, die Prof. Wayne Overbeck auf seiner Webseite zur Verfügung stellt, zeigen eindrucksvoll, was für ein Aufwand damals der Prozess vom geschriebenen Artikel zur gedruckten Zeitung war. Heute bekommt man bis zur Druckvorstufe alles am PC hin …

“We are a people of improbable hope. Let us build on our common history, and seize our common destiny, and once again engage in that noble struggle to bring justice and peace to our world.”
(Barack Obama, Berlin, 24.07.2008)

Wer es wie ich nicht geschafft hat, für Obama nach Berlin zu kommen: Auf cnn.com gibt es das Rede-Skript zur Nachlese.

PS: Und inzwischen gibt’s auch das Video dazu: