The term „Humankapital“ has been selected as the Misnormer of the Year 2004 [Unwort des Jahres] by German jurors. Out of 1218 different proposals, the linguists and literates of Germany voted for the term „Humankapital“ to explicitly express the harsh discrepancy between the word itself and the describing matter. The term does not only degrade the work force of a country, but places all human beings into general and only economically interesting values. The nominations for the Misnormer of the Year exist since 1991 in Germany and reflect the current world events. Previous decisions brought the words „Peanuts“ (1995), „Tätervolk“ [committer nation] (2003), „national befreite Zone“ [national freed zone] (2000) oder „Gotteskrieger“ [God’s Warrior] (2001) to medial focus.
Above can be understood as a summary of the information found in the (more or less) official press release. My personal definition of „human capital“ is similiar to a thought of Prof. Dr. Mike Friedrichsen on Medienmanagement. He mentioning the term „human capital“ during his summary of our lecture on normative, operative and strategic management. There we figured even jokingly, once we justify ourselves as being inherited with human capital, we must consider this as being the most important factor for our personal advancement and enrichment. We may not rely anymore on our aggregated value added found in assigned values of our daily life, but should concentrate on our skills and knowledge found in our mental abilities, inner strength and skill of the mind. Once we distinguish between the specific and general human capital, all skills or knowledge is useful only to a single employer whereas general human capital is useful to all employers.
Airbus A380: Europe’s Draught Horse
KuriosesThe highly anticipated airplane A380 was officially revealed to the media this week. Airbus will outflank Boeing as its new draught horse will change Europe to become a „Superpower of the Air“. With a total of 555 passengers (139 more than the Boeing 747-400), it will surely serve best for its purpose to mainly connect large metropolitian areas with each other. This is another moment of the united Old Europe on its verge to success…
First Time: Freedom Blog Awards
MedienThe organisation Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) is newly inviting for the nominations for its first Freedom Blog awards. As dot journalism reports, the main focus of the awards is to explicitly draw more attention to authors (and blogs) which express an alternative point of view concerning news. Within many countries, writers are persecuted by the government and the media is in general under authoriative control. Personally, I am amazed by the idea to support and help these authors to express their thoughts openly and publically without limitation. Nevertheless, one may not forget that a certain control by the government helps in the process to obain a level of „freedom of speech“. But how much the awards will bring opposing views into the light of the media is questionable as it appears to be quite difficult to relevate persecuted authors to potential terrorists…
Being the Sichelputzer
LebenTime to think about who is what and where is here. Being Sichelputzer, perhaps we are able to advance into a cult religion, a drug or a game. But it won’t be a corporate exercise unless I become legal, but by integrating a team-building exercise is a key once my girlfriend joins my forces here. Sichelputzer will never be a form of artificial intelligence since I’m the author, writer and compellor of this work. I do not plan to see this as a joke, but within the realms of my mind it can be a marketing campaign and might advance into a movie or television series, but it will not replace anything as a new species, but with a new technology, these blogs are a new way of writing a novel. A prank or a hoax can turn into a a product of this psychology experiment and scientific discovery. This service shall not serve as a spam engine, but instead it will challenge a social experiment and a study as it is an addictive interactive website experiment. You might have to watch out for Sichelputzer to be a dangerous and sometimes illegal fantasy of our mind’s pornography. It’s all up to your fantasy…
Where have all the Worldparks gone…
KuriosesSometimes people start to disappear without a notice, and after a short while you become aware of their ultimate death or rebirth within our society. I guess this happened to Wordpark as they left this blogged spirit to become a part of blogger. Now why doesn’t Wordpark offer an RSS feed…?
Currently Playing: ProSieben – TV Total
Current Mood: Horny…
Weird Problems
BlogkulturI don’t know why, but apparently I have a few problems with the blog… its content won’t show up on the first page, a few categories and -even worse- … it affects the rss feed. I remember Thomas wrote an issue concerning the caching of the database and server, however by reloading or refreshing my posts, the problem won’t be solved. Nevertheless, I hope by posting a random entry like this one the problem shall be no more… I’m just going to start to keep track of it – I think!
GoogleBlog: Preventing comment spam
Blogkultur, SpamTo fight the increasing problem of comment spam has become a priority for blog hosting providers, software developpers and even search engines. Google itself has introduced a new method to disable advertisement links found in the comment pages. As these spammers attempt to multiply their website addresses to increase their google-pagerank, the company has set up a new filter for their spider robot.
Major service providers plan to cooperate with Google. Blogspirit itself probably does not need to worry about the rel=“nofollow“ attribute as the comments are permitted to use html or actively link to other sites. Nevertheless, you may edit the permalink page to implement strings.
Edit: I discontinued to publish how to effectively (?) modify Blogspirit’s code…
Grafedia: A Live Reality
Social MediaGrafedia is an amazing idea to merge ourselves with other people to overcome the limitation of the digital world of the internet and the complete physical environment.
Created by John Geraci, a New York artist and student for Interactive Communication, this software allows interactivity with three easy steps. Since anybody can become a „Grafedia artist“, you just have to send a word with the media file (images, videos or sound files) to their server. I created an entry for the word „sichelputzer“, and you might want to look at it by mailing sichelputzer@grafedia.net – a few other fellow bloggers did it here and here, too.
Criterias for Weblog Service Providing
BlogkulturMarkus K. Westner, the co-founder of Blogigo.de, published his Master Dissertation on weblogs, especially on the identification of functional requirements and evaluation of existing weblog services in German and English languages.
He evaluated 77 weblog services to create his criterias based on the detailed features and functionality implemented into the different software packages.
„Humankapital“ as Misnormer 2004
KuriosesThe term „Humankapital“ has been selected as the Misnormer of the Year 2004 [Unwort des Jahres] by German jurors. Out of 1218 different proposals, the linguists and literates of Germany voted for the term „Humankapital“ to explicitly express the harsh discrepancy between the word itself and the describing matter. The term does not only degrade the work force of a country, but places all human beings into general and only economically interesting values. The nominations for the Misnormer of the Year exist since 1991 in Germany and reflect the current world events. Previous decisions brought the words „Peanuts“ (1995), „Tätervolk“ [committer nation] (2003), „national befreite Zone“ [national freed zone] (2000) oder „Gotteskrieger“ [God’s Warrior] (2001) to medial focus.
Above can be understood as a summary of the information found in the (more or less) official press release. My personal definition of „human capital“ is similiar to a thought of Prof. Dr. Mike Friedrichsen on Medienmanagement. He mentioning the term „human capital“ during his summary of our lecture on normative, operative and strategic management. There we figured even jokingly, once we justify ourselves as being inherited with human capital, we must consider this as being the most important factor for our personal advancement and enrichment. We may not rely anymore on our aggregated value added found in assigned values of our daily life, but should concentrate on our skills and knowledge found in our mental abilities, inner strength and skill of the mind. Once we distinguish between the specific and general human capital, all skills or knowledge is useful only to a single employer whereas general human capital is useful to all employers.
Logodesign for Student Groups
Unicum AkademieDuring the last week, I created two logos for our first semester’s students. And in order to ensure my copyright protection, I decided to publish these in my international blog. Everybody who studies at our „Institute for International Management“ has to participate in the course Integration Project which is a merger between business economics and company-startup-training for the self-employed. I gave Jens Harpke and Torben Behmer the permission to use the logos only for their business plan, the final paper of the IP course – the roofed beach chair found in the Wellax-logo has been created by somebody else. Below are the two logos for the two fictional companies „GreenPower“ and „Wellax“. Furthermore, everybody is invited to read our own business plan from last semester on www.telagon.de for a quick download.