To keep up with the fast changing world of social media, in addition to our recently added Twitter feed, A Fistful of Euros now also has page on facebook, which allows you, our gentle readers, to become an outspoken “fan” of afoe, and discover freshly published afoe posts right in your facebook activity feed. Have [...]

Since Twitter has become a rather popular way to communicate, there’s a chance that some of you, gentle readers, are using it, too. So if you’ve grown tired of your good old RSS-reader and think that webpages are so 2004, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn that you can now also follow all updates [...]

9:45:30 AM: Cool, it’s almost over and now the Wifi works #rp09
1:50:46 PM: Interesting talk about internet activism in the Middle East by an inspiring young woman - Esra’a Al Shafei of mideastyouth.com
1:54:44 PM: Esra’a Al Shafei the difference between digital activism in the East and in the West: here people are allowed to say [...]

10:35:40 AM: Didn’t get much out of the German Privacy Commissioner Peter Schaar’s talk except for “well, there’s more problems than ideas to solve them.
1:39:45 PM: Really liked Ralf Bendrath’s talk about emerging democratic structures in social networks with particular reference to facebook. #rp09
1:42:47 PM: The follow-up chat at the Privacy OS subconference was even [...]

12:19:18 PM: I’m far too tired, but in Berlin, trying to cope with 140 character posts… let’s hope the WiFi coverage at the conference will get better.
3:21:56 PM: This seriously feels like 300bps. John Kelly of the Berkman center held an interesting talk about link structures in different blogospheres.
3:24:01 PM: He noted the prominence of [...]

8:06:53 PM: OK, let’s see if the updates are included automatically.

Tomorrow morning, I’ll take a train to Berlin where I’ll attend this year’s Re:Publica 2009 conference. This year’s umbrella theme is “shift happens”, which isn’t too inappropriate, even for the conference itself: What was - in 2006 - started as a small gathering of a couple of Germany’s better known and activist bloggers, has grown [...]

Gentle readers, although we’re working behind the scenes to avoid it, there’s a possibility that some server issues may lead to afoe being unavailable for some time tonight or tomorrow.

It’s Friday afternoon, and if you, gentle readers, should want to leave the gloomy reality of a world in economic crisis behind you for a night out in Europe, you may be interested in having a look at a new web service called Happenr for hopefully useful suggestions about what to do.
According to a [...]

Gentle readers, afoe’s backend has been updated to the latest wordpress. So far, the transition seems to have worked well. Over the next couple of days, the frontend will also receive a little facelift - and make the site a little faster. So, in case you’ve got the feeling that something doesn’t work as it [...]