After what feels like f-o-r-e-v-e-r, I am pleased to introduce to you today Liz and her beautiful literary blog Ein Buch muss die Axt sein. Follow the jump to find out what Liz does for a living, why she’s fed up with the German feuilleton, and what good advice she has for fellow female bloggers… [...]
Photo: Two for Fashion So the presentation I told you about below went really well – phew! Everyone at About:Fashion was super friendly and interested, the atmosphere was calm and easy with natural light, and I managed to engage the audience in a couple of talks on blogging. I love when education gets to happen [...]
Zwischendurch mal wieder eine kleine Mitmach-Aktion: Die Pseudoerbse, die ich erst heute über den veganen Blog Food and Fotos entdeckte, ruft dazu auf, den links abgebildeten Button auf dem eigenen Blog einzubinden und damit ein Zeichen gegen Tierversuche zu setzen. Die Idee ist, hinter dem Icon auf http://bgt.pseudoerbse.de zu verlinken, wo Informationen rund um Tierschutz [...]
If it weren’t for Anne Roth of annalist, perhaps there would be no GIRLS CAN BLOG today. It was Anne who, a little over a year ago, initiated a discussion on the invisibility of female bloggers: Where and who were they? Why would mainstream media only ever refer to our male colleagues? Inspired by Nadine [...]
Girls watch porn, too – not sure why anyone thought they wouldn’t? Nice video campaign in any case… (Clip sources Mädchenmannschaft and Jezebel.) Check out this free PDF-manual on Basic Internet Security. (Via.) Erin recommends a different approach to to-do lists: Might they need a makeover? Anne Feldkamp aka Blica points out an article in [...]
Brave as any woman can be, CBS reporter Lara Logan recalls the February night on Tahrir Square in Egypt, when a mob tore off her clothes and violently sexually assaulted her in the middle of the road. She decided she would only tell this story once, hoping that this one telling is heard by as [...]
On 30th June and the 1st of July, the 6th Annual Open Knowledge Conference will take place in Berlin. The event aims at bringing together individuals and organizations interested in all things open knowledge. If you’ve been following GCB, you know that I agree with the organizers’ assumption that open knowledge promises significant social [...]
Diejenigen unter Euch, die mir auf Twitter oder Facebook folgen, haben die frohe Kunde vielleicht schon vernommen: Ich darf am übernächsten Wochenende, also zwischen dem 10. und dem 12. Juni 2011, im Rahmen des Textil Festivals einen Kurzgeschichten-Workshop in Erfurt leiten. Juhu! Und das beste: Anmeldung und Teilnahme sind kostenlos. Doppel-juhu! Weitere, ebenfalls kostenfreie Workshops, [...]
I just came across this song by Californian artist Kreayshawn (whose mom was the guitarist of all-female punk band The Trashwomen) and am kinda torn whether to like it or not. On the one hand, I appreciate her originality*, on the other I still can’t get used to girls calling each other ‘bitches’ – even [...]
Heads up, budding designers! German eco-fashion brand hessnatur once again invites applications for their Humanity in Fashion Award – an award honoring stylish green fashion. Quality directives are strict (the only downer being that leather is allowed as material), but with a cash prize of 25.000€, an own women’s capsule collection and lots of PR [...]
Today, please meet Simone Fust of Pferdemaedchen – the first horseback riding blog for urban grown-ups I’ve come across. If you’d like to find out more about the pro’s and con’s of content management system Drupal, what blogging and making movies have in common, and what future plans Simone has for her blog, please follow [...]
Via: Robert Basic Ein spannendes Interview zur Rettung des Blogaggregators Rivva und der Rolle, die Blogs in der deutschen Werbelandschaft spielen (sollten), findet Ihr bei Robert Basic. Er hat sich mit Vasco Sommer von Mokono unterhalten, einer Berliner Firma, die nach wie vor BloggerInnen sucht, die sich für die Monetarisierung ihrer Inhalte interessieren. Wichtiger Fakt: [...]