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Tag Archives: internet
The Danger of Digits and Digitalization
“Wow, already 28 likes and three comments,” she thought, proud of having run five miles in less than 45 minutes for the first time. But still only 291 Instagraph followers, she checked to her disappointment, for the fifth time that … Continue reading
My secular Shabbat
Zur deutschen Fassung dieses Texts. Readers of this blog will have noticed that I am a radical Atheist. But there is one religious idea that I have incorporated in my life, although in a secular version. It’s the idea of … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Philosophy, Religion, Technology
Tagged christianity, hiking, internet, Jews, work
45 Comments
How Social Media saved Yemen
Two countries walk into a bar, because there was an offer for any couple whose names start with the same letter. Says Yugoslavia: “I was so unlucky that my wars already took place in the early 1990s. A few years … Continue reading
AllExperts is dead
Quite a number of readers have come to this blog through AllExperts, where I have been answering questions on German law for a decade. With more than a thousand thoroughly answered questions, my profile there was a great source of … Continue reading
Posted in Family Law, German Law, Germany, Immigration Law, Law, Technology, Travel
Tagged internet, legal advice
38 Comments
How Social Media made the World better
Two cities walk into a bar. Says Srebrenica: “I was so unlucky that my massacre already took place in 1995. A few years later, and the internet would have saved us. My people could have alerted the world about the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Human Rights, Media, Military, Politics, Serbia, Syria, Technology, Travel
Tagged Aleppo, internet, Srebrenica, Twitter
12 Comments
Where does the Internet come from?
You have all seen these cables on wooden poles, dangling across fields, leading from village to village, from country to country and even connecting the continents underwater. This is how the internet comes into your home. Have you never asked … Continue reading
Posted in Bolivia, Photography, Technology, Travel
Tagged internet, Isla del Sol, Titicaca
5 Comments
Free Internet
But only for lawyers: (Spotted in Trani, Apulia, Italy.)
Eastern Europe, where Low-Tech meets High-Tech
One of the many things I like about Eastern Europe is the contrast between low-tech and hi-tech, often in one and the same place. For example, you might find yourself at a dilapidated bus station with crumbling concrete, you step on a 40- … Continue reading
Posted in Montenegro, Photography, Romania, Technology, Transnistria, Travel
Tagged internet
3 Comments
Why I don’t reply to your messages
My non-responsiveness to messages, e-mails and other forms of communication seems to have reached a new level. Or has anyone else received this warning from Facebook, saying that people “may be wondering why” I “haven’t responded to messages in a … Continue reading
