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Vienna Gentlemen's Race

    

Smeidu got the photos.

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Scott Thomas speaks Obama in Vienna

I had the pleasure to talk to inspiring Scott Thomas.

    

Sympathic artist with an art book everyone wants to have.

@SimpleScott Scott Thomas signing Designing Obama on Twitpic

Read the long story at knallgrau Videoblog (in German).

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The Organization of Thing

An all time favourite by Helge.

    

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Almería

I've been to Almería in 2002, not knowing what I saw. Today, Erwin Wagenhofer's documentaries take me back to my memories of the region.

    

In Wagenhofer's film We Feed The World I saw the same pictures that I took with my camera in 2002:

Almeria 2002

Almeria 2002

Participating in European Union's Comenius project, I spent a whole week in the South-East of Spain (here are our project results - actually one of the first HTML pages I've ever built, with frames and all the good stuff...).

We even made it into a local newspaper:

Almeria 2002

I was excited, and everything I saw was fine and good and beautiful and nice, like I thought my photos were:

Almeria 2002

Almeria 2002

Almeria 2002

Of course, we visited one of the plantations:

Almeria 2002

Almeria 2002

At that time, I had no clue that this was a globalized industry that brings wealth to any other country but the people in the region.

Now I know, that 80% of Spain's coast line is obstructed with uninhabited properties, just for one reason: provide value for global investments.

Almería is not only the setting for many Hollywood classics but also for the ongoing financial crisis thriller, whose victims are the ones that can only watch and pay for it.

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When you're writing a really, I mean REALLY good tweet and you want people to retweet it...

...do not use all the 140 characters available, but leave the amount of characters of your name +5 ("RT @" and a " " after your name) so people can retweet it without having to cut your awesome tweet.

    

Also mind that people might like to retweet using "via" - they will need more characters left over for that: (via @[name]) - that's +7

One last thing: Manually retweeting in the web interface of Twitter means copy and paste the tweet plus the name of the twitterer. Unfortunately, there's no space character between the name and the tweet in Twitter's web interface - it's just a margin-right of 5 pixels that look like a space.

What happens is that the name and the first term of the tweet become one melted word! Example here (in German): http://twitter.com/bodenseepeter/statuses/1845442333 (the twitter name is "Sierralog", not "SierralogNach") - sucks!

UPDATE: Lee LeFever from CommonCraft:

Sometimes tweets are too good to abbreviate for a RT. View this one by @michaeldpick in it's natural habitat: http://bit.ly/14VbRZLee LeFever

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Sharing scars about car sharing

Knallgrau's Dieter Rappold was twittering about an unsatisfying experience with car sharing company Sixt - and they didn't care.

    

All tweets are in German and can be followed via Twitter Search.

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