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Boy, today and tomorrow and then printing at night and handing the bastard in on Friday. My master thesis: “On the contribution of weblogs to the constitution of organizational identity” - wow, I still think it’s cool, but I hadn’t imagined how hard it is to write about weblogs although I assumed to know so much about it already. Anyway, excuse the silence, expect to read it here, if you are interested (in German) and wish me luck and thank you!! (Now, a short sort of nerv-wrecked crying). —

It’s just an experiment, tell me what you think! I think this theme is pretty stylish, although, I know, looks a lot like A list apart, which is awesome as well. So, what do you think: Is it worth putting in some effort to stylewalkerize this theme?
Make the picture embedding look better, do something about the header image, maybe use the third column for more fotos or widgets?..
I really need something new, I like my old style a lot, but things need to change.

Oh my, I don’t know how this happened, but Stylewalker got his own channel on Hype machine. Cool. So this site is now officially one of the best music blogs! (still long tail, I know..)

Wow, so many plans and no time to realize it all. So, note to self: Do it, lazy boy!

• 1st: Integrate tags into stylewalker - I have enough content now to tag it more thoroughly and it would be cool to let people participate - suggest tags and if I like them they will be part of the categorization. Does anyone know a good WP-plugin?

• Start a blog about organizational identity and weblogs. I am writing my master thesis and should export some wisdom to the net.

• Buy a DJ! A friend is coming from Barcelona, Marco Delvai, you can book him for little money and big fun! Expect more information later.

• A guide to MySpace - people keep asking me what to do there and I should write down all the things I tell each one of them.

And: A great mix at Miss Glitter - Bastard Cutz on bastard rec.

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It took me some time to figure out how to make the random header plugin work with my wordpress pool theme. Now I got it! Thx to Valentin and Pit also! You can now enjoy a new shiny header (the one on top) picture with every reload which also symbolizes Stylewalker being in Berlin now. What do you think? Does it work properly on your screen? Especially Safari and Mac IE users, tell me please!

10 000! I am blogging since february 2005, counting my visits since last september and now I have had 10 000 visits! A good moment to do some identity work and look back to an exciting time on the internet. It’s a lot of effort, but lots of fun, always something to talk about and source for some interesting cognitions. Thank you all, approx. 50 people come by daily, which is a really good number for a small blogger, many comment (although I wish, more did..) and Stylewalker is still growing!
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There is a fundamental discrepancy between the architecture of a browser and the way most people use the internet: The history of all browsers works linear, but our behaviour is not. Merely, it is three-dimensional. Software-development should take this into consideration.
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“I should write more”, I am telling myself from time to time. Because I like to see my little magazine grow. Moreover, my statistics and the comments show me that over the time there’s more and more people who peek into stylewalker.net every now and then. Cool! So to motivate myself and give a non-reliable outlook what stylewalker.net is going to deal with in the future, here are some upcoming subjects:
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I always wanted to do this: paint one of my walls in a strong colour. It had to be red and I decided to take a colour they call “Ziegelrot”. It is very srong and dominant and I took me a LONG time to paint it. I still find some sites to improve. What do you think? Mean comments are welcome but they have to be funny!
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When people ask me: “so, what are you doing in Barcelona, just having a good time?”, I basically cannot deny it. Because, yes, I am still working for Face2net and SPD and yes, I try to get jobs like some webprojects and being part of the Bread & Butter Barcelona, and yes, I started to work on my master thesis but.. it’s not a lot to show around, actually.

But here is something: I met a designer who studied in Utrecht and Cologne, he is really good, has a lot of skills, spontaneously we made ourselves business cards to step up into the professional circle of Barcelona’s freelancers and spontaneously I made him a webpage: www.christiandegen.de is a simple, fast and easy onlineportfolio, I hope it will be of use for him.

Die Freunde von Twen FM waren ja schon ganz verrückt nach diesem Kanadier, der ja nicht nur irre geile Clubmusik macht, sondern auch noch eine rattenscharfe Show mit Fleischermesser, Mikro und Telefonhöhrer. Und ich muss sagen, der Livemitschnitt samt Interview hat mich auch überzeugt, klasse funky Mucke, ein netter, auskunftsfreudiger Typ mit Pianovergangenheit - der Song “10 years of dictatorship” (oder so, ich schreibe jetzt mal ins unreine, sitze nämlich im Freien und mit frieren langsam die Finger) ist angeblich von zehn Jahren Klavierunterricht inspiriert.
Der absolute Clubhit ist aber “Kisses” und die ganze EP gibt es völlig frei bei Epsilonlab im Netz und sollte nicht missachtet werden.

I have a new blog in my Blogroll: We make money not art/. A European girl (Belgian, lived in Italy, Spain, wants to come to Berlin - good choice!..) writes about art, advertising, media and so on.

I liked especially her finding of the project “Folk Songs for the Five Points” which “uses “folk songs” as a metaphor to explore immigration and the formation of identity in New York’s Lower East Side.”

Good selections, good writing, always some interesting ideas. Mr Moving Canvas was featured there, too!

Update: I found a nice interview with Régine Debatty, the girl behind “we make money not art” [via Audibleblog]

This mix is perfect before going out, when you are heading to the metro or a friend’s party around 11 pm. Smoothly pushing, straight forward in a very funky, slowly and housy way.

Frederik Frede from Republish presents: “a nice melange of recent house tunes from Henrik Schwarz, Recloose and John Tejada to old ones from Underground Resistance, Versatile and Cheap.” What do I want more: Just my favourite artists and labels. Very Hans Nieswandtish, indeed.

Please enjoy Frederik Frede mixing for Republish.

Short Shots is a festival for short movies, held every first thursday of a month in Berlin’s fashionable Sage Club. With a bunch of ambitious young people behind, the festival is gaining reputation. They have a nice website with a real good trailer online, featuring some important film genres and impressions from the club and the people.
They have directors speaking to the audience in a very familiar atmosphere and people are encouraged to send in their short films (no longer than 15 min.)

Barcelona I am coming! It is only a week until I´ll be there and I will spend the whole winter and get away from the rainy Berlin depression. Right now, I am looking for a shared flat, a room I could be in and I am thankful for any hints and help. I started looking in internet sites (but I am afraid that it is going to be difficult to fix something until I am there to meet the people personally. I will arrive october 13th be ready for shared flat interviews.

Please write to thomas.praus@email.de

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Cc:Room ist ein neues Blog, das ich mit und für die Agentur Circleculture entwickelt habe. Circleculture beschreibt sich als “Kreativagentur für Marken- und Kommunikationsberatung“, sie sitzen in der Gipsstraße und geben Kunden wie Nike, Schweppes, Closed und Beiersdorf den gewissen Touch Style und Underground.

Sie machen viel mit Kunst, Kultur und Design und immer wieder gibt es schöne Ausstellungen im Cc:Room, ihrer Galerie. So haben sie auch ihr Blog genannt, das in Zukunft als Präsentationsplattform für Projekte und Ausstellungen dienen soll und die Webseite Circleculture.com komplettiert. Lange hat es gedauert, aber nun genügt es den hohen Ansprüchen der Geschäftsführer.

Inzwischen sind sie eine feste Größe im Berliner Lifestyle, in die Clubs kommen sie umsonst, weil sie einfach jeden kennen. Wer in Berlin-Mitte Fuß fassen will und schnell Zugang zur kreativen Szene sucht, kommt an ihnen nicht vorbei, Schlagworte wie “Below-the-line-Maßnahmen” und “Spitze Zielgruppen” füllen sie mit Leben.
Ich habe ihnen ein kleines Wordpress-Blog angepasst, war stressig (die Jungs wollen eben viel und das schnell und günstig) aber hat Spaß gemacht, jetzt müssen sie nur noch anfangen zu bloggen. Viel Spaß und Erfolg, Johann, Staudi, Nici, Julia und alle anderen!

Before I went to Barcelona in 2002 I had a really good DJ job in Berlin. Once a month I played at the R’nB party “Bootylicious” in the gay club Schwuz. It was perfect because I love R’nB’ but I never really liked the scene in Berlin that can usually be found in R’nB and Hiphop clubs. Continue >>

Berlin is a hard city. The most famous clubs are Tresor, WMF and Berghain, all famous for their dark, excessive atmosphere. The industrial environment, the wars and totalitarian regimes in the past did their best to make Berlin a real hard party place. Techno and techhouse is the sound and a lot of people are bored of the monotone music they are exposed to every weekend.

What this people need is a good HOUSE PARTY! So we decided: They should have it! 24th of september, Tasdorferstr 31, Berlin Friedrichshain
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Book CoverWww.meinungsmacherblog.de is the blog I set up for the book I contributed to: “Die neuen Meinungsmacher - Weblogs als Herausforderung für Kampagne, Marketing, PR und Medien” by Dr. Ansgar Zerfaß und Dietrich Boelter, published by Nausner&Nausner. Comes out September 2005, 192 pages, ISBN 3-901402-45-4, 12 € (that’s cheap for so much science!).

Social Software, Corporate Weblogs, Corporate Communications, Agenda Setting, Opinion leaders, podcasts, media-for-the-masses, bloggings vs journalism and so on are the buzzwords.

All the science basically is by Dr. Zerfaß, case studies and the business part by Mr Boelter and my part was mainly to surf the web and find interesting stories and to write them down neatly. A lot of work but at last a lot of fun, too. You should read (if you read German) it is really interesting.

The Alexanderplatz is one of the largest places in Berlin, former center of the East and home of the famous Fernsehturm. Beneath is a huge area with metro station, shops and some forgotten tunnels that are practically unused now.

Somebody told us some guys would have a party there, that is was not official and ergo very illegal. The police in Berlin is pretty liberal so you can take the risk, still, we where like 100% sure that this party would be busted by the police by one o’clock, latest.

Around three o’clock there were like 150 people dancing like crazy in this superunderground place you could reach and leave only by escalators. A massive soundsystem, a bar, pumping tech-house - a perfect night.

One of the most beautiful clubs in Berlin is the Watergate right next to Oberbaumbrücke. Last thursday I attended the second “Barhocker”-session there with 10 artists reading poems and playing some accoustic music. Among them my friend Yaneq, writer, rapper and overall entertainer. I enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere, and the really interesting people made this an inspiring evening..

Too bad, it took me long to find out that my old design does not work with IE. I switch to the Kubrick-Standard as long as I need to fix it. By the way, political blogging in German you will find here: roteblogs.de/thomaspraus

Update: Now I have a new templates (Pool by Borjy Fernandez), more versatility in Flickr and for putting in pictures. It´s the third change in my blog in it get’s nicer every day. Thank you for coming around!

My friend Christoph is one of the organizers of this very interesting event the 8th of july: Berlinscana 05.

Take fashion, photo, music, Italy and Germany (especially the fashionable Berlin) and you have a very stylish mix. More info here: www.berliscana05.com. (A hint: Click on the language to enter the page)

And: I will be playing music there!

I was there. I had a boat tour and will post some pictures. I was at the congress and heard a few interesting stories. I saw the multimedia award show which was quite entertaining.

Find more about the events here:
Deutscher Multimedia Kongress
Multimedia Award

I will post more pictures, stories and links to people I spoke to later.

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