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How Ebooks & The Net Bring Us Back To The Middle Ages, In a Good Way
Recently, I’ve been reading the Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, that (in)famous work of Marshall McLuhan, and it struck me that many of his insights relating to print media and reading culture can be applied to what is happening today, exactly 50 years after its publication in 1962. To summarize, one of the…
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Introducing Brian The Book (free download inside)
This is the story of a book and its creation: About a month ago, when I saw that my anarchically drawn short story for German learners found such positive feedback, I decided to try something a bit more refined. From the beginning the idea was to create a children’s book, something that was highly visual…
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Small Controlled Bursts Of Boredom: A Cure For Contemporary Click-Frenzies?
“The things people do out of sheer boredom! They study out of boredom; they pray out of boredom; they fall in love, get married and reproduce out of boredom; in the end they die out of boredom.” It was the German author Georg Büchner who put these words into the mouth of his protagonist in the comedy Leonce and Lena written…
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The Cure to Culture Shock: Eat Local!
Learning a language through an online classroom is the first step in beginning to understand and appreciate another culture. But in order to truly appreciate the lifestyle and traditions of another people, people must get up and go to that country and immerse themselves fully in the culture. Taking this big step can be scary…
