Many have been essential & influential to my #career. With only 1 man have I worked for over 20 years: Jürgen #Kuri of @heiseonline

Today, he is #retiring. This may be the first time that an event makes him happy and me sad, and it's OK.

My colleague Andreas Wilkens has taken on the difficult task of honouring Jürgen and his immense #work of building #heiseonline for 26 years. In German:
https://www.heise.de/news/Ein-Vierteljahrhundert-Zeitzeuge-geht-Ade-Juergen-Kuri-7434739.html

Here is my take, #ReducedToTheMax: Jürgen Kuri is a #mensch.

I miss him already.

The #WSJ Wall Street Journal 's #advertising department published a text ("Custom #Content") exhorting #Twitter's purported #value for #brands who want to "turn tweets into #customers". The text speaks of "new research (which) suggests consumers increasingly turn to social media to inform purchase decisions". Twitter's "research" was published July 15.

Does anyone at #WSJ's advertising dpt read the news, maybe at the #WSJ? This "content" does more #damage to the WSJ brand than it adds #revenue.

Remember the #Canadian who #traded one red #paperclip for a #house ? What a sensation it was in #2005.

In #2021 Sam Bankman-Fried #sold this #image spelling #Test for no less than USD 270,000. TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. Because it was an #NFT !!!
Of course, today, the server it was hosted on is #offline, so the NFT is #gone.