Technology diary

Technology diary
“Yeah, it's boring now. But in 20 years! "
Weblog
languages	German
On-line	2014
http://techniktagebuch.tumblr.com/

The Techniktagebuch is a German-language community blog in which reports on everyday technology and its changes have been collected since 2014. The authors record subjective experiences in short, diary-like reports and document how changes in technology over the course of the history of technology affect everyday history .

history

The blog was founded in February 2014 by the non-fiction author Kathrin Passig and the software developer Anne Schüßler as a joint project. The idea went back to conversations between Kathrin Passig, Thomas Vašek (editor of Hohe Luft magazine ) and the author and astrophysicist Aleks Scholz . The models include the blog series “My Media Menu” by the author Christoph Koch and the book Pandaemonium, 1660–1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers by Humphrey Jennings . Since the Tumblr blog platform used allows posts to be backdated, the posts nominally go back to 1933. The technology diary has been archived by the German Literature Archive in Marbach since January 2016 . By February 2019, 450 participants had contributed a total of 6,044 texts. In January 2017, the technology diary was recognized by the “Golden Bloggers” as the best tech blog of 2016, and in June 2019 with the Grimme Online Award in the “Culture and Entertainment” category.

Lectures

Authors of the collective thought on the re: publica 2015, the lectures "We had nothing - and we brought: This small museum of technology" and "technique diary in person (TTIP) - with a record of service" as well as at the re: publica 2016 the lecture " Techniktagebuch Live Let's Play ”and organized the guessing game“ Simply technical - cheerful device guessing with the technology diary ”for re: publica 2017 and the guessing game“ Whoever paraphrases, stays! ”At re: publica 2019 Technology diary a reading of the technology diary printed out on continuous paper for this purpose.

Authors (selection)

• Kai Biermann
• Holm Friebe
• Christiane Frohmann
• Sascha Lobo
• Stefan Mesch
• Kathrin Passig
• Jochen Schmidt
• Aleks Scholz
• Udo Vetter
• Thomas Wiegold
• Pia Ziefle

Fonts

So far, six e-books with articles from the blog have been published:

• We didn't have anything: A technology diary (February 2015), 2074 pages pdf (40 MB) or epub file (78 MB)
• Infinite volume (but reduced speed): A technology diary (May 2015), 3431 pages pdf (70 MB) or epub file (70 MB)
• Better than feared, but worse than good: The new large technology diary (February 2016), 3798 pages pdf (142 MB) or epub file (136 MB)
• Anyway, I clicked on it: A technology diary (February 17, 2017), 5481 pages pdf (511 MB) or epub file (502 MB)
• The present is already there, it is just unevenly distributed: A technology diary (February 18, 2018), 7195 pages pdf (131 MB) or epub file (258 MB)
• If you only have one Apollo 11, everything looks like a moon: A technology diary (February 17, 2019), 10029 pages pdf (141 MB) or epub file (279 MB)
• WLAN symbols outside, disappointment inside: Six years of technology diary (February 17, 2020), 11874 pages pdf (213 MB)

Web links

• techdiary.tumblr.com
• Failure is much more interesting . Friedhelm Greis on golem.de about the project, April 22, 2014. Accessed February 8, 2017
• Avant la lettre . Stephan Porombka on Friday March 12, 2015. Accessed February 8, 2017
• What used to be cool . Anja Reumschüssel at Spiegel Online , May 6, 2015. Accessed February 8, 2017
• Photograph the board in the lecture? Can the lecturer forbid you . Martin Wiens in ze.tt , November 10, 2015. Accessed February 12, 2017
• Sooner or later . Peter Glaser in NZZ Folio , January 2016. Accessed February 8, 2017
• Netzwelt: technology diary . Radio interview with Kathrin Passig and Frank Lachmann on FluxFM , June 2014
• Grandpa talks about the landline . Michael Brake in the taz , July 6, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ You should actually keep a kind of technology diary , February 7, 2014. Accessed February 8, 2017
2. ↑ "Perhaps in ten or twenty years we will not be interested in the actual content of the technology diary, but in what does not appear in it" , accessed on February 9, 2017
3. ↑ "Finally regular backups from the technology diary" , January 2016. Accessed on February 8, 2017
4. ↑ “About the technology diary” , accessed on March 27, 2019
5. ↑ The Golden Blogger , accessed February 9, 2017
6. ^ Grimme Institute: Grimme Online Award. Retrieved June 20, 2019 . 
7. ↑ We didn't have anything - and we brought that with us: The small technology museum . In: re: publica & Media Convention Berlin . ( re-publica.com [accessed February 9, 2017]).
8. ↑ Technology diary in person (TTIP) - With recording service . In: re: publica & Media Convention Berlin . ( re-publica.com [accessed February 9, 2017]).
9. ↑ Technology diary Live Let's Play . In: re: publica & Media Convention Berlin . ( re-publica.com [accessed February 9, 2017]).
10. ↑ Simply technical - cheerful device guessing with the technology diary . In: re: publica & Media Convention Berlin . ( re-publica.com [accessed on May 15, 2017]).
11. ↑ Whoever rewrites stays! Retrieved June 20, 2019 . 
12. ↑ @t - Technology Diary - Too long, DID read. Retrieved June 20, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Badische Zeitung: Participants of the re: publica are looking for solutions to the really big problems - Computer & Media - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved June 20, 2019 . 
14. ↑ March 20 to May 8, 2019. Accessed June 20, 2019 .