Revised Summary of StudiVZ – The case of a Watchblog
Recently a number of bloggers have commented and linked to my article on StudiVZ (see Chaos@Paderborn, Schnitzler, Blogdoch David Warlick, Customer of Hell, Robert Basic, Don Alphonso.Jörg-Olaf Schäfers, MyMediaMirror, Fimpern, Gastronomie Blog, Visual Blog). Thanks for all the positive and constructive comments! I have revised updated my article and clarified some of the wording.
StudiVZ really needs to disclose its finances. Otherwise they will have a hard time finding new staff and new customers. I talked to a lot of students and it seems that the bad news from the blog-o-sphere is already trickling down into main-stream media and main-stream student thinking. I also mentioned the case of StudiVZ at the Mainzer Media Disput – a conference the effects of the digital revolution on journalism.
And anybody sufficiently capable of writing some PHP-code will also be able to enter “StudiVZ” into GoogleBlogSearch or Technorati. And who wants to work in a company with such a bad image? Well, some people work also for FoxNews.
My own efforts to gain more insight information into StudiVZ were doomed. I tried to contact the StudiVZ people last week and asked them if it is possible to visit them and confront them with the accusations. So far no response.
I think the demand for a StudiVZ-Watchblog, as Andi suggested, is growing. I did contact a few bloggers who have been prominently discussing StudiVZ. The general reaction was a positive one – although quite a few said that StudiVZ is likely going to change its name and its appearance soon and until then a decentral watch blog is better. I agree.
November 12th, 2006 at 22:58
Hey Karsten,
I am actually working on studiVZ as well and just read that you tried to contact us last week. I’m very sorry that you didn’t get a reply but unfortunately no one of us has seen your mail. Anyways, as we said on many other blogs as well – our door is always open, so if you want to come along: Our adress is Saarbrueckerstr. 38, 10405 Berlin – you can ask for Dario Suter or Michael Brehm there and say that you have spoken with me.
Looking forward to see you!
Bests
Tobi
November 13th, 2006 at 00:47
[...] Today Tobias Walter from StudiVZ commented on one of my StudiVZ articles. He invited me to visit their office to discuss the roaming critique with them. [...]
November 15th, 2006 at 13:59
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Oktober 15th, 2007 at 18:41
[...] Tobias Walter from StudiVZ commented on one of my StudiVZ articles. He invited me to visit their office to discuss the roaming critique with [...]