Thanks to Google Books I've been able to track down a reference to a concept of Medienschmerz that predates this blog.

From Internationalizing Media Theory by John Downing (p. 223)

Cultural imperialism is a perspective that has largely been identified with leftist analysts such as Schiller (1969, 1989), and is therefore often dismissed, especially in Schiller's case as a kind of generalized Medienschmerz that blots out any capacity of the world's citizens to resist or appropriate in their own fashion the messages of global advertising or US television, and additionally presumes that worries about cultural survival are uniquely provoked by policies of the major powers, and not equally by nation states against ethnic minorities within their own frontiers.

That's one (compound) sentence by the way. Downing's thick writing style verily reminds me a lot of media studies exam books in the university. Can it be just a coincidence that the scholar menitioned in the passage is called Schiller?

Halfway through the year and it's time to thank you all everybody for visiting this site. More stats will follow... now, thanks and see you soon!

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So, here's the bigger version of the map overlay and the same for the visitors graph.

Just found out that one of my CC-licenced photos on Flickr was used in a WWF report on the Baltic Sea, namely concerning its overfertilisation countermeasures. Download the document here (beware, Finnish) check out the photo in its original crop.

Above photo was the closest thing to a making-of and was taken by Lasse K on the brink of a high water situation at Otsolahti.

The world map above pinpoints the visitors to my old site during 2006. I hope you enjoy this one too, perhaps more.

Take a look at a bigger map or visitors graph.

I wish you all an elevating year 2007. See you around!

Damn it! I lost over 200 links on my del.icio.us account while playing around with MTBlogroll plugin (which also crashed). Let this incident be one of the geekier reasons, why people should be able to skip December and January through hibernation.

So, the lesson is, be careful out there and backup often. Now.