In the mid-1980s he worked alongside his studies publicist and founded the "JetSet Verlags GmbH" in 1984, which published the magazine "V max - Zeitschrift auf der Überholspur".
1992 found him as a newscaster at Radio Japan, NHK and worked as a freelancer for InterCommunication Magazine, NTT Shuppansha.
He worked together with Prof. Dr. Wolfang Coy on a DFG research project on "Von der Ordnung des Wissens zur Wissensordnung digitaler Medien" ("From the system of knowledge to the knowledge system of digital media") at the Humboldt Universität.
He earned a doctorate at the FU Berlin on Japanese media history with the topic "Closed Society.
He holds regular lectures at congresses of the German Chaos Computer Club and is engaged in new forms of copyright like Wissensallemende or GNU.