antville.org is probably closer to what others hysterically called "digital city" than their desperate ideas of what such a virtual society really could be... at least i find so many interesting people there wandering through the valleys of antville.

i always critizised the conceptual mismatch of digital cities imposing the habitat on the people. instead, you need the people first, give support for their ideas*, provide a simple infrastructure and let them grow their plants, houses and places with it (that organic thing, you know?). obviously, antville exactly can provide this infrastructure (not to say other weblog tools couldn't).

but it seems some weird ideas will never fade to gray (which is quite funny, btw).

anyway, from john tokyo land to lasch nipple country, where i found this one song called "pflanzengießen" (mp3, ~ 6 megs) that i like very much. basically, that was all i wanted to report.

* just recently, franz manola has written a razor-sharp essay on the current dysfunctional relationship between industry and clients which he deduces from the industry's impotence to realize that the clients want to be true clients and not consumers as interchangable numbers-on-a-string, anymore. the essay will be published later.