for a satisfying communication with a system like wiki and her sisters (well, actually for all kinds of open dialogues) a few things are definitely indispensable: discussion culture, self-criticism, pluckiness and honesty are among them. but probably most important is to pit oneself against the forces of wiki's nature – er, i mean: to put up with the consequences of free editing.
eradicative deletion is bloody easy (and bloody, bloody stupid, no doubt) with those tools: everybody can do it anonymously and someone always will (think of murphy!) – whether it might be to adjust history or simply for the means of destruction.
but hey! this is the most interesting part of the wiki concept! sure it would be possible to reduce such risks e.g. by obligatory membership or by implementing a cvs behind it (a weird idea anyway?). but if the tension is taken away self-organization will be irrelevant. why using wiki then at all? just be aware of it and of your wildest expectations coming true – you won't fail.
see, even the big boys have been struck by tricky wikiness.
a description of document mode which can be useful to summarize a thread (instead deleting it) avoiding it to e.g. completely turn into a meaningless flame-war. become a wiki master, boy!
never have seen so much flash crap in one place... i certainly do like flash but one gotta be skilled or aware of the basic demands of design to do good flash or anything else creative. dogma! dogma! dogma!
london news: "heute wurde unsere studenten-website ganz gross gelauncht, mit offiziellem event im ica, institute of contemporary arts, london!" – the new site is a tasty interplay of viennese melange and blue de brasil. but why a splash screen?
exciting as well as frightening (eawaf) – seems to be my motto this monday. just because i read across the interview with hans extreme which contains heaps of eawaffy passages (e.g. the "swastika stunt"). and my weird mind makes it up that i think christoph schlingensief has equivalent reasons and a totally different approach to do eawaf stuff, too. maybe andy kaufman fits in here again... (yawn!) – ok, what about klaus kinski?
i am such a hormoron these days.
what came to my mind today in the morning fits perfectly with tim berners-lee's concerns about the world wide web: i consider it highly likely that the way the web was built in the past will be undermined by the people who "may have less patience in waiting on the rule makers to deal with their concerns and push their own agenda, defining their own rules".
those people, mainly marketmaniacs, ipodelics and governmental authorities, will re-establish their own philosophy with the parameters of the internet (or vice versa, if i am lucky). and they will do it insanely fast, no matter how much they will have been warned. speed is their sacred mean to achieve growth in the end.
they are not the only conservative, egocentric power raising its head: several times i had to cope with some old, lardy and narcistic net-farts who already got their respect for what they might have done in the 80's when electronic publishing meant btx, resp. minitel, or even worse "remote offset printing via satellite". man, they can give you a hard time... (i assume that in 10, 20 years i will be in their shoes. so what. the time is now for me to play a different role).
it's not that there is any struggle lost / won for any side, yet. but i expect the giggling internet sandbox days to be definitely over (well, not for the rest of us...). and something new will surely come – duh! it's there already! the autonomous, autodidactic biodata hacker (i know this sounds cheesy but think of it yourself) is an exciting as well as frightening thought full of new scenarios and visions.
metababy: "sometimes, the best attack is the absence of one".
who is this cute girl with the sad eyes? uh, her name is ariana french. she knows a tale of a woman and has a weblog page about january 17, 2000... probably a special date – what did i do that day?
certainly mrs french has a weblog, i just did not see clearly then. slapatforehead
man on the moon, last and final(?) chapter: i have seen the movie and unbelievably liked jim carey as andy kaufman. the plot was very funny and milos forman did a good job as director. uh, and courtney love has another gorgeous part (remembering “the people vs. larry flint”). ok, my expectations have been pretty high since i was waiting for the movie for ages and certainly would not own up to myself it being a flop. however, it even more increased my interest in this person andy kaufman alias tony clifton (i wonder if helge schneider...). a paperback bio probably will be next...
dplanet is hosted by ogilvy interactive, south africa... in austria oi is producing advertising for and thus is affiliated to box of pandora opener and conservative party in government övp.
get down, get down: "apple drops webobjects license price from $50,000 to $699". jungle boogie! frontier still is $899...