weblogging vs. weblounging. hystery vs. chill-out.
history re-digged.
"franz manola von orf online warf den traditionellen medien vor, sich selber zu ernst genommen zu haben. man habe gedacht, das internet werde sich um die klassischen printtitel drehen. auch er bemängelte das 'herauswaschen des journalistischen' aus den medien und sieht in den weblogs die innovation der stunde. 'der weblogschreiber wird als leidenschaftlicher amateur den journalismus erneuern', ist sich manola sicher. die begeisterung tausender web-community-teilnehmer, in den foren auf orf.at zu posten, sei damit zu erklären, dass die bislang 'nicht penetrierbare festung orf' plötzlich offen sei für persönliche statements. 'warum kann ich nicht mit einem weblog auch redaktionsmitglied von spiegel online werden?', fragte er mathias müller von blumencron, den geschäftsführer von spiegel online." – alpbach news no. 16, unfortunately only as htmlified pdf in google's cache.
actually, i was looking for a weblog maintained by an austrian vintager. anyone?
at some point i just don't want to join anymore. but as with everything, not to join the one is to join the other.
oh, shut up!
weblogs, good god y'all, what are they good for? (via le petit calepin).
absolutely nothing.
btw. edwin starr died on 2 april 2003.
btw2. these french weblogs are so pretty.
barcode art (via kutter).
usb floppy disk striped raid under os x: "at first I thought it was screwed up, but it just took a while for the various units to meld themselves into a single super duper kalimazooper floppy drive. upon completion. I had a new single 4.22 mb floppy disk drive called untitled" (via shithappens).
whether this is a late april fool's joke or not: it's truly witty writing.
video of the day: junior senior's "move your feet".
the "nice" beaver at the shynola download page already gives a good preview of what's inside. for the video you have to imagine these tiny pixels on a really big screen, though.
and if you watch very closely you will find a very nice adaptation of claudia's pixeldancer.
"adaptation" is better than "being john malkovich". not to say much better.
robert's resource for help with dns issues: ask mr dns. (a service by verisign, btw.)
robert needs a weblog urgently to share his excellent knowledge himself. but who knows, maybe it will pop up one day, autonomatically?
related to the previous posting: network solutions horror stories. makes me wanna expropriate this comapny...
mark paschal got a link to a horror story, too. furthermore, he somehow recommends jumpdomain.com as registrar.
i also found godaddy.com being mentioned some more times. and certainly the community at slashdot got good advice for frustrated nsi customers, too.
from my own experience i absolutely agree upon the bad reputation of nsi/verisign. it's not only a fishy commercial corporation administrating the people's web identity but even an unscrupulous syndicate using questionable business practices to gain profit selling the heart of the world wide web.
the good news is, though, that nic.at comes off quite well in direct comparison: it did not take one day for them to update the a domain's dns record after i sent both the online request and the fax confirmation to them.