dave winer: "business is simple, but eisner makes it sound complex. find a way to give the people what they want and you stay in business. try to turn the clock back, and become a memory. they had a good thing going for a long time. the users got snookered into giving him all the money and none to the creative people. that's over. imho, eisner and his ilk were the pirates" (via henso).

remember the independent magazine inflation the years before? suddenly publications like peng, malmoe or nylon popped out of nowhere in almost any of vienna's trendy locations.

i just spoke with klaus hofegger who makes the beautiful peng print design and layout, and he told me that quite many of these magazines are in financial troubles. printing is expensive and distribution a pain in the ass.

i wish the magazine makers would get to know weblogs or simply the way the net works and embrace it for their publishing efforts. i strongly believe that more people would read their texts and they would know more about their readers.

but klaus did not paint a very optimistic picture. obviously they don't understand what the internet could do for them and obviously they don't want to understand, either. fear of contact. what a pity.

great entertainment at the stereolab forum (found via sensomatic): aunty sheila giving the right advice to women confrontated with whiny and clingy men (having tiny schlongs).

"livid purple german helmets", heheh...

i think being amongst the first 10 results when searching google for the terms "netz radio" or "radio netz" and even being amongst the first 500 when searching for the word "netz" only, should be quite encouraging to update such a cool weblog once in a while.

anyway, internet radio is calling for help!

sometimes rabbits mix up a cursor with a carrot (via leuchtturm).

hey, antville is running really fine. what an excellent piece of scripting code.

however, project antville slowly seems to become a pandora's box... so many feature requests and still so little (if any) people scripting their ideas themselves.

what do you mean, it's open source?

wehe, wenn sie losgelassen.

play with the machine: "rss makes the world a smaller place. take a simple concept, aggregating rss feeds (parss), throw in some vendor-agnostic exchange syntax (infx), mix it up weblog-style (rss.antville.org) and you get something bordering closely to the winograd idea of grassroots. it's taken nearly seven years to see his ideas come (almost) to fruition. i can't wait for the rest". via schockwellenreiter via traumwind.

finally: mac os x driver for usb still cameras, e.g. l'éspion (via alo).

yesterday, this song made my day. twice.

nice side-effects of parss: chris langreiter provides a proposal how feed subscriptions could work in the future and finally an rss feed of his weblog.

thanks for the flowers!