derstandard.at has "new navigation". it takes just one look to know that it's even worse than little better. i think i will switch to the text version (and rather get bothered by javascript errors)...
a text-only version of orf on is in progress (via tinytalk).
step by step p3k's hosting history is progressing... so here is mandrake linux on that old 200 mhz pentium ii mmx box!
and i am relieved, everyhing went so much smoother than with that german linux distribution (guess what, even tomcat is working!)
finally, i really can begin with configuring that linux stuff...
some thoughts about these beautiful calendars.
a few weeks ago, a question was posted to the antville project weblog whether the assignment of dates (other than today's) could be implemented in antville.
i think this is a deliberate question and meanwhile (after some wondering) i totally disagree with the reply that such a feature would lead apart from the current weblog roadmap antville is going right now.
truth is, such story clones (they could be called "events") would improve weblogs in a direction many believe to be the knowledge managing future of this kind of publishing systems. and, furthermore, it would give these beautiful calenders a reasonable meaning and real power that could justify their existence.
i assume the programming of such calendars is quite a demanding task. just think about all these leap years and leap year exceptions! certainly i respect the very well-done results on the sites i spotted them.
however, for the purpose of browsing a weblog it is a concept – forgive me for being so harsh – close to non-sense. i think everyone who ever tried to reach beyond one or two months of postings back in to time or forth into the future will agree with me.
it appears to me as if these weblog calenders creepily sneaked into the blogger's world via userland's manila software resp. websites like editthispage.com, just to be adapted quite seam- and thoughtlessly (but nevertheless with all that effort) by well-meaning and innocent web developers into a bunch of similar weblog tools.
but still i never navigate weblogs in time using such a calendar. it never made sense to me. most of the time i directly jump on the frontpage or land somewhere amidst its postings using a link or a search engine (btw, a tool antville needs desperately, meanwhile). i never was right when i tried to remember how long ago this one posting was about yet another suse linux installation desaster, anyway...
they break a fly on the wheel.
nevertheless, i think i could consider a calendar useful to browse events that are close to the current date. events which do not have to be related to any of the current stories, e.g. because they are taking place in the future (like concerts, meetings, birthdays). i noticed that it often does not make any sense to blog an event which is further away than three to five days.
such postings get lost in time and most likely the event will be forgotten (if not recorded somewhere else, with a more appropriate tool). even if i would repeat my announcement three days later it becomes pretty redundant stuff and you have to have the time and still the memory to do it this way (the euroranch.org guys obviously have, btw, and they do it very well imho). personally, i do not feel able to and not really willing to, either.
that being written, i think i will venture the effort of implementing a new type of "event" posting that allows custom date input and hopefully transform the calendar into a more useful tool.
last words: the tv.orf.at calender works pretty well. at least for the current month.
update: i am curious what chris langreiter will invent one day to make time-based navigation usable...
aesthetic apparatus: "we design posters. then we screen print them by hand with great love and care. this is what we do."
wonderful posters, btw.
why tv is bad and degrading: "wenn jemand nicht ausdrücklich sagt, dass er nicht ins fernsehen möchte, liegt eine konkludente einwilligung vor" (as reported by der spiegel).
so next time somebody rings you out of bed at 2 o'clock in the morning and points a camera at you when opening the door, beat the shit out of him and say the magic words: "tv sucks".
btw. if your german is sufficient, compete with creating similar sentences in the sofablog raffle (yet, the entries lack of excellence).
"the crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appears." – antonio gramsci, 1891–1937.
this quote was written on a t-shirt my mother used to wear a lot in the 80s. at that time it was voguish to wear such clothes, not a political attitude (okay, let's forget the distinction, just keep in mind that my mother was a mere ecological than political activist. darn, this distinction does not make more sense...).
yesterday, i have thrown these words into camp catatonia's bonfire as a reaction to her excellent observations of the relationship between popular politics and mass media in austria these days (keyword "haider" again and again and again and again).
oops, i absolutely forgot to include camp catatonia at the bottom of this posting. apologies for that. but what's done is done and can be undone!
thomas prlic: "public private alltag – internet-weblogs sind öffentliche chroniken ganz privater angewohnheiten – netzpublikationen zwischen tagebuch und journalismus".
schoda has some good links to photoweblogs (but unfortunately does not have a permanent link to the archived entry).
the sensomatics spotted spam. btw. the first spam i was happy to receive.