i am waiting for tape.at to be released. already some weeks ago i met a woman at a party who is involved in building it. it's an online record label, she explained. something like mdos? i will see.

in the meantime i subscribed to their newsletter and yesterday got the first message: tonight at 21:00 villa log are playing at vienna's "barmodern rhiz" (hey, they support popo.at, too!).

why do i write so much about music in the last days? yesterday, klaus noted that those bombastic "schlager" songs somehow affect him in a strange way. "all i need is the air that i breathe" was his hookline for the rest of the day. i think for me it is "music was my first love and it will be my last". how kitschy.

prolific.org supports popo.at. thank you! logging for europe will become more and more important.

yesterday i learnt three things: 1. some april fool jokes are jokes for insiders only; 2. sometimes it is even not worth the effort to shrug your shoulders; 3. i know who i am, others don't, but some of them should.

kris of netdyslexia likes popo.at and he also likes dave winer to "think about the importance of manila (and its wap support) for political activities against the far right austrian government".

some things to remind myself: since months popo.editthispage.com, the manila part of popo.at, is under the top 20 of both page reads and hit counts in the editthispage.com stats.

there are more than 150 members which makes popo.at second regarding the amount of membership.

however, the site is an outsider, an alien in those lists, that is for sure. among thousands of weblogs written in english, popo.at is held in german. and among thousands of weblogs it does not sell anything, not even an attitude, but wants to inform and support the various resistance movements against far-right politics in austria.

mentioning popo.at (ie. by linking to it) means giving back some of this support. support that is equally essential. i would call that solidarity. sure, this kind of respect is only possible to give when one can see beyond one's own focus and main interest. popo.at is not about design.

under the current circumstances as described above getting no link to popo.at means a lot of irritation to me. truth is, i cannot only shrug my shoulders (i would consider myself as ignorant and arrogant).

and truth is, i expected dave winer linking to popo.at. just to say hi and welcome. kris states literally that a website against racism, fascism or whatever you call ugly politics which uses manila technology is something dave could be proud of.

it is hard to believe an editthispage.com savvy person could ignore popo.at by accident. so i am asking myself what's wrong? what is the bigger picture of all this? and this is a waste of energy. if nobody will ever tell me, popo.at is taken away a fair chance to improve.

that might sound like whining. that's just ok. sometimes i am weak. that's the price of honesty, not of begging for attention. i know who i am.

netdyslexia was the first member of the weblogs community that embraced the stranger and gave a warm welcome to popo.at.

that's why it probably seems rather important for popo.at to be included in their euroblogs directory than to be recognized at editthispage.com. i have to think about that.

i don't believe them a single word.

rrrespect and a very more thank you! goes out once again and forever to netdyslexia. a must read weblog – just forget about krokettke.org, here comes dogma2000!

more music: last summer's club hit "sing it back" creators moloko release their next album and single.

"the time is now" (also available as mp3 via napster and its sexy mac version macster) surely is not a bad track but i wonder why they have to follow down the same bloody artsy-fartsy "let's do a song with a symphonic orchestra" path to sound like soul 2 soul on lsd at the end of the eighties (now that reminds me of portishead)... or are moloko the soundgarden edition for clubbers?

actually, moloko was big "fun for me" in the beginning. now they really seem to turn serious. is there some depression going on?

ok, enough of that. music sounds better with him.

critizising architecture since april 1, 1980: 20 years of einstürzende neubauten.

just like kraftwerk – the neubauten too often are considered to be too serious by the most of their audience, especially by music theoretists and essayists. the neubauten have a fine (non)sense of humour one can find simply listening to their subversive works. it's not always a tale from their crypt, merely too much desire for understanding by the listener.

i must own up to myself that piefke essaying on music is like piefke speaking viennese (or writing in english)...

wintertime is over (at least it should be).

if this is really the new skin for weblogs.com then i hope someone will think about it again...

and now for something completely different: introducing wally nutt by takeshi murata. music by django reinhardt.

yesterday i had dinner with claudia at kiang (where you probably can get some spicy noodles, too). we were talking a lot about weblogs, that's for sure. as the collaborative part of helma retired we happily noticed that there is a life after, that there are many more weblogs than we were able to see being stuck in our little helmaworld.

however, weblogs haven't got big time in europa, yet. and the "biggest assumable desaster" (ie. bad) would be when people jump on the logtrain without a sense and respect for the community that came the long way, baby.

(excuse me getting pathétique...)

sure, there is some vanity within it – and vanity kills (it don't pay bills). but i just imagine somebody would start to profitably use our links but dismiss our urls... any numb effort to exploit the webloggers will give damage to the idea and the sense of weblogging. and i am highly sceptical about too many people getting the net, yet. not to mention weblogs.

probably news as fresh as an old fart, but i just discovered that all the sites at editthispage.com are viewable with a wap device simply by adding a trailing "wap/" to the site url.

e.g. the popo.at discussion forum can be accessed with a wml browser via popo.editthispage.com. however, this won't make dave winer taking notice of them either... :(

andré radke once wrote the appropriate story about him becoming a wap user – a very good reference for wap developers, generally. spicynoodles is a german weblog in english, too.