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...
looking at the design apart from the content, the fm4 site definitely is an impressive piece of work. it is hard to find a balanced attitude towards such a project knowing some lovely people behind it on the one hand and the uberadvantages of the orf being a very powerful monopolist on the other. politics everywhere.
but the real sad story is that some bollocks always will complain (i am one of them :)
the lesson to learn: never claim that you are doing it for the users – or they will give you a hard time whining the shit out of you.
weblogs, too? guardian online, orf fm4, weblogs.de?
<rant> my bloody opinion of the day: a commercial weblog is a paradoxon. weblogs are like pirate stations transmitting via http. logma 3000. i rather won't call my own stuff here "weblog" than using the term for yet another outcome of mass media myth or professional portal parasitism. </rant>
other quotes:
weblogs.com: "weblogs are often-updated sites that point to articles elsewhere on the web, often with comments, and to on-site articles. [...] the people who run weblogs, they point to each other, in all kinds of structures, graphs, loops, etc."
robotwisdom: "weblogs don't replace the function of publishing articles, but they do replace the function of publishing tables of contents, which for commercial zines have to hype their content dishonestly, and can't normally highlight good articles in other sources."
e&p: "[...] as weblogging becomes more widespread among corporations, there's likely to be some resentment from the pioneers who see it as an anti-corporate concept."
salon: "weblogs, typically, are personal web sites operated by individuals who compile chronological lists of links to stuff that interests them, interspersed with information, editorializing and personal asides."
scribble: "having 10 million hits is not the game plan. having 10 regular readers is a home run."
probably one day the one or the other has to "think of a better name than 'weblog', just start using it and see if it catches on" (jorn barger).
sidenote to boo.crash: about 200 people already lost their jobs, another 100 employments are in danger. those people are the struck ones. it is very likely that most of them will find new jobs pretty soon. but not everyone is a most wanted geek those days – and this is just the beginning, isn't it?
a ---- helper to learn the american sign language using short movie captures. strange: there are many autonomous variations of sign languages in different countries. will a deaf guy from singapore not understand his dutch colleague then?
sign writing is looking bloody complicated.
sanctions, sanctions, sanctions! news from all over the planet, from europe and from austria – a wonderful and lonely 404. poor country, sniff...
a week can be a long time according to this tagline.
boom yo! rush the show: a furious relaunch of sensomatic just shortly before midnight... coool amazing design and loads of fun with sensominder. rock'n'roll!
it appears like a curse to me, but i am constantly dropping some ideas on other sites forgetting to curry them in my own furry context. however, i just read about my suggestion for a new top-level domain called .log (or .blog?) on langreiter daily again – and with all beseeming modesty i think it's fantastic!
christian asks the right question: how are top-level domains obtained, resp. applied for? do we still have to be patient?
btw: should rather the united nations allocate domain names or is icann already the net's uno? one and another reader's letters in german news magazine der spiegel covering the topic.