german weekly newspaper "die zeit" has a discerning article about the cluetrain manifesto. the author generally makes some good points, today it's hard to tell marketing strategies from individual benefit. i also like the polemic sense of humour since all is not to be considered that seriously, anyway.

the german translation is in fact a real mess not far from sociologic darkroom lingo or sectic fanatism. and certainly, the mise en scène by brandeins, "the best magazin layout so far but unfortunately filled with esoteric business buzz only", is a proof of the crude flexibility of marketing: tits and "respect" – very clever (or is it just about the belly?). you have been warned...

however, the article completely ignores the fact that the manifesto initated a huge discussion about this very topic in the states. a discussion that europe would need so much regarding all that boring ipodelic firsttueday, nonsense x-commerce and manic stock-mock skit. why would you wanna let the suits take over this discussion? why isn't there at least the author's e-mail address? or a link to the gluetrain manifesto? it's such a chance and "die zeit" just missed it.

the weblogs monitor is such an incredibly important and extraordinary idea. apart from serving as a wonderful community tool, such helpers become by all means necessary, when the amount of sites exceeds the number one can handle to scan every day.

i implemented a clone of this aggregator on popo.at with all the features like javascript include and customization.

the clone is fully written in rebol and using a linux crontab entry for periodic scheduling. i did not know that automatic scheduling is that easy on linux: no administrator's help was needed, i simply could do that on my own – and so probably anyone could...

i am curious who will add this facility of watching the online resistance evolve to their own page.

via london news: assembler.org. wicked!

partykeller joined the weblogs.community. a very welcome! the dancing stick figure banner is great! partykeller is an euroblog, too.

claudia is writing an article for a chinese newspaper! cool. i wonder if there are any chinese weblogs – asianblogs?

weblogs dancing in the partykeller.

lucky bastards: euroranch has gained recruitment in person of hans_ heinz who is famous here in vienna but in the internet he is quite unknown. sure, this will change now that he is blogging around together with mr makotter. "the lucky bastards" would be a cool name for a country band.

this weblog-like page should be continued (resp. properly launched) with even greater effort and become a "real" blog. i know the guy and it would be fun to read his odd opinions more often. i mean, actually there are no real opinions there, just the usual mindcrap i am used to hear all night long when i meet him in conspirative places. but he can do better. i know it. go for the blog, mr al-khalily!

by way of mr pants: it's time for bokstavskex. just for a while. just for fun.

better than southpark and very sticky again: dark shadows stick figure theater. the "dark easter" episode is irresistible. mr pants, that's worth to be added to the list (left).

either i am not up-to-date or somebody is fooling the world of design with some name-dropping for the sake of selling more of that crap: "in a place of coincidence" shows up one notorious author too many...

it's very good that christian langreiter gets some credits as a rebol lover. he is really cool at programming (not only rebol i assume) and he really deserves respect (as if i am the one to judge that...). he has an excellent background and i like reading his smart opinions. i became a big fan of vanilla and the wiki concept.

however, although frontier and rebol both might sound "like a symphony" they do not play the same tune.

rebol is simple. usertalk kind of. but frontier is imho not (except regarding manila, what i definitely would want to picture separately). there is some truth in the words of userland's self-chosen worst enemy jorn barger who stated – besides very personal rants – that "anyone who uses frontier is tying themselves to an overcomplex app".

sometimes i have the feeling frontier is made for writing on the net the winer way only. especially since the huge power of scripting other applications is not the main focus at userland anymore.

but there is hope. that is rebol. further, hope also reminds me on hop and zope.

sensomatic is in the house resp. city! tonight i am going to meet christine at the wonderful bizarre thai restaurant pinong.

funny, a few minutes ago i added dack.com to my favorites and now i found this link at langreiter.com, too...

i like dack because of sentences like "this website was tested on people not on animals" or rants like flash is evil.