my personal anthem since the last and for the next days: gonzales' let's groove again. thanks netdyslexia.

and thanks spicynoodles for supporting popo.at, too.

i am not a very good talker. that's why i am writing in furry english here. however, today i was interviewed by the adolescent part of austrian public broadcast, radio station fm4 (my biggest problem is always to get a low and impressive voice when speaking into a mike. this time i think i succeeded).

along with irene, a media artist (btw: she is host at audio inn tonight), and tom, a 21 year old entrepreneur newbie, we were talking about the "new business" and future aspects of the internet – well, as far as it was possible. i mean: whatcha gonna say in between 10 minutes?

at least i mentioned weblogs (the word, not more. so what). and the cluetrain manifesto (some quotes out of the 95 theses).

we did not speak about social circumstances of this new media ipo madness; not about politicians dissing their young and future voters as "the internet generation romping in the streets". and not about software patents, etoy vs. etoys and web culture. i wish we could make good for something and tie up to those topics someday and somewhere. in a more cozy and relaxed atmosphere. and having a lot more of time.

two nice things came into my mind listening to the others: when irene talked about her past in the lofts of new york working on projects with as little money as there was to get and later returning there finding "silicon alley" and her mates being ipodelics, i invented a new comparatives of "broke": "broker".

and this is what i from now on will reply to people asking me what a weblog is: a weblog is the answer of free individual thought to institutional mass media. welcome back, my dignity!

an article about weblogs and blogger in belgian newspaper de standaard. the dutch weblog scene is quite boiling, the rest of europa is rather luke warm.

on the weblogs list there is some political discussion going on ("if your 'blog tilts left..."). the bigger picture is global politics from davos to seattle. monkeyfist blogs these issues.

reading through the posts i was reminded that dave winer was behind the security fences, face to face with the demonstrators in davos...

mr honeylover is in the partykeller!

and austrian broadcast goes comic.

there's still a lot under construction or noted as "future project" at mono*crafts (shockwave needed) – but they have i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-e visual interfaces everywhere. the news section is gorgeous and their typo space is stunning. manifesting the algorithmic skilled designer or vice versa.

snyggt has more links to such crazy stuff (in swedish).

contrary to my adolescent experiences in the past acne is a swedish design company. apparently they made netbabyworld, a crazy game world adapting the arcade feeling of the eighties.

the acne site shows photos only which i think is a real tough idea. and as i can see almost all the people of acne in everyday situations (not in sterile portrait positions), i feel personally more involved on their site.

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.