"Create like a God, Command like a King, Work like a Slave"... i know this motto from guy kawasaki's wonderful book “rules for revolutionaries”. it's a quote from the romanian artist constantin brancusi.

storyteller kristian idol seems to like this quote, too.

in german i would have written the last sentence like this: auch bei kristian idol läßt sich eine gewisse affinität zu diesem zitat nicht leugnen. this simply does not work in english. because english impresses through simplicity.

i got a little bit nostalgic, when i saw netdyslexia publishing an old picture to be found in the archives of helma.at. reading the old helma stories, i noticed that i felt much easier at that time. i feel pretty strange at the moment. i mean: like a stranger.

the open directory project: "As the web grows, automated search engines and directories with small editorial staffs will be unable to cope with the volume of sites. The Open Directory Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors."

the data of the open directory is dumped as rdf files which are more or less xml-compliant.

netdyslexia: "I wonder, why certain Euroblog owners refer to Euroblogs without submitting their websites. You just have to fill in a simple form. Or should we make a competition?" – that's aimed at me! and i wonder if this is meant to be an invitiation...

i like the netdyslectics' attitude. i like their ideas. i like the pictures they have. and the banners are extraordinary... – ok, i give in: i will register hgb as euroblog on their site.

however, a competition can be fun assumed i win the right prize, heheh.

funny, netdyslexia and hgb seem to share some understanding of sexiness with each other.

slogans for the pessimistic faction of the internet generation (part I): NULL BYTE! NO FE@TURE!

argh! i got an overdose of links thanks(?) to jesse james garret's portal and the "page of only weblogs".

i kinda like the design of weblognation. but where's all the content? uh, i see: there are back and forth links on the bottom of the archive...

bloat is the way of writing i am dreaming of. someday i will dare it, too.

ownersmanual is a hopeful candidate as the first austrian design weblog. fresh!

first i found another two euroblogs: andrea's weblog and the far side of my mind. then i found this banner... (sorry, this is an irrelevant inner-german issue only).

ooh, more XXXplicit german on the advertised site: "Unsere Agentur wird allen einzamen, geschiedenen Leuten oder Witwen, die ernsthaft interessiert an ihre Lebensdauer Veränderung ist, die den Sozialkreis ausdehnen, um eine Person, die das Schicksal sein könnte, zu treffen mochte, oder finden einen Feder-Kameraden und beginnen sogar eine virtuelle Liebegeschichte mochte, orientiert."

i should have rather clicked on "verzichten".

on the euroranch messageboard someone left a link to xenoblogs: weblogs from outside the usa. that's great, i get the full picture better and better, now. in the listing ordered by, uhm, numbers i find also netdyslexia who just started a similar thang called euroblogs (what a clever turn from euroranch to euroblogs in this posting!).