i like reading scripting news. dave winer has a good approach towards discussion on the web. here on haboglabologgin' i do not provide a possibility to leave a message. no feedback form, no message board or guestbook. this article by dave winer points out some arguments why.

true, the main reason is that blogger does not provide such a thing. but i thought a lot about what "participation" means. and i am taking a new direction here, a different one than before, when i generally qualified websites without a discussion group as insufficient.

if anybody is reading this and is really interested in what i write here and / or considers it important to add a point of view to it this is certainly possible via e-mail.

on helma there was a lot of "second-guessing" and "proving wrong" going on. however, the difference might be that unlike dave winer's web sites helma never took any attempt to provide a description what it is all about. sure, this was a big opportunity for the editors. but quite often the discussions were lame and / or energy-consuming (i think that topic could be an interesting essay to be written in depth).

here is the wonderful sensomatic site of pimi and flo. be sure to watch advent_ures, their exciting advent calendar.

captain lung has a weblog, too.

sometimes i like to find out what's that site running.

at leo's i learn english everyday. to blame for any language flaws... :)

just beginning a new phase of bloggin' i could write about so many things occupying my mind in the last months since i stopped writing for helma... i think i will distribute a lot i have written in these first moments to different postings later (a pity that i cannot assign a custom date to a new blogger posting – backdating is fun!).

and still there are a lot of questions to be answered: who the hell am i? and what the heck does haboglabobloggin' mean?

hello blogger – here i come!

from 14 october 1998 until 8 december 1999 there was a weblog called helma in austrian language. perhaps the most popular austrian weblog so far. maybe even the first and only collaborative one, who knows. i participated with helma from the beginning until 14 june 1999.

helma is closed now, but the site is still accessible. what happened in the meantime?

ps: i am writing "austrian language" by intention. for many people austrian might not be so different from german. i should know better. however, yet i have to find a good excuse why haboglabobloggin' is in english...

pps: there are no kangaroos in austria.