was für ein einsamer samstag, so allein unter all diesen samstagen. jetzt sitz ich immer noch hier, höre ausnahmsweise funky kinderlieder auf fm4. gleich tanz ich vor dem spiegel!

das wollte ich schon vor jahrhunderten fragen, doch dann fiel mir was anderes ein – oder das netz aus: ist die couch nicht die schwester vom sofa?

i'm going down to la-la-land...

an experiment with rss and antville.

i installed the helma rss application at hopdev and configured it so that everyone who is a registered and logged-in user at antville can directly post rss stories to rss.antville.org.

you can try it out by going to hopdev, registering as user there (which is still necessary and annoying, but hapiness is just around the corner) and choosing one of the channels.

the list with items probably is familiar to those who already know radio userland. when you click the "post" button, a summary of the corresponding story will be transferred to rss.antville.org (be sure to be really logged in at antville).

you also can subscribe channels (check the marks of a check box and click "update") and you also should be able to post new ones (which will be available for everyone then).

me, too, i like the flash interface for browsing the works of hubert schmalix (via michi.tv).

le sofa blogger is now "permanent resident" at antville. now that's nice. even nicer is the ultimative lobhüdeley for the makers of antville. they definitely deserve it!

btw. this is my first posting directly derived from the rss aggregator: click the post button, edit the default text – et voilà!

hey, i just checked in the files of the completely rewritten helma rss application!

currently, the app is using a user/membership management i have stolen from another app (sorry, i forgot which it was – but thanks to the creator, anyway :)

next steps:

1. defining an (xml-rpc?) interface to weblog tools (antville!) so that the disabled post buttons in the channel/news view make sense and take the user directly to his/her weblog story form containing the corresponding title, text and source link of the aggregated item (i think that will be pretty cool!).

2. integrating a javascript viewer as seen at publish.curry.com

3. more ideas?

a very beautifully designed document as a little reminder of extensible hypertext markup language (xhtml).

"wenn wir die 'nacht der lebenden toten' spielen und am dotcom-friedhof einen dieser halblustigen clowns exhumieren, die bis vor wenigen monaten hunderte millionen für online-luftschlösser in den sand gesetzt haben, sehe ich schwarz. klar ist aber auch, dass das nur einer von außen schaffen kann, weil es sich um die zigfache beschneidung von orf-ressort-egoismen handelt, die man einem aus dem eigenen stall schon aus prinzip verwehrt. das lied kann ich singen. da unsere mediale kompetenz ausreichend hoch ist, würde ich mir vom typ her einen rechner wünschen, der eins und eins zusammenzählen kann. wer eins und eins zusammenzählen kann, weiß nämlich, dass man in den kommenden fünf jahren mit dvb, dab und umts keine pokale gewinnen, aber viel geld verlieren kann. und er weiß, dass das hineinarbeiten in die neuen medien keinen glamour, sondern nur das schweißtreibende backen vieler kleiner brötchen verspricht." – franz manola im interview über den neuen online-direktor und die zukunft von orf on.

completely and totally unrelated to the previous posting is nofrontiere's website re-appearance after almost five years.

just for the records.

probably too late for this update: tonight is mak-nite and that's why you can get free access to nofrontiere's latest 404 error media installation.

the web definitely needs hyper-referential quality assurance.

news from the dead end of media.

"der kurier" has two articles about weblogs so full of non-sense that it's not even easily possible to link them here. if you want to suffer and this link does not work feel free to point your browser to kult.kurier.at (ooh, it's cult, baby) and click on "so baust du dir dein eigenes online-tagebuch" or "update your tagebuch" (thanks to stefan pollach for the hint).

btw. a new motto for weblogs is born at kurier, too: "aktualisiere häufig und knüpfe links zu anderen seiten".

because sites like kurier won't.

reconciliation for the rather stumpy royal tannenzapfen comes with lone scherfig's italiensk for begyndere. the first dogma 95 movie that does not deprive a certain lightness in all that meaning of life.