behind the scenes: glossar zum untergang einer branche.
btw. austria got the same coalition again including the same chancellor who now teaches us that what was said to be the only political possibility in 1999, what was disgusted by the european neighbours and, because it could not be going any further, what then led to new elections in 2002 and an overwhelming victory for the little man, that this unlucky cabinet's infamous history now cries for continuity.
this time, however, there won't be any drastic european reactions. and no demonstrations as we have seen them three years ago. just more conservatives in the parliament and a bright, right burgeoise power in the whole country (except some viennese disctricts, maybe).
reasonable determinism just does not make any sense here at all. and politics suck right now. business as usual.
annotea is "a system for creating and publishing shareable annotations of web documents. built on http, rdf, and xml, annotea provides an interoperable protocol suitable for implementation within web browsers to permit users to attach data to web pages such that other users may, at their choice, see the attached data when they later browse the same pages".
gorgeous: the economists (via hirn&verbrannt)
turbo virus.
umberto eco entschleunigt die krieg-und-frieden-rhetorik.
i've already heard the things eco writes in my social circles. which doesn't qualify eco's writing but certainly qualifies my surrounding.
finally, an up-to-date and quite good resource about rss: "how to syndicate web site news through rss feeds technology".
it contains a reference to another just-as-fresh article called "rss – lo-fi content syndication" which denotes some issues to look out for when providing rss feeds.
one of these is about bandwith and i think this will become (or probably already is) the crux: the idea of having a news aggregator on each desktop makes one single rss feed being fetched as often as there are subscribers which will be killing any lo-fi weblog (which might sound tautologic in most cases).
and it won't be enough to take etags and 304 responses into account. it will need a few centralized rss aggregator "backbones" that get a ping of each rss feed when it has changed. (not having said that decentralisation is a bad thing, generally. not at all. i just doubt that it will be working with news syndication.)
that leads me to my own little project called parss which should already be running on my new server. it's just that latter is still waiting to be moved to the right place in the flat where its noisy fans don't disturb my sleep.
so apologies for still teasing only (especially to chris), the time will come.
but i digress. parss, however, can do all of the things mentioned above. it has an xml-rpc interface that can handle rss pings, addition of and certainly request for feeds. it respects etags and its goal is to minimize the fetching-rss-by-time-based-guessing method.
furthermore, there is an antville module that connects this wonderful publishing software with a parss server and provides user-defined as well as merged feeds. uh, and karma voting. and direct-post™ technology, heheh...
did someone already fill rss feeds into an rdf database as envisioned by dan libby?
anyway, good history lessons. is the ominous futures document the holy grail the rss community desperately is longing for?
reading the music they play on the radio: fm4 track service.
speaking of: blackmustache's “ride the fence” is today’s fm4 webtip, “a flashbased musicvideo to a hip-hop call to increased political activism. righteous slamming of the powers that be brilliantly interpreted into a visual medium”. pretty groovy.