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.