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earning kudos, earning money

2008-03-15T02:42:00.000+01:00

Last week, a blog of mine earned an incoming link from a different site's post. That post was a rather big quote of my original posting, plus credits for that -- my -- posting were given to someone else. Initially, I was angry about that since I consider it thievery.Then I begun to ponder about that case and offering RSS feeds in general. Would the source keep an advantage over any copycat site

on "gambling" to score in that stats "visitors score" -- and lessons learned

2008-03-08T01:51:00.000+01:00

Apparently, I am about to learn one more detail about blogging successfully. Recently, I launched another blog (too many already..!) and got a dozen of visitors on day #1, completely inexpectedly. Day #2 I actively worked on gaining these twelve again -- and got 20. In a blog yet again closed I learned that tracking your number of visitors can be like gambling. Easily this gets you to do things

xkcd web comics

2008-02-10T12:19:00.000+01:00

I wonder why am the only one in my circles who gets and ROTFLs xkcd comics. As I just noticed their copyright license that I am free to share their compics if not using them commercially, here's one example of them: I think, mostly the issue's my acquaintances English's too poor, or they don't have the background to get the message.Anyways, / like these.

how to monetize blogging?

2008-02-10T04:29:00.000+01:00

I wonder whether I'd be able to make some money as a service blogger -- I am so used to provide acquaintances by news I come across which might be relevant to them. That might make a subscription business, such as 20 bucks a month for sending in relevant news.Or, to make it more longtailish, send such news for free but add value for money. Or, put it the other way 'round, make clear the prices

Kingdoms vs. Economy

2008-02-04T06:56:00.000+01:00

I never saw it like this, but I never thought about it neither. Is it really that simple? Companies act like kingdoms, and their CEOs are their "elected kings"? Which in turn are controlled by a collection of different-kind-of-kings -- shareholders?And people could be free, as guaranteed by democratic constitutions, but as they have to live, and to be able to live means earn an income, which in

2008-01-24T10:51:00.000+01:00

Be a ill for a week, and the great tool you just found online got ripped out of the project. And the repository you configured for the whole team's benefit just won't get used. Great! I love this job.

whore businesses

2008-01-23T20:22:00.000+01:00

If a company hires me and takes the bait the exchange office offers for hiring me, first hand it's a slap into my face like saying: "We don't hire you because we're appreciating your performance" but rather: "We hire you because someone else is paying us for doing so". If a woman does so, she's a whore. If a business does so, honestly, I've to consider it to be a whore business. That said, it

A Suspected Benefit of Extending Broadcast Law to the Web

2008-01-03T05:24:00.000+01:00

Mike Masnick over at Techdirt summarizes what might happen to Japan soon -- that Japan's broadcast law might get extended to online content in the near future. When I read his summary, immediately it reminded me to what happend to Germany a few years ago -- a rather similar thing.In Germany, about 2005 or 2006, broadcast law became extended to online content. They tried to justify it by telling

2007-11-18T16:08:00.000+01:00

Ein Fest! ArGe-induzierten Papiermüll entsorgen. -- Bisher knapp über 6 kg.

Chances of visual augmentation

2007-11-11T02:22:00.000+01:00

Today, Engadget reports about a helmet that "allows fighter pilots to peer through the jet. In other words, its an application of reality augmentation, cameras embedded into the plane provide the imagery. Computed and information visually enhanced the pilot get exactly the outside view they're looking to.Having something in the way of viewing is a classical issue, best known from people getting

On the mania to open links into a new window

2007-11-08T07:34:00.000+01:00

Sites that pop out windows make me angry. Indifferently of whether or not I hit a link. An example I encountered this morning.Some sites have this: if you click a link, the link target opens into a new window. As much as I learned that tactics, the goal is to avoid the reader to leave the site too soon. In other words: If the link target would replace the site's page, the visitor would have left

[economic] interest causes reputation to grow?

2007-10-06T02:27:00.000+01:00

For some reason, I came along this topic yesterday already, now a de.wikinews.org news brings me right onto that track.I considered why it was possible, Crist could touch the mind of virtually everyone on Earth. The conclusion I came up with was, that it was time which caused the message to get spread.Now, I read the [wiki]news, The Rolling Stones earned about half a billion US$ by touring from

Hype on terror =?= governments approach to survive enlighted peoples?

2007-10-04T06:06:00.000+01:00

Recently, I became curious whether or not the terror hype since 9/11 might have an different origin but any care for security: As the music, film and newspaper industries demand legal protection for their outdated/outdating business models, what about the chance, governments noticed people begun to get enlighted, re-organize the world using the net, upcoming social networks & web 2.0. What about

Does the net matter?

2007-09-26T12:26:00.000+01:00

I suspect, the net doesn't. No matter for politics, no relevance for politicians to get feedback of their voters. if the net were about to matter, I'd expect any institution or becoming institution or instance or just magazine who investigates political affairs and state matters, law bill issues etc.Something like Der Spiegel (printed version), but built by net savvy people. ... Maybe to even

privacy, anonymity, safety, deportability

2007-09-26T01:22:00.000+01:00

1984. I feel, the overall situation might be different than some of us anticipate and many don't. I realized, the main difference between net world and outer reality is not the outer reality is physical but society is different here and there:In the real world, there are pedestrian precincts. Passers-by experience a reality in common, in society. One may give another one a sudden glance and may

recent Microsoft Office bug and hunt on scientists in Germany

2007-09-25T17:13:00.000+01:00

Today user "jkrise" mentioned on Slashdot: You are trying to multiply 2 numbers and the answer is 65535. This is a very dangerous multiplication frequently used in viruses... Cancel / Allow? on the recently found issue Microsoffice unlearned how to multiply two numbers that result in 65'535.Hm,...That matches the approach, German Police used recently when they realized a scientific paper

web2.0ly pool capabilities to gain chances to contribute, build reputation and credibility, team up, launch own projects

2007-09-12T23:09:00.000+01:00

Currently, I think about how to foster a 'team' -- a pool of skilled people who sport two features: They're reliable and they contribute because it is their intend. I talked about that with a friend of mine yesterday. It's about identifying the people matching those two conditions, contribute to their ideas, offer them chances to team up when launching any own idea.For example, if I'd got an idea

Programming is not what gives me fun

2007-09-05T13:58:00.000+01:00

Recently, frequently, I get mails from Xing responding to my profile setting "job seeking". Somewhere at the end of what I can contribute, I noted programming and web development skills, along with that Perl and JavaScript. The responses I get read like "I was very excited about your profile at Xing. Yes, relly, we have an opening for a skilld Perl and Java programmer" -- including the

A "The Greatest Place on Earth" Hype

2007-09-01T19:58:00.000+01:00

Inspired by a graphics banner by Stewart Butterfield, I begun thinking this... What about launching a blog named "Greatest Place on Earth - Here"? Would it be possible to generate a hype? And what benefit might one gain by such a hype?And, is it the greatest place on Earth at all? I mean, I've got a cough, it's dark and cold outside. Some local officials in charge get on my nerves. -- Would it be

Random Thoughts of The Day

2007-08-31T12:21:00.000+01:00

Was würde passieren, wenn Microsoft damit durchkommen würde, dass es nicht an die GPL gebunden sei. Das große Stehlen? Kontributoren, die massenweise das Programmieren einstellen würden? Oder ist das nur scheinbar der Effekt von Microsofts Ansinnen? Wäre es nicht durch Dritte ebenfalls anwendbar?Es wäre interessant, das einmal zu eruieren; aber wichtiger müsste sein, zuerst einmal herauszufinden,

If television constitutes "public opinion", how will YouTube affect society?

2007-08-23T12:04:00.000+01:00

Reading David Hornik's summary of a presentation the author of The Long Tail, Chris Anderson, gave on PopTech, back in 2006, the idea of tapping into the question of what a world do we want to live in came into mind. So, I decided to deal with that question by a blog now. So, I start off by the question of how television influences the constitution of societies.If television is part of what

Why I don't like news sources without trackback functionality

2007-08-16T05:46:00.000+01:00

In the news, there are often issues I'd like to reply to. But sometimes those news are presented by sites that don't support any trackbacks. So replying on them would cause a benefit, but a rather small one: I gain the benefit of having replied on the issue. So, the blog managment stores that piece of content, first to the blog later to the archive. I gain that I'd be able to refer to that source

how I might become a better blogger

2007-08-12T06:58:00.000+01:00

In a new blog, launched just three weeks ago, I experience heavy traffic of apparently interested visitors. It made the 500 visitors mark in less than twenty days. Because I worry a flash back, I prefer not to mention nor link it here.Actually, the blog rakes through the intransparency of another, quite recently launched, site. So, supported by stats as of came from and IP combined with signed

Do I mis-use Twitter by using it as a kind of a public notepad?

2007-08-09T04:30:00.000+01:00

Everybody knows twitter. Going there without knowing anyone before, I wonder for what it might be beneficial.Didn't get the idea/fun, hence I decided to use it as a kind of public notepad, including a kind of history roll, and where everybody who's interested can tune in. Would be a cool thing if I'd meet anyone who's interested in similar topics like me.

German Democracy Peace Pessimism

2007-07-17T04:06:00.000+01:00

Hello world,be aware that the next ten, fifteen years, there might be another war initiated from German soil.War on Terror might secure the state. But it destabilizes democracy. That point was begun the moment -- some time back in ~January 2007 -- German politicians demanded to be allowed to visit peoples homes unseen, uninvitedly.Oh -- it's only the demand to search people's private PC, and it's

On education vs learning

2007-07-12T23:14:00.000+01:00

I see a difference between learning and education: Learning is the part to get an overview, read, stuff your memory/cram the stuff into your memory. – Applying the learned stuff strengthens the learned, even if creatively, self-driven, nose-directedly doing so.Education, in my eyes, begins there where//when I remodel my own life – especially my own behaviour – on what I learned: apply the learned

impulse: we're [going to] save the world

2007-07-04T15:24:00.000+01:00

It's a drama, being under charity in Germany -- by being unemployed. Highest priority ever is to get any job. No matter whether it'll help you for the future, i.e.: It's forbidden to question: Is that job sustainable? Will it drain me so much, break my health so much that I won't be able to pick any other job later?There are jobs that kill your health. Seeing the risk, asking the doc for

Microsoft - Disconnecting People?

2007-06-23T17:51:00.000+01:00

Engadget mentions a new video conferencing device by Microsoft. As that company engages so much in Digital Restriction Managements, and DRM also is after not displaying a high definition video on a screen where it could be ripped off, I'm curious how such technology might react when teleconferencing and somewhere in the background there's a car thundering down the road, playing DRMed ("de-armed"?

Capabilities? Dipped into green noodles with tomato sauce. Ugh!

2007-06-23T15:04:00.000+01:00

Since being after getting a job, I was collecting keywords that might describe me properly -- and other keywords, employers might like to hear, such as hard matter of references. On the other hand, I'm experimenting with tag clouds. Along that, I put both of them together and created the pictured tag cloud of capabilities, references, experiences, interests. From proven (green) over provable

angels: I am beginning to attract people.

2007-06-23T12:52:00.000+01:00

There's a chance those angels materializing out of the nowhere might be just people who are getting a positive, sympathetic, supportive interest in me. Just as said, they are there. Nothing more needed. They'd become visible, might even spring into action when I'd need some support.I noticed, angles are materializing out of the nowhere, people decide to get in touch with me. The cheese clerk in

Found My Own Schtick

2007-06-23T10:39:00.000+01:00

Apparently, now I have found my schtick [= part, share] of what I am going/willing to represent in public, and that is MOM, my approach to content representation.I came to that point because of my recent findings on what others consider content representation to be and how they abstract neurons.Content representation, in this context, I mean in the literal sense of the term -- i.e. not in the

There might be other ways but the one paved by money

2007-06-10T10:09:00.000+01:00

Money eases things, but it is not the only way. Is it?For example, if I'd go to work to any development country. I think, I hadn't the money to get there by plane. Hence by land.Somewhere along the way, I might run out of money. -- Lost the chance to get to the place? -- I don't think so. Money might have eased things, otherwise, but probably is not the only way. To get things done.

as a blogger, get more relevant

2007-06-08T07:42:00.000+01:00

Note for myself:As free software projects grow by demand of their users and adding new functionality by their developers, it might be worth to pick up the topics random visitors of my blogs come by why. -- When I look on the blogs stats, I often see what search terms they used and on which pages they landed.I think, I could improve the benefit of my blog for my readers by upgrading the posts they

hope poem

2007-06-05T07:17:00.000+01:00

... angels pop out of the nowhere around methere to be there when needed*hope* ...

What's the Net? An imagination: ...

2007-05-28T05:06:00.000+01:00

Yet days ago I came to the feeling, the net should be considered the first public, and the so called real life only the second.I have no evidence for this, but there's a strange feeling indicating that it might be worth to consider real life as nothing more but a slow-motion shadow of the net. Net is of thought, real life lugs matter. Real life is for slow minds, politicians not realizing their

What Einstein said... and how I feel [about that]

2007-05-25T00:15:00.000+01:00

Just found on 43things.com: "Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."-- Albert Einstein I share that cognizance, even before I read that quote of Einstein. Often when I meet with someone unknown, that cognizance gets confirmed.I wonder whether or not that might be a result of how our [western nations] schools work: To allow

Flood the cams!

2007-05-24T03:45:00.000+01:00

The teaser on slashdot quite good sums up, why I quit worrying for/about/on getting espionaged by any upcoming surveillance nation.

What do you do? Why does it matter?

2007-05-21T11:25:00.000+01:00

To put it in a word, what I am working on might become a Nuremberger [= knowledge] filling funnel for machines. -- It's not the core of my research, just a byproduct, that showed up one day.Why does it matter? Well, in creating the Nuremberger filling funnel for humans, humans failed. But having such a thing available for machines might bring us a step nearer to the human-related education

Are we the last generation under education?

2007-05-19T15:43:00.000+01:00

Few nights ago, I had a dream. The essence of that dream was the testimony that we were the last generation on Earth who got a fully fledged education -- and that education is on the descent.Then, awake, I was curious. However, the reason behind that, I could imagine behind the omnipresence of assistive technologies. In school most commonly one argues that it's more important to know where one

a possible future of digital displays

2007-05-19T14:40:00.000+01:00

' just read the news headline Fujitsu still going large [with a pair of 55- and 63-inch plasmas], and wondered why "still"? Is there a trend, not to go large? But if Fujitsu goes large, then they might become the only one offering large displays... And at what point is "large" achieved? The size of a wall of a room? Or a whole room, all four walls, maybe even plus floor and ceiling?Then another

Who are you? What do you do? Why does it matter?

2007-05-18T02:31:00.000+01:00

Who are you? What do you do? Why does it matter? -- Cruising the news of the last week, currently presentation zen, still wondering why I don't get its feed although there are several of them there.There they were, the current questions of the day: Who are you? What do you do? Why does it matter? I skipped discussing my personal answer on some other question found somewhere else, but this one I'd

Master of Chi on Work Of The Future, me too

2007-05-02T23:16:00.000+01:00

Hm, I think, there's a connection between a December 2006 posting of mine and a more recent article of "Master of Chi", questioning the currently apparently most widely accepted model of being allowed to feel like being part of a society only when being a working member. Which, by the way, reminds me of my more recent view on mass media: What I called "apparently most widely accepted model",

Taking no action on injustice -- Is it a blogging problem?

2007-05-02T14:04:00.000+01:00

Once again, yesterday, I picked up the thread about the twen starved to death, in Speyer, Germany, because of officials in charge doing nothing but complying their instructions.The death was about two weeks ago, April, 15th. While not being aware of that topic back then, I already argued about the point that the German blogosphere makes no difference (link few paragraphs below): My point of view

Stories, not Atoms

2007-05-02T11:33:00.000+01:00

During my course of studies, in communications lessions, I learned: People who are talking, implicitely mention a bit about theirselves. (In German, it's a pun: "Wer etwas von sich gibt, gibt gleichzeitig auch etwas von sich." Unfortunately, I have no clue how to translate that any better but the above way.)I recognized the meaning of that saying, and learned to read the "about theirselves" part,

newspapers, re-thought: feedback from Prospero

2007-05-01T11:07:00.002+01:00

Christian is a nice guy I know from my course of studies. I consider him to be deep in the blogger scene and blogger habits. Hence, I asked him, what he might think about my pondering on printed blogs. While he kindly mentioned the idea in his blog, the main conversation went on by mail.The outcomings, so far: He considers the idea to be good. Thanks. :-) Apparently, he thinks on blog books first

One hundred

2007-05-01T11:07:00.001+01:00

I had to say this. :-) This is posting number 100.Maybe, I forgot to publish the one or the other, but at least, this is number one hundred in the stats.

Technology empowers the poorly educated: Want to be judged by them?

2007-04-29T20:55:00.000+01:00

Automatic security/surveillance systems. Where do they lead us to? At least, I'd say, they prove their claims -- to get more checks performed in less time with less effort for the people supervising those machines. Additionally, these people need less training, hence less educated people would fit into such a job as well as highly educated ones did in earlier ages.But given the power, poorly

re-think cinemas

2007-04-28T08:51:00.000+01:00

A change happened with me -- I build buildings in the future. What I didn't do before. And I actually keep my mind and eyes open to get those things done. Like the idea to print blogs.Another one might be to re-think cinemas -- why not let people select a movie, rent a cinema then, show the movie there? Why does it need to be the latest movie, always?Anyone interested in taking part one of these

Germany: Unemployed effectively disallowed to reproduce

2007-04-24T17:01:00.000+01:00

Being unemployed in Germany over a certain time means the unemployed slips off common dole to charity. Apart from the system of inequities an affected one has to tolerate and the practices that apparently head for to keep any affected one to remain affected forever, one of the terms of conditions of that 'charity' is that your income will be cut by a significant amount when you're living together

Do you still feel, Germany is 'your' country?

2007-04-20T13:18:00.000+01:00

Is it still 'your' Germany? A super-rich and intelligently acting country? -- At least, I came to the point to decide mine it is not, anymore. As soon as I can leave, I'm begone.

newspaper, re-thought

2007-04-19T02:15:00.000+01:00

Let me dream, a bit. While skimming through the latest news, the idea of a blogosphere to go print cruises my mind. I think: Despite being used to give away their content for free, in the print media, I'd think, they wouldn't appreciate that. Hence, if there were something like a blogosphere print magazine, it needed to feed back some money to its sources, i.e. the original bloggers.Additionally,

German Blogosphere Makes No Difference

2007-04-18T22:54:00.000+01:00

After the last big threat, the political decision to enable the executives to watch every single home computer, today the German Minister of the Interior, in an interview with the magazine Stern, announced (preview) that the presumption of innocence doesn't help his job to keep the Federal Republic of Germany being a safe place. (In other words -- the presumption of innocence doesn't support the

On the duality of matter/waves [speculative only]

2007-04-16T20:35:00.000+01:00

This one is speculative, hence, please, don't take it too serious. Usually, I put these speculative inspirations on paper. But since I noticed, there's not much a point in it writing it to paper once and then typing it in, too, this one goes to the web immediately. -- The most recent serious posting is Microsoft's dead? For some reason, I was thinking about the dual nature of matter, matter/wave.

Microsoft's dead? -- No. They're puzzled, but far from being dead.

2007-04-16T19:01:00.000+01:00

Awhile, also to me, it suggested that Microsoft were dead. Then, I figured, they're puzzled only. I wouldn't claim them being dead. However, someone simply had to claim them dead.I were hobby software developer in the 80s, willing to make my hobby becoming a job. But I noticed Microsoft's marketing. How they killed off any competence just the moment it appeared. Someone offering a new package? --

Uhm, sorry about that

2007-04-04T14:39:00.000+01:00

Aside, you see the operating systems recent readers have used when they visited my blog.Probably, I should not have mentioned, why I prefer GNU Desktops.

I'd some fun, yesterday

2007-04-04T12:00:00.000+01:00

Yesterday, I had to work physically. I do that job to keep the balance to the pure mind-work, I do all day. I take it as an alternative to sports. And it's fun. -- Financially, that work's completely disappealing. But the work atmosphere is pretty good.Positive side-effect is that the job center/charity quits to count me to their primary clientel, hence I don't become victim of their actionism

Why Linux?

2007-04-04T11:39:00.000+01:00

I like Linux/KDE because I experienced one can work with it much more efficiently but with Windows.I like GNU/Linux because one can get it free of charge.I like Debian GNU/Linux because it preconfigures all the software packages it features to reasonable pre-settings. Also, much appreciated, they coordinate all the packages to work best with each other. There's no need to crawl around to get any

Henning Mankell, Return of the Dancing Master, and the lead culture debate in Germany

2007-04-03T01:48:00.000+01:00

Recently, I read a whodunit, Henning Mankell, Return of the Dancing Master, which tangents a fictive (?) global network of nationally organized Nazi organizations.Me, I feel being deferential against everyone I meet -- small, tall, fat, slim, black, white, ... people, except, maybe, for people being aggressive or disrespectful against myself. In other words, I am not the least familiar with

Planetizen blog's postings imported

2007-04-01T16:50:00.000+01:00

Despite of the very last posting to Planetizen (heralding the merge of Planetizen into this blog over here), now, all Planetizen posts are merged into ... dot ... dot ... dot ....In case you want to skim them through, below, I list the merged posts in reversed order (oldest to current): be politician — the world’s so simple, then Communications stopped between politicians and people, now finally

complaint note: tags length restriction in blogger

2007-04-01T15:38:00.000+01:00

One benefit wordpress.com does have over blogger.com -- they don't the number of characters used for tags to 200. Didn't I post about that tags length restriction before? (Can't find the matching posting right now. Maybe I'll find it sometime in the future...)

What's that about Planetizen?

2007-04-01T14:47:00.000+01:00

Wordpress.com is pretty nice tool, if you want to benefit from trackbacks -- which blogger.com does not provide. Wordpress even vaunts to have an effective spam filter. But oviously something as simple as a captcha -- as blogger.com makes use of -- is better.Again, I started a blog to bring out a message, but without any further concept behind that blog and how to continue the blog when I were

there was no long-term concept for the Planetizen blog

2007-03-26T14:31:00.000+01:00

On the state of this blog: What I wanted to say, mostly is said -- and the other half I feel, but cannot put into words, remains untold. Or might be put between the lines somewhere. But with the message, I am done.I was pondering to import all those other blogs I created for the purpose to get some certain message transported, but which did not feature any long-term concept. As predictable, all

Wernher von Braun’s space station — as a curry farm?

2007-03-26T14:08:00.000+01:00

Although not being good in creating stories, I feel comfortable with the idea of imagining places.In Digital World Tokyo, there is an entry about curry (yes, the spice) in space. Overall a somewhat interesting article, despite the fact I did not understand the last mention of it, the thing about the "pigs in blankets". However, but that made me think another time about those city sized space

use your backlink once

2007-03-22T07:47:00.000+01:00

An additional plus for you, to get a reader to your article, might be to click your own link to the posting you're linking to once: If the poster on the other end tracks who's visiting his page and where they're coming from, a hit by your article link indicates that your page was worth a visit for that [faked] visitor. -- That's a small plus over just shining up in the linked articles backlinks

Make your point visible by backlinks: Place backlinks closely to where you're presenting your point

2007-03-22T06:57:00.000+01:00

If there's a chance the blog software actually creates a backlink on the posting you're referring to, note that the backlink consists of the linked set of words plus some context. Hence, if you want to move over some of the readers of the original posting to your own article, make sure you awaken the curiousity of the reader of that posting.Means: Keep the location of the link to the original

Story/Mention of a dream, I had

2007-03-20T16:35:00.000+01:00

In a distant future, or a parallel world, there are flare cities, entangling the continents, Africa primarily. The times I imagine are confused. Power is enfessed, weapons out of control. Governments lost their force over populations, armies fell apart. Weapons are tradable goods. Some individuals own fighter jets, but most of them are in the hands of companies. Nuclear weapons are tried out.

What is a planetizen?

2007-03-20T15:25:00.000+01:00

Well, still I see myself carving out what I see as a planetizen, and what this blog shall address. -- One point I see, the blog shall address, is to make that visible people feel when they feel like planetizens. As a planetizen, I see a person who's web savvy, has explored several fields of interest, is informed well and educated highly. Whereby, part of the high education results from indepth

Because I am an Individual (police jargon: stranger), I Fear The Police

2007-03-20T07:47:00.001+01:00

It's a fear in town. A fear amongst policemen.Don't mess with them.They might shoot you.To kill you.If there would be any kind of reliable emergency exit when surveillance data becomes applied mistakenly wrong or might be abused for whatever reason, I might accept it, too. But currently, I do not see such an emergency exit.Additionaly, I feel uncomfortable about the warrant given to executives to

No, it's not too much data to track a whole nation

2007-03-20T07:07:00.000+01:00

A Kilobyte each citizen -- on 80 million citizens, that makes about 80 gigabytes of data. Simply to manage.A megabyte each citizen -- on the same amount of people, that makes about 80 terabytes. Stemmable.A gigabyte each citizen -- that would catch probably every single amount of relevant data of a citizen, on the same amount of citizens, that would make about 80 petabytes. -- A lot, but within

audience similarity amongst bloggers and rock stars?

2007-03-17T10:43:00.000+01:00

With some interest, I read a certain posting of Joshua Porter in his Bokardo blog -- 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. His encouragement actually made open the more commenting blog, Pla-netizen.Now, some days ago, for the first time since long, I listened to one of my most beloved music groups. I noticed that usually men become baffled when being asked whether they would like to become part of a

The New Time, Mr Wallander

2007-03-17T08:04:00.000+01:00

Swdish novel author Henning Mankell so often lets his protagonist, police inspector Kurt Wallander, repeat that question -- What is that for a time, we live in? --, he truly embossed it into my mind. -- Well, here's my response: That's the new time, Mr Wallander. The new time, Mr. Wallander, where people are enabled -- and realize they are. People who are willing to live -- and do live.As I see

Social Software enables the People. Might Companies survive the Governments?

2007-03-17T06:16:00.000+01:00

A while back, when I noticed I won't take over the world ;-) and also noticed I don't believe in employment. That time, I felt comfortable with an idea of amassing countless small actions to get large things done. Maybe, that would have needed a similar amount of people to take part in the project. I thought of it as an approach to get employment replaced by something voluntary. Primarily, I

for the mensch

2007-03-17T03:27:00.000+01:00

Currently, I am figuring out who a future employer might be. Used to seeing straight through the things, I don't notice how cultural borders might factor in.I want an employer who's after supporting enabling..empowering people, who's not after maximum capital but after enabling..supporting its people as well as its customers. -- That is my ideal: for the mensch ("for the human being") -- for

Suffixed tags: Lots of unnecessary labels or worth a thought?

2007-03-16T01:16:00.000+01:00

This blog is only a few weeks old, but I already notice there's a discrepancy between the number of tags given and postings published.I think, I'll be able to close up with the tags, and I hope I'll be able to achieve a rate of 0.5 tags per posting or even less. -- I've got a couple of topical blogs over at blogger com, and as far as a quick glance, the largest of them had about a 250 postings --

Score! OR something on blogger.com vs wordpress.com

2007-03-15T23:54:00.000+01:00

I estimate, in the attracting visitors of one's blog field, one promising approach to score might be to move there where a high attention cumulated already and then make one's point there. -- I think, that could be a chance to relatively quickly gain attention and develop reputation.Another thing I already can say is that wordpress hosted blogs might be better integrated into the blogosphere,

How many first names are there, on Earth?

2007-03-15T17:40:00.000+01:00

I want to learn how the blogosphere ticks. From my home media, especially Telepolis, I learned, that attention is the currency of the web. On the other hand, in real life I am used to raise attention on demand. Hence, I'd like to learn how much that capability sustains in the web, especially on the blogosphere.Remember that one million pixels gig? -- I don't know how many bloggers actually

How many bloggers are there?

2007-03-15T13:38:00.000+01:00

Is anyone out there who could hint me for a reliable source for facts & figures on the blogosphere? I'd like to learn how many bloggers actually are there, out there.I tried CiteSeer, but yet the search word "bloggers" results in a very small number of results. And Google educates me, there was the prediction for 150 million bloggers in 2006, and Gartner, on the same google results page, expects

how to fight the competition from the net

2007-03-15T08:50:00.000+01:00

Techdirt mentions the "newspapers struggle to adapt to the internet [...] and the plenty of bad advice" they've received "on what they should do." So, despite of David Lazarus' suggestion to keep the mind in the past, make the legislator strongly support the newspapers' efforts in gaining profits, what could the newspapers actually do? Triggered by David Lazarus' past-pointing proposal, I'd look

The times of free content are over

2007-03-15T07:50:00.000+01:00

David Lazarus, columnist of the San Francisco Chronicle, displays all of the Old Economy thinking, one can imagine -- our business model worked all the long time, why shouldn't it work anymore? But even, if so, at least, it's not our fault -- it is our readers one, even more -- best, we'd blame those freeriders from the web who read our newspaper for free.So, what can we do? Best would be, to

on commercial online database hosts, Google, content, and user experience

2007-03-15T06:40:00.000+01:00

During my information economics course of studies, begun end of the 90s, I learned about those online database hosts -- source for reliable information. Their business model is to charge for reliabilitiy of their content. That reliability is relevant for for example journalists or managers to base their decisions on such reliable information. As when a company wants to know how many book

make the unwilling ones pay

2007-03-15T04:48:00.000+01:00

I remember the days, there was shareware out. Not yet the web, but BBSes spread widely, already. And the people noticed they'd be able to distribute their own software using the BBSes and their network -- without the cost of explicit distribution infrastructure in between. Advertisements would be innecessary, simply because the best software would spread, and also because shareware was given away

Ignore the internet, community, (self-)education. Keep the past.

2007-03-15T03:01:00.000+01:00

From the point of view of the user, I see one main difference between Free Software and software licensed to the end-user by fees: There's no need to pay any license fees for free software. If one gets a copy of it, they're allowed to keep it -- without any need to feel bad or even to fear any legal action to be taken against oneself.That's the image individuals have sometimes: Companies

What is “the community”?

2007-03-15T02:04:00.000+01:00

Originally, I'd localize "the community" in the Free Software movement, where everyone is free to introduce a new project, where people reported bugs and posted feature requests. Where these people received the feedback, that their single posting actually made a difference -- Well, let's take this from a different direction.It was 1998, when I came in touch with GPLed software first time. That

What’s going on? Establishment vs. the ordinary people?

2007-03-13T05:09:00.000+01:00

We recognized Microsoft campaign against GNU, we've attended the unclear fight in the mud of SCO vs. Linux. Despite of RIAA vs. people and MPAA vs. people, we also noticed -- and still notice -- lots of uninformed politicians. -- Remind that series of tubes by Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) -- and over here in Germany, as a netizen you're probably aware of the ongoing political discussion about

Communications stopped between politicians and people, now finally?

2007-03-13T03:41:00.000+01:00

'kay, what a kind of debate is that over here, in Germany, about the online house search? The user fall in fear because of the chance (or the FUD?) of whatever magic super weapon the government might have at hand, having magically developed (and financed!) something developed not even the craftiest of malware builders could achieve. Because of the high uncertainity of the situation people aim for

be politician — the world’s so simple, then

2007-03-13T02:34:00.000+01:00

Over here in Germany, we have major politicians who want to legislate every single internet pc to be opened by the police, over the net. Yet they thought about it aloud, especially about the topic of firewalls -- which wouldn't be any hinderance, as the politicians claimed. -- Every internet pc, that's a bold claim. -- For systems already highly endangered by security flaws found on a daily basis

Yeah, they look suspiciously -- since you're too dumb to turn your mind on. Better you blow them off but just ask beforehand.

2007-03-06T21:16:00.000+01:00

Paranoia at Boston, blowing up suspiciously looking people -- suspiciously just because their watchers own a large attitude of incompetency. Just another incident for what is going on.When I played Space Quest 1 (?), I assumed, that might be a joke -- first shoot, then ask -- but apparently the jokey side of that is gone?

Writing Articles For A Blog

2007-02-16T09:58:00.000+01:00

I keep several blogs and an intranet wiki. (The intranet wiki is mainly for documentation purposes, so don't be confused why I'd take the effort to write articles noone might ever face.)For the wiki, I approach writing an article in several stages: First I write the text, then I add links. Keeping the links current while still working on the content, is too much an effort. Especially since, while

time to blog

2007-02-15T20:05:00.000+01:00

Ralf told me about the evolving tags vs. semantic web vs. social web vs. web 2.0 story. I noticed, yet being late. In 2000, I begun to develop a system of language independently represent content. I evolved it far, but I focused on analysis but implementation. Also, I dropped programming as hobby in about 1997; and the (programming) language I used to prove this or that concept, was not the kind

Thumbs Down For The Establishment

2007-02-10T00:33:00.000+01:00

Media Content IndustryOn Recording Industry Association of America, I didn't notice yet. Nor I did on its Motion Pictures counterpart. They were just some associations, fearing to loose profit. But since long, everyone can see, a campaign is happening. They're companying each other, somehow. They're pulling all the stops. How deep must be the fear?Is that really a fear? As far as I remember, they

surveillance: now is time to offer active resistance.

2007-02-06T10:49:00.000+01:00

The meter is full.They scan our credit card without previous legitimation.They strive for a right to scan our PC -- while they're still under our fingers.They are about to illegalize tools that help to secure PCs.The meter is full.Now is time to offer active resistance.

imported two previous posts from a hidden, private blog

2007-01-28T13:28:00.000+01:00

...thought, it could be noteworthy here -- my internet cafés first impressions in the Cologne area. I don't visit internet cafés on a regular basis, but every now and then I take the chance.My first motivation was that I never understood, why people'd like to visit an expensive internet café while having access home, for free. Since my visit at Colony, I feel visiting internet cafés could be an

Visiting even more Internet Cafés

2007-01-28T00:21:00.000+01:00

This time: Multimedia Colony, Cologne. Amidst the night. After a missed opening party of the New Thinking Store, also in Cologne. -- Hey, their PDF flyer told me about a party. On a saturday night. That means 8pm+. Not -9pm.However, here's the obligatory screen shot of this box. It's got a 17 incher on a pretty neat high desk. There's enough space for my legs. The desk has a keyboard drawer, a

summaries constitute a surplus value for your blog

2007-01-26T20:03:00.000+01:00

To summarize the content of the postings and articles your articles refer to, shortly, in my eyes would be a benefit for your blog (cf. previous posting): Instead of needing to follow a bunch of links, your reader has all the content pooled right in the middle of your article. That saves the audience the distraction of needing to leave your site and coming back to it. (And the pooled core

tagging carefully is a benefit for you, too

2007-01-26T19:34:00.000+01:00

Tags are a benefit for yourself, since choosing them well provides you with hints of topics you discussed yet. Therefore, developing a new article, you could look at your tags to remember those yet-discussed topics.The tags provide you with filters to your own postings. You can read through these earlier articles to gain contact points you can relate your upcoming article to. That would provide

Even Article Stubs May Constitute A Benefit

2007-01-26T18:58:00.000+01:00

the headline makes the first impression. Capitalizing every headline word's first letter feels like there is someone behind the word..headline..text body, willing to defend it. On the other hand completely lowercased headlines usually are considered to be not serious.Following the style of the least change, ... dot ... dot ... dot ... introduces headlines intentionally left lowercase: Since such

the empty sheet of paper [fragment]

2007-01-26T17:42:00.000+01:00

Given the means, people tend to pull out all the stops given. Since "serious" people avoid playing with newly given media, they mostly execute that exploration while yet in production state. Which usually goes wrong, ending up in kilometers high fonts in pink on mustard background color.Blog services usually offers a selection of pre-defined layouts one can use. There are two common paths

The Headline Makes The First Impression -- Take The Chance

2007-01-18T22:38:00.000+01:00

Normally, articles ignoring orthography commonly are considered not to be taken seriously. But headlines capitalizing each word's first letter, feel like a person standing behind such a word, raising the arms to keep the letter capitalized. Visually, sub-consciously, these headlines show that there's a person behind these words, prepared to defend the headline and the article. Sometimes, headline

You Provide Benefit -- Let Your Readers Know

2007-01-17T14:30:00.000+01:00

Usually, web articles contain links to other pages. Sometimes it might be useful to refer to previous own postings discussing some specific topic which just gets harvested by the referring article. Such as a previous posting might be a discussion of how well it might be for the audience, if a blog's postings were complete instead of just fragments, mainly linking to, relying on and depending on

Become Recognized as A Serious Blogger

2007-01-17T09:59:00.000+01:00

Once there was the case in the English Wikipedia that they ran into a confusing case, caused by homographically looking words, Polish and polish. Over here, in Germany, where we're confidently coping with small and uppercase starting letters of words, a while ago youngsters begun to write everything in small letters. That raised cases of similar confusing. Despite the fact it is against the