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No, I'm not Obsessed!
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Selling: Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional/Academic
I won't make it a habit to announce my eBay sales here on the weblog, but this might be of interest to some of you:
For sale is a Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional/Academic (eBay Germany). The boxed set comes with a whole bunch of CDs including Windows XP Professional and a book on .NET. The package is new and unused - I have no use for it.
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News Roundup: Movable Type, RSS, DOM Magic, Cygwin and Adobe
MOVABLE TYPE
CONTENT SYNDICATION
DOM MAGIC
- WebFX presents Dynamic Table Sorting using DOM. I am not the biggest fan of DOM/DHTML stuff, but this seems to be a very good application, way superior to doing it on the server side. Find more DOM magic like DOM/CSS Tabs supporting Persistence in the articles - widgets menu. Via Scott Andrew.
- Simon Wilson translated Sam Ruby's spell checking feature into PHP and added a DOM frontend, and the Spell Checker Demo is a fine proof of concept (English only, use Mozilla as it can break in IE, read the blog entry comments). This might be something for your next homebrew blogging tool or web application.
BETTER WINDOWS
- unixreview.com: Improving the Windows experience with Cygwin - Now that Cygwin comes with mature X support, I finally have to try it out. It's not just that you can run GNU tools and scripts under Windows. Using X, you can connect to your Linux system using ssh with X forwarding and run any X application - no need to use VNC to remote control Linux boxes from Windows any more.
IN OTHER NEWS
- Apple won't be very happy to read Adobe's Great Render Race. On a page conveniently titled pcpreferred.html, Adobe presents some colorful video rendering time bar graphs and concludes :"The PC outperformed the similar Macintosh machine, at an impressive rate." Nothing that new, but now it's an offical Adobe statement.
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Spread the word: Michael Moore at the Oscars - Update II -
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH MP3 AUDIO FILE
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH TRANSCRIPT
On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this.
I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to - they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction.
We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times.
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president.
We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush.
Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you.
And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
Thank you very much.
Moore later: "Don't report that there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed."
BACKSTAGE PRESS CONFERENCE VIDEO COVERAGE
Martin pointed me to the video coverage of Moore's backstage press conference (Windows Streaming Media, 12 minutes) at Moorewatch.com. This is a must see. See and listen to a man who stands up. Transcript follows as soon as available.
OTHER VOICES?
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Friday News Roundup
MOZILLA MOZILLA MOZILLA
Found a lot of interesting stuff at surf mind musings:
- Blozom is "a stand alone Mozilla based publishing system. It uses flat files, both content and xml metadata, and renders HTML and RSS." (Screenshots 1, 2)
- Junkie "provides a list of recently updated weblogs [in a Mozilla sidebar] that are in your history and/or bookmarks, via weblogs.com/changes.xml. It is a component of Blozom but is being released as a standalone." Very cool.
- The Hive and InstOut Renderer is a OMPL renderer for the Mozilla sidebar (or IE searchbar) using DOM/DHTML
- Feedstering Mozilla - setting up a keyword shortcut for Feedster RSS search. At David Davies: What RSS search engines are good for (for news faster than Google indexing)
WEB BUILDING
- I pointed there before, but still have to try this out: xSiteable is "a compiler of websites, based on a XSLT parser to do the hard work and using Topic maps for magic and marvels." A XML file is used to control the site structure, and pages are written through a simple textual notation language. A screenshot or two wouldn't have harmed though. can be found in the documentation.
IN OTHER NEWS
- According to Rebecca Blood it is legal for Fox Television to force its employees to lie or to distort news on a television broadcast, and a Florida Appeals court says it is okay to fire those employees that refuse to do so because of insubordination. Just hear the words: Fox Television, Florida courts.
AND IT'S FRIDAY
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George Soros: Bush's Inflated Sense of Supremacy
"March 13, 2003 - With U.S. and British troops poised to invade Iraq, the rest of the world is overwhelmingly opposed. Yet Saddam Hussein is generally seen as a tyrant who must be disarmed and the United Nations Security Council has unanimously demanded that he disclose and destroy his weapons of mass destruction. What has gone wrong? [...]
I see a parallel between the Bush administration's pursuit of American supremacy and a boom-bust process or bubble in the stock market. Bubbles do not grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality but reality is distorted by misconception. In this case, the dominant position of the US is the reality, the pursuit of supremacy the misconception. Reality can reinforce the misconception but eventually the gap between reality and its false interpretation becomes unsustainable. During the self-reinforcing phase, the misconception may be tested and reinforced. This widens the gap leading to an eventual reversal. The later it comes, the more devastating the consequences."
Read on:
Bush's Inflated Sense of Supremacy
By George Soros
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News Roundup
J2EE APPLICATION SERVER
MOVABLE TYPE
MOZILLA DEVELOPMENT
- Xabyl "is a new visual XBL editor (essentially an XBL editing IDE). The current version is only alpha so make sure to read the issues list. However, Xabyl is fairly feature complete - it supports loading XBL from files or URLs, adding and modifying properties, methods, handlers and content, and also validates the XML. Just make sure to save often."
READING AND WATCHING
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RSS Feed Reader Directory updated
Recent additions and updates:
- NewzCrawler, a commercial reader for Windows that supports various blogging APIs to allow postings right from the aggregator, now also can use both IE and Mozilla as embedded browser. Via The Truth is Out There
- Net News is a tiny aggregator from France
- SocialDynamX FM RadioStation is an alternative user interface for the Windows version of Radio Userland. It integrates the news aggregator, the Radio publisher and a tabbed browser into a single application.
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Don't blame the French
William Pfaff in an Guardian comment, and note the use of the past perfect: "Something has happened that might be compared with the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918. [...] The American superpower has been the centre of a solar system. Centrifugal political forces now have been set loose. These will be extremely difficult for Washington to deal with, so long as it remains on its global course. They may also prove more dangerous than Washington, or anyone else, now thinks."
Guardian comment
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British Home Front: Cook, Hunt, Denham resigned - Update
Both Robin Cook, the leader of the British government in the House of Commons and very senior figure, and Lord Philip Hunt, the British Health Minister, resigned as a war against Iraq looks increasingly certain to break out in the next few days. "I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support," said Cook. Lord Hunt: "At the end of the day I don't support this action and it would be hyprocritical for me to stay in government."
UPDATE I
John Denham, a Home Office minister who has also served in the Department of Health, followed Cook and Hunt. He said in a statement he could not support the government in a vote later on Tuesday about whether to wage war on Iraq, when Blair will face a major rebellion from within his ruling Labour party.
UPDATE II
Robin Cook in The Guardian: Why I had to leave the cabinet
As Volker Weber puts it, "As always, the wrong person stepped down" - agreed
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RSS Feed Reader Directory updated
The RSS Feed Reader Directory has been updated: Radio Userland and the Python Desktop Server as existing solutions have been added for the sake of completeness. SNARF! is a new feed reader that integrates into the Internet Explorer sidebar/searchbar. Everything lives on the remote server and nothing has to be installed on the local system. While an interesting approach, SNARF! still seems to be in an early stage.
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The Monday Morning News Roundup - Update -
TOOLS
MOVABLE TYPE
PHP
READING
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St. Patrick's Day
A very fine day to spend in Boston, MA and at the Cape (and greetings go out to the Chase family in Sudbury, MA). Pilot and crew of this site will spend the day in Dortmund, Germany though - Limericks pub will make a poor substitute.
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Streiflicht
Gestern wurde der NRW-Teil der Süddeutschen Zeitung zu Grabe getragen. Das Streiflicht:
"Ausgehend davon, dass die NRW-Beilage dieses Blattes zum heutigen Samstag eingestellt wurde, obwohl die Kolleginnen und Kollegen beste Arbeit geleistet hatten; in Erwägung ferner des Umstandes, dass die Redaktion der SZ bei weiteren Einschnitten irreparable Schäden fürs Blatt und den Journalismus insgesamt befürchtet (mehr dazu auf der Medienseite, Seite 20); eingedenk all dessen sah sich das Streiflicht heute außer Stande, aufs gewohnte, den Lesern und ihm selbst lieb gewordene Format anzuwachsen."
Via aufgelesen.blogspot.com, wo sich noch weitere Einträge zum Thema finden. Erfreulich jedenfalls, daß das Blatt selbst ausführlich über den Wegfall berichtet hat - und auch, daß es der Redaktion nicht nur mit dem Streiflicht Möglichkeit gab, sich kritisch zu äußern. Hat tip: Martin Röll
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Christopher Allbritton: War Correspondent, Blogger
Christopher Allbritton is a former Associated Press (AP) correspondet and New York Daily News reporter who turned to independent journalism. He chose Iraq and the foreign policy of the Bush Administration as his subject - and puts what he has in a weblog that is excellent reading.
Christopher: "This summer [2002] I went stumbling around Iraqi Kurdistan, the northern part of Iraq outside Saddam's direct control, looking for stories. (Some might call it 'looking for trouble.') Well, now I want to go back in time for the war. So I'm asking your help in supporting independent journalism! Send me back to Iraq to report on what's happening" in the Back to Iraq 2.0 blog. Wired Magazine has a background story.
He also has two stories on the US army's announcement to shoot at independent journalists. One reason more not to trust this Administration - and to support independent journalism.
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Other Blogs, Enjoying
Some of the blogs I came across recently have very nice layouts. Check out snippey.com, All in the Head and Absenter.
The Enjoying sidebar section of this blog is still going strong. Find quick links, notes and hints to stuff of various subjects I came across. As this section grows quickly, it will soon have its own archives and its own XML feed.
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Schuss ins Knie
Wann geht es wieder aufwärts in Deutschland? Wenn Bundeskanzler Stoiber auf der Beerdigung von Fischer die Witwe von Schröder fragt, wer den Trittin erschossen hat.
Schützenpräsident Josef Ambacher, der daraufhin von seinem Amt als Schatzmeister des NOK zurückgetreten wurde
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Bloggen ist wie Currywurst - Neues von 20six
Dr. Stefan ("Ich bin Stefan einer der Gründer von 20six") Wiskemann, mit Zoo-Bra bereits durch eigenwilliges Branding aufgefallen und derzeit Blogeinträge zu den verschiedensten Themen mit Sätzen wie "Diesem Zellhaufen geht es heute gut und 20six ist eine coole Sache!" oder "[Fettdruck]Blogging ist die totale Popkultur, oder?[/Fettdruck]" abschließend, erklärt uns die Welt - heute: Kann man mit Bloggen Geld verdienen?
Antwort: "Ich weiss es nicht. Dazu aber mein Currywurst-Theorem: There is no free Currywurst. Muss ich meine Currywurst bezahlen? Ja. Müssen alle anderen ihre Currywurst bezahlen? Klar. Zahlt man gerne einen angemessenen Preis für eine wirklich leckere Currywurst? Ich schon!"
"Ich weiß nicht ob man mit meinem Produkt Geld verdienen kann" ist für einen Gründer und Geschäftsführer schon eine starke Ansage. Aber: "Vor ricardo hatten wir eine corporate publishing Agentur, die Bücher, Zeitschriften (z.b. CU [kein Komma, sic!] eine der ersten Internet-Zeitschriften in Deutschland, wer erinnert sich?) herausgebracht hat. 20six liegt also genau auf der Schnittstelle, [Komma, sic!] meiner bisherigen Interessen." Das ist also (mindestens) der dritte Anlauf, aber Hauptsache es macht Spaß. Ob es dann vielleicht im vierten klappen wird?
Mehr rhetorischer Feinschliff in Dr. Wiskemanns Antwort auf Stefan Smallas erste Analyse zu 20six. Via IT+W und Bloghaus
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Mozilla 1.3 is out
Mozilla 1.3 final is out. Changelog has nothing spectacular for those who already work with 1.3b.
Mozilla 1.3 Release Notes
The thread at mozillazine.org contains some helpful user notes
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Pentagon threatens to kill independent reporters in Iraq
In today's news from The Land of The Free:
- PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDENT REPORTERS IN IRAQ
GuluFuture.com: "The Pentagon has threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, according to veteran BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie. In an interview with Irish radio, Ms. Adie said that questioned about the consequences of such potentially fatal actions, a senior Pentagon officer had said: 'Who cares.. ..They've been warned.'" Via the new weblog Breaking News - War in Iraq by Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis.
- U.S. COURT GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO IMPRISON FOREIGNERS WITHOUT CHARGE AND WITHOUT ACCESS TO LEGAL COUNSEL
As BBC News reports, the U.S. Courts of Appeals in Washington, D.C. ruled "that prisoners held at a US military base in Cuba do not have the right to hearings in American courts." Horst Prillinger: "They may be terrorists, or they may be perfectly innocent citizens. But it doesn't really matter, because even though they're still alive, they don't legally exist any longer. [...] In the USSR, they called this the Gulag."
And in Related News:
- DISINFOPEDIA, THE WIKI ENCYLOPEDIA OF DISINFORMATION
Disinfopedia is "a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests." Via The Aardvark Speaks
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Süddeutsche stellt Regionalteil NRW ein
SPIEGEL: "Die Entscheidung sei sehr schwer gefallen, sagte SZ-Geschäftsführer Hans Gasser heute in München. Man müsse aber davon ausgehen, dass sich der Regionalteil auf Dauer nicht refinanzieren lasse. Der andauernde Einbruch im Stellenmarkt und die weiter zurückgehenden Erträge hätten der 'SZ' keine andere Wahl gelassen. Der Regionalteil soll am 15. März [nach nur 14 Monaten] zum letzten Mal erscheinen."
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MT, PHP, CSS News Roundup
MOVABLE TYPE
- Joi Ito's mail2entry is a Python script that allows to post MT entries containing text and images via e-mail: "The subject of your email becomes the title of the blog post. Text attachments are supported as long as there is only one and it is first attachment. Other attachments are expected to be either GIF or JPG images. The resulting blog entry is determined by the content of the email. It is arranged according to the format of the entry template (provided to mail2entry).
- David Rayne's MT-Email allows visitors to leave comments by email: "[It] takes the Subject of the email and searches for an entry on your site with that title (exact, case-sensitive match at the moment); uses the mail headers to generate the comment author, email, and URL (for URL, it currently uses a non-standard header X-URL); posts the contents of the email as the comment."
- CategoryHeaderFooter is another interesting new MT plugin by David Raynes: "[It] provides tags that will return header/footer text depending on the current entry's category (or just upon the current entry if within <MTCategories>)". Nice. More an more things that were a bit tricky to do or required some lines of PHP can now be done directly inside MT.
- Also, the MT Plugin Directory now has a Bug Tracker - again, the MT community rocks.
PHP
- Skinny is an extremely light-weight (one file) framework that "centralises the role of parsing XML and [optionally] transforming it with XSLT" and - helpful! - also does pretty-print debugging of your XML and XSL files. Found in the comments of the Zend tutorial Using PHP and XSL to Transform XML into Web Content
CSS
- Stuart Langridge obviously found a new CSS hack. The Hash Hack "may be an easy way of showing CSS to IE and hiding it from more compliant browsers." Other interesting ideas can be found on his browser experiments page.
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Zoo-Bra
20six-Blog zoobra: "Ich bin Stefan einer der Gründer von 20six. zoobra war mal als Name für 20six im Gespräch. Also hab ich mein Weblog danach genannt. Hier schreibe ich privates Zeug und ein bisschen über Bloggen." Mit so einem Namen sagt man vielleicht schon mehr privates Zeug als andere wissen wollen.
Auch Permalinks vom Schlage eines
http://www.20six.de/-/de/weblog/2xi35i5qsh14?month=2&year=2003&day=19&categoryId=ddsmjiokp4bh&show=day&calendarMonth=2&calendarYear=2003
werden der Proliferation von 20six-Gedankengut allerdings keinen Einhalt gebieten, denn merke: "Nicht die URL zieht Leute an, sondern wer du bist und was du denkst." Via Martin Röll
MORE ILL-FATED BRANDING
2003-02-25: Neulich bei IKEA - Gutvik Etagenbett
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Momente der Entscheidung: Schöpfer und Zerstörer
"Firmengründer oder Firmenerben, Eigentümer oder Manager - die ZEIT-Serie Momente der Entscheidung soll das Verständnis unternehmerischen Handelns vertiefen. Rund ein Jahr lang wollen wir die wichtigsten Phasen in Aufstieg oder Niedergang großer Unternehmen erzählen und analysieren. Waren es Weitsicht und Fantasie oder wilde Entschlossenheit und Brutalität, die eine Erfolgsgeschichte begründeten - und wie groß war die Rolle des Zufalls? Hätte der Untergang eines Unternehmens verhindert werden können, und wenn ja, an welchem Punkt? Statt die Herren über Milliarden Euro und Millionen Jobs zu verteufeln oder zu vergöttern, wollen wir sie ergründen. Der Mythos Unternehmer - die Serie soll ihm näher kommen und ihn durch ein realistischeres Bild ersetzen."
TEIL 1
Einführung zur ZEIT-Serie über Momente der Entscheidung aus sieben Jahrhunderten
TEIL 2
Neues vom "roten Mohn" - Wie Bertelsmann vom Familienbetrieb zum Weltkonzern aufstieg
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Quote of the Day
Showering with our old shower head was like sitting down to dinner at a compulsive talkers convention; shit was spraying everywhere.
Jason Kottke
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Now with Archives
In an achievement of impressive magnitude, hebig.org/blog now also has monthly archives. Phew. With the archive links in a lower part of the sidebar, you can now see what has been written here before.
Coming up next: validating RSS feeds, archives and RSS feeds for the "Enjoying" section.
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Mitch Karpor resigns from Groove Networks board
"Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties activist, has resigned from the board of Groove Networks after learning that the company's software was being used by the Pentagon as part of its development of a domestic surveillance system. Mr. Kapor would say publicly only that it was a 'delicate subject' and that he had resigned to pursue his interests in open source software.
'Mr. Kapor resigned from the board to focus 100 percent of his time on nonprofit activities,' said a spokesman for Groove Networks, whose software has been used to permit intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials to share data in tests of the surveillance system, Total Information Awareness.
However, a person close to Mr. Kapor said that he was uncomfortable with the fact that Groove Networks' desktop collaboration software was a crucial component of the antiterrorist surveillance software being tested at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Information Awareness Office, an office directed by Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter."
New York Times story (free login required)
Groove is one ingenious company anyway.
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Reading
This morning, just a quick list of reading links:
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Important note - FIXED
Fixed - you can use all addresses including the default h.hebig@fs.mb.uni-dortmund.de again
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Presenting: Neil Young Solo Accoustic Tour
Ladies and Gentlemen, buy your tickets: Neil Young will play solo accoustic in Europe this year. Tentative schedule for Germany: April 29 Hamburg, April 30 Berlin, May 1 Frankfurt, May 7 Stuttgart, May 9 Hannover.
All tour dates at Rolling Stone magazine
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Silly Patent of The Day
Method of swinging a swing: "A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other."
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Arrest Me
"Mr. O'Conner, a former public defender from Santa Fe, was arrested in a public library and interrogated by Secret Service agents for five hours on February 13th. His crime? He said 'Bush is out of control' on an internet chat room, and was arrested for threatening the President. "
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Ego Surfing
"So you want to read my blog? Just search Google for 'Haiko'. It's the number one hit." Yeah! Former number one Haikos Filmlexikon dropped to second place.
The other Hebig, my "brother in arms" Heiko, still is the number one hit for 'Hebig' (and for 'Heiko' of course). I'm working on this, Heiko ;-)
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News Roundup
APPLE
- Business 2.0 What Works: The Floor Plan With a Plan - "Retail design guru Paco Underhill explains the little things that make such a big difference in Apple's newest and best-performing boutique"
MOVABLE TYPE
- MTThreadedComments "adds full-fledged threaded commenting features to a Movable Type weblog. Inspired by the comment features of LiveJournal, it adds threading and subject lines to Movable Type comments. This means your readers can carry on more complex discussions, adding their own titles and replying directly to other comments." - See an example
WEB BUILDING AND PROGRAMMING
INSTANT MESSAGING
- IBM's Ed Brill on the Instant Messaging culture in his company: "The culture at IBM has shifted such that, for many of us, Instant Messaging is the first route-of-contact, especially with some of the presence-based applications in our intranet's e-workplaces." He links to some of those tools and will stick to the topic: "Over the next few days, I'll discuss culture around IM visibility, mobility, and IM 'overload'." Via Vowe
SCHLECHTE VERKAUFSARGUMENTE
- Martin Röll: "Schlechte Verkaufsargumente, Folge 72457. Heute: Thomas Burg: 'Wir sind billiger'". Und in Folge 72458: Markus Stolpmann mit "Ich lege Ihnen [diese Software] wärmstens ans Herz. [...] Der Erfolg stellt sich automatisch und unmittelbar ein!"
FRIDAY
- The other Hebig: "about:blank - a very well designed monthly e-zine, by webloggers, for webloggers. Brought to you from the Netherlands" in Dutch language
- Fake Club is another interesting online magazine Heiko points us to. Might not be exactly workplace-safe
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More Feed Readers
Some additions have been made to the extensive RSS Feed Reader Directory posted the day before yesterday:
- RDF-Ticker - RSS/RDS news-ticker for Windows "is a newsticker application which fetches news from RDF/RSS-feeds and displays them on a ticker-bar" that docks to the taskbar [In category Windows]
- Genecast News Service is a commerical RSS to Usenet News converter - delivering the same results that open source nntp//rss does [In category Converters]
- Pineapple "your webnews aggregator" is a commercial feed reader in the 0.3 stage [In category Mac OS]
- Reptile is a Peer-to-Peer "Syndicated Content Directory Server" that might also serve as a feed reader. JRE required, includes an embedded Tomcat server. Reptile is a project of the OpenPrivacy Initiative and seems to be closely related to Newsmonster. Though the latest release is one year old, latest nightlies are just a few days old. [In category Cross Platform]
- RSS Viewer "is a Java-based ticker application [that has] a browser-like view and a simple ticker-view." [In category Cross Platform]
View entire list by operating system
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Vor dem Krieg
Ein Drängen, ein Zögern, ein Warten
Von Wolfgang Sofsky in der Süddeutschen Zeitung
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Redesign Time
Scott Andrew (who redesigned, too) points out that the spring redesign wave might have started and takes us to the new and extremely nifty A Whole Lotta Nothing. If you have a decent screen resolution (as anyone should have) resize the window and see how the pictures in the sidebar behave.
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Legend: DORMANT = no activity for one year or more, DISCONTINUED = project closed or website unreachable
Something missing? Get in touch by e-mail or instant message →
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Movable Type 2.63 is out, Nightlies available
"Version 2.63 of Movable Type is now released. This is a bug fix release, fixing various localization, XML-RPC, Postgres, and Creative Commons errors. [...] If you are using 2.62 and not experiencing any problems, there is no urgent need to ugprade."
Movable Type 2.63 Release Announcement
Movable Type 2.63 Changelog
"Beginning today, we are also be releasing nightly builds of Movable Type, based on CVS snapshots." And this is good for the both the community and the product, because "by releasing changes to the software more often, we hope to make our stable releases even more stable than they are currently," and "by opening up new features and hooks to developers, we will be giving them more time to implement new plugins before official releases."
Movable Type nightlies
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News Roundup
PHP
Feed Reader, Mozilla
- SaTiMoz will be a new feed reader for Mozilla. Unlike Newsmonster, SaTiMoz looks lightweight and straightforward. Also, it seems as it will be one of the few feed readers that get a basic UI feature right: using a tree view to sort the subscription list into groups. The first release is announced for March 20.
- Also new at mozdev.org: "The Mnenhy project tries to make some enhancements to Mozilla MailNews. [...] This current version 0.1 [adds] the ability to customize the header view of mails and newsgroup postings via a new preferences panel and some new entries to the view->headers menu."
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Disappointing
Dear cybernet.be customer,
you are my number one: my first visitor who tried to log into my Movable Type installation. It is surprising that no one tried earlier. The path isn't very hard to guess, and each week there are dozends attempts to break through my Client Extranet login page. Still, for MT, you are the first. But look what you did:
2003.02.25 09:30:11 - 213.177.68.xxx - Invalid author name 'Shirish M Kamdar' in password recovery attempt
2003.02.25 09:30:34 - 213.177.68.xxx - Invalid author name 'Shirish Kamdar' in password recovery attempt
2003.02.25 09:30:52 - 213.177.68.xxx - Invalid login attempt from user 'Shirish M Kamdar'
2003.02.25 09:31:57 - 213.177.68.xxx - Invalid author name 'Kamdar Shirish' in password recovery attempt
2003.02.25 09:32:26 - 213.177.68.xxx - Invalid login attempt from user 'S M Kamdar'
2003.02.25 09:33:14 - 213.177.68.xxx - Invalid author name 'SHIRISH KAMDAR' in password recovery attempt
2003.02.25 09:33:36 - 213.177.68.xxx - Invalid login attempt from user 'SHIRISH KAMDAR'
2003.02.25 09:34:00 - 213.177.68.xxx - Invalid login attempt from user 'SHIRISH KAMDAR'
Your lack of creativity is disappointing. Next time, try harder.
Sincerly,
Haiko Hebig
Note to Movable Type users
Keep in mind that MT comes with mt_check.cgi, a script that checks your server and reports if the machine meets all requirements to install MT. But as finding the path to the file normally isn't very hard, it might also tell others more about your server than you might like. In this case, just delete is: once your MT installation is up and running, you don't need mt_check.cgi any more.
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Business Weblogs - Ein pragmatischer Ansatz zur Einführung von Weblogs in mittleren und großen Unternehmen
Blogtalk Konferenz, Auftritt Martin Röll:
"In mittleren und großen Unternehmen gibt es interessante Anwendungen für Weblogs mit großen geschäftlichen Potenzial, vermutlich sogar mehr als in kleinen Unternehmen. [...] In dem Papier entwickle ich deshalb ein Evolutionsmodell, wie Weblogs in großen Unternehmen eingeführt werden können. Angefangen bei sehr einfachen Anwendungen (für die Mitarbeiter einfach zu bedienen und für das Management konzeptionell wie ROI-mäßig einfach zu begreifen) arbeite ich mich durch technisch und managementmäßig schwierigere Applikationen und integriere sie am Ende zu einer 'Business Weblog Infrastruktur'. (Ein neues Buzzword, hurra!)."
Anhören. Nachlesen. Wird gut.
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