What’s up with 9/11?

The trauma of the United States of America occurred four years ago. Within hours, the modern world was shocked as the USA was under attack. Terrorist captured four airplanes of which they maneuvered two into the World Trade Center’s twin towers, supposedly crashed near the White House and rammed the last plane into the open fields of the country as the passengers knew of their fate and rebelled. That was the past, and it is old news. Old news for the media, because they can rip apart those who suffer today.

Actually, there’s not much in the news. In fact, there’s little being said about 9/11. Four years after this dramatic incident which did not only make the Americans but the whole world suffer, only minor reports about commemorations make it to the major news websites. Did America forget?

Yes, because the country suffers from their own internal dangers. The destructions of the Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans tore the country apart. The politicians are in the moment of destroying their own illusive world. And they are scared of this even greater danger than the loss of a few thousands.

Who will care about those who definately did not vote for Bush? Will they receive the necessary treatment? How many are going to die as next? Dear George W. Bush, this is worse than your 9/11 trauma. This is your own fault by not considering your own genocide to your own country.

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Forderung an die Netzeitung

Ich lese sie nahezu täglich, ich abonniere gerne die Feeds. Und schnell wie der Blitz sind sie allemal. Von wem ist hier wohl die Rede? Natürlich von der Netzeitung, die „online only Zeitung“ der Deutschen.

Trotzdessen wünsche ich mir ein wenig mehr von den Machern des virtuellen Blattes. Mehr? In der heutigen Zeit, wo man doch eigentlich alles und jeden kaufen kann? Und dann noch umsonst? Gewiss, ja, ich fordere. Denn die einen vom Heinz Heise Verlag haben es den Lesern gestattet, mit Kommentaren wilde Diskussionen mitzugestalten. Und die anderen vom Menschen erschaffenen Golem ließen es sogar zu, dass die wilden Horden sich untereinander nicht nur austauschen, sondern sogar zu den Machwerken ihre eigenen Referenzen setzen konnten. Warum sollte nicht genauso die Netzeitung allen kleinen Pseudo-Journallien, ihren eigenen Lesern also, erlauben, die Synthese von Content und Communication zu vollziehen? Im mittlerweile inter-mediären Zeitalter des Social Networkings ist solch vielfältige Nutzung dieses spezifischen Mediums Internet doch nicht nur hypothetisch machbar, sondern auch erfolgbringend durchsetzungsfähig.

Meine Forderung des Wochenendes an die Netzeitung: Lebt mit, kommt mit, und schließt den Kreis der Verdammnis. Ermöglicht es euren Lesern, in wilden Diskussionen auf der Basis eurer Nachrichten auch eigenes zu unternehmen. Als „online only Zeitung“ habt ihr genau den Vorteil noch nicht genutzt, den sich selbst die großen Printmedien wie beispielsweise SpOn geleistet haben. Also, liebe Netzeitung, wenn ihr den Hype nicht verpassen wollt und den Weg zum Social Networking auch bei euch ebnen wollt, seid ihr mit Kommentaren und Trackbacks auf dem richtigen Weg!

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Copy Cats: Thieves among ourselves

I feel this is a „class C“ post, since there’s a bunch of words that start with the letter C. Believe me! But for now the question for the weekend is cryptic? Cryptic! Duncan suspects content theft from his site. And according to him, these minions of darkness are other bloggers – who behave like copy cats. After setting up an article with a term of phrase which was simply grammatically incorrect, the same phrase appeared on his suspect’s content. That’s a fabulous search for all those who have nothing else to do on the weekend. Read on my dear and find out who the Staff Writer is. Plagiarism is on its way!

But besides talking about a cryptic copy cat, Duncan did one thing I’d like to slap him for. The URL to his original article is absolutely way too long… weekend-cryptic-question-which-leading-website-continues-to-steal-content-ideas-without-credit – oh my god! Wasn’t there some function in WordPress to cut off these lengthy post slugs?

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Schleichwerbung im NDR

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Schleichwerbung! Schon alleine das Wort macht jedem Vertreter des öffentlich-rechtlichen Mediums Angst und Bange. Und es kam noch dicker. Das Microsoft-Logo diente als Quellennenung des technischen Dienstleisters, und war nicht als Schleichwerbung beabsichtigt. Nunja, wirklich? Zuvor hatte der Linux-Verband kritisiert, dass in Grafiken zur Wahlberichterstattung der ARD, welche durch den NDR erstellt und durch den WDR redaktionell bearbeitet werden, das Microsoft-Logo eingebettet war. Weil solch ein Fall aber schon laut der Berichterstattung von Golem früher schon einmal in Bezug auf die Wahlberichterstattung aufgetaucht sei, wiegt sich der NDR in seiner Sache sicher.

Auf der anderen Seite, und das ist meine persönliche Meinung, bin ich es sowieso leid, dass die öffentlich-rechtlichen Senderhäuser sich über Gebühren finanzieren, und so nicht bzw. nur im geringen Teil am großen Kuchen der Werbewirtschaft teilnehmen dürfen. Uns allen und insbesondere den sozial schwachen und weniger begünstigten Bürgern erspart eine werbewirtschaftliche Loslösung der ÖRs die monatliche GEZ Gebühr, welche noch nicht einmal von staatlicher Natur ist, auf der anderen Seite könnte der Sendeauftrag der öffentlich-rechtlichen TV-Landschaft ganz gefährdet werden. Aber haben nicht alle Medienwissenschaftler schon sich dazu Gedanken gemacht, Vorschläge angeboten und Lösungen unterbreitet? Nichts wurde davon berücksichtigt bei der (Um-)Strukturierung der ÖRs…

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Bloggers don’t need Therapists

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Brian Williams is the author of The Daily Nightly and was recently quoted as saying: „I don’t have a therapist. I have my blog.“

Now if that’s not the truth. Who can afford a therapists if you develop your own almost natural social network based on blogs and similiar communicative software systems? Interactivity saves the expertise. Who else can give you more input than those people with who you share your daily life – or as another option – your professional life?

[via Recruiting and LightWithin]

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Released: Firefox 1.5 Beta 1

The developper team released the Beta 1 for Windows and Linux and an Alpha 2 for OS X. I guess that’s a must download, must install, must use one.

Firefox 1.5 offers you to use new features like:

  • Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
  • Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
  • Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
  • Improvements to popup blocking.
  • Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
  • Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
  • Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and „Safe Mode“ experience.
  • Better accessibility support including DHTML accessibility.
  • Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.

More of these changes and additions, and I believe Firefox will become the instant killer for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

[via Golem | read more | digg story]

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Wenn Merkel…

Zitat eines nicht näher namentlich erwähnenswerten Bekannten:

„Wenn Merkel morgen die Klingeltonwerbung abschafft, dann wähle ich sie!„

Okay, es war ein Scherz, aber ob das nun etwas an ihrer letztendlich stumpfsinnigen Politik ändert, das vermag keiner wissen. Jedoch ist sicherlich ein Großteil der Bevölkerung dafür, also wird sie gewinnen! Go Angie Go… mit Jamster und Co! Aber ne… Angie? Pfui-Bäh! ;)

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Political Scream

For the upcoming elections in Germany, this result shows a clear direction of my most recent test on Wen-Waehlen.de. In contrast to my previous results from the more simply constructed Wahl-O-Mat, the test by Alvar Freude does not ask about only 30 thesis, but 54 scaled statements which have been previously given a special accent based on my personal fields of interest.

I suppose this rather detailed test explains my personal stance towards the CDU/CSU and FDP coalition. It took me approximately 20 minutes to fill out the entire rating questionaire, and I received a much more biased result than the „Wish-Wash“ result of Wahl-O-Mat. The rather funny remark here is that the Left-Wing party was on top. Its nice to know that these semi-radicals are on top – even if I don’t favorize nor approve this popularistic party.

[via Golem]

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One for the morning: Fake Microsoft Mail

This is truely an amazing SPAM mail, and I’d love to share this one. How stupid are people that they truely believe this email is for real and not fake? I believe there are several thousands of them who click the links in the email… and as if Microsoft themselves gave such instructions! (typos and errors included)

From : microsoft.com
Sent : Thursday, September 8, 2005 7:24 AM
To : ***@hotmail.com
Subject : Secure your pc, your website for a better protection!

OVERVIEW
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The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 computers for and helps remove infections by specific, prevalent malicious software.including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom. When the detection and removal process is complete, the tool displays a report describing the outcome, including which, if any, malicious software was detected and removed. The tool creates a log file named mrt.log in the %WINDIR%\debug folder.

This tool is not a replacement for an anti-virus product. To help protect your computer, you should use an anti-virus product.

SPECIAL OFFER
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Download The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool by following the link found in this e-mail and you get a free-trial of EXCHANGE SERVER 2003 !!!
Exchange Server, the Microsoft messaging and collaboration server, is software that runs on servers that enables you to send and receive electronic mail and other forms of interactive communication through computer networks. Designed to interoperate with a software client application such as Microsoft Outlook, Exchange Server also interoperates with Outlook Express and other e-mail client applications.

Yeah right, as if one would get such nice freebies from Microsoft! I’d love to receive a free copy, but … haha, this is way too funny! Stupid spammers, stupid exploiters, stupid dialers, stupid… people?

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iPod nano

Gadgets, gadgets, gadgets. That’s probably a sentence I’d like to write all the time if there’s yet another one of these nifty little things that enhance our luxury life. One of these is already the well-known iPod, but by now, there’s a new stage of development: The iPod nano. This gadget keeps us entertained with the latest technology, and is a really small one, too! With a size of 9 x 4 x 0.69 centimeters and about 42.5 gramm, the USB device with 4 GByte storage will cost about 250 Euro. And those who still planned to buy the iPod mini will be disappointed since Apple apparently removed the item from their iPod-Player list.

But where’s the catch in buying this product? Besides its small size and capacity, I don’t see any benefit from it. Since most CDs are already copy right protected and nearly every copy might be a case of copyright infringement, who should really use it except to carbonize the old CDs for a nice jogging session? The expensive downloads from the iTunes music shop won’t lure me into their customer’s value chains… :(

[via Golem]

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