Inspiriert vom medialen Dünnpfiff

Ich war inspiriert von dem Eintrag bei Anke Gröner, in dem sie ein kurzes Zitat von Ricky Gervais darlegte: „Ask me anything about sharks and Nazis.“

Zwar habe ich einen Kommentar dazu verfasst, aber irgendwie wollte ich es auch bei mir selbst unterbringen. Danke Anke! – auch wenn der Spruch hier wirklich daneben ist.

Wie soll man aber sonst den medialen Dünnpfiff im deutschsprachigen Fernsehen ertragen, wenn man sich nicht mit Dokumentationen bilden kann? Es geht in erster Linie um das „Das war böse, also mach das nicht.“ In zweiter Linie geht es um „So ist es schön, mach das.“

Schon die Bloodhound Gang erkante es mit „You & me, baby, ain’t nothing but mammals, so let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel!“, also warum nicht… statt den preußischen Stechschritt zu exerzieren so wie es heute immer noch in England durch die blaublütigen Aristokraten getan wird, muss man sich auf das wesentliche konzentrieren: Sex beim Tierreich abgucken!

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Blogs as modern Eyewitness

As the deutsche presse agentur (dpa) reports, blogs have been drawn attention to journalists for specialized topic-related research. Especially after the tsunami disaster, the media had to focus on live and accurate information – blogs written by the victims and survivors became some of the most reliable sources. However, blogs are usually uncommon for traditional journalists as they see their media-authority being challenged by anybody who wishes to contribute to the blogosphere.

The german tabloid „Bild“ has found its own challenger in the Bildblog. One of the authors of Bildblog, Christoph Schuldheis, express an alternative research as they focus on the „filthyness and false reports“ produced by the original tabloid. Jörg Sadrozinski, the chief of the editorial office for Die Tageschau, comments rather nonchalantly: „For a journalistic format, they are not really matured because of the confusing and thematically unsorted character […] Blogs are more of an addition to the traditional media.“ He cannot see Blogs as a new form of journalism. (The quotations are freely translated.)

Addendum
The original news article „«Blogs»: Online-Tagebücher sind beliebte Augenzeugen in der Krise“ appeared on various online newspapers within a short time frame:
Esslinger Zeitung – Oberhessische Presse – Handelsblatt – Merkur Online – Web.de – Yahoo! Nachrichten – Neue OZ Online – Harburger – Schwäbische Zeitung – Heidelberger Nachrichten – Passauer Neue Presse – newsclick.de – Wiesbadener Kurier – Backnanger Kreiszeitung … and counting!

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Inter-Linking the Sichelputzer

After reading the comments on Mr. Anonymous’s blog, I figure its good to know that modern CEO’s like David Sivry are able to respond to even minor issues as expressed in The Shining Ones. Preferably, I like the services of Technorati.com, and over all I believe its time to tag myself. As Sichelputzer (this was the tag), I visited the blog of David Sivry and noticed a nice functionality add-on which might be useful for Blogspirit, too. The idea to display Technorati’s „Cosmos“ link serves as much as the Trackback-Ping plug-in: The entire idea of inter-linking various search engines (preferably those specialized for weblogs) will already add a higher global connectivity to other blogs and authors who might link back to your own blog or simply write about similar or identical topics.

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Wakeup Call

I woke up a little bit later than my girlfriend, but she kept me busy once I opened my eyes and looked into her’s. Being accompanied by her in the morning was absolutely wonderful, especially by watching her secretly while we were eating breakfast. As she left for working on a few lectures at her place, I was left alone again.

As reality turned on, it kicked myself straight back into life. I have to work on an oral presentation for the spanish language course on wednesday, and I hope Andreas will find his way here to my castle since he’s my partner during this presentation. On another note I kept myself occupied posting a few comments in various weblogs and updated the layout with a minimal change of the seperator between the categories, permalinks, and comments („|“ to „::“) below each entry.

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Functionality Additions

I decided it was time to add a higher usability to this blog and inserted this small snipplet into the templates for the permalinks (Design -> Advanced Settings -> Permalink Template). You can see the result below each post while displaying the comment or permalink page. It enables the search for further information of each individual post or topic on Technorati, Bloglines, Feedster and Google.

Search for this topic elsewhere:
Technorati |
Bloglines |
Feedster |
Google

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Party Plan

In order to keep a basic overview over my upcoming celebration of my birthday, I have already invited many people to the party event for Saturday, the January 29th, 2005 at 8:00pm. As far as I recall, the list includes folks, friends, and students (no relatives!) in no specific order: Katharina, Pascal and Steffi, Sina and Babs, Kristin and Kenneth, Marco and Britta, Torben, Angelique, Felix and Cynthia, Andi and Birke, Andreas, Sarah, Birte, Jonas and Lena, Martin and Anna, Jens, Christoph. I figure I have to invite more people. Probably, I will send out a mass-mail to cover everybody and in order to limit the invitations, I shall restrict this mass-mail at once.

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Update: Against Googles Methods

As previously mentioned in GoogleBlog: Preventing comment spam, the search engine built up a major cooperation with various blog hosting providers. Nevertheless, it appears to be a neat trick by Google to establish a new content-filter only to recognize websites as websites or in specific as weblogs. I cannot advise to integrate the rel=“nofollow“ attribute to any blog software as it clearly identifies the majority of weblogs. It would only grant Google the perrmission to recalculate the pagerank for paying customers – to raise their pagerank and lower the pagerank of any weblog.
I decided to implement a special CSS snippet by Phil Ringalda to lure everybody on any rel=“nofollow“ link:

a[rel~="nofollow"] {
  text-decoration:blink !important;
  color:lime ! important;
}
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Update: Creative Commons Deed

Last night I updated my Creative Commons Deed (CCD). I advise every blogger, especialy those here at Blogspirit, to include his or her personal Creative Common Deed. Everybody is advised to keep in mind the following (as excerpt from the original CCD):

You as a reader are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work; and to make derivative works. All of this work may only be used under the following conditions:
1. Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
2. Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
3. Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
4. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
5. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.

Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license).

Remember the disclaimer of Creative Commons, as you are in no way receiving an attorney-client relationship.

The Commons Deed is not a license. It is simply a handy reference for understanding the Legal Code (the full license) — it is a human-readable expression of some of its key terms. Think of it as the user-friendly interface to the Legal Code beneath. This Deed itself has no legal value, and its contents do not appear in the actual license. Creative Commons is not a law firm and does not provide legal services. Distributing of, displaying of, or linking to this Commons Deed does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Further information on Creative Commons can be found at the CC’s weblog.

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Robot Trouble

I was quite amazed as I noticed a total of 84MB traffic for this blog. I was the prancing pony, not someone else, but just me. Seen through pink glasses, it definately appeared as if many people visited my blog in the past days. But then the kickback to reality threw me off the fence: More than half of the traffic was created by robots, especially „slurp“ hit the road with 42MB! I hope Blogspirit will raise the montly limit of 250MB, because I am afraid of unavailability of my content in a few weeks as people become more and more aware of it, especially as it is indexed in the search engines or directories. I modified the revisit-after tag to be set for 7 and 14 days on the permalink/comment and archive/categories pages. Hopefully, this setting will come into effect as soon as possible. I figured my blog’s start page creates roughly 40kb-70kb, but I do not wish to destroy the whole layout to save space…

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The Google Virus

I noticed the increase of sub-companies and new portals made by or in affiliation with Google. This company apparently has its own interest of multimedial world domination. An obscure incident was described on this article:

I was astonished to see that the „Invite 1 friend to Gmail“ link now says „Invite 6 friends to Gmail.“ See, when Google PR first gave me an account, that link said „Invite 4 friends to Gmail.“ I gave three of the precious accounts […] and saved one for emergencies. Like everyone else, I could only guess when Gmail would finally be public and open to all comers.


The author David Pogue expresses this strange event found at Google’s email service „Gmail“ simply – Google spreads like a virus:

It’s doling out a handful of free accounts to existing members, letting them each invite another handful. The result: a slow, controlled, viral spread of Gmail accounts.

But when will Google stop? Gmail is only one way to obtain control of global emailing, as every other software developped by the company. Google Deskbar is used to observe users, Google News means to filter and manipulate the media, Orkut will create elite communities, Google AdSense and Google AdWords control advertisement, Blogger (ahem!) controls the freedom of publication and content, Froogle centralizes the search for products, Google Labs allows cheap beta-testing of their own software, and last but not least Google Toolbar monitors our searches. The sad thing here is my own responsibility – because I use Google on my own.

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