More Technical Ideology

I recently noticed that the Blogspirit communities I’ve created in the past (Blogosphere, Student Life and Media-Zone) are getting filled with entries which might not find a focus in the community as the topic and thematic environment of the community differ greatly from the author’s contributions. To avoid this possible misconception of communities, I suggest to enable the creators of the community to add a small description for each community which will be listed on the main community page where all blogs are summarized, and on the page of the admin interface where you join a community. On the other hand, I know that communities are quite capable of developing itself into any possible direction. Perhaps I’m all alone with this idea…

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Multi-User-Blog

The idea of Multi-User-Blogging (MUB) is absolutely useful to create a phenomenon similar to Blogspirit’s communities: Different people with usually different ideals and lives join under one banner to create content. Johnny Häuseler, the author of Spreeblick, launched his small experiment called Sprblck due to his temporary absence from the internet. His daily readers join forces at this MUB based on WordPress, and because of the open and free registration the potential of this platform reaches an interesting state. Fact is that the platform is sponsored by Johnny while anybody may contribute the content. But because of the significant idea to launch such an experiment in the Blogosphere, the questions of copyrights and any other claims concerning the content are solved within the discussions of the blog’s authors. However, the liability concerning the content usually resides on the side of the Admin-C due to German law, but the communities of the Blogosphere usually regulate themselves to invalidate any kind of misuse or abuse. I believe such kind of experiment would never be possible for any kind of newspaper or profit orientated company.

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More Suggestions for Blogspirit

I found a few things on Blogspirit which disturbed me in a minor case, so it’s not a biggie. I’m simply going to list them all up and let our Tag–Team decide on what to do next… ;)

  • The old communities don’t have Trackbacks listed in the major overview compared to more recent additions – probably a template update is necessary.
  • The Trackbacks aren’t summed up in the main admin interface page, currently I have 118 comments in total, but the „All comments“ page lists 124 comments (including the remaining 6 Trackbacks).
  • Once the blog’s category pages grow too large, a limitation of i.e. 15 articles per category page with the option to visit the next/previous page of each category might help to limit the endless scrolling.
  • A list of every blog at Blogspirit with the most recent updates (chronologically listed) might help to find even those blogs that post only once or twice a week but contain interesting information such as Middle Manager’s Heaven or it might help to find dead blogs easier than visiting them manually or checking all subscribed feeds in your RSS aggregator software.

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Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr

There’s been several rumors about Google trying to accquire the photo service Flickr, but Yahoo made the run as Flickr reports in their own blog:

Holy smokes, SOMEBODY out there is bad at keeping secrets!! Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the champagne corks!

I bet Yahoo will make several changes about Flickr’s services – will it remain in the same way as now or will Flickr become integrated into the Yahoo network as „Yahoo’s Photo Service“? Time will tell us…

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Death of Girliezine

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Nico Wilfer, the hoster of Myblog.de, closed the blog „Girliezine“ on Saturday evening. Wilfer himself explained the blog had been closed due to the facts that even after being warned, „Kelly M.“ chose to spam several other blogs and threatened the authors, too. On the question of the long run to the closure of the blog, Wilfer answered they’d require a very good reason to delete a blog – especially without sending out a warning to the blog’s author, a deletition might catch those users who do not intend to violate rules and regulations. Dogfood at Blogbar concludes some more ideas about virtual death of Girliezine (in German).

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RSS List Update

I made a larger update for the Blogroll’s RSS List. You may download my daily reading circle and be inspired by the recent additions of the full Handelsblatt’s journalists, several new blogs such as the Futureblog, Blogspirit community blogs, german Podcasters and many more. Enjoy ;)

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French Cover-Up

Currently, several blogs at Blogspirit are facing a probably minor error in the software settings: The administration interface and the blog’s output is usually displayed in french instead of i.e. english or german. This might have been caused due to the recent updates, and I believe Thomas or Philippe will find a solution soon.

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Anti-Girliezine

Sometimes its quite useful to have your own watchlist… since there’s little time in my holidays to cover all the things with which I’ve been keeping myself busy. NetReaper has some more input on Magnus, Kelly and the Girliezine:

The logical anti-movement is simple: The anti-girliezine blog under the banner of „Lies create the Media“.

I encourage people to visit the anti-girliezine blog instead of reading the original one…

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Referer Problem

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I’ve been reading through Thomas‘ great input concerning the Custom Boxes – a good idea about implementing some more functionality to your blog. However, the idea of supporting public referer lists is quite problematic as many referers are faked by spammers. Similar to the idea of comment spamming, they post their URLs into the referer header just to lure visitors via referer lists to their sites. Here is an excerpt from my own referer list found in the admin interface and my personal reason not to include this gadget at all – sex and cash advertisement shall not be part of my blog!

www(.)arschfick(.)d4f(.)de
www(.)teen-sex(.)d4f(.)de
www(.)adultactioncam(.)com
www(.)sexsearchcom(.)com/9071
hop(.)clickbank(.)net
gradfinder(.)com/go/g545789

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Translation

I believe I might find some time to continue the translation of the Blogspirit software’s language package into the German language later this evening. I’m eager to compile the whole PoEdit input to finish my promises. Unfortunately, the exams for university stroke me like a serious blast, and now the trip to Berlin costs way too much time to find small portions of a cleared mind… ;)

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