cencorship Flickr's in hot water again Yesterday Flickr released localization for their service in German, Spanish, French and a few other languages. Which would be a good thing, if they wouldn’t in return censor search results for certain
barcamp And so that was Barcamp... … and it was fun! Our presentation of Medienschelte.at went down quite well with the crowd, and the ensuing discussion was actually quite a bit more vibrant than I had initially expected. I
Books On projects Well, so we didn’t win the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize with the Messages from the Lost Continent. It still was great to be shortlisted. Congratulations to the winners. On another note, I’
fluff Breaking News - Internet is offensive I could write a long post about why this is ridiculous, but it’d be just too damn easy. Too fucking easy, actually. Just a note: having major news outlets release stories about
Internet King of the Internet Alright, I know it’s the easy way out to just post content someone else made, but what can I say? After watching this video you too will want to show it to
allofmp3 Russia under fire - for illegal downloads From the Results of Bilateral Negotiations on Russia’s Accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), November 19th: The United States and Russia have agreed on a binding blueprint for actions that Russia
blogging In which I announce my going to a blogging event Since I’m too cheap (or rather “frugal”) to pay the 100€ for Blogtalk Reloaded here in Vienna, I will attend another blogging event today that’s probably quite as much fun as
craigslist What makes me hate the Internet I love the Internet. I especially like the services that let me connect, share and compare my ideas, my ideals and my interests with others. But there’s a dirty underbelly to that
fun My Pollock That’s my Pollock (no, not the fish, silly). Or, rather, that’s one of them. I think I spent two hours on this website trying to imitate something like this, but gave
flickr Valleyschwag is here I didn’t actually expect it to ever arrive, but lo and behold, it is here. It arrived with yesterday’s mail, and as always, the Austrian postal service did a fantastic job
Internet Fluxiom and Box.net I’ve been wanting to write a little bit about Fluxiom, Vienna based file storage and sharing app for a few days now. I was always too busy, and now Michael Arrington from
activism Maturity-challenged There’s a story making the rounds about a Chinese blogger notorious for his criticism of the Chinese government, and the problems he’s facing getting his word out. His blog, hosted on
Internet Diigo - the annotating heaven It’s the new year, and I’ll introduce it by introducing another great bookmarking service I’ve been made aware of lately. The pretty thing is called Diigo, and despite it’s
fiction The big picture... …has emerged, eventually. To chime in with Mig, thanks Horst for letting me participate. It really was quite something.
Internet Gervais in sound Just in case you haven’t heard about it yet (you probably have), Ricky Gervais of “The Office” fame has got his own podcast now. Now, I actually wanted to say that Gervais’
activism Starbucks Challenge update So, the Starbucks Challenge 2.0 has ended, and sure enough, results were worse than after the initial challenge. Oh well, what a surprise. Green LA girl is still at it with a
del.icio.us Simpy's the new delicious Now that del.icio.us has been bought by Yahoo, thereby thrown from obscurity into the mainstream, it’s time to openly promulgate: Simpy is the new del.icio.us. Mark my words.
boltfolio Waiting for Google calendar Well, I feel like a total nerd because I waited all day on the 6th, expecting a message on Digg or Slashdot that Google Calendar had launched. Sure as hell, that message never
Internet N.A.D.D. Uh oh, after reading this article on 43 Folders, I think I may be suffering from N.A.D.D. Not good, not good.
Internet Netvibes I just stumbled upon Netvibes. It’s very similar to Google’s personalized homepage or myYahoo (you know, personalized news, email, search, etc.). I just quickly scanned what it has to offer, and
Google_Analytics Another Google Week Well, it looks like it’s another Google shipping week. Monday they announced Google Analytics, which is what they made out of Urchin, an acquired company doing web-statistics. It’s completely free for
blogsearch Sphere Beta A while back I signed up for a beta account for Sphere , which, in its “about” section, defines itself like this: Sphere is a new kind of blog search engine that uses an
Internet What's in a name? When I checked my website stats yesterday, I stumbled upon this gem of network nomenclature: I had to resize the image, otherwise it wouldn’t have fit on this very page. Click to
austria First Austrian podcasting platform - NOT In yesterday’s [Daily Source Code](Daily Source Code), Adam Curry said something to the effect that podcasting was created because people were fed up with what mainstream radio had to offer them.