“And when my four closest friends and worldmates send me dozens of updates a week for five months, I begin to develop an almost telepathic awareness of the people most important to me.” Clive Thompson rounds it up nicely – and I already know it works. Since my twitter messages are mirrored as status messages on IM, my friends always have an idea of what I’m doing – and more often than not I am asked about it. The fun is limited, thou, since few of my friends embraced that as well. The information flows only in one direction, even if plazes, where some of my mates have an account, added that functionality as well.

Better look out; luckily, there are some guidelines available that will help you: If you pay close attention to your son’s reading habits, as I do, you will be able to determine a great deal about his opinions and hobbies…. Any father who has had a seventeen year old daughter attempt to sneak out on a date wearing make up and perfume is well aware of the effect that improper influences can have on inexperienced minds.There are, unfortunately, many hacking manuals available in bookshops today. A few titles to be on the lookout for are: “Snow Crash” and “Cryptonomicon” by Neal Stephenson; “Neuromancer” by William Gibson; “Programming with Perl” by Timothy O’Reilly; “Geeks” by Jon Katz; “The Hacker Crackdown” by Bruce Sterling; “Microserfs” by Douglas Coupland; “Hackers” by Steven Levy; and “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” by Eric S.

Google’s new [Image Labeler][3] service is a game that asks you and a random partner somewhere on the Internet to come up with tags to describe an image. The tags you two independently create are applied to the picture.

«The downside is that until now you had to carry your laptop with you to make full use of Plazes…. With the smartphone client you can make full use of the power of Plazes, on the go!»

plazes:blog about their new mobile services – and of course, the Motorola RAZR is nowhere near the compatible phones.

Be warned. Using the internet and its various services might change your behaviour.

It’s nice to see that you simply can count on certain people, be it del.icio.us or plazes or flickr or jabber.

Wer wissen möchte, wo ich mich gerade so befinde, kann hier nachsehen gehen. Und weil ich Plazes das so lustig finde, könnten sich ja auch noch andere anmelden … oder?

Ein Phishing-Mail, das scheinbar von der schweizerischen PostFinance kommt, geht rum. Seid gewarnt. Nicht alles klicken, was blau leuchtet.

Ted Nelson rettet das Web. Wieder mal. Er scheint nicht zu merken, dass es das schon lange nicht mehr nötig hat.

Es ist durchaus fraglich, ob die ursprüngliche und heute immer noch frischfröhlich vertretene Ansicht, das Internet sei die Realisierung eines hierarchiefreien und rein assoziativen Wissensraumes wirklich anwendbar ist – oder ob das Web zum einen das gar nicht ist und zum anderen das auch gar nicht sein soll. Die schriftliche und erweiterte Version eines Referates, das ich an der Uni Bern zum Thema Hypertext gehalten habe.

Der Kampf gegen IE geht weiter: Verbündet euch!