Month: October 2002

zurich boredom

i experienced the meaningless zurich life this weekend when i walked around in the city for a bit. everyone is so full of themselves and thinks they have seen it all when they are provincial idiots at best.

Good tunes

I collected a couple nice tunes over the last few months.

  • K-pop
  • Sarah Tokyo
  • Electro
  • Primal Scream Kill all Hippies
  • Ladytron He took her to a movie
  • FischerSpooner Emerge
  • Felix Da Housecat Madame Hollywood
  • Underworld Luetin
  • G-Pal Aegan Sea
  • Miss Kittin and the Hacker 1982
  • Michael Forshaw Work that Mutha
  • E-Dancer Velocity Funk
  • Foremost Poets Pressin On
  • Silicone Soul Right on, Right on
  • Kirk Degiorgio Presents as One Contours
  • Step Sly featuring Shawna Sulek (Re)minding Dreams
  • Green Velvet La La Land
  • MRI Data Boogie
  • Anthony Rother Little Computer People Project
  • Add N to X Plug me In
  • Alexander Kowalski Delicious
  • Swayzak Make up your mind
  • Gus Gus Dance you Down
  • Sunday Brunch – No Resistance
  • Akufen Installation
  • Slam Lifetimes
  • 2 Lone Swordsmen Machine Maid
  • Drum & Bass
  • Ming and FS
  • Reload Le soleil et la Mer
  • Hip Hop
  • MC Solaar Solaar pleure
  • Derrick Carter Where you at?
  • House
  • Blaze Do you remember house?
  • Thick Dick Insatiable
  • Ian Pooley Missing You
  • Experimental
  • jan jelinek ~scape loop-finding-jazz-records
  • Trip hop
  • Fila Brazillia Moloko Lotus Eaters
  • Luomo Tessio
  • RJD2 The chicken-bone circuit
  • RJD2 Good Times Roll Part 2
  • New Order 80s songs
  • Stereo MC The other side
  • St. Etienne Heart Failed..
  • Bjork Violently Happy
  • Bugs Wrapped Up
  • Bugs Filed under X
  • Marc Moulin Into the Dark
  • Groove Armada My Friend
  • Dimitri After the playboy mansion
  • Astralwerks nakedmusic collection
  • Gilles Peterson Worldwide
  • Alex Gopher The child
  • Digable planets Blowout comb
  • Cardigans life
  • Snooze The man in the shadow
  • Tosca Fuck dub
  • 2 Many DJs As heard on radio soulwax
  • Laurent Garnier The man with the red face
  • St. Germain Rose rouge
  • Fatboy slim: Groove Armada: At the river
  • Mo horizons: Nicola conte basic instinct III RMX
  • Aromabar Where is your moon
  • April stevens: Do it again
  • Bent: I love my man
  • Deja move: The beats are
  • Basement Jaxx Jus 1 Kiss
  • Nightmares on Wax les nuits
  • Underworld Lemon interrupt
  • The Avalanches Frontier Psychiatrist

Spam

i went through nearly 200 (physical) mails today. things i hate:

  • unasked-for customer magazines
  • redundant account statements (hello web??)
  • bills-cum-advertising
  • “special” offers from lousy companies
  • “moving” pleas from dumb charities
  • “management” magazines

maybe 10 of the 200 were relevant. if i get my banks to stop sending me statements which are online anyway they wont have an opportunity to spam me with their “special offers”. funny how marginal businesses that should focus on transactional efficiency want to create “added value” through stupid customer magazines. i don’t want to hear from my bank. they are eating my margins with their posturing. time for some shakeout.

Beyond CMS

HYPERTEXT: from Text to Expertext outlines many of the concepts i have been thinking about in the evolution of cms. developing and greatly extending on the rather vague ideas of hypertext, it starts with small document collections and quickly goes over to massive collections.

To facilitate the handling of massive document collections, institutions collect and provide access to the documents. A Macrotext system may store 10s of millions of documents and principally supports search. After a document is found, browsing or reading is performed on paper or with a Microtext system. Human-human, as well as human-computer communication, must be supported by a Grouptext system rather than by a Macrotext system.

it then goes beyond content towards issues of metadata and expert knowledge.

The major problem with microtext, macrotext, and grouptext is that in dealing with text that contains many links people become disoriented. Expert guidance in the form of Expertext may lessen the disorientation. Instilling life into document systems, by adding procedures which will respond to different users in different ways, one has a greater chance of creating documents which will succeed in influencing others. The combination of expert system and hypertext system features increases the utility of each system.