2011: A year of Freedom of expression, thought and speech

The strength of the truth is solidly explained in the bible, where it says about the people that wanted to silence Christ: "Καὶ ἐζήτουν αὐτὸν κρατῆσαι, καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν τὸν ὄχλον· ἔγνωσαν γὰρ ὅτι πρὸς αὐτοὺς τὴν παραβολὴν εἶπε. καὶ ἀφέντες αὐτὸν ἀπῆλθον." (Mark 12:1-12 : And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them; so they left him and went away.)

They feared the "multitude", they were afraid of the majority that would react against any attempt covering up truth. Maybe that is an excellent statement for a civilized year 2011, where our values of democracy and the "pursuit of happiness" are at danger in so many areas of our societies, including the liberty in our Software Industry and an open and non-discriminating access to their services.

Ad words - the magic of add placement within your blog

Hey, we are thankful to Google, of course for giving us that space to tell everybody what we think and what our business is currently all about. But what about the automatic robot that sorts through the postings - he/she must be rather clueless what type of people browse this blog. Last week they (are they only one or do they have seperate identities?) wanted to sell of tires (usually I use my bike) and then they offered free Tarot readings and magicians to cure whatever problems you have...and now they even switched to advertisments for local food. What a difficult life this robot must lead, we pity him/her don`t we?

The strength of the MicroISV as seen on the 10th ESWC in Vienna

The 10th ESWC in Vienna was an amazing and living proof that the MicroISV, the individual developer is determining more than ever the path that a billion-dollar software industry is heading for. This is really a new-age elite, simply determined by merit and ability. The 10th ESWC has faded out our doubts and lightened the burden as developers - it is a great experience to be part of creating a new world of borderless informational individuality.

Informationelle Freiheit - ein paar ungebürstete Gedanken

Jeder von uns ist für Datenschutz. Datenschutz ist das virtuelle Gegenstück zum Personenschutz, zum Recht auf körperliche und geistige Unversehrheit. Doch ergeben sich in einer zunehmend vernetzten und informationell durchdrungenen Gesellschaft einige Aspekte, die einer genaueren Betrachtung würdig sind. Dabei ist die Vielfalt der Information, die Pluralität der informationellen Querverbindungen (PiQ) Anlass zu Szenarien des gläsernen Menschen, zum Teil wohl auch schon bewahrheitet in den Vorgehens- und Verhaltensweisen nichtdemokratischer Regierungen, aber leider auch gewählter Regierungen. Alle haben nun die Lust am Überwachen entdeckt, insofern dies nicht soweiso ein inhärentes Merkmal jedes Staates ist. Doch kaum einer denkt an etwas ganz Banales. Das Übermaß an PiQ führt zu einer immer genaueren Abbildung der Realität, oder zumindest ein festgeprägten Version der wahrgenommenen und erfaßten Realität; und überschreitet irgendwann die Grenzen zu Unkontrollierbarkeit; es ist in Institutionen aber auch nicht bei einzelnen Individuen einfach nicht der Überblick, die filternde Intelligenz vorhanden, Prioritäten richtig zu setzen oder zu erkennen. Der Speicherungswahn wird in seiner eigenen Anarchie der uferlosen PiQ versinken und sich ad Absurdum führen. Gerade der (un-)absichtliche Fehler bei der Dateneingabe und -verarbeitung, zuweilen auch beim Autor selber (dem "Bürger", IT-Spezialisten etc.) wird zu einer zusätzlichen systemischen Unlogik führen.

(C) Alle Rechte vorbehalten

Ἰωάννου α' 4:12-19 & Ἰωάννην 19.25-27, 21.2

Φόβος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ, ἀλλʼ ἡ τελεία ἀγάπη ἔξω βάλλει τὸν φόβον, ὅτι ὁ φόβος κόλασιν ἔχει· ὁ δὲ φοβούμενος οὐ τετελείωται ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ.
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Ἔστιν δὲ καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ ὅσα ἐποίησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς, ἅτινα ἐὰν γράφηται καθʼ ἕν, οὐδὲ αὐτὸν οἶμαι τὸν κόσμον χωρῆσαι τὰ γραφόμενα βιβλία.

Global software at Epsilon Award voting 2010

16 Software Products - from authors over the whole globe - have been nominated for the Epsilon Award demonstrating once again the quality and scope of our Software Industry and their creative (Micro-)ISVs.

Please check them out and vote for one of them. Thank you!

P.S. And maybe join us in Vienna on November 06 and 07 for our 10th European Software Conference with hotel rates at 119,- Euro and 55 signup minimum.

Street boohs revisited

"Permanent observation demanded" As we have learned the action group: POd has issued a statement demanding constant observation of their houses by Lookgle. "We have the right for pictures that reflect the actual state of our house being obvious to the whole world" said Mr. Samuel Ubiquous, speaker of the POd. As far as we know there has been no comment yet on that from Lookgle Inc. We will inform you about further developments.

Village opinions and global appearance

Seem to work rather similar. And when people are carefully watching their opinions being filtered you may walk on clouds and not even know it.

Is Human kind (not) changing?

Ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ ᾽Ιησοῦς εἶπεν, ὦ γενεὰ ἄπιστος καὶ διεστραμμένη, ἕως πότε μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν ἔσομαι; ἕως πότε ἀνέξομαι ὑμῶν... (Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 17.10-18 )

Epsilon Award 2010 open for nominations

The Epsilon Award 2010 open for nominations. It will be given at the 10th European Software Conference on November 06 in Vienna after the public vote decides on the actual winner.

Governmental control in the Internet

As much as we all value the wise and well-proportioned use and strength of governmental institutions there are signs that they have realized the impact of the modern world, unfolding around them. Wow. They have noticed us.

Can they and should they control the Internet? Well, the Internet is a mirror image of the world with all of its good and its bad sides. So if it comes to policing unlawful acts such as spam or financial transfers of dubious nature probably most of the community accept this as their right to do so. But how far and to which extent should that go? You cannot ration oxygen because there are criminals that breathe it, right?

Interestingly enough European countries have traditionally tended to decrease liberty and to curb innovation through legal governmental action. In the US a court just ruled out FCC, who actually wanted to control the providers from deciding on how to weighten broadband connections. Interesting coverage of that case can be found at NYtimes online at http://ow.ly/1vuRh .

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The small steps towards civilization

In a consensus process it takes tremendous time and effort to achieve a goal.The question how to govern opinion leadership remains. In all areas of life and public domains.

Über die Widrigkeiten der Freiheit

Demokratie ist eine der größten Erfolge menschlicher Geschichte. Sie ist die unmittelbare Voraussetzung für einen aufgeklärten Umgang mit technologischem Fortschritt und für das Höchstmaß individueller Entfaltungsmöglichkeit. Aber es bedarf hier konstanter Mühe, unermüdliches Engagement des mündigen Bürgers, um sie mit Leben zu erfüllen. Soziales Bewußtsein muß sich mit sozialem Verantwortungsgefühl verbinden. Auf allen Ebenen. Wenn aber in der Nachbarschaft jeder meint, seinen Müll draußen entsorgen zu dürfen (vom Papierschnitzel bis zum großindustriellen "Entsorger"), oder seine Wahlrechte nicht wahrnimmt, weil er gerade was besseres zu tun hat, oder im öffentlichen Leben (z.B. der Vereine) nicht mittträgt, oder... Dann führen die nicht wahrgenommenen Pflichten des Einzelnen zur Teilhabe und Teilnahme dazu, dass wenige Schultern das Gemeinwesen tragen müssen. Und Meckern, Kritisieren und Kaputtreden gehört dann zum "guten" Ton. Schade. Besserung in Sicht, liebe Finanzjongleure, Profiteure etc...?