my private saloon

Rober Scoble wrote about how to respond to criticism today. I don’t know how wordpress.com company Automattic and their new employee Olaf A. Schmitz (swiss guy) - former wordpress.de founder and owner - will reply to the cricism blowing in their faces these days through the german blogosphere.

The short story: wordpress.de was _the_ (one and only) german WP website ever, owned by Olaf A. Schmitz - a single person. It had a forum, hosted the download of the german language version of WP and had lot’s of other tools. (Ping-Service, Blogmap and stuff).

Through the last months domains changed. Lot’s of services have beed redirected to wordpress-germany.org (what a domain nam whooo!) but no one talked about it. During the last days suddenly the ownership for wordpress.de changed from Olaf to Automattic Inc - the company of WP founder Matt Mullenweg - owner of wordpress.com hosting service. From one day to the other the domain was redirected to wordpress.com taking all the thousands of Links to wordpress.de with them (wordpress.de has a Google Pagerank 7/10).

That’s how automattic and Olaf made the german blogosphere angry these days. Not the fact they’re going to offer free bloghosting on the domain but the fact they took a community built linkability (through years thinking the project is open source) to a commercial company and not talking about it.g

guys: Talk about it - communicate open and honestly.

Get some more information here, here and here.

Is american television the same shit than german? i realized that you nearly cannot watch tv in germany. there’s not really any station with reliable quality content.

Netzblogger’s talking about some ideas he had for quality tv but i guess there won’t be anyone inteligent enough to be able to launch such a faithful program.

I wish i could have some blog readers. They could then tell me how television is in other countries maybe later…

[tags]tv,television,trash,germany[/tags]

…whohoooo something really new for me. Blogging in english. Don’t be too hard with me as i’m not a native english speaker. It’s even worse - i’m german.

But for several reasons i’m gonna try it now - just trying to blog english. I hope it works.

talk to you later…

[tags]privatesaloon,me,english[/tags]