Photowalks sind eine feine Sache: Man geht wo hin, wo man noch nie war oder geht an schon bekannte Orte, die man einmal in einem anderen Licht sehen möchte. Sie sind ausserdem eine tolle Gelegenheit, um mit anderen (Hobby-) Photographen und Bekannten zu plaudern und mit seiner Kamera Spass zu haben. Letztes Wochende war wieder einmal eine solche Gelegenheit: Beate Firlinger, Robert Lender und Andreas Hafenscher hatten nach Wien geladen ... und jede Menge Leute kamen.
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Photowalk Wien 2009
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Deep Space Nine: The Never-Ending Sacrifice
The summer is finally over and autumn is on its way in. And with it comes a ton of new Star Trek books in more or less every series. Even though Simon & Schuster's new website makes it really hard to find new books, I managed to find one before the new Enterprise finds its way into my hands next week: The Never-Ending Sacrifice by Una McCormack.
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Little love for Google Groups?
Primary link: ejohn.org
Today, John Resig wrote a really nice (and quite lenghty) post about Google Groups and why he dislikes it because of its interaction with SPAM. The article is a really nice read so I highly recommend to check it out. I've been a participant on quite a few Google Groups to see the problem. Especially larger groups eventually offen see themselves in a situation where moderating them is so much work, that it's sometimes not worth the effort anymore. So, they either set the moderation limit rather restrictively or move to a different solution altogether simply because Google Groups are a too attractive target for the scum of the adverticing business.
I'm personally not really a big fan of Google Groups. At first I was thrilled by how easy it is to set up a mailinglist + archives with it. For some reason, though, it never had the feel of an integrated solution but this is probably mostly due to also the other Google apps not really integrating themselves not all too well with Google's own Domain Apps. There is also the whole problem of being locked in without a clean way of exporting all mails posted on such a group. For this and also the SPAM problem, a dedicated server is probably the better solution than something so centralized. You simply have far more options at your disposal and can tweak your whole battle-strategy to your own liking. For some reason, I also always fear that one day some spammer will spoof my own email address on too many Google Groups and all my mails sent to other people on GMail will see only the SPAM folder during their 14 days of life :-/
<update>Not that I think mailman is the perfect solution either. Google Groups tries to be somehow a mix between a bulletin board and a mailinglist, which is a good idea, but for me the focus is still too much on the mailinglist part, which has its problems when used for really large communities.</update>
Google Groups is still a nice solution for private groups where members all have a Google account but I definitely understand why some projects are slowly moving away from it for large mailinglists. In this regard I'm also really curious about what solution JQuery will use in the future.
