The bookshop will be featured in an upcoming issue of Berlin's biggest city magazine (Not the one coming out today!)

Why Fidelity # 89 - Another Country

Senses Working Overtime has tons of great mixes like that up there for download. One of the coolest MP3-blogs I've seen so far!

papertools about "Another Country"

I know, the quality sucks, but it was a great evening and maybe someone else wants to take pictures instead? Graham is off for a while, I heard!

There is another long video on my cellphone, but I gotta transfer it first and before that I gotta throw all kinds of things away which takes very long and....

Dr. Snakeskin put it on his MySpace. Duuude, I'm still laughing!

Don't know why, but we have ten times more traffic than usual today.... Well, actually it's no wonder. Women are fighting over the last copies of the "Exberliner" with Alan on the cover. I've seen him signing autographs!

This guy keeps coming back to our page for two days now.

Today he had some more questions:

Search request: what should i bring when i move to another country

Answer: a toothbrush and some money would be good.

Search request: jobs people get when they come from another country

Answer: they sell "Zitty" and "Tip" on the streets of Berlin.

Anything else? Man, can we help you in some way? Are you stuck somewhere? The US of A maybe? Yeah, life sucks if you're growing up in a smalltown and the only good thing about a smalltown is: it makes you wanna get out.

-> From Brooklyn to Berlin: New York Artists Escape to Germany - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Hey, steven augustine, do you want to change your "topic" aka. tag "Friday poems" or something like that. I could add the tag in the navigation up there, but it wont work with the "/"-slash-thingie for some reason. Try "Friday-Poem" or something instead...

Cheers and thanks for the contributions!

Search request: why could it be risky going to another country

Or: Search request: Difficulties about going to another country

Not bad either: Search request: games from another country

Found this swell anagram generator for hours of fun..be sure to visit the Hall of Anangram Fame..it's uncanny!

Here

Search request: funny country musicians

Search request: english language bookstores berlin

This is a wonderful little site: Today in Literature is a daily calendar of engaging stories about literary history.

Today they got a special on D. H. Lawrence:

"September 11, 1885

On this day in 1885 D. H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, outside Nottingham, the fourth of five children. Lawrence's autobiographical novel, Sons and Lovers (1913) made famous the tortured conditions of his upbringing: his uneducated father's pit-and-pub life, his mother's contempt for this and her self-sacrifice to escape, Lawrence's own conflicted feelings about all of it."

There are Newsfeeds for Berlin and Kreuzberg in the column on the right. The list of Berlin Blogs in the column on the left has been updated. My latest favorites from YouTube are on the right.

Since YouTube is so popular with our regulars: If you have a list of favorites or playlists from and you want them to show up here: leave your youtube-username and I can roll a feed of everyones favorites in one nice little widget. Less posting and linking, more cool video-links.

Thanks to the folks who have contributed recently. Our little blog is getting better and better, I think.

FAQ: HOW TO use this blog, how to comment, how to create a link, how to embed a video etc.

The street was named after Heinrich Arminius Riemann (German Wikipedia)

If anyone has a Bull Whip laying around their house could you please speak with Alan ASAP.

Still playing around with the navigation and the various elements in the columns on the left and on the right. Too many widgets... I'm working on it...

But I guess we're not serving the classic 56k-dial-up-modem anymore. Most people get here via some sort of DSL.

The old modems wont get you all that YouTube, but that's what we've been doing for quite some time now anyway.

Nonetheless, too many videos on one page slow things down. From now on, my favourites can be found here: ALL VIDEOS.

And the latest ones appear in the window on the right. But why not add your favourites to that stream yourself?

Since we have so many YouTube-customers with good taste out there, why don't you all start your own list of favourites and we can combine all of those favourites and then we have one videoblog with automatic updates that everyone can subscribe to. Sort of an "Another Country TV Channel"....

All you need is a YouTube-account. You mark your favourites and let us know your user-identity, we do the rest.

In case you are a member of that nice new social network already : Dave started a group on FACEBOOK and you can all become officers in the mighty "Another Country Army".

Fucking MyMurdochSpace! I hate that site by now! It's just incredibly boring and full of spam. Everyone please move over to the "not yet selling out" independent network they call FACEBOOK. More comfortable, lots of jingle jangle for everyone and way less spam. It's much more exclusive and has way more features. MySpace isn't moving one bit. They didn't even come up with simple updates like a mute-button or "stop auto-start of songs". Facebook has millions of what they call widgets nowadays.

Widgets combined with RSS-Feeds and API changed the way we use the internet big time. The simple "Copy & paste"-method of embedded codes for Videos or pictures is easy to understand and it gets more advanced with sites like Widgetbox.com. Every kid can put together a widget with the latest news, links and videos about a favourite tv-show or whatever subject. Our Berlin-Newsfeed on the right is a good example.

YouTube opened up all the way today. Now you can subscribe to videos, blogs, news, links, audio-files etc. via keywords or someones playlist or favourites via RSS with Google-Reader, tumblr.com or feedraider.com. Combine various streams (like "Country" & "Western" & "Polka" & "Berlin" & "Boheme" !) until you have one big RSS-newsfeed based on your personal interests in the end. Internet 2.0 is all about simple toys that help you putting your own thing together. It's about usability and productivity, not about looking fancy.

Check out those nice toys over at widgetbox.com and put 'em on your Facebook, IGoogle, Blog etc.

You might have wondered about this RSS-thing. What is it all about, you might wonder. Well, if you follow certain websites on a regular base, why not subscribe to their updates via this technology called RSS (Real Simple Syndication). Damned, get an RSS-Reader (...or an "Aggregator" like Tumblr.com or Feedraider.com) to read all your favourite sites without wasting too much time.

Here are two links explaining things. You will figure out the "why" yourself.

Folks, knowing how RSS works could even help getting a new job....

Managers pay good money if you explain really simple things to them that might even improve their productivity...

Lifehack-Links: -How to Get Started with Google Reader -Get More Out of Google Reader

I'm working on it....

The widgets should kick in within 24 hours.