I’ve been invited to join the World Blog­ging Forum 2009 in Bucharest as a VIP guest — and I’m really look­ing for­ward to meet­ing incred­i­ble web geeks from 30 coun­tries. Head­ing for Roma­nia next week and of course I’ll report about the event, here’s a short pre­view of the guest list and the topics.

Wel­come to the weekly blog round-up — a lot has hap­pened dur­ing the last seven days. Every­body was talk­ing about Google Wave, and Loic Le Meur announced that Seesmic will soon release a browser-based ver­sion of their client.

The aus­trian min­is­ter of sci­en­tific affairs deci­sion to leave CERN came as a total sur­prise: sci­en­tists are protest­ing — if you think that this deci­sion is short-sighted too, then please go ahead and sign the petition!

Does android dream of elec­tric sheep? The T-Mobile G1 is the first phone on the Aus­trian mar­ket that runs Android, Googles open source OS for mobile devices. Here’s a first-impression video.

Dur­ing the sec­ond week­end of Feb­ru­ary, local geeks and inter­na­tional guests meet in Kla­gen­furt for Austria’s first bar­camp of the season.

There’s a new Word­Press ver­sion, Mr. Icahn has increased his Yahoo shares and a young film­maker ani­mates the free flow of sub-conscious thoughts. In other words: just an ordi­nary week in the Blogistan.

Last week­end the Aus­trian (and Bratislava) net scene met at HP head­quar­ters Vienna to cel­e­brate bar­camp 2008.

Aus­trian art group mono­chrom recently joined forces with the BLF (Bill­board Lib­er­a­tion Front). Their Tar­get: the Google Cam­pus. Their mis­sion: to set up a crit­i­cal instal­la­tion called “the great fire­wall of China”. It’s art, so no one went to jail — the BLF knows the US law sys­tem like their vest pocket. What nei­ther the monos nor the BLF knew though was that their action took place just on the day of a Google share­holder meet­ing — great coin­ci­dences still do occur in our wonder-less age! ‘njoy the vid:

Edi­tor of this blog and kind of respon­si­ble for most of the postings:

Mag. Ritchie Pet­tauer
Untere Augarten­strasse 16/13
1020 Vienna, Aus­tria
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