Finally: in June I will experience Dream Theater live on their "Chaos in Motion" world tour. On the 16th they will enter the stage in Bonn right after Riverside (wow!), other concerts will get a warm-up from Symphony X.
Sure there will be a Porcupine Tree concert in Cologne on 20 June which I would like to see as well; but my priorities are set and I don't have the money for two concerts in such a short time. Anyone got Genesis tickets for free? ;)
Qunu - A field report
I want to advertise a little for a really great project: Qunu is a service where you can search for topics you need help with - and then get connected to experts or other users from this field. You can chat immediately with other people who are well versed in it! And you can do that without installing any additional software.
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Break the tedious tagging barrier
Jimmy Wales' idea of a user-centred search engine is cool but how does he want to get people to do the tedious work of tagging? It's one thing to write a Wikipedia article but I would only tag and rank sites in self-interest. A neat and playful alternative for getting people to tag comes once again from idea forge Google: in the Image Labeler you get connected to a randomly selected other user in real time. Then you will see a series of pictures and have to try to find the same term for each of them as your partner - in a certain time. For every successfully tagged picture you get points and at the end you see a ranking. As simple as this is, it's really fun! Unfortunately only in English.

