Pros

The milestone post shows readers that there is something happening – not just some post hitting the rss reader – and it shows what is happening. A short review of what happened and a short look into the unknown future. I, as a reader, appreciate such posts cause than I can better see what is happening with the person behind the blog and the blog it self. I think especially at a personal blog that’s very important.

A second pro is your own ego. I like to see the good going on – who don’t? – and that includes hitting milestones like the ‘1 month after relaunch’. I take the publishing of future plans as a incitation to get the goal hit by the deadline I wrote in the post, which is a great reason to publish such a post – at least in my eyes.

Cons

If you publish a milestone post at your blog you may turn some readers off cause they just like to get information and don’t want to get a note in their rss reader that you changed the design. The second reason is that maybe the feature plans don’t fit the expectations of the reader. This is for a personal blog both not that important I think, cause people who read your blog are interested in you and your opinion which means they are interested in what you think and what you write.

Conclusion

In the end I decided to write such an post. I decided that way because I want the readers to know what they have to expect and what happened since the relaunch. That shows that something is happening and I’m looking forward to get out more great content and improve my writing skills.

This thoughts are for my personal blog. If I would run a business blog which could make me money, I think I would write the milestone post in a completely other way.

What do you think about publishing milestone posts? Please leave a comment or just send me a email.

Used by gulli.com/news / Panel: ccc jahresrueckblick

Day two is over. Again it’s over for me but some are still listening or just hacking at the hackcenter. My personal review of the day is that the talks I though would be interesting mainly were. Just the Attacking Rich Internet Applications talk was not what I expected it to be. But the two other talks have been quiet interesting and fun. The one was the talk about the CCC year, what happened – good and bad – and what goes on. The second very interesting talk was by Tim Pritlove about the Blinkenlights Project Steroscope in Toronto. That one I found very interesting especially in the mater of how to organize a project, and that you just have to do it and not just talk – even if you have to work 16 hours a day or more. And I found his way to present some things very funny, I have to say he’s a great stage man and not just that he does great podcasting as well.

gulli.com/news used one of my pictures

That’s it for today, the review of day 2. But what’s with day 3? I’m not going to be there. Why? Well just like I wrote yesterday, I’m not the right person for this event at least running around alone is not what I thought it would be and I have some other stuff going on at home. So maybe I’ll be at the 26C3 next year or not we’ll see.
But one very interesting thing just happened short before I was writing this post. I opened my WordPress dashboard after login into my blog and had a look at the stats and saw that a in link was showing up, well at least a recognition of my name which is mainly cspiegl. The page I was mentioned is gulli.com, the reason I’m mentioned is cause one of the pictures used in the article was shot by me. That makes me proud, especially cause it’s the first time one of my pictures is used by another person than one out of my family.

I thank you gulli.com news and the writers of this article (-rbrueckner & gS-), I’m looking forward to go on taking good shots even if I can’t take some more of the 25C3.

Like it was written on twitter, there where too few seats for to many people. I got lucky and after 1 minutes of waiting I got a seat with table and a power plug in ‘Saal1′ ( = room 1) – just perfect to surf and listen. I have to admit, I didn’t made it to the 2 first lectures I wanted to go to because of my notebook not File Vaulting fast enough. But the once after this first two have been very interesting. About the German ‘Hackerparagraphen‘ and building hackerspaces.org. I think if you are interested in what the keynotes topics where, just go over to the video archive of the congress at the wiki.

Preview Day 2

The list of interesting lectures, which I’m trying to visit:

1. 11:30 AM: Jahresrückblick
2. 02:00 PM: Attacking Rich Internet Applications
3. 04:00 PM: Blinkenlights Stereoscope

That’s a pretty short list I think but hey, I want to have a look at the other things at the congress too. For example the Hardware area close to the hackcenter. And maybe there is a great workshop.

Planing

For me all looks pretty interesting, but I have to say that if I have the choice next year to go to the congress or have some great days with friends watching movies or so. I’ll choose the friends cause the congress is not that much of information I would valuate, and the few which are valuable, can be watched via stream or recording. Maybe that opinion change over the next two days? Or not.

For this year, I planed to stay for 4 days but now I’m going to leave at the 28th of December cause the congress does not give me what I thought it would be like. That means no preview or review after tomorrow, maybe a review of the congress how I experienced it and the coverage from external.

But there is something I have to tell. I’m not pretty sure if the 25C3 is the right meeting for me. It’s maybe for an other kind of people. But! I learned something in the past year. And that is: If you have the chance to meat people real – person to person – that’s great and you should go out to each and every conference, meet up, congress you can get into! Just for that real in person social-networking. That’s the main reason I’m here at this congress. One other reason is that I’m interested in some lectures but in no way in this hack center kinda hacking. More on that, there is a schedule online and I walked through this schedule to see what interests me. Here is a list of my favs for today.

1. 10:00 AM: Opening and Keynote “Nothing to hide”
2. 11:30 AM: Datenpannen
3. 12:45 AM: U23
4. 02:00 PM: Der Hackerparagraph 202c StGB
5. 04:00 PM: Building an international movement: hackerspaces.org
6. 06:30 PM: Erich Mühsams Tagebücher in der Festungshaft
7. 08:30 PM: Hacking the iPhone

I think if you view the articles pages you’ll get an idea of what it is about and I don’t have to explain that now. But I think that’s for me a great day of informations, but after the ‘Hacking the iPhone’ lecture I’ll leave. Let’s see how it tourns out. I’ll be posting a review and pictures of the day tomorrow.

**Update**

Sorry for the Update but the Title was not right.