Dear readers & customers,
as a new media publishing house which we are representing it’s impossible today to only have one foot left in the new media doors.
So, what we did in the mean time since we rolled out our lemon fresh new look, is expanding our product range.
I) We still offer installing your classical blog with all you need to be a satisfied customer of the 21. century. Also, our start page for this hasn’t changed: https://aethyx.eu/eshop/. This is our core business and it will always be so.
Despite that, we expanded our main menu of the website with several brand new sub menus:
II) Interested in renting cloud space? Want to get rid of your old & nasty surveillance-tainted free cloud space provider? Or you simply just want to know today what that buzz around the “cloud” is? Then this is the new address for you: https://aethyx.eu/eshop/cloud-services/.
III) But maybe you want us to design an Android app for you which then will be available to billions of users and thousands of devices. All you need for that is clicking and bookmarking this link: https://aethyx.eu/eshop/apps-for-android/.
And finally, IV) We already accomplished releasing eBooks fully loaded with contents from weblogs. See our references or for future updates about this new eBook topic here, visit https://aethyx.eu/eshop/ebook-publishing/, please.
We accept payments in the following forms, but this is also emphasised on the offering pages themselves: IBAN, PayPal (not anonymously) and Bitcoin (100% anonymously).
You see: AETHYX MEDIAE got you covered what lies ahead! Become a part of the future, now! Contact us!
Yours sincerely,
the aethyx staff
The term “weblog” was coined at the end of 1997 by Jorn Barger. The first web service offering weblogs for an individual was Blogger in 1999, today a property of Google Inc.. However, it took until 2003 that this word was taken as a standard for this kind of medium by mainstream media. This means, all who did have a weblog before 2003, be happy: You may call yourself avant-garde!
A weblog has different core features which distinguish it from other forms of online publications, e.g. online forums:
- chronological, newest is on top of the web page
- comments for each entry
- links to monthly archives
- categories for entries
- search function (although shared with other online mediums, of course)
- embeddable media, like images, videos, etc. these were primarly created manually by html tags
- templates for only a handful of pages, mainly html
From these core features, a plethora of functions emerged: RSS/Atom feeds. Tagging. User management. Blogrolls (a collection of links in the sidebar). Templating. Smart URLs. And whatnot.
In fact, what we use, especially with WordPress or Drupal, these are complete suites which we call today CMS, content management systems. Always backed by a database, e.g. MySQL or MariaDB, which can become very huge over a certain period of time.
From weblogs it was only a small step to the often critised (but important and honest) “citizen journalism”. As you may read up, this wasn’t new either, what was completely new was the fact that an individual, or a group of individuals, could do this online and, hypothetically, reach the whole world. For not spending a penny at all, in the case of Blogger for example.
Today, blogs are everywhere: Be it a corporation displaying news in this form, in a “1-click-publishing-form” like Tumblr, or something else. In different states, e.g. Saudi-Arabia, to this day, Bloggers are executed for telling stories about their reality online.
Blogs may protect freedom of speech anywhere, but they may also be used as a weapon for hatred, like seen in European states where right-wing parties flourish since a couple of years. As always, it’s a double-sided sword. Never forget, that it’s the history of the Internet itself which makes them so.
As you can see: Starting is as easy as at the end of the 90s. What we do here at AETHYX MEDIAE is not that different: All we do is giving you the opportunity to use your own domain for your own medium, your own weblog, your own CMS. And if you didn’t hide under stones in the 90s or early 2000s, you should already own and know what a domain is, right?
We use WordPress since 2005 with success and although we read from time to time it has “flaws”, never experienced one problem with it. It became very powerful, very extensible over time, maybe like a labyrinth for starters.
We want to help you in navigating through this labyrinth! As you may see after a couple of months, or maybe even only weeks, this can be a helluva fun! We even set up WordPress for free when you are age 14 or under! Just have a look what we offer right now, we are sure there is something for anyone:
Feel free to contact us anytime, 24/7! We even accept Bitcoin for those who want to stay anonymous!
We think today it’s more important than ever to be an active individual or organization. You know what the proverb says: What doesn’t go with time, goes after some time. And we don’t think you want, or should, go forever. 😉
Dear readers,
today is World Day Against Internet Censorship!
Amnesty International as well as Reporters without Borders do their best to unblock and mirror as many websites as possible.
This event exists since 2008, 2016 they helped websites from Turkey, Vietnam and Saudi-Arabia by mirroring the censored contents through cloud services.
Also keep in mind that ad-blockers exist for the same reason: we wouldn’t need them without omnipresent online surveillance!
No government shall decide which websites its citizens may visit or not! No critical topic shall be banned from the critical minds eye! Stop and fight internet censorship wherever possible!
But why not start your own journey on the internet finally? AETHYX MEDIAE as an Independent publishing house realises indie web projects by giving you the opportunity to self-publishing since January 2010 already.
Prices start at 50€ for your own personal CMS (Content Management System) hosted on the server of your choice!
Besides, our cloud services use the free and Open-Source solution Owncloud hosted on secure servers in Europe. Prices start as low as 1€/GB per month!
Contact us directly via Email, info@aethyx.eu, and with our help you switch from a passive consumer to an active creator in no time!
Hope to hear from you soon!
Yours sincerely,
the aethyx staff
We want to celebrate the 12th of February for one helluva scientist: Charles Darwin!
To oppose all those stupid people out there who still think humans developed from flying spaghetti monsters.
The first Darwin’s Day was celebrated on April 22nd 1995. Afterwards especially atheists, scientists and students made it happen on February the 12th, Charles Darwin‘s birthday.
To see what events are happening today, worldwide by the way, visit this link: http://www.darwinday.org/.
Let’s keep it this day with their first slogan: promote public education about science! Celebrate sciences! Celebrate humanity!
Yours sincerely,
the aethyx staff
Dear readers,
firstly, a Happy New Year! Make your wishes come true!
Secondly, all of our Android apps except YAABy were updated shortly:
Get our Android apps via Google Play Store.
What we completely dismissed is Facebook. We deleted all of our Facebook sites associated with our projects (for obvious reasons meanwhile). What you still can do is like the articles inside our apps and on our web pages, of course. But Facebook is there just another social site of many. That’s the way it should be, we thought.
Thirdly, we made them Marshmellow-compatible, which means Android 6.x.x support. According to our experiences from our inhouse testers the Chromium engine running our apps is much more stable and faster then in previous app versions. Try it, feel it! It’s always best to upgrade Android apps to the newest versions anyway.
If you want to do us a favour (upgrading apps is a time intensive and nerve eating process), use Flattr as well as Bitcoin underneath this post! We. Need. More. Alcohol!
See you around!
the aethyx staff