Venera7 is Javier and David, brothers, geeks, techno optimists, every-day-things-design enthusiasts, and part time bloggers. We’ve been around since 2003 and we plan on staying as long as we feel we’ve got something to say and there’s anyone willing to listen. Venera7 is for us a place to talk about technology, the Internet, Science, the design of everyday things and pretty much everything that interests us. All of this, of course, with a very personal twist.
You may click on our names in this picture backgrounded with a totally awesome take of Santa Monica’s beach to get a bit more information about us:
A bit of history
The Venera space program was developed by the former Soviet Union in the previous century sixties. The program goal was to gather data from planet Venus. The Venera probes were designed for that, and sequentially launched during the years towards our neighbor planet. After several failed attempts, the Venera 7 probe was the first that managed to land and so becoming the first human spaceship to transmit data from the surface of another planet.
The Internet becoming the main communication media for so many people not that many years ago still strikes us as another milestone in the history of human achievements. That’s why, as a sort of a tribute, we decided to name this blog after the Venera7 probe.
Disclaimer
Venera7 hasn’t got a way of writing comments. Year after year we’ve seen how most of commenting systems out there have failed to achieve what they intended to do in the first place. But this is good news; in its maturing process today’s Internet provides far better mechanisms for true open discussion. Fine examples of this are trackbacks, contact forms, e-mail, and people commenting about other people’s thoughts in Twitter, Reddit, popular forums our from their own blog. If you have any feedback about the site or you just want to contact us or be up to date on what’s cooking, you can reach us through our contact page or just follow us on Twitter (Javier, David or Venera7)
We try to be as standard and interactive as possible without getting in your way or adding up to the infamous tendency the Web has of reducing your attention span. As so, Venera7 is as spartan and clean as possible. No links to Technorati, Digg, Meneame, Feedburner, Reddit or the likes because we think they add too much noise to any site and you’re Internet-mature enough to know how to use them anyway.
We’re not including banners with all we’re compliant with because we think clothes do not make the man and we hate “Intel Inside” or “Windows Certified” stickers in laptops, as well as the gazillion ads you may find sticked in a brand new LCD screens advertising how great and technologically advanced it is. We believe this isn’t any good for you, preventing you from seeing the forest for the trees. In short, we are truly convinced that sometimes less is more.
Our XHTML, CSS and RSS are valid, so you should be able to read Venera7 flawlessly if you’re using a standards compliant browser. Anyway, if there’s anything we’ve overlooked, we’ll try to fix it. Just tell us.
The License
All Venera7 content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike License. This allows us to keep our work’s copyright without screwing you up. Meaning: you can copy it and distribute it non commercially if you just give us due credit.
If you fail to do so, i.e. making profit somehow with the information obtained here or not referring the source when using it, you’ll be incurring in a legal violation of the license’s terms. We want to be particularly clear in the case your blog or site is using ads: in that case, due to licensing terms, you can reference us but you cannot copy whatever content you may find here.
You can read more about our licensing terms in Creative Commons site.