Chiperoni
From the monthly archives: August 2006
for the record:
Swiss meteo (yeah, the one that is in Swiss German) reported that this has been the coldest August in the past 50 years.
Scoble says:
It’s my thesis that people will scroll almost infinitely. Just give them high-quality stuff. At Microsoft they did research and found most people won’t click on the “next” button. But, they will scroll. You’ll notice that the search engine at live.com doesn’t ever end. If I remember the research right they are finding [...]
stumbled across this well-intentioned attempt to increase the salary of Malawi’s health personnel in Joanne’s blog:
This week in Riehen: Opernfestival
I listened into the rehearsal this afternoon. Great voices. And the stage is some kind of catwalk.
Linguistic nit-picking on a Friday afternoon:
I noticed this phrase over at the JavaPolis 06 website (a login is required):
17 299 JavaPolians registered
And I started wondering why JavaPolian, why not JavaPolitans?
After all, people living in a metropolis are metropolitans or have metropolitan characteristics.
[...]
Main Entry: mouse potato
Function: noun
Etymology: after couch potato
slang : a person who spends a great deal of time using a computer
Source: Definition of mouse potato – Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
I just zapped into the making of Vitus on Swiss TV:
A film I really enjoyed. If you get a chance, go see it esp. in dialect…
It’s raining cats and dogs in Basel. I hope this rainy weather will not result in floods and landslides in the [...]
while I was blonking about the future of communications, some PR agency has come up with a press release template suggesting how to integrate Digg, del.icio.us, RSS feeds, as well as audio, and video links.
source: MarCom Blog
just stopped by at Techcrunch a few minutes ago and stumbled across this Yet Another Corporate Blog entry. From what I gather this blog was started by the Director of Corporate Communications at Yahoo.
I’m just wondering how long it will take until you need to show up with a blogging reputation to [...]
