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Everybody is a foreigner

By On December 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I don’t know very much about Swiss politics. But I am reacting to the SVP posters.

Everybody is a foreigner, almost everywhere.

I didn’t select the family, city, country or continent I was born into.

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Get a blog!

By On September 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Via this tweet, I stumbled across this article:

“A new study from Forrester Research has found a decline in the number of content creators across social networking sites, even while general use and participation on these sites has risen.”

High time [...]

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Twitter for the masses

By On January 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I saw this retweet pointing to Jeremy Toeman’s article Will normal folks ever use Twitter?”. (By default that makes me un-normal….)

He makes an excellent point which matches my own experience. Most people don’t see the added benefit of using Twitter. [...]

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How to Backup your Twitter World

By On November 3, 2009 · 1 Comment

As many of you probably learnt by experience, Twitter Search only shows results for the last couple of days.

I guess, one of the preliminary assumptions is that you consider your collection of 140-character-long phrases valuable. And would like to search thru them from time to time.

Friendfeed
One easy workaround [...]

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Chiperoni goes Mobile (kind of)

By On November 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

As part of my ongoing research regarding internet access via low bandwidth connections, I saw App+frica displaying a mobile version at http://appfrica.net/blog/.

I installed the same MobilePress plugin and activated it a few minutes ago. Based on the plugin description, it should detect if you’re accessing the website [...]

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Intro to SEO and SEM

By On October 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I am faced with the challenge to explain SEO and SEM in a 1 hour presentation. The audience consists of business folks.

Where to start explaining is the hard part.

Also there are so many myths in this area – garnered by SEO vendors selling their services as a “Wunderwaffe” for instant web traffic success.

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Return of the Blog

By On August 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Gigaom recently published an article that highlights an important point. A point that has been resonating through my head since Lift 07:

In this incredible sea of data that surround us, what happens to my data when a service like Twitter or Flickr or FriendFeed is sold to another company.

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Malawi Twitterers

By On July 5, 2009 · 3 Comments

As Malawi celebrates independence day tomorrow, here is a list of Malawi twitterers you might like to follow:

Vincent Kumwenda – currently at Muloza border, Mulanje; topics include Malawi news, world news, interesting Malawi web pages, and soccer. He also writes a blog. [...]

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Hiding in Full Public View

By On February 16, 2009 · 1 Comment

In January my stats dropped to an all time low. There are a number of reasons, I guess.

One reason is that I haven’t been writing much lately. Just an occasional link. Short cross-references to my Flickr stream. That’s it.

Another reason is my retro-style homepage, which points to my other life [...]

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How to Resize Photos

By On January 4, 2009 · 3 Comments

My family’s email account in Blantyre was blocked twice in the past week, due to well-meaning but over-sized Christmas and New Year email greetings. Attachments with over 2 MBs. The family is still on a phone line with a very slow connection rate. And downloading emails with a large attachment takes forever and a day. [...]

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