Category Archives: blogging
Intro to SEO and SEM
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.
As is typical [...]
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Return of the Blog
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.
Gigaom writes:
The cynical me believes that [...]
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Malawi Twitterers
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.
Fred Bvalani – in Blantyre; tweets about mobile applications and phones, Oracle training [...]
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Social Media News Room
Cyberwiter posted the above tweet on using social media to enhance your company’s online news room.
The article lists ways how to aggregate text, images, audio and video to make it useful for corporations and their target audience.
Ein gutgemachter Social Media Newsroom ist essentiell für die Online-PR: Er …
1. eröffnet einen schnellen [...]
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Hiding in Full Public View
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 stream options (Twitter, Flickr, [...]
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How to Resize Photos
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. [...]
Also posted in General, Malawi, Photos, africa, blogger, flickr Tagged change size, flickr, gimp, irfanview, jpeg, Malawi, ms paint, paint, picasa, resize photos, slow internet connection 3 Comments
RSS Feeds
Here are a couple of links in preparation for a meeting tomorrow where I get to explain how I use RSS feeds.
What is an RSS Feed?
Definition: Wikipedia has a good overall description.
There’s a video explaining RSS feeds in plain English:
How do I use RSS feeds?
To follow niche topics: to keep up with news and topics [...]
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Chiperoni weather in Bern
Just showing Wordpress and how fast publishing has become!
The Fabric of the ‘Net
Kevin Marks picks up the recent meme on blogging being dead/old-fashioned/out-dated. He says:
Blogging…
has become part of the fabric of the net
See these blog posts and articles:
Nick Carr: Who killed the blogosphere?
The Economist: Oh, grow up!
Some things don’t change, though. Old and dying media still feel the need to criticize blogs and the authors for [...]
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Blogging is so 2004
LOL at this Wired article!
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.
I agree with the author. Blogging is so 2004. For the record: I installed WordPress on this server in September 2004. Time to pull the plug.
Follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr [...]
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Zemanta
I am learning a lot from the African blogs I am reading…
App+frica recently wrote about useful web applications for bloggers in developing countries.
In his list he mentions Zemanta:
Zemanta, which just scored a new round of funding from Union Square Ventures, is a huge time saving tool. It’s a browser-side plug-in that scans the context of [...]
Is the blog hype over?
Today I* was asked:
Is the blog hype over?
My answer:
Yes, the hype is over, but blogs are still around and will not disappear any time soon. In my humble opinion, blogs are becoming more and more mainstream (read “boring” for all of those geeks looking for the next big wave).
Reasons:
I no longer need to [...]
Meeting Mlle A.
Last Saturday I met the elusive and mysterious Mlle A. at a coffee place* in Hannover.
Once or twice during the conversation there was a cross-reference to something I or Mlle. A. had written or linked to. And for me that’s one of the powerful side-effects of blogging: there’s a regular reader’s familiarity built over [...]
Blogs can kill brands
good quote:
In a pre-web world, marketing was synonymous with advertising; today, the customer is active and has true recourse.
via Swissmiss
Publishing, the future thereof
1 + 1 = the book (for web and print)
simple really
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If you have something to say
The case for blogging, beyond the hype:
If you have something to say, then a blog offers a cheap, easy global medium in which to express yourself. This is as true now as it was three years ago, regardless of what the groovy cats in Silicon Valley may be up to.
Whether you have the time [...]
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BlogCampSwitzerland on Saturday
I’m de-lurking on Saturday….
Hope to see you at the BlogCampSwitzerland
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Ant hill phone booth
Remember I wrote about the villagers in northern Malawi that climb an ant hill to get GSM reception?
Looks like Soyapi saved the newspaper article and passed it on to Mike:
Ant hill phone booth
(Insert comment on power of blogging, impossible is nothing, etc.)
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Draft status
Fun event:
Finish your %#&*@ blog posts. at Citizen Space (Thursday, October 18, 2007)
I’ve started deleting blog post drafts, that have been lingering in draft status for over a year…
Weekend ahead
Autumn-like weather and a bad cold, but it’s still a Friday! And just for the record, I don’t mind fast forwarding to spring.
More search phrases – but not really a surprise to me given the quality of content here at Chiperoni.ch :
Dilbert project tracking – points to an old blog post on [...]
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Not new
At Lift 07 there was a panel on technological overload. The video of the panel is available here.
Fellow blogger Mlle. A. pointed out that this kind of discussion isn’t new.
A couple of days ago she sent in an article by Ann Blair on “Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload ca. 1550-1700″ published in [...]
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Blogging fatigue
In case you haven’t heard:
There seems to be an outbreak of blogging fatigue
Is it similar to battle fatigue?
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The Rise and Fall of Blogging, Twitter and Facebook
Thinking of starting a blog?
Don’t bother!
Adding the SEO Title Tag plugin
Here are my short notes on new Wordpress plugins I’m trying out at Chiperoni.ch:
SEO Title Tag
I read about this in a WordCamp 2007 report last weekend. The corresponding plugin web page is here.
If you’re using K2, open header.php and replace everything within the title tag with this:
<title>< ?php if (function_exists('seo_title_tag')) { seo_title_tag(); } else [...]
Chiperoni goes Mobile (kind of)