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…
Category: blogging
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… Continue reading Weekend ahead
Not new
At Lift 07 there was a panel on technological overload. The video of the panel is available here. Update: Since Google Video is no more, the video can be viewed on Vimeo Panel Discussion:Dealing with technological overload (Lift07 EN) from Lift Conference on Vimeo. Fellow blogger Mlle. A. pointed out that this kind of discussion… Continue reading Not new
Blogging fatigue
In case you haven’t heard: There seems to be an outbreak of blogging fatigue Is it similar to battle fatigue?
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: < ?php if (function_exists('seo_title_tag')) {… Continue reading Adding the SEO Title Tag plugin
Corporate Blogging Experience
useful: What others are saying about corporate blogging I like this: Actions always prove louder than words. Lead by example. Give people something to aspire to but don’t make it so daunting that they will be easily discouraged. This holds true for a lot of other things as well, not just blogging… Apparently the number… Continue reading Corporate Blogging Experience
nchenga’s Web 2.0 roundup: Links and comments
How many online services did you sign up for, use once or twice, and then never return again? In my case, that would be lots of ’em. Some of them are really popular services like Digg or Mister Wong, where I just haven’t found a personal use case, or I’ve got a substitute or workaround.… Continue reading nchenga’s Web 2.0 roundup: Links and comments
WordPress 2.2 tip: Press It bookmarklet
If you’ve upgraded to 2.2, don’t forget to update your Press It bookmarklet as well. I kept getting an undefined function in wordpress/wp-admin/edit-form.php on line 35 error. Until I remembered that this might be related to the new version I installed a couple of days ago. Here’s what you need to do: Delete the old… Continue reading WordPress 2.2 tip: Press It bookmarklet
Benefits of Blogging
I like this summary on the Benefits of Blogging Meet and greet Self documenting Self promoting (if you want to, that is) Mentoring Education Giving back (I would say: sharing) There’s also the side-effect that when I write about a topic it helps me to reflect more on a topic and organize my thoughts.
Blog resource links
Here are a couple of starting points: Blog hosting Three possibilities: Sign up with a hosted service such as WordPress.com, Typepad or Vox (fastest cos it takes all of 5 mins). Sign up with a webspace provider that already includes blog software in their package. Sign up with a webspace provider that offers PHP 4.x… Continue reading Blog resource links
The slides
Here are the slides of my talk that I just held at the STC Transalpine Chapter Conf: They’re very minimal and short… but over time I’ve collected a lot of examples at the back of my head so that I easily managed to fill the 1 hour slot. The online demo worked well with the… Continue reading The slides
Blogging for Content Developers
At an undisclosed location in the very near future, the editor of this beautiful blog will be holding a talk on a high-flying topic yet to be prepared. Blogging for Content Developers I’ve decided to give this whole project a jump-start by writing down the outline in my blog… because getting started is always the… Continue reading Blogging for Content Developers
BlogCampSwitzerland
I attended today’s BlogCamp in Zurich; a so-called unConference because it organizes itself like BarCamp. But heh, we’re in Switzerland so it was fairly well organized. I saw a couple of familiar faces. Maybe I should get a t-shirt saying “Blog conference tourist”… And I invited some of the Basel bloggers to the upcoming Basel… Continue reading BlogCampSwitzerland
Malawi bloggers
When I started blogging back in Jan 2003, one of my high flying and lofty ideas was to help cross the digital divide and point to content about Malawi. A goal I haven’t really managed to keep. But from time to time I’ve pointed to various Malawi sites. It’s great to see that the number… Continue reading Malawi bloggers
The Nihilist Impulse
For future reference: Eurozine article by Geert Lovink on weblogs via Bruno Giussani
Free Software for Malawi
Alex Antener presents a talk on his Malawi projects: Freie Software – Eine Chance für Afrika, (in German) Very interesting, and lots of screens with GNU Linux. [update] The official recording of the talk is available online.
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On the maximum saturation point: If a new blog is being created every second, it’s worth mentioning that one is being abandoned every 1.5 seconds.
Malawi bloggers on Madonna
My Google alert for news on Malawi has never had so many US and European articles as in the past months. All because of Madonna. Topics such as the last General Elections or bad harvests – which have a much bigger impact – were only covered by the usual outlets (BBC World, CNN). I remember… Continue reading Malawi bloggers on Madonna
get moving
I agree with this gapingvoid post: “So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this — the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.” Publishing… Continue reading get moving
off the beaten track
This guy has got some very nice WordPress themes: wildbits — Kram
business blogging
for future reference: CIO on business blogging via Anil Dash
Famous Blog Dogs
If you’re a bit like me, you’ve also contributed your part to the Internet’s dog and/or cat content. But there are some dogs out there with a really large fan base. Right at the top of the list are: Chuck of dooce.com Oliver and Hugo of textism.com
blonk… blonk…
Blonking along? Apparently this is what it means… To blog without notable creativity, inspiration or merit; covering the same ground trod by countless others in the echo chamber; blogging as an alternative to thinking. “I was going to write a considered piece about climate change in sub-Saharan Africa, but I’ve just been blonking pictures of… Continue reading blonk… blonk…
Malawi Blogroll at Technorati
Soyapi has set up a list of Malawi blogs at Technorati.