Sipping coffee. Reading tweets. Faving Flickr photos. And listening to “Klassik-Pop-et cetera” on dradio.de. Some music references to remember: Paul Gerhard “Ich steh an deiner Krippe hier” Mahalia Jackson “Go tell it on the mountain” Pete Seeger Johann Sebastian Bach “Ich lasse dich nicht denn du segnest mich denn” Some ancient poetry that crossed my… Continue reading Ten twenty seven
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Saturday
Slow start to a beautiful day. Listening to dradio.de and sipping Chicco d’oro coffee and reading my way thru awesome Twitter people and browsing thru Flickr. 2 laptops, 1 iPod Touch, 1 Blackberry, and 1 Canon digicam all within close distance. Generation screen. It’s caturday. Planning to head to the swimming pool later. Loading my… Continue reading Saturday
1 May 2012
Blogging advice in 2012 err… 2011: “Don’t look at it as a Blog ”“ It’s content distribution.” Heh, I thought blogging’s dead?! It’s the first of May – a public holiday in my part of Switzerland. I am listening to BBC radio and reading news distributed via Facebook and Twitter. Random useless fact of the… Continue reading 1 May 2012
Sunny Sunday
I just got back from a run around the Finnenbahn. The distance is nothing to write home about, but it was a pleasurable experience with temperatures around 18 degrees. Spring is here. With all the fresh air rushing thru my system, I was in mindblogging mode. Reflecting on all the data I have been consuming… Continue reading Sunny Sunday
Preparing my next social media talk
I have been invited to speak on social media somewhere in Germany. (Im Ausland!!!) Apparently this gathering of people doesn’t use new media applications yet. (Really? Truely?) This is my abstract: Erst gab es Blogs und Flickr, dann kam Twitter und Facebook, und jetzt gibt es G+, Pinterest, Foursquare und Klout. Immer mehr Web-Anwendungen drängen… Continue reading Preparing my next social media talk
Some free time
Postponed my day trip to the mountains. Cos of rain. The weather is improving this afternoon…. Some free time to clean and sort and catch up with things. And unbox some of those remaining moving boxes. I am trying very hard not to read work-related emails on my Blackberry. I am watching the news. Following… Continue reading Some free time
Bicycle power in Malawi
Recommended reading: France 24 on cycling as a major form of transport. “The bicycle is very popular in Malawi, because people can’t afford a motorbike and because Malawi has a high density of population,” said Dutchman Peter Meijer who set up a bike business, Sakaramenta, in 2009. Here is a link to Peter Meijer’s company… Continue reading Bicycle power in Malawi
Data silo
BTW, if you’re starting a blog – cos it’s an easy way to increase visibility… Have fun. Those times are long past. Way back in 2002 and 2003. Ask the bloggers behind Chiperoni and Handmade2.0. And… even in 2003 it wasn’t as “easy” as some of the internet experts try to make it sound. Blogging… Continue reading Data silo
SEO in the year 2011
I want to write a blog post on SEO. My primary motivation is to learn what the changes are and I learn best by writing my own notes. Here we go. Some notes on SEO off the top of my head and unsorted: Panda Following the Panda release and other algrithmic changes by Google, the… Continue reading SEO in the year 2011
More visits, more hits, more SEO tips
Food for thought: (…) we should not be sacrificing our own personal ideals and our own internal moral compasses in a never-ending battle for position, for status, for scoops, or for access. While 2010 is the year where many will find ways to monetize their online blogs, photos and apps (which is ok), don’t forget… Continue reading More visits, more hits, more SEO tips
Twitter for the masses
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. The uses are difficult to grasp. Especially since Twitter turned off the SMS service… Continue reading Twitter for the masses
How to Backup your Twitter World
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 is to add your… Continue reading How to Backup your Twitter World
Twitter poetry
Links and screenshots to funny Twitter quotes
Pirates and Poverty
Like in a Hollywood movie, a U.S. captain was freed from Somali pirates. I’ve been browsing the web, reading articles. Some observations: For one, I’m wondering how the navy seals managed to target the pirates. I thought the life boat was an enclosed boat, similar to the one shown here. Secondly, it seems that the… Continue reading Pirates and Poverty
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,… Continue reading Hiding in Full Public View
BBC on Fish Farming in Zomba
Recommended reading: BBC’s James Morgan on fish farming in rural areas of Zomba district, Malawi. It’s a perfect circle. “Or what we call an integrated agriculture-aquaculture (IAA) system,” says Joseph Nagoli, of WorldFish. “This isn’t high input fish farming. This is simple and sustainable.”
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… Continue reading Zemanta
Zimbabwe’s Future
Newspaper column by Peter Godwin in an Australian newspaper: “Did you know that Zimbabweans have the highest IQ in the world?” she says. Hmm, that seems a little over-patriotic. “Yes,” she continues, “I queue for sugar, I queue for salt, I queue for fuel, I queue for cooking oil.” And she bursts into peals of… Continue reading Zimbabwe’s Future
Daily Tweets
A train passenger across the aisle is reading ‘the black swan’ #
Hope I’ll stay on your radar screen in 2008
I like this description of a blog: A simple device to stay on people’s radar screens in a hopefully meaningful way. This is what it’s all about: find out what books/blogs/etc. I’m reading what movies I liked what Malawi websites I’m linking to read about my latest Mac or WordPress discoveries my favorite Gapingvoid quotes… Continue reading Hope I’ll stay on your radar screen in 2008
The next please
aargh* Here’s the next marketing book to read: Interview with Seth Godin about Meatball Sundae What a name for a book. *just finished reading “The new Rules of Marketing and PR”
I got out of bed this morning
I finished reading David Meerman Scott’s book on: “The new rules of Marketing and PR”. Here’s a quote which is probably already the most quoted excerpt out of the book: Big news is great, but don’t wait. Have a new take on an old problem? Write a release. Serving a unique marketplace? Write a release.… Continue reading I got out of bed this morning
Search phrases
Dear regular readers of Chiperoni.ch, On Sunday I continued reading the “New PR” book and i’ve got 3 pages of wild notes waiting to be blogged… but I’m too tired for PR just now. Oh no, i hope it’s not blogging fatigue 😉 Search phrases that led people to my blog today: i want to… Continue reading Search phrases
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
Content drives action
I started reading “The new rules of Marketing and PR” yesterday, and I like it. I’m at Chapter 3, and so far it’s a good summary of things I’ve discovered. Reinforcing experiences which I’ve been calling Low Budget Internet Marketing. A couple of notes: Today’s search engine setup means you can reach buyers directly. One-way… Continue reading Content drives action