A quick snapshot that I took on my daily trek to class:
WordPress Woes
I am having some problems with the .htaccess file on the WordPress level. I tried regenerating the permalinks. Hope that will help for a while. A couple of days ago there was a lonely s at the end of the file. Amakhala scared. And: I am seeing a lot of “MySQL server has gone away”… Continue reading WordPress Woes
Glowing leaves
Analog Tweet
I found this text on the back of a signpost in downtown Basel: An example of an analog tweet…
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
Chiperoni goes Mobile (kind of)
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 with a mobile device and display a… Continue reading Chiperoni goes Mobile (kind of)
Autumn 2009
Today’s link
Stumbled across this – very high-level but might be a useful reminder. Esp. the remark “life is short” in bullet no. 5. 1. Don’t worry about being perfect. There are never right or wrong answers to complex business decisions. The best that you can do as a leader is to gather all of the information… Continue reading Today’s link
Impatient new-media pundits
Quote of the day: One of the things slowing tech uptake by the rest of society is that you new-media pundits get so impatient you have moved on to the next thing before we’ve had a chance to digest your last idea. via Scoble’s “Why I don’t use Google Reader anymore”
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.… Continue reading Intro to SEO and SEM
UTF-8, Charsets and WordPress
It seems charset and UTF-8 issues are following me around. At the day job and here. I moved my blog from one install to the other. After importing the MySQL db, several characters were no longer displaying correctly. There are a number of plug-ins and descriptions: How to Convert Character Set and Collation of WordPress… Continue reading UTF-8, Charsets and WordPress
Moving WordPress from Server to Server
I found this video explaining how to import large MySQL using Big Dump And Yoast explains how to change the domain names here.
sunset
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… Continue reading Return of the Blog
cook a lot
Marc, Macke, and Delaunay
I liked this show at Sprengel Museum.
looking up
Rhybadhysli
Study weekend + Long walk
I spent most of my weekend working and discussing my MBA homework. Learning about: the exchange equation money supply the monetarists’ first and second proposition the cause of inflation incremental cash costs motivating employees – “interesting work” seems to be a universal motivator This afternoon I went for a long walk up to St. Chrischona… Continue reading Study weekend + Long walk
Wasser
Blogging is Dead. Long Live Blogging.
This morning I read a phrase which captures why I blog: “…now my attitude is that if I’m not blogging for myself it’s not worth it” (seen at ma.tt) Between you and me, I don’t care if blogging is dying. Let the social media experts decide. What I do care about is writing. I like… Continue reading Blogging is Dead. Long Live Blogging.
Cloud spotting: the pointing finger
I took snapshots of clouds (and pool water) at the local swimming pool (in Swiss German: that’s a Badi…). This looks like a hand raised at school to answer a question, or maybe somebody is pointing out something: “Can you see the silver lining? Every cloud has one”
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… Continue reading Malawi Twitterers
Requirements
This web project manager had a requirement blackout today. In a meeting at the day job somewhere in Switzerland, I seriously couldn’t remember if the tool that I evaluated six months ago – and which I am now using – runs on a Microsoft server. (Err… Microsoft server? Was that a requirement? ) Sometimes memory… Continue reading Requirements
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 Zugang… Continue reading Social Media News Room