Here are the snapshots of the second architecture tour that I took part in: We cycled from Tinguely Museum in Basel and stopped at various points in Riehen and Grenzach Wyhlen. Heard about Hans Bernoulli and his Garden City idea to provide improved housing for the working class as well as a patch of ground… Continue reading From Riehen to Grenzach Wyhlen
Year: 2008
Appfrica Interview on MTN Uganda
Just a quick note to point to an interesting interview with an official of MTN Uganda at: Appfrica: Interview With MTN’s Erik van Veen – Part 1 These points caught my eye: (…) revenues per user, are very low in Africa by international standards, and require a low cost operating model if the Operator is… Continue reading Appfrica Interview on MTN Uganda
Architecture Tour “Birsstadt”
As seen previously on my Flickr stream, I stumbled across this poster: I took part in two architecture tours this weekend organized by Architektur Dialoge as part of the Les Journées de l’Architectures. Birsstadt I’ve uploaded a couple of snapshots of yesterday’s tour through Basel-Land. It was “off the beaten track” and lots of fun.… Continue reading Architecture Tour “Birsstadt”
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Tagaroo and other links
Pêle-mêle off the top my head: In my daily reads, I stumbled across a WordPress plugin called Tagaroo. It reminded me of Zemanta. I haven’t tried it out. But I guess the interesting part is that it is being sponsored/developed by media giant Thomson Reuters as part of the Calais project. As usual I’ve been… Continue reading Tagaroo and other links
55:33 minutes about YouTube
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
Mulanje
I just surfed through lots of cool new photos in the Malawi group on Flickr. Including these photos of Mulanje mountain by Lisa de Vreede:
Useful CSS and WordPress Links
For future reference: Useful links on CSS and WordPress which I know I’ll lose if I don’t write about them here in my virtual notebook.
Freeconomics
Interesting background article, for future reference: We can start with a simple user question: why would we ever pay for anything that we could get for free? When anyone buys a version of something they could get for free, what are they purchasing? From my study of the network economy I see roughly eight categories… Continue reading Freeconomics
Useful Mac Tool: Skitch
It’s been one year and one month since I moved to Mac. And in line with the underlying concept of this post, I’d like to recommend a Mac OS tool which I find very useful: Skitch If you have a look at my Flickr stream, I tend to post a number of screenshots to collect… Continue reading Useful Mac Tool: Skitch
The RSS Footer
One of my regular Google alerts currently points to a blog that is scraping entire sections of my content and displaying these on a Blogspot site. I have reported the Blogspot site via this website: And I’m well aware of the fact that anything I publish on the world wide web is up for grabs.… Continue reading The RSS Footer
Where were you seven years ago?
When I was a kid, my mom told me that she’ll never forget where she was when she heard that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. She was at a train station waiting for a train to arrive, when suddenly the news spread that JFK had been killed. I’ll never forget where I was when… Continue reading Where were you seven years ago?
Swiss Peeks
Just a link to support a great Flickr project: Swiss Peeks is a series of books of photographs taken in Switzerland. The books, published twice each year, contain photographs by amateur and professional photographers alike, which have been shared online and submitted specifically for inclusion in the books.
Developers under NDA
I heard about the iPhone SDK NDA for the first time this week while talking to an iPhone app developer at my day job: Why Apple keeps its iPhone 2.0 SDK under NDA incredible…
My BlogCamp Switzerland Talk
As announced on Twitter, I presented a talk on mobile technology in Malawi at today’s BlogCamp in Zurich to share what I’m learning from the African blogs and tweets that I follow on a regular basis. I started my talk with a short intro on Chiperoni (I am a bridge blogger somewhere between Basel and… Continue reading My BlogCamp Switzerland Talk
Mobile Communication for Rural Health Project
I stumbled across this blog by Josh Nesbit discussing the use of FrontlineSMS, a tool to set up a text-based communications network, in a rural health project in Namitete, Malawi. Here’s a 7 minute long interview with one of the community health worker. At about 3:00 she starts discussing the advantage of having a cell… Continue reading Mobile Communication for Rural Health Project
Public WLAN in Basel?
Yes please!
Art Attack
Here are the details of the art show that Martin Gyger mentioned when I visited his workspace a couple of weeks ago: Date: 5th to 7th September 2008, Time: Friday and Saturday from 17:00 to 20:00, Sunday from 15:00 to 18:00, Place: Reichensteinerstr. 14, 4053 Basel, map.
Orchard of old varieties
i went a-photowalking and learned about a project that is collecting and growing old varieties of fruit.
Twitter, SMS and Africa
This recent Twitter announcement is disappointing on a personal level, but also on a more global level as White African discusses: Twitter represents a change in communication. By acting as a global gateway for updates via SMS (or the web), that then updates all of your followers, Twitter succeeded in breaking ground in one-to-many messaging.… Continue reading Twitter, SMS and Africa
Today’s Snapshot
The Summer of 08
As a gentle drizzle sets in, I’d just like to dump a couple of carefully composed poetry text snippets here at Chiperoni headquarters. So far this summer of 08 has treated me well. I’m spending every weekend with my latest gadget: Shooting photos with my Canon 40D. There’s a lot to learn. And try out.… Continue reading The Summer of 08
wiring
i went a-photowalking (again).
Coca-Cola Ad in Blantyre
See also this previous entry on the Coca-Cola Index.