Cos my bike was in for repairs, I took the tram today. Leaving
the Basel SBB tram station, there’s a taped announcement
welcoming passengers to Basel in English and in German. This
evening, it was different: The announcement was spoken live, in a
jovial mood, and in 6 languages, including Spanish and Turkish.
And the tram driver adapted the text calling Basel: the golden
city. So funny. Everybody on the tram was laughing.

On Sunday I cycled all 60 km of the Slowup route. In the morning,
the weather was rainy and cold. Which meant most people stayed
home and drank hot cocoa. Not me.

Es gibt kein schlechtes Wetter, nur schlechte Kleidung

I put on several layers of bike clothes and rain gear. And was
rewarded with a dry afternoon and empty roads.

Projects

I am trying to select a few of my
best photos to print as posters. Not finding it easy at all.
The idea is to decorate my home with my own artwork. A la Etsy.
Any tips where I can get high quality posters printed in the
Basel area? I haven’t decided on the format sizes yet. I need to
edit more. And upload less. But then again, my Flickr stream is a
documentation project. I love everyday scenes.

I am working on a small Drupal 7 website project in my spare
time. I learnt a lot. Drupal is fun. And it is good to set
yourself a project to learn more about a software package.

Changes I’ve noticed in my online behaviour

Over the past months, I have started watching more TV via
computer then via TV. Many German TV stations offer a so-called
“Mediathek”. I enjoy viewing TV reports according to my own
schedule. Video-on-demand. At last. 13 years later than when I
first heard about the term at the micro-electronics company that
I worked for.

In general, we’re using the technologies invented 10 years ago.

Between you and me, the brand new Facebook Subscribe function
reminds me of RSS. But as described in
this article, this is one of Facebook’s strengths. It doesn’t
re-invent, it re-uses functions.

I haven’t been using Google+ much (yet). What is your experience?
Tips? I am suffering from social media network fatigue. My
favorite sites are ”“ by far ”“ Flickr and Twitter. Flickr for the photos
(browsing Flickr is an activity I can do half-asleep) and
Twitter
for the unfiltered, global news. I check Facebook regularly
for work reasons.

But Dave Winer’s warning about the closed data
silos is ringing in my ears. Some Twitter third party apps
are unusable due to API restrictions. And many app developers are
discouraged by Twitter’s recent feature additions and app
acquisitions.

And at Yahoo, the new CEO may decide to sell good old Flickr.

Although, for Delicious this has been a turn for the better.

New web app I stumbled across:http://www.hipmunk.com ”“ to compare
and book airplane tickets.

5 mins ago:

In this blog post via @Bufferapp,
they’re saying you shouldn’t go into blogging “If you
can’t create quality, original content”. While I agree
with most of the points made, this is what the traditional
journalists said 8 years ago when blogging emerged. Only
journalists have the skills to write quality content. The problem
isn’t quality. It’s the fact that many people just scrape
content. Copy and paste. Without adding value. Including
journalists. Obviously a good writing style helps. Grammar.
Punctuation. Style.

The web isn’t just for the elite.

If you want to write a blog: Just start writing at regular
intervals and ignore all the checklists full of advice. Most of
it is SEO and advertising bait. Writing is a great way to
reflect. Write about a topic that you are really interested in.

Alles wird gut.

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