stumbled across Flickrmap.
An account costs 5 $ per annum.
I like this:
If you want to blog about Flickrmap or you’re not able to use Paypal, email us your sob story and we’ll send you a login.
Author: nchenga
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yet another Flickr tool
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Don’t Blame the Web When Newspapers Die
John Dvorak: Local papers have become cookie-cutter products loaded with syndicated material, mostly from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Filling space in the San Francisco Chronicle with New York Times articles saves money, but many people now just get the Times instead.
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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
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chip update
It’s drizzling a little bit in Basel but still beautifully warm… time to catch up with the blogging world.
2 weekends ago I took the Postauto to the Passwang tunnel and walked up to the Passwang (about 1200m). On a clear day you can see the Alps from here. I walked to Reigoldswil and then took the bus back into Basel. Very enjoyable, very close. Category: Must repeat.
Remember the Volvo ad with the car full of different sports equipment? That’s a bit what I feel like… A couple of weeks ago I bought new takkies, then I bought my first pair of hiking boots, and yesterday: new swimming togs and goggles.
I like Europe in summer…
A couple of interesting links that caught my eye this week:
- International dialects of English – MP3 files of various English dialects.
- Mozilla World Cup Plug-in
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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 my cat.”
via ballpark.ch
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PR for tech and software
i stumbled across this article describing how PR for tech. and software companies is changing.
The new rules of press releases:
- Don’t just send press releases when “big news” is happening; find good reasons to send them all the time.
- Instead of just targeting a handful of journalists, create press releases that appeal directly to your buyers.
- Write releases replete with keyword-rich copy.
- Create links in releases to deliver potential customers to landing pages on your website.
- Optimize press release delivery for searching and browsing.
- Drive people into the sales process with press releases.
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Malawi Blogroll at Technorati
Soyapi has set up a list of Malawi blogs at Technorati.
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The view from Monte San Giorgio
The weather was perfect in Ticino. Went swimming and hiking and visiting friends.
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The Sheep Market
10 000 online sheep for sale
via Kottke.org
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Make your own Camera
Download the following pdf and make your own pinhole camera:
Lighthouse in a TreeNice marketing idea!
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Weekend posting…
I’ve been lazing around watching sports on TV… instead of going jogging myself. It’s raining, but that’s no excuse for a northener, is it?
Here are a couple of links that crossed my paths this week:
Strategic commenting provides a good write-up how you can build a community around your blog thru thoughtful and interesting comments.
Mlle A. sent me this background article on Online Plagiarism. Beats me why people copy entire blogs word for word … List and quote from your sources, but don’t just copy and pretend its your own. It’s your personal mix of links and views that makes blogging special.
And then there’s the link to the temporary results of my study on Nutella alternatives. So far one other person has joined me. If you get to try a chocolate spread by another manufacturer, please tag your Flickr pics/blog entry with “Nutella alternative”.
Buon weekend,
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Another Malawi blog
newly started:
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You can’t keep up!
Kathy provides tips how to reduce the info overload/pressure-to-keep-up stress:
- Find the best aggregators.
- Get summaries.
- Cut the redundancy!
- Unsubscribe to as many things as possible.
- Recognize that gossip and celebrity entertainment are black holes.
- Pick the categories you want for a balanced perspective, and include some from OUTSIDE your main field of interest.
- Be a LOT more realistic about what you’re likely to get to, and throw the rest out.
- In any thing you need to learn, find a person who can tell you what is: Need to know, Should know, Nice to know, Edge case, only if it applies to you specifically, or Useless.
My 2 Pence:
As a generalist genuinely interested in a lot of things, this is a challenge.I’ve reduced the number of RSS feeds to a bare minimum. I’m using RSS to watch the comments and entries at my various sites. And to get my daily Dilbert.
I use del.icio.us to bookmark interesting sites that I find. This blog itself is also a kind of online bookmark or online scrap book, where I document links, howtos, interesting articles for future reference. I’ve started adding favorite blogs to Technorati’s faves. Although Technorati’s search is still deplorable, I’m hoping it will improve in time.
I’ve found that Gada.be is a good and fast search engine for tags.
Currently I don’t have any newspaper or magazine subscriptions. I tend to keep up with news via the web or TV. And I don’t printout web articles except when I know I won’t have access on the plane or train. I use Google alerts to keep up with news from other parts of the world.
And I agree personal contacts are really the way to find out what you need to know. And reading a book offline.
Do you have any tips? Best practices?
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Babycatcher
A nurse midwife writes about her work experience in Lilongwe – sad and heart-wrenching with glimpses of hope.
I found a Quicktime movie about her work, but I can’t view it on my Windoze machine, even though I have the required Quicktime player.
[update] The video now works but it’s on a slowish server.
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Handmade iPod Sock
The Management and Staff of chiperoni.ch today sighted a handmade iPod sock in an office somewhere in Basel.
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Network Africa on Blogging
Network Africa interviewed Malawi blogger Mwai Kasamale.
Found out about this via SBAW-related posts…
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Metal on the outside, wood on the inside
BBC on Sonke’s football-shaped house in Blantyre.
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Hiking Ideas
A couple of weeks ago I stopped by at the tourist information office to collect a couple of brochures on Basel for a visitor.
Here are some hiking links I found in one of them (for future reference):www.wanderwege-beider-basel.ch
www.jura-hoehenwege.ch
www.tourenguide.chP.S. I love the mugshots on this page.
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Posting WP Entries by Email
I’m still having trouble posting entries via email to my WordPress blog:
– How do I get rid of line breaks?
– How do I get the link across without a line break?I guess the email clients are introducing the line break somewhere along the line.
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Using WordPress as a CMS
Something to try out:
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Traditional Weekend Post
Today was beautifully warm and sunny. A gorgeous day. Although I spent most of it in the office… The sunset was great… And my cam was at home.
Mlle A. (at the foot of hills smothered in clouds of mist, next to a romantic river, in a meander of winding alleys, in the attic of an old house…) recently introduced a new category at her blog where she re-posts favorite posts from previous blogging years. Well, I looked back into the archives of Chiperoni.ch and found that my life is repeating itself. One recurring endless loop. Cos I could have written this very same entry this week. About how I battled with headers and footers in long MS Word 2000 docs. To my own credit I managed to tidy up the docs a lot faster than last year.
Buon Weekend,
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partly sunny
The sun has been showing in between rain showers.
