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My personalized Google start page includes random links from wikiHOW. Some are hilarious and make me lol.

Today’s suggestion:
How to Make SIM Card Earrings

via gapingvoid’s post on meaningful work:

How to do what you love

A couple of Youtube videos I’d like to share:

• Real estate agent, Three non blondes – I’ve been laughing at this video all week. I love the accent.
• My animated world – a bit long but funny

buon weekend,
nchenga

for the record:
Swiss meteo (yeah, the one that is in Swiss German) reported that this has been the coldest August in the past 50 years.

while I was blonking about the future of communications, some PR agency has come up with a press release template suggesting how to integrate Digg, del.icio.us, RSS feeds, as well as audio, and video links.

source: MarCom Blog

just stopped by at Techcrunch a few minutes ago and stumbled across this Yet Another Corporate Blog entry. From what I gather this blog was started by the Director of Corporate Communications at Yahoo.

I’m just wondering how long it will take until you need to show up with a blogging reputation to get yourself a regular communications job. All you need is 15 people to get the news out. Says Scoble.

But there is a downside to it all: the more PR agencies and communication departments start using blogging as an instrument, the more we’ll lose the personal voice aspect. And it’s already turning that way. Just look at the sheer volume of posts.

This Tim O’Reilly quote in the link I posted yesterday sums it up:

Blogging is migrating towards this whole attention economy vein. It’s people who are effectively working on deadline to be the first to notice something. It really has become a very specialized job that you have to devote full time to. I can’t afford to do that, so I blog on things that matter to me. And sometimes I don’t do it for two weeks.

Adding Google Calendar

Anyway, it’s nice to know that all of my WordPressing here at the Headquarters of Chiperoni.ch isn’t futile. Talking about WordPress, I’m currently investigating how to add future events to a WP site I’m working on. I’ve found this post discusssing the Firetree plugin. But there’s also the possibility to add a public Google Calendar via XML, iCAL or HTML and display it on your website.

How to add Google Calendar:

• Select your Google Calendar page.
• Click Settings
• Select the public calendar you’d like to add. BTW, I don’t recommend this for private calendars 😉
• Select the format (XML, iCal or HTML).
• Copy the feed, code or link.

Long weekend: It’s the Swiss national day on Tuesday and I’m taking Monday off. I haven’t decided what I’ll do yet… for suggestions, leave a comment below 😉

Here are a couple of links that have been lingering in draft status:

• Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School – IMHO you can take this and apply it to other work situations as well.
• and then there’s Kathy’s posting on How to be an expert – and heh, it’s not too late to become an expert. If you strive to learn, you create new brain cells at virtually any age…

I’ve found that if you commit yourself to doing a task regularly and keep working on it, even really boring topics become fun and interesting once you cross a certain threshold. Even if the time slots are tiny to begin with. Never ever give up!

Mlle. A reminded me that today is sysadmin day. Yeah, that’s the guy that deletes your entire site to move you to a “better” server. Thank you so much!

Cool air is seeping in thru the open window… looks like the warm weather is taking a break. We’ve had a warm July here in Basel, apparently the warmest since the meteorologists started storing relevant data. I’ve been spending a lot of time at the Badi and enjoying the African temperatures.