Last Saturday I met the elusive and mysterious Mlle A. at a coffee place* in Hannover.
Once or twice during the conversation there was a cross-reference to something I or Mlle. A. had written or linked to. And for me that’s one of the powerful side-effects of blogging: there’s a regular reader’s familiarity built over […]
1 + 1 = the book (for web and print)
simple really
I’m de-lurking on Saturday….
Hope to see you at the BlogCampSwitzerland
At Lift 07 there was a panel on technological overload. The video of the panel is available here.
Fellow blogger Mlle. A. pointed out that this kind of discussion isn’t new.
A couple of days ago she sent in an article by Ann Blair on “Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload ca. 1550-1700″ published in […]
Via this Flickr comment I heard that there’s a Sakku competition for bloggers…
I already blogged about Sakku bags some time ago. And I would love to win a bag. As a knowledge worker and digital nomad, I believe I’m the right candidate
I’ll write a review.
Take photos.
And test the solar […]
How many online services did you sign up for, use once or twice, and then never return again?
In my case, that would be lots of ‘em. Some of them are really popular services like Digg or Mister Wong, where I just haven’t found a personal use case, or I’ve got a substitute or workaround. […]
I like this summary on the Benefits of Blogging
Meet and greet
Self documenting
Self promoting (if you want to, that is)
Mentoring
Education
Giving back (I would say: sharing)
There’s also the side-effect that when I write about a topic it helps me to reflect more on a topic and organize my thoughts.
Here are a couple of starting points:
Blog hosting
Three possibilities:
Sign up with a hosted service such as WordPress.com, Typepad or Vox (fastest cos it takes all of 5 mins).
Sign up with a webspace provider that already includes blog software in their package.
Sign up with a webspace provider that offers PHP 4.x or later and MySQL and […]
Here are the slides of my talk that I just held at the STC Transalpine Chapter Conf:
They’re very minimal and short… but over time I’ve collected a lot of examples at the back of my head so that I easily managed to fill the 1 hour slot. The online demo worked well with the […]
At an undisclosed location in the very near future, the editor of this beautiful blog will be holding a talk on a high-flying topic yet to be prepared.
Blogging for Content Developers
I’ve decided to give this whole project a jump-start by writing down the outline in my blog… because getting started is always the hard […]
More crosslinking to Cy’s Film. Or have a look at the video:
I attended today’s BlogCamp in Zurich; a so-called unConference because it organizes itself like BarCamp. But heh, we’re in Switzerland so it was fairly well organized.
I saw a couple of familiar faces. Maybe I should get a t-shirt saying “Blog conference tourist”… And I invited some of the Basel bloggers to the upcoming Basel […]
When I started blogging back in Jan 2003, one of my high flying and lofty ideas was to help cross the digital divide and point to content about Malawi. A goal I haven’t really managed to keep. But from time to time I’ve pointed to various Malawi sites. It’s great to see that the number […]
For future reference:
Eurozine article by Geert Lovink on weblogs
via Bruno Giussani
Alex Antener presents a talk on his Malawi projects:
Freie Software - Eine Chance für Afrika, (in German)
Very interesting, and lots of screens with GNU Linux.
[update] The official recording of the talk is available online.
On the maximum saturation point:
If a new blog is being created every second, it’s worth mentioning that one is being abandoned every 1.5 seconds.
My Google alert for news on Malawi has never had so many US and European articles as in the past months. All because of Madonna. Topics such as the last General Elections or bad harvests - which have a much bigger impact - were only covered by the usual outlets (BBC World, CNN). I remember […]
stumbled across this well-intentioned attempt to increase the salary of Malawi’s health personnel in Joanne’s blog:
Sometime last year DFID (the British development agency) decided to give money specifically to increase the salaries of nurses and clinicians, the thought being that this would help with retention of health workers. Unfortunately, the government decided that the new […]
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
Soyapi has set up a list of Malawi blogs at Technorati.
newly started:
Malawi Wildlife
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.
Network Africa interviewed Malawi blogger Mwai Kasamale.
Found out about this via Black Looks.
BTW, if you’re interested in reading some Kenyan blogs, check out the winners and runners up of the Kenyan Blog Awards.*
*or sick and tired of all the self-promoting SBAW-related posts…
Jeremy Keith writes:
Comments should be disabled 90% of the time.
via kottke.org
Chip @ del.icio.us