Today I* was asked:
Is the blog hype over?
My answer:
Yes, the hype is over, but blogs are still around and will not disappear any time soon. In my humble opinion, blogs are becoming more and more mainstream (read “boring” for all of those geeks looking for the next big wave).
Reasons:
I no longer need to […]
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 […]
good quote:
In a pre-web world, marketing was synonymous with advertising; today, the customer is active and has true recourse.
via Swissmiss
The case for blogging, beyond the hype:
If you have something to say, then a blog offers a cheap, easy global medium in which to express yourself. This is as true now as it was three years ago, regardless of what the groovy cats in Silicon Valley may be up to.
Whether you have the time […]
I’m de-lurking on Saturday….
Hope to see you at the BlogCampSwitzerland
Remember I wrote about the villagers in northern Malawi that climb an ant hill to get GSM reception?
Looks like Soyapi saved the newspaper article and passed it on to Mike:
Ant hill phone booth
(Insert comment on power of blogging, impossible is nothing, etc.)
Fun event:
Finish your %#&*@ blog posts. at Citizen Space (Thursday, October 18, 2007)
I’ve started deleting blog post drafts, that have been lingering in draft status for over a year…
Autumn-like weather and a bad cold, but it’s still a Friday! And just for the record, I don’t mind fast forwarding to spring.
More search phrases - but not really a surprise to me given the quality of content here at Chiperoni.org :
Dilbert project tracking - points to an old blog post on pre-emptive […]
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 […]
In case you haven’t heard:
There seems to be an outbreak of blogging fatigue
Is it similar to battle fatigue?
Thinking of starting a blog?
Don’t bother!
Here are my short notes on new Wordpress plugins I’m trying out at Chiperoni.org:
SEO Title Tag
I read about this in a WordCamp 2007 report last weekend. The corresponding plugin web page is here.
If you’re using K2, open header.php and replace everything within the title tag with this:
<title>< ?php if (function_exists(’seo_title_tag’)) { seo_title_tag(); } else […]
useful:
What others are saying about corporate blogging
I like this:
Actions always prove louder than words. Lead by example. Give people something to aspire to but don’t make it so daunting that they will be easily discouraged.
This holds true for a lot of other things as well, not just blogging…
Apparently the number of blogs is peaking and […]
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. […]
If you’ve upgraded to 2.2, don’t forget to update your Press It bookmarklet as well. I kept getting an undefined function in
wordpress/wp-admin/edit-form.php on line 35 error. Until I remembered that this might be related to the new version I installed a couple of days ago.
Here’s what you need to do:
Delete the old bookmarklet and […]
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 […]
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.
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