Internet

The internet plays a huge role in my life, from a place to share photos and videos, to a career, to a means of communication linking me to friends and family all over the world.

Work project honoured by Anthrazit magazine

Geek stuff / Internet / Work
Thursday, 11th February, 2010No comments

Both we at Burson-Marsteller Crossmedia and our client were delighted to find out earlier this week that the website gene-abc.ch, which we re-developed and re-launched during 2009, has received a place in the annual awards given by Anthrazit magazine here in Switzerland for the “Best 200 Swiss Websites of the Year”.

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The Long and Short of It

Geek stuff / Internet
Tuesday, 15th December, 2009No comments

A summary of how I feel about sharing and distributing content in the internet, how one should integrate and use RSS feeds and summaries, and why my perfect solution may not be your perfect solution.

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The Hero

In the Media / Internet / Video
Saturday, 28th November, 20092 comments

Where some advertisers choose the “viral” route of making a low-budget film to publicize themselves or their causes via YouTube, others still spend the time and make an effort to integrate some very cool interactivity to ensure that their offering or message gains widespread recognition.

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Categorization bug in WordPress

Internet
Thursday, 26th November, 2009No comments

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Survey of internet access speeds

Internet
Friday, 13th November, 2009No comments

I order to better cover the needs of my visitors, I’m carrying out a simple survey of how you visit the site.

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Why opening new browser windows for external links is pointless

Geek stuff / Internet / Technique
Thursday, 12th November, 2009No comments

Don’t you just hate it when you’ve been using the internet for a little while and you have a mass of browser windows to battle with? Where the hell did that website go, that you were looking at earlier? Both of these annoyances are entirely unnecessary, and this article explains why.

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SprainTV

Geek stuff / Internet / Video
Thursday, 15th October, 2009No comments

Manuel Reinhard (also known through his personal website and Twitter stream as “sprain”) has recently launched a regular video podcast in review of the week’s happenings in the Swiss internet scene.

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Ten years of push-button publishing

In the Media / Internet / Work
Thursday, 27th August, 2009No comments

On 23rd August 2009, the ten year anniversary of a web service called Blogger passed with barely a blip; only a small handful of news reports show up at Google’s news aggregating service and the world at large has paid little notice to the milestone.

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Cross-domain Javascript calls

Geek stuff / Internet
Wednesday, 12th August, 20091 comment

A technical article covering the use of Javascript functions and files across multiple web domains.

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Social media outages today

Geek stuff / Internet
Thursday, 6th August, 2009No comments

As I take a moment or two out of my day, Twitter is currently unavailable and has been so for over an hour.

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Good Transparency

Advertising / Design / Geek stuff / Internet
Wednesday, 5th August, 2009No comments

When you receive a tip of a cool piece of design from a company like Information Architects, whose Web Trend Maps are exquisite in their detail, you know it’s going to be something good.

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A Permanent Tourist Newsletter? You decide!

Geek stuff / Internet
Tuesday, 4th August, 2009No comments

Would you subscribe to a free email newsletter from me?

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Jungfrau Zeitung secures its newspaper business

In the Media / Internet
Friday, 31st July, 2009No comments

The newest version of the newspaper, to which I still subscribe online despite no longer working or living in the catchment area, produced by a small handful of people and covering purely local news instead of falling to the temptation of reporting news from more distant regions, is at least a match for – if not better than – most national newspapers.

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You’ve Got Mail

Advertising / Geek stuff / Internet / Photography
Tuesday, 28th July, 2009No comments

An American company offers a service to send individual, custom postcards from your mobile phone or web browser via traditional mail.

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Rütli

Design / History / Internet / Work
Monday, 6th July, 2009No comments

Details of the new website for Swiss national historic location Rütli, combined with a brief explanation of the meadow’s history.

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