blogging

a socnet that causes strong real-life friendships

Posted on August 15, 2009. Filed under: blogging, community, friends, life, social interactions, social networks, usability | Tags: , , |

The last months the blog looked like dead. I really didn’t keep it active. The reason was my first contact with a social network that hadn’t have shining through their web origin all the time but is more about a real life network backed by a socnet in the web.
Made me realize: Oh, there is [...]

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getting your content ripped-Off is advertising your content

Posted on March 29, 2009. Filed under: blogging, economy, marketing | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

[i] A while back, Martin Piraino took the time to make me aware of that content of my blog was ripped off. Been through the Techdirt Economy of Free series, instead of following his example to dcma-take-down the copycat I actually felt otherwise: I see [seven] good reasons to go along with getting my content [...]

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announcement: new blog name

Posted on March 26, 2009. Filed under: blogging, marketing | Tags: , , , |

Regular readers and frequent visitors of my blog probably have noticed I was playing around with the title of my blog, shifting its name here and there.
By my presentation of my Twitter bot framework and my dagobart page you already knew that Arnold Funken is a pseudonyme. So, now it’s gone, finally, from the [...]

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Having a bliki/wog

Posted on March 8, 2009. Filed under: Debian, blogging | Tags: , , , |

Obsessed with documentation? I don’t know, though I prefer to be clear on what I communicate. Therefore, my habit is to write in a manner that does not keep any open questions.
However, I noticed that this — writing without laeving open any questions — is beyond the size of what people likely accept for a [...]

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Seven reasons why it is good when your content gets full-Quoted elsewhere (“stolen”)

Posted on February 11, 2009. Filed under: blogging, economy, marketing | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Martin Piraino took the time and efforts to make me aware of that someone is re-using blog-postings of mine in full length to make money out of it:
Your blog post was ’scraped’ by tweetmoney.com – copied in its entirety and posted to the tweetmoney.com site [...] This has happened to me too twice [...] GoDaddy.com [...]

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After years of having a blog, I finally started blogging

Posted on February 10, 2009. Filed under: blogging, freedom | Tags: , , , , |

After years of having a blog (well, blogs) I finally started blogging.
When I started to have blogs — that was about ten years ago –, I was used to that OMFG, government is going to watch us all, individually. I quit that a few years ago. And a few weeks ago I actually launched a [...]

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Status: What’s up with my computer systems

Posted on November 12, 2008. Filed under: blogging, development, life, marketing, operating systems, sys admin | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

My main box is broken. Something with the power supply or/and the I/O controllers. Usually, the OS hangs in the middle of booting, mostly when it comes to some I/O thingy. Most recently, that got added up by middle-of-the-session instant-shut-downs. Like if someone pulled the power plug. Until now, the file system survived that. However, [...]

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Gaining users. Lessons learned from blogging.

Posted on April 6, 2008. Filed under: blogging, economy, series of posts, society, usability, user experience | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This one is going to be a bit long, as I refer to my own experiences in blogging, how I approached increasing the number of readers, my failures and lessons learned. In the end, I come up with a conclusion that points back into the direction of usability and communities.
In 1999, I didn’t care much [...]

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some more [link] notes on social networks

Posted on March 17, 2008. Filed under: Debian, Ruby on Rails, blogging, development, digital communication, social web | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On the subject of social sites, my current aim is to develop a freely available core social network. To be able to do so, I did some online search. I begun with a search for a Bulletin Board System based on Rails. But I didn’t go into depth until now.
What I found somtime amidst it [...]

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