a personal blog about technology, communications and other stuff that interests me
So langsam koennte der Fruehling dann mal kommen. Gestern gab es noch mal einen Schneesturm in Toronto. Jetzt liegen schon wieder 30 cm Schnee. Noch so einen Sturm und wir brechen den regionalen Schneerekord, der seit ueber 70 Jahren existiert.
Thornley Fallis and 76Design have released two plugins for the WordPress blogging platform today: TopLinks and FriendsRoll.
“TopLinks replaces the manually edited blogroll with a widget that automatically generates a list of the Blogs and sites that I most often link to. […] FriendsRoll enables your readers to sign up to appear on your list of Friends. Any data they provide will stay with the blogger, not reside on some external site. So the relationship is directly between us.”
Joe Thornley, CEO, Thornley Fallis
I tried out TopLinks on my blog. It works well but I couldn’t get it to look right (yet). It doesn’t fit the way my sidebar is set up (1 custom column on top, and 2 widget-enabled columns on the bottom). Maybe I’ll find a way to customize it and reduce the width of the TopLinks box.
Not sure whether TopLinks really needs to be a replacement for the traditional blogroll. For my blog, I’d see it more as an addition.
Congrats to TF and 76Design for a great idea! if you have a WordPress blog, definitely check it out.
Great writing skills are a strong asset for anybody who wants to get hired in PR. The student steering committee of CPRS Toronto and News Canada are offering a writing workshop for junior practitioners. Good initiative!
Scheduled for March 17, 2008, the event is led by News Canada’s Managing Editor, Jane Stokes. More info and registration on the CPRS Toronto website.
From the TED conference:
"Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft’s Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft’s new WorldWide Telescope — a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe. (Yes, it’s the technology that made Robert Scoble cry.)"
(found via Don Dodge’s blog | client disclaimer)
Ein Glueck, dass ich heute mit der U-Bahn nach Hause gefahren bin. Beinahe haette ich ein Taxi genommen. So bin ich dann aber in den etwas seltsamen Genuss der “Sapphischen Ode” gekommen. zumindest in Auszuegen. Ich nehme an es war eine Gesangsstudentin, die ihre Noten las und kurzerhand neben mir sehr leise das Lied von J. Brahms anstimmte. Sie hat fuer sich geuebt und niemanden beachtet, und ich habe zugehoert und mich still gefreut.
Zum Glueck hatten wir hier in Toronto eine klare Nacht, so dass wir die Mondfinsternis gut beobachten konnten. Ich habe Fotos mit meiner neuen Kamera gemacht, aber muss noch ein wenig mehr ueber die verschiedenen Einstellungen lernen. Zum Beispiel wie man den Autofocus abstellt. Aber ein paar Bilder sind dann doch noch etwas geworden.
After about half a year, it’s time to start blogging again. I’ve given the site a new look and feel, and it will only run on the domain martinhofmann.net.
The old blog web address mrh.ca/tech won’t be used anymore, so please update your bookmarks. If you subscribe to my RSS feed, you should automatically get switched over.
I’ve decided to somewhat broaden the scope of what I will write about on martinhofmann.net. Public relations and technology are still a focus. But I will also capture and write about other stuff that interests me. Since my day job doesn’t give me a lot of opportunity to use my native language, I’ve also decided to start writing in German again. In the end, I am trying to have fun again with an old-fashioned personal online journal. We’ll see how it goes.
For anybody coming to this site to keep track of specific topics, the main categories are now easily accessible in the navigation bar at the top. I have also added a few RSS feeds to the main one in the Subscribe section on the sidebar.
My new site design is based on the combination of two of Brian Gardner’s fantastic Revolution themes for WordPress. The core theme I use is Revolution Pro Media but some of the design elements are also taken from his Revolution Tech theme. You can find out more about Brian’s themes and services here. I hope he’ll forgive me for creating a “frankentheme” from two of his designs. I really like it.