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Bloggere: Stå sammen for Refugees United!

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:36:50 +0000

: Reflection from Crestock Stock Images

Det danske initiativ Refugees United får mere og mere momentum takket være det enorme arbejde som ildsjælene i projektet udfører.
I dag er Refugees United så centrum for ‘Bloggers Unite’ – et kommunikativt kraftcenter, der rekrutterer bloggere til at skabe omtale om relevante initiativer for menneskerettigheder og medmenneskelighed.
Du kan stadig nå at være med – klik videre til Bloggers Unite og hent et banner til dit indlæg om det vigtige i at stå sammen for at hjælpe Refugees United og flygtninge verden over.
Hvis du vil hjælpe, så skyd et indklæg afsted og fortæl om det vigtige arbejde Refugees United udfører. Læs videre på deres site, hvis du vil støtte med mere end blot et blog-indlæg.
Du kan også følge med på Refugees United-bloggen – her indlægget om Bloggers Unite

Optimizing urls for Twitter

Pål Heick — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:01:23 +0000

But then again: that’s a rule of the game – and if your aim is to promote semantically rich urls in your Twitter-feed, you just better keep them below 30 characters. It’s hard enough to limit the praising of a given link to 140 characters.

So, what are the more concrete implications of this?
Well, looking at my own permalinks (that have annoyed me for some time now) – I now have another reason for skipping those non-semantical parts of the permalink: http://blog.heick.nu/archives/2008/04/. That’s 38 characters right there – and I can be pretty damn sure that any link from this blog posted on Twitter is going to be tinyurlified…
Still even if I (when) change my permalinks to the shortest possible form: http://blog.heick.nu/%postname% – I only have 10 chars to do with.
In any case – In the future, I might just start shortening my urls to make them Twitter-friendly…

Is that called Social Media Optimization? SMO?

Lemming 2.0

Pål Heick — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:53:05 +0000

Jane Copland from SEOmoz has a nice post/rant on the massive Lemming 2.0 effect that occurs when new innovative and valuable services emerge. Photo sharing, social networks and social news sites all have market leaders surrounded by a host of more or less blatant copies of the first service. It’s Clondyke for dollar wanting lemmings.
Jane puts this in words quite eloquently:

The only conclusion I can draw is that these companies can’t create anything worthwhile, but know enough web development (but only just) to create a platform so that other people can create content for them. While all sites that include user participation stand to profit off the contribution of others, I’ve been simply astounded at how many of these sites provide virtually nothing other than a way for the public to build up the companies’ link profiles and PageRanks.

…and now, after my blood pressure settles down again I have a confession:

I am a Lemming.