Tag: blog

Hvad koster et link?

Fra tid til anden – måske et par gange hvert 3. år – modtager jeg en mail fra et firma der gerne vil “skrive en artikel” til min (den du læser nu). Efter lidt dialog bliver det klart at de har en (eller flere?) klient(er) som gerne vil have “organiske” links.

Det er bl.a. krav fra deres side at det ikke fremgår af artiklen at den er sponsoreret, at links skal være “dofollow” og at artiklen skal blive permanent på bloggen (eller over en årrække).

Jeg er endnu ikke faldet i (eller er jeg?), men da det skete igen for et par uger siden blev jeg alligevel nysgerrig over hvad de var villige til at betale.

Lang historie kort, efter lidt dialog frem og tilbage blev jeg tilbudt 2200 kr. for en artikel som skulle blive på siden i minimum 2 år. Altså 1100 kr. pr. år, eller ca. 3 kr. pr. dag. Jeg fortsatte ikke dialogen lang nok tid til at se hvordan teksten i sådan en artikel kunne ende med at se ud.

Blog movingday

For quite some time I have wanted to move my blog from my compadre.dk domain.

 

Getting the new domain (soerenbredlundcaspersen.dk) was quite easy, and I did that long time ago, but getting around the technical stuff took a bit more time. Setting up a new blog was no problem with WordPress. What took me some time (but now that I know how to do it shouldn’t have taken more that a few minutes) was moving all the old posts over through the wordpress export and import tools and setting up a redirect from the old blog.

 

So, hopefully I have now managed to transfer all the content from the old domain, set up a redirect that catches all old posts. Additionally I have changed the theme of the blog, from the very brightly coloured Greenery theme to the more low key Titan Theme. Hopefully this change won’t represent a general change from less colour full content on the blog, but I felt now might be as good a time as any to make a change.

 

On a more technical note, although the redirects should take care of any issues, feel free to update any links and change rss feeds from pointing to http://compadre.dk/blog/ to http://soerenbredlundcaspersen.dk/. All underlying link structure should have been moved along – but if you do notice dead links or other odd behaviour, feel free to let me know.

 

In case you wonder, this is actually the second time the blog is moving. First time was when I moved from Livejournal to a wordpress install on my own domain.

English… og dansk

To help readers who might only understad English (or Danish) I have now added two categories to this blog.

Read all posts in English here, (rss feed)
and read all posts in Danish here (rss feed).

(Some posts where both languages are used will be categorized as belonging to both categories.)

Som en service til mine læsere har jeg nu tilføjet to nye kategorier.

Læs alle blog-indlæg på dansk her, (rss feed)
og læs alle blogindlæg på engelsk her (rss feed).

(Nogen indlæg vil blive kategoriseret både som dansk og engelsk, hvis begge sprog benyttes.)

That’s a good thing?

I just saw a video by IBMs A Smarter Planet Blog about some of the things we can expect from cities of the future. The intelligent water system that detects leaks seems neat, but I’m not fond of the use of mathematics and software to prevent diseases from spreading. It seems very easy to use this data and knowledge to quarantine (or worse) people, maybe even before they are infected.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m7ticc7jnE

Also, the crime prevention system seems to make it possible to turn thought crime illegal, and making it possible to convict people for crimes they may commit in the future. Sounds like Minority Report, just with statistical analysis instead of mutants able of precognition.

Photo by: Gene Hunt

wpToGo

Som de to sidste blog posts viser, så har jeg nu fået wpToGo til at virke.

Det er en ganske god applikation til Android til at lave blog posts til WordPress blogs. Det eneste jeg ikke lige kunne få til at virke var categories, men der er tricket bare at man lige skal refreshe listen af categories, så kører det.
Ellers er der fuld understøttelse for tags, billeder, drafts, comments og redigering af tidligere posts. Så kan man jo ikke ønske sig mere.

Keyboardet på min Magic Android er jeg dog stadig ikke gode nok venner med til at jeg gider skrive længere blog posts på telefonen. Men det er super til lige at smide et billede og et par linjers tekst op.

Så nu er jeg klar til at skrive en masse blog-posts på farten og på rejser – så længe jeg kan finde et tilgængeligt wifi netværk.

That was easy and painless…

I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.8. As a reader, you properly won’t even notice, but as a publisher it seems I will now have smoother access to themes and widgets. See this video for all the goodness.

https://videopress.com/v/Pu3T4X8l

The upgrade was more easy than ever. I just clicked twice in the web interface, and it was done.

2.8

How easy is that?!? Great work from WordPress!

How to mirror your blog onto Freenet

I received an email a few days ago asking how I manage to mirror this blog onto Freenet.

For those of you out there who don’t know about Freenet, it is a computer program that aims to provide anonymity for consumers and providers of information, in an effort to secure free speech. The network is decentralized and uses strong encryption to secure anonymity and free speech.

I have been using Freenet, and following its development, on and off over the last couple of years, both because I generally like the idea of free speech and also because I find the technical aspects interesting. The Freenet program is still under heavy development, far from a 1.0 release, and always in need of support. Since I’m not much of a coder I can’t really help The Freenet Project that way, so instead I try to provide something else – content. In other words, I mirror this blog onto Freenet (where a blog is often called a flog).

It is actually quite simple (although a bit time consuming) to insert content into Freenet. Assuming my Freenet node is running, here is what I do:

  1. First I fetch the files locally, using HTTrack (apt install) (I guess wget, puf or similar would work just as well…)
  2. Then I use jSite, to insert onto Freenet.

Quite simple really… If you feel like getting your blog (or other content) on Freenet, I say go for it. If you run into any problems, feel free to contact me.

PS. I’m always looking for friends to connect my Freenet node to, so if you feel like you know and trust me, and that I might now and trust you, feel free to get in touch.

PPS. You can find this blog on Freenet at this key:
USK@nwFgddANy8mudsvcXin~XhPLmiiM8tKG0iYdFRcBgM0,edFuHQpV3fY6eeedhSbfSPpQ9gkBFVwvR~uEzTZiB8k,AQACAAE/blog/74/

Blog på planet?

Hvis du er medlem af Foreningen af danske Ubuntubrugere kan du få din blog (eller en delmængde af dine blog indlæg) på vores planet. Dog med det forbehold at dine indlæg skal handle om it, open source, fri kultur og som minimum en gang imellem være Ubuntu specifikke.

Der er endnu ikke nogen procedure for hvordan man som medlem faktisk får sin blog på planeten, så indtil videre vil jeg opfordre alle medlemmer der mener at deres blog hører til på planeten til at kontakte mig (enten pr. mail soeren.b.c@gmail.com eller fang mig på irc kanalen).

Noget helt andet – hvis du er Ubuntu bruger og på Facebook så er denne gruppe måske for dig… og hvis du regner med at dukke op til Ubuntu Live! så meld dig til på arrangementets event side.

blogs – det er det de unge vil ha’!

Efter en opfordring fra Bossieman her på ubuntudanmark.dk har jeg oprettet en blog ved navn ubuntublog.dk.

Mit mål er at samle nogle tips, tricks og brugsvejledninger til brugere af Ubuntu der kan gøre det lidt lettere eller sjovere at bruge systemet.
Til at starte med vil jeg nok primært lade mig inspirere af andre guides og vejledninger på andre sprog og oversætte / omskrive dem til dansk. Hvad der kommer til at ske senere vil tiden vise. Mit håb er at kunne skrive 2-3 posts pr. uge, men det er jo ikke sikkert jeg kan nå det mål. Hvis der er nogen der ude der har lyst til at hjælpe eller har kommentarer til siden hører jeg selvfølgelig gerne fra jer.