Posts tagged as "blog"
Why content is so important?
This post in my web 101 series will be short, because this came up again in a workshop yesterday.. Most house-builders and constructors don’t really care about the sofa you had planned for your living room. They’re in the industry of building houses. True, too often we need to furnish our houses according to the [...]
Balancion: After a month
Balancion is a Finnish start-up that has been hyped quite a bit, and true, they come with good pedigree. I got invited to the service a while back and now have had time to use it for a month or so. The premise is simple, they will provide users a service that will kick Mint.com [...]
Technology or Business?
After you’ve figured out that you really want and need a web site, you come to a very important crossroad. This fork has two different paths and usually people don’t even realize the existence of the other. Let’s go back a bit. Imagine you walk to an advertising agency to do a print campaign. Do [...]
Good Advertising – Makita Drill Ad
I’m going to start another series, that will be titled Good Advertising – which will naturally get stuck with any adblocker out there. If you’ve been reading this blog for any time, you’ll notice that I whine and moan quite a bit about advertising and the industry in general. This comes from the fact, that [...]
Know your memes
Memes are something we’ve all seen if we’ve been using the internet for anything more than e-mail. To be honest, most e-mail skits people receive are also memes, the very old ones in that. Thankfully Rocketboom has made understanding memes easier for us mortals with their video blog “Know your memes”. Their latest post is [...]
Spam’s electric bill? $3 Billion USD
Antivirus and web security company McAfee commissioned a research project from ICF International to measure the ecological effect of spam e-mails. Of course, it’s all about the carbon footprint now and everybody is up to the challenge. Now if only we could have a company to sell us a software that kills sp… oh, yeah. [...]
The Death Wheeze of Newspapers
Staying on the topic of printed media, TechCrunch posted an article titled That Whining Sound You Hear Is The Death Wheeze Of Newspapers. It is a very interesting look on the current clashing of the offline and the online. It talks on the items on how the web is “stealing” content from the newspapers and [...]
Life 101: What is Open Source and how does it work?
French author Marcel Proust once wrote “Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.” Of course, he did it in french but I thought it would be less of an dick thing to have it here translated. However, I agree with the above sentence and will try to [...]
The week on Varha.com April 6th to 12th
Quite a week it’s been, trying my first ever series of posts and I was pleased and surprised to see the interest and feedback it got. So, here’s the most popular content from the blog this week in a collected post, so you can spend your Easter days enjoying some verbal entertainment (if you’re really [...]
5th of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve
Note: This is the fifth and last part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting on Monday, and ending today, on Friday. If you missed the first part “Time [...]
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