Funny how certain topics tend to resurface every once in a while. A year ago we were discussing the advantages of treating your internet presence as a branding exercise, and yesterday marketing guru Seth Godin gave a great example of why you should do so.
Be yourself but remember: you’re in candid camera.
Some time ago I argued that the middle classes would help the economic and democratic development of emerging countries. Again, the Economist takes this subject on with a special report, and Paco Calderón references it with a cartoon.
Will this positive development survive the current economic climate worldwide?
I visited Barcelona again a couple of weeks ago to attend an important industry conference. Besides working very hard (so much so that when I came back to Finland I went down with the flu), it was very nice to meet some good people I hadn’t seen in a while.
Speaking Spanish and having some jamón de jabugo were also very much welcome. The pictures of the trip are here.
This blog has moved to its own domain: www.chivacongelado.com , the new RSS feed being at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/chivacongelado . Why?
After starting in MySpace (of all places) almost 3 years ago, I moved the blog to Blogger to take advantage of better blogging functionality. In March 2007 it was migrated again to Vox so that I could use the more user-friendly interface available there besides being able to post from my mobile device at the time (or so I said at the time).
In reality, I found a pretty user interface, that made very simple to import and display content, but didn’t allow for unregistered comments, trackbacks, statistics, widgets, counters, etc., so the conversation didn’t grow the way I would have expected. To make matters worse, even though their import utilities are excellent their export tools don’t exist, so my content was literally trapped. This, as you can imagine, made me a very frustrated user, especially since their customer service just ignored me.
With the help of a couple of friends I was finally able to free my content, and am now hosting in BlueHost (GoDaddy was out of the question after the cvander debacle). Installing WordPress was very, very easy and you are now privy to the results. The old blog will remain in its old place, but will not be updated from now on. There might still be a couple of tweaks to be done, but pretty much everything is in place now.
Welcome to my home in the web. Mi casa es su casa. 😉
This month’s edition of Monocle, my favourite magazine, has an in-depth survey of Mexico (running at 36 pages) that features the best in current Mexican design, music, literature, business, media, hospitality and gastronomy.
It is very refreshing to see such a positive portrayal of the Mexican reality, as most international media tend to take the easy route, focusing only on what’s wrong (which we already know) instead of what’s right. Highly recommended!
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Via Alt1040.
Can definitely sympathise with Goofy this time.
I found the movie especially poignant given the current immigration debate in Finland. Not too long ago, Finns were leaving the country, facing similar issues in other lands to the ones found by newcomers here.
After I moved to Finland, one of the things I learned to love was cross-country skiing, so when I was a student and was awarded a small stipend for school achievement, I used that money to buy myself a set of cross-country skis, poles & boots.
Since the past couple of winters have been pretty lousy in southern Finland and I was in Brussels for a year, it had been at least 3 years since I used my skis last time until yesterday. It was, however, like reuniting again with a long-lost friend.
Maybe I should start the Mexican Nordic Combined team? 😉
