Think Globally, Act Locally
6 Feb 2012 12:04pm GMT ‘Local character’ is thus no mere accidental old-world quaintness, as its mimics think and say. It is attained only in course of adequate grasp and treatment of the whole environment, and in active sympathy with the essential and characteristic life of the place concerned. Patrik Geddes, a pioneer in town planning Although, the meaning [...]
Sergei Einsenstein’s Strike, Music by Alloy Orchestra
4 Oct 2011 6:42pm GMT Found in this wonderful guide to 420 free movies that you can watch online, Strike is a early communist propaganda movie by the director Sergei Eisenstein. His another well-known propaganda movie is The Battleship Potemkin and is also now in public domain. Both of them are silent movies and many bands has composed soundtrack later. [...]
Strabag Sues and Censors Transparency Website in Slovakia
27 Jun 2011 1:51pm GMT A Slovak branch of Strabag, a construction company, has sued the website www.znasichdani.sk (translates as From our taxes, run by Fair-play Alliance, won 1st Prize App prestigious prize of Open Data Challenge) that connects information available in the Slovak Trade registry with the awarded public sector contracts. A slovak district court issued a preliminary ban (preliminary [...]
Facebook Comments Box Indexable and Crawlable by the Search Engines
16 Jun 2011 9:37am GMT SEOMoz community member Roy Peleg writes about how to make the Facebook comments (part of the Facebook comments box iframe) indexable and crawlable by the search engines including Google. He links to a PHP script that basically pulls out comments from the API: http://www.rayhe.net/fb/comments.phps and inserts them into a page. He writes: So basically you can now [...]
Cycle The World (You Will, Guys, You Will!)
31 Mar 2011 9:40pm GMT I received a message from my friends in Vienna about a German couple that is on their way around the world… on bike. They asked me, if I would be able to host them in Bratislava. Am I able to host somebody cycling around the world? That’s a courage I like, so definitely: yes! Andreas and [...]