Jens Meiert

Offering PR 7 Links for Short Translations

Long story short: I’m looking for translators again, this time for another site, namely the World’s Highest Website. I also offer links from that site in return again, presumably meaning PR 7 links if that’s important to you; I’d appreciate linking to your own website, but foreign …

¶ April 27, 2007, filed under Uncategorized.

Moved 1,200 Bookmarks to del.icio.us

Finally, my bookmarks have been imported to del.icio.us. For what it’s worth, I was surprised that I already collected about 1,200 favorite resources, though almost a half of them being temporary (to be read), now tagged as “temp”. If you’re interested in these resources please note that …

¶ April 18, 2007, filed under Uncategorized.

Thank You, WordPress

You probably noticed that I don’t use any logos of associations or affiliations, as I don’t fill my sites with validity, conformance, or accessibility badges, either (the latter due to professional reasons): Nobody’s interested in them, so they’re rather distracting, confusing, or both …

¶ April 14, 2007, filed under Uncategorized.

News on Webkrauts and FormCamp

I just resigned from the “steering committee” of the German web designer and web developer organization Webkrauts; I rather left it entirely. The main reason that I also used to inform the committee is simple and plausible: I almost never found the time to really contribute, and …

¶ April 9, 2007, filed under Uncategorized.

The Problem with Link Blogs (Plus Five Link Blogs that Rock)

Link blogs suck because they don’t provide any content. Link blogs suck because they just jump on the back of people who actually create content – with few exceptions. Link blogs nonetheless play an important role in the hypertext ecosystem by mixing and working up entire informations …

¶ April 6, 2007, filed under Uncategorized.

Comment Game: 100 Dollars for Comment #100

I want to play a game.

¶ February 23, 2007, filed under Uncategorized.

Weird Weekend Without Happy End: Eggebek, Flensburg, Denmark, and Bremen

To add some transparency for my valued readers: That’s been my “sub-optimal” weekend so far, and in short. Having taken a day off on Friday, I spontaneously decided to take my car and visit a region where I lived about 16, 17 years ago: Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany. First …

¶ February 18, 2007, filed under Uncategorized.

Relaunch, or: meiert.com X

Almost one and a half years after I planned (and announced …) to publish an English version of my site that includes a blog, it’s finally done. First things first, that is. Please, give me a hug. Now that is a great “Hello World,” isn’t it?

¶ January 6, 2007, filed under Uncategorized.