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Moving the blog back to aviana.com

Earlier this year I moved my personal blog over from a Wordpress installation on our own virtual server to Posterous.

It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I am afraid there are limitations you cannot get around, especially as regards formatting and design. Posterous is looking more and more like Google+, and I think Google+ is better at being Google+ than Posterous.

Then there is the matter of having your own domain. Our aviana.com domain is more than 12 years old, which makes it valuable search engine marketing wise. We need to keep it fresh, though, with new content, and a blog is a solution to that problem.

Click here to go to the new (and old) home of my personal blog: Aviana PK.

Someone are using Twitter profiles to promote iPhone and tequila.

This is weird.  I have registered several new twitter "friends" who all share an interest for iPhones and tequila:

My guess is that these are fake account set up by affiliate marketers who use their tweets to link to the relevant products. Indeed, in their tweets you will find links that lead to relevant shopping sites.

The fact that the photos are of good looking women is probably just another way of attracting male geeks and drinking men.

So yes, this is most likely spam.

 Scotia Waters

Special Ed Teacher, BIG apple iPhone 4 fan and consummate of silver tequila. Single mother of two, proud mom whose son is in the US Army. Go Army! Love life.

 Candace Miller
Single Parent. FT student at FIU, enjoying my new toy; Apple iPhone4, Gadget Techie. Spend the the weekends clubbing. Love premium silver tequila.

 Liza Salazar
Political Science Major. Power Mac User, Proud owner of the iPhone4. Techie at heart, and Tequila Fan. Bruin Fan FE.

 Joann Noord
College student by day. Manager@Alienware. Love tequila, gadgets, and my shiny new verizon iPhone4. Enjoy to go snorkelin on the weekends. :)

 Helen Williams
Only in Austin. Best steak houses. Single parent, and proud to have a freshman son as a Texas longhorn. Still figuring out my iPhone 4. Enjoy a little tequila.

New web home for NIFU/STEP projects: GoodNIP, PUBLIN and more

When I worked at the STEP institute, later to be known as NIFU STEP, I
was part in setting up web sites for various research projects on
research and innovation.


NIFU STEP has now been renamed NIFU, The Nordic Institute for Studies
in Innovation, Research and Education.

During this change, the old projects have gotten new URLs:

Here are the ones I took part in:

FOTON
Foreign takeovers - competence gain or competence drain (FOTON, for
Foreign Takeovers in the Nordic countries), a project under the Nordic
Innovation Centre's Forum for Innovation Policies.

GOODNIP
The main objective of Good Practices in Nordic Innovation Policies was
to develop a survey and an analysis of Nordic innovation policy
instruments that directly or indirectly are targeting small and medium
sized enterprises.

PUBLIN
The EU project Publin aimed to study policy learning and technical and
administrative innovation in the public sector, and to get a better
understanding of behavioural changes, learning processes and the
implementation of new or improved technologies in public
organisations.