Tag: personal expression platform
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Never miss a word
OK, I think I have the subscription widget working right, with a tucked-away version on both the main page and the page for each of these posts, just in case anyone wants to get an email notifying them when I’ve written something new here. No spam, promise!
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Breaker, one-nine
OK, so I managed to install a little subscription thingie down there above the footer (hidden till you pull it down because it’s kind of fugly in my no-sidebar design here currently), and it seems to work in getting people signed up (me in a test account as my smarter older brother Mycroft and friend…
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Dispatches from the edge
Microblogging never really found its way. Not like real protocols like email and such. Monopolizing status updates all in one place never made sense but it hung together chaordically for a long while between twtr and the nazi bar it became. Much like the yellow-pages style centralization that facebook rode to meta, this ultimately provided…
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Sometimes late when things are real
When there’s a lot going on a lot of time can pass before I feel ready to say something about it and by the time I am ready usually something else is going on and other things have happened in the meantime. It’s almost enough to make me want timestamped logs like this site to…
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Ready fedi?
As I get more into this fediverse thing I want to start trying to wean my photos off of Instagram / Bookface and my videos off of YouTube / same. Just as Mastodon is an open federated microblogging service akin to Twitter, Pixelfed and Peertube and federated photo and video services. Just so, I have…
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Migration
After reactivating the Mastodon account I provisioned in 2019 over at mstdn.social, I started noticing that that instance, well managed and moderated as it is, is a larger one, getting bigger all the time, and it was starting to throw errors. They say to build the fediverse out and not up, so I started exploring…
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This thing on?
If I did this right, then my blog is now on the Fediverse at @xian@mediajunkie.com — do the double at signs bother any else? @@
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Comparing hosting options
There is a very real prospect that the sweet sweet deal the Mediajunkie publishing empire has had these many years with Tiedrich and associates may need to replaces by something inevitably not half so sweet. What this means is that I may need to find a new host for my multiple and various web experiments.…
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Slow blogging ahead, or behind?
Yeah, what she said: FringeHog: In Praise of Slow Blogging. Or is it a he? There’s no byline and several authors for the site. Whatever. Also, should I get an OLPC (one laptop per child) XO laptop in the buy one / donate one program? They look like they might be a great conference tool.…
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Can I blog from my iPhone?
Since I started at Yahoo my workaday routine involves riding a shuttle from Oakland to Sunnyvale with a big laptop computer crammed on my lap so I can work, browse the net, or as I’ve been doing lately, blog.
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MyBlogLog is looking for a community manager
If you’re an experienced blogger in the Bay Area and would like to work for a cool startup recently acquired by Yahoo!, in Berkeley, then you may want to apply for this new community manager role: The MyBlogLog Blog: Seeking: MyBlogLog uber-user for long-term relationship They seem to grok the Craig Newmark idea that customer…
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Pardon our dust
I got tired of the old design and wanted to take advantage of some of the new-er features of the blog software I’m using, so I’ve temporarily redone the design with one of their canned themes. Soon I’ll start tweaking the typography and colors and spacing and such and adding back in some of the…
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See, I have actually been blogging this past year
While I’ve been neglecting this and many other of my Mediajunkie blogs in the past year and a half (excuse: full-time work, baybee), I have actually been blogging. While at Extractable I launched a spearheaded a user-experience focused blog called Extra! Extra! and wrote something for it nearly every workday for about a year. Actually,…
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Awkward silence
For some odd reason both of the outgoing mail servers that route mail for me from my various addresses are stalling out repeatedly at the moment. This means I have about seven or eight messages in my queue that aren’t being sent out. This means that I may be trying to reply to email from…
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We can rebuild it
I tore down the monolog at x-pollen and built it back up as a new standalone blog. It was a fake blog before. Now it has its own blog number in my system and for the time being it will only update when I update it manually (at least until I get a crontab working).…
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Who else loves cake?
Hallelujah. Jeff’s Spleen is producing its… er, bile? once again! But that design, it’s so 2003….
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Why do businesspeople love magic squares?
I’m the same way. I love it when you can talk about all music as popular and good, popular and bad, unpopular and good, or unpopular and bad. I love magic squares. Is it because they’re very small databases?
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My pipes, my strings
What the voice is for, what the body wants.