Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Blogging world slows down ...
I kick-started Bloglines this afternoon to see which of the bloggers I follow had new bits to read since the last time I kick-started the app (a week or so ago) and ...
Sara Zarr had two posts.
Zen had one, and that was a photo.
Arleen had six, one quite long, but four posts were simply daily collections of her Twitterposts.
Nikki (Nicole J. LeBoeuf: actually writing blog) had one (and that was her first post since 05 April).
Don had two, and one of those was a pano shot from the top of my hill. (Thx, Don!)
Heather had two. (One of them quite long.) And she'd posted six entries on her micro blog. Yay, Heather! Not bad for the mother of an almost-six-year-old and a new-born.
Ms Paula had six, but then she's way conscientious about keeping her blogger peeps amused.
Alan had naught.
... and so on and forth.
What is going on?
Well, for them I can't answer, but for me, I've been posting short things on Twitter and re-tweeting interesting short things I find there. Anyone can read the Twitterfeed (check it out!).
A Twitter app automagically copies what I post there over to my Facebook presence.
On Facebook, I post a bit longer stuff and stuff that I'd rather keep out of Twitter. (Photos of the wee gifty the youngest sent me for Mother's Day, f'rex.)
I've been hanging out on Facebook and Twitter because they are an easy way for me to follow the antics of certain folks, post inane comments about their passions and their lives, and pick up nifty bits of fact all while I'm doing the same. More seamlessly. Less back and forthing. Less disconnection.
The blog is becoming more of a collection of longish thoughts and prettyish photos. The short 'n sweet links will probably end up on Twitter for the most part.
Make sense?
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Sara Zarr had two posts.
Zen had one, and that was a photo.
Arleen had six, one quite long, but four posts were simply daily collections of her Twitterposts.
Nikki (Nicole J. LeBoeuf: actually writing blog) had one (and that was her first post since 05 April).
Don had two, and one of those was a pano shot from the top of my hill. (Thx, Don!)
Heather had two. (One of them quite long.) And she'd posted six entries on her micro blog. Yay, Heather! Not bad for the mother of an almost-six-year-old and a new-born.
Ms Paula had six, but then she's way conscientious about keeping her blogger peeps amused.
Alan had naught.
... and so on and forth.
What is going on?
Well, for them I can't answer, but for me, I've been posting short things on Twitter and re-tweeting interesting short things I find there. Anyone can read the Twitterfeed (check it out!).
A Twitter app automagically copies what I post there over to my Facebook presence.
On Facebook, I post a bit longer stuff and stuff that I'd rather keep out of Twitter. (Photos of the wee gifty the youngest sent me for Mother's Day, f'rex.)
I've been hanging out on Facebook and Twitter because they are an easy way for me to follow the antics of certain folks, post inane comments about their passions and their lives, and pick up nifty bits of fact all while I'm doing the same. More seamlessly. Less back and forthing. Less disconnection.
The blog is becoming more of a collection of longish thoughts and prettyish photos. The short 'n sweet links will probably end up on Twitter for the most part.
Make sense?
Labels: blog, life, social networking
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
End Bush (Tuesday January 20, 2009. 9AM)
Event coming UP! all San Franciscans and those near enough to:
Inauguration Day 2009.
You could be at the Main Library at 100 Larkin Street in the Koret Auditorium watching the live telecast.
OR
You could be at End Bush at Bush and Presidio (Tuesday January 20, 2009)
Meetup and STREET PARTY! at the corner of Bush and Presidio at the END BUSH sign.
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Inauguration Day 2009.
You could be at the Main Library at 100 Larkin Street in the Koret Auditorium watching the live telecast.
OR
You could be at End Bush at Bush and Presidio (Tuesday January 20, 2009)
Meetup and STREET PARTY! at the corner of Bush and Presidio at the END BUSH sign.
Labels: election2008, San Francisco, social networking
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
12 Great Tales of De-Friending
My peeps-who-tweet list grows and shrinks, depending on how full my twitterstream is.
Most people who are taken off the list are stored instead on MyDelicious with a /twitterfeed/ tag so that I can get to them and catch up on their tweets but not necessarily wade through five hundred tweets (total) every day. I mean, there was usually a reason they made my twitterfeed list in the first place.
Is it their fault they post in spurts and every four hours I can look forward to a series of nine tweets?
Well, yes it is their fault, which is why they're now a MyDelicious twitterfeed link rather than on my "real" twitterfeed. (Note to whoever may be fussing about me moving you off my twitterfeed: Unless your initials are TO, the aforementioned burst-tweeter isn't you.)
Facebook, though, seems more easily controlled. I can look at someone's updates or not. The updates from X don't overwhelm the updates from Y. I don't think I've ever defriended anyone at LinkedIn either. I did completely bail out of Friendster soon after the friends of friends of friends began including people I wouldn't want to have coffee with.
This article on de-friending brings up many issues but #6 ("De-friending can regress mature women into a high school gossip mob") takes the cake.
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Most people who are taken off the list are stored instead on MyDelicious with a /twitterfeed/ tag so that I can get to them and catch up on their tweets but not necessarily wade through five hundred tweets (total) every day. I mean, there was usually a reason they made my twitterfeed list in the first place.
Is it their fault they post in spurts and every four hours I can look forward to a series of nine tweets?
Well, yes it is their fault, which is why they're now a MyDelicious twitterfeed link rather than on my "real" twitterfeed. (Note to whoever may be fussing about me moving you off my twitterfeed: Unless your initials are TO, the aforementioned burst-tweeter isn't you.)
Facebook, though, seems more easily controlled. I can look at someone's updates or not. The updates from X don't overwhelm the updates from Y. I don't think I've ever defriended anyone at LinkedIn either. I did completely bail out of Friendster soon after the friends of friends of friends began including people I wouldn't want to have coffee with.
This article on de-friending brings up many issues but #6 ("De-friending can regress mature women into a high school gossip mob") takes the cake.
Labels: life, social networking, twitter, web2.0
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
cbs5.com - Contest To Challenge SF Residents To Save Energy
cbs5.com - Contest To Challenge SF Residents To Save Energy
San Francisco Climate Challenge, my lamp, my stairs, my solar panels! make the news!
Reading this in the city? Sign up! at SFClimateChallenge.org
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San Francisco Climate Challenge, my lamp, my stairs, my solar panels! make the news!
Reading this in the city? Sign up! at SFClimateChallenge.org
Labels: environmentalism, life, social networking
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
eBay Acquires StumbleUpon
eBay Acquires StumbleUpon
The $75 million cash acquisition gives eBay access to about 2.3 million people who have filled out profiles at StumbleUpon, founded in 2001 by three Canadian software engineers in Calgary.
... and the acquisition of my profile will provide eBay with what?
Let's hope the eBay folks don't mess up an excellent app.
The news from the StumbleUpon blog
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The $75 million cash acquisition gives eBay access to about 2.3 million people who have filled out profiles at StumbleUpon, founded in 2001 by three Canadian software engineers in Calgary.
... and the acquisition of my profile will provide eBay with what?
Let's hope the eBay folks don't mess up an excellent app.
The news from the StumbleUpon blog
Labels: app, social networking, URL
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
[URL] popurls | popular urls to the latest web buzz
popurls | popular urls to the latest web buzz
Aggregate of W2.0 feeds like digg and reddit and boingboing. Someone called it a look at the hive mind. Probably a good analogy. Similar to and with more links than THEWEBLIST.net (which was inspired by popurls). Includes flickr links and fark.com.
Looking for article ideas? This site gives you a look at what's poppin.
[Caution: Can be a HUGE time waster ...]
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Aggregate of W2.0 feeds like digg and reddit and boingboing. Someone called it a look at the hive mind. Probably a good analogy. Similar to and with more links than THEWEBLIST.net (which was inspired by popurls). Includes flickr links and fark.com.
Looking for article ideas? This site gives you a look at what's poppin.
[Caution: Can be a HUGE time waster ...]
Labels: app, social networking, URL, webstuff
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
MySpace Photo Costs Teacher Education Degree
Be careful what you post online.
MySpace Photo Costs Teacher Education Degree
Fair? Unfair?
The photo in question (from an article at The Smoking Gun, of course)
I think she should've got rid of the red-eye fer sures.
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MySpace Photo Costs Teacher Education Degree
Fair? Unfair?
The photo in question (from an article at The Smoking Gun, of course)
I think she should've got rid of the red-eye fer sures.
Labels: blog, life, social networking
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JPG Magazine: Photos
JPG Magazine: Photos
Explore.
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Explore.
Labels: app, photographs, social networking, URL
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
