I’ve spent the last few hours trying to figure out some things relating to my blog here and my accounts with facebook, myspace, twitter, all of that. fact is though, it seems everyone has pages upon pages of social networking sites. If you only needed one that be nice. But each site grants different things. And the bitch of it is that you really should try to link most of them together as you can. Hence why I’m having such a headache. I found stuff to help with all of it but it’s difficult for someone like me that’s completely dead to the world on some things.
But the real thing to think of that I’m getting to is this. Do we really need to spread what we post from here to every corner of the net? Does everyone need to know everything at every moment? Are we so in need of knowing that someone is listening that we have to continuously post place after place after place?
Just some questions for you to consider.
I’ve been thinking of all the possibility of using the miccroblogging services like Twitter. Frankly right now I don’t do a LOT of tweating, and i don’t have much I would WANT to tweat about at times. It seems to me at least that the idea is just short snippets of things that don’t really matter surrounding a lot of other things. Not idea if it’s really worth the time to do any of it. It might be good to have twitter when say you at an event and your reporting back to the audience in short spurts to let them know how things are. Personally I prefer the ability to have my entire article here and then edit it. I’m not 100% sure it’s a good thing FOR ME. I’ll work on it some, but who knows.
I have a few new articles that will be going up soon as I write them. A few things to consider and the like.
Was tweaking around some of the old links and found a fellow I linked to a while back in a post about the Sony Reader and iRex Iliad. Seems he’s started a few new blogs and posted recently about Sony Reader distribution. He’s posted a lot of articles relating to eBook distribution both in relation to devices and the actual content as well. Frankly as I look at the front page for Amazon.com and look at the ever present Kindle ad on the front page I have to wonder if eBooks will finally have a chance of reaching a larger market. I first started being interested in them when I had access to Microsoft Reader and purchased several books from Amazon.com in that format. They were decent enough, and I had an iPaq at the time so reading off it wasn’t a big deal for me. I enjoyed it. I even had fanfictions on it and read them using pocket word. I so enjoyed my first Jornada PDA.
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Apparently someone at Linux Journal took exception to a man saying it was time for the bloggers like myself who are’t professionals to give up and throw out everything related to our work. I guess with everything else out there it makes sense if your not dedicated to somethings.
The whole article is here. Here’s an excerpt for you.
I’ve been blogging since 1999. I’ve also been flickring, facebooking and tweeting for most of the time those services have been around. All are good for some things, but not everything, least of all for what blogging does best.
As personal journals on the Web go, blogs have no substitute. Twitter is fine for 140-character micro-postings, and for the ecosystem surrounding it. But micro-posts are not journals. Flickr is great for posting, tagging, organizing and annotating photographs, and for allied services such as creating groups and the rest of it, but it ain’t blogging. Facebook has some blogging features, but at the cost of forcing the blogger to operate in a vast hive of non-journalistic activity — and flat-out noise.
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Posted by LD
May 30th, 2006
I just got this link from Gavre. She linked me to this site after I told her I had put a Hartz Flea collar on my cat to prevent him from picking up fleas from a dog I did a rescue on yesterday. Apparently, there are severe detrimental affects associated with this companies products. Mostly, the cats affected have suffered from skin irritations to poisoning. The pesticides used are not what one would expect with a product labled to be good for your cat and to help protect him from parasites. I thought something was wrong all day since Walter has been much more lethargic then ususal. I’m taking him to the vet tomorrow and dealing with the issue.
If I’m over reacting then let me over react instead of end up with a sick and dead cat. Other wise check out this website if you have cats and have used Hartz products before.
HartzVictims.org
Groklaw is reporting a few things today. The biggest thing is the ruling by the US Patent Office (USPTO). The USPTO has ruled that Forgent’s claims for the patent on the jpeg format are invalid and that Forgent knew about the prior art that was brought up by the Public Patent Organization (PubPat). There is a chance that Forgent could appeal, but they got some work ahead of them.
Another big thing that some folk might like to know. The Appeals Court handling the case that has been called Apple vs. Bloggers by some on Slashdot ruled bloggers are journalists and are able to claim the protections of the first amendment. This is some big information and for some a big thing. Anyone who writes a blog now that ends up getting sued for their sources can end up like Woodward and Bernstein. Check out Groklaw for more information.
On the USPTO case, I’m hoping PubPat will win many more cases on software patents. The more that are struck down the safer a lot of folk will be from shit like what SCO is pulling against IBM, but IBM is holding it’s own real well. Hell, SCO is pretty much grasping at straws now. We’ll see when that one when it’s done.
Social Networking, communication, and the way we share.
I’ve been hearing about social networks for the last few years. Things like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Digg. Now, the point of these sites originally was to give people a place they could post their interests, thoughts, and generally get in contact with those they share common cause. I’ve spent some time the last few days pondering the technical merits of Twitter while I sighed up, integrated it with dhampirdreams.com and general added folk to watch. This all started when I decided that I wanted to finally play around with the microblogging plasmoid in KDE 4.x. Thankfully all I had to do was enter the website address and my login information for Twitter. As you can see from the screenshot it just keep the current tweets and such plastered there. I’m hoping to find more people to follow over time. Read the rest of this entry »
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