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Blogging: Following the tail
Fri, 07 Sep 2007

Sure, competition and variety is a good thing, but it annoys me that people lurk about on myspace, livejournal, facebook and every other site I don't care about :) No way am I going to repost all my blog entries in 5 places, which is why I've always kept them on my own server - and no ownership problems this way either. But I did make this handy little script that pushes updates over to LJ so friends there could see my blog posts if they like without having to open up my site directly. Do I now have to figure out some way to do the same for facebook?

Because it sure seems like LJ is dieing to me :P

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Blogging: Facebook.. wtf
Mon, 16 Apr 2007

(Pardon me, allow myself to alienate uh, myself.) OKay, so people are into LinkedIn, LiveJournal, MySpace, Facebook, Grokster, Friendster. People click away requesting and confirming connections in this orgy of building bigger 'connection scores.' Well, I'm generally into hosting (and owning clear copyright to) my own content, and really don't care for the connection count dick-size war, but I will permit myself to hook up in facebook since my wife is sitting over there hooking up and making me very curious. Damnit, curiosuity whips snobbyness every time :)

So I head to Facebook and enter my info into the Register option; a minute later it times out and forgets everything. After another try (chalk -1 up for Web 2.0 :P) I get it going.

My wife has already requested a link to me I guess, since it magicly suggests hooking up with her. Thats sort of cool, so I hit 'Confirm' to her connection and it pops up a box to nail down the relationship. I check "In my family" and a picklist appears.. "sibling, parent, child, cousin, extended family." So here we have a website with millions of users that doesn't understand the concept of wife. And crashes on registration.

Why do people put up with this crap?

Oh, right, dick-size wars.

I wonder how many people spend all day sending requests, checking off those requests in all those sites above, and entering their blog into Livejournal, then looking at their LJ and FB 'friends lists' to see all their blogs.. man. I know I get a half dozen 'confirm' requests a day and I'm sure I'm nothing compared to your average 14 year old :) Pick one site. Everyone, stay on LJ so we needn't monitor 17 sites :)

Edit: (I do realize they have 'We hooked up' but thats generic since you then type into a 'and it was..' field, so thats vaguely possible; theres also 'we dated' which sort of works with its options. I know, I just turned Old, and this site is for highschool folks. But make me feel like I'm still In, okay? :)

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Blogging: I must turn off comment support for now, due to blog-spammers
Sun, 08 Jan 2006

If you look at not-quite-recent posts in my blog (especially the older ones) you will notice that most of the commentary is from spammers; they just have automated 'bots' that fill up blogs with inane fake replies that link to their penis-enlargement sites - the bonus to them being a higher "reference count" in search engines like Google, that track that sort of thing. I cannot tolerate spam of course, and there is just no way I will support their habits by letting them post comments in my blog.

If you wish to comment on a posting, please head over to the LiveJournal version of my blog (link on the right) and comment there. Blame the spammers!

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Blogging: Video killed the radio star.
Wed, 28 Sep 2005 Why shouldn't we blog in images? Alright, I know, no one could read it with a text-to-spoken interface, let alone those syndicating to other places or reading on slow connections. But it does satisfy a certain urge doesn't it? Hell, the whole idea of blog grafitti (do we call that glogging?) on a virtual wall makes me feel like a punk. Wheres that gonzo fist, Dead Kennedy's logo and Gimp-filter when I need it? Heres for International Glogging Day.

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Blogging: Blog crossposting, or, How I imported my blog into Livejournal
Tue, 27 Sep 2005

A number of my friends have their own blogs on Livejournal and once in awhile someone requests I move over there instead of running my own blog. Of course I prefer to run it myself because I'm that sort of guy, but also so I have full control over the content (for future importing, exporting, republishing, etc). LJ lets people view a blog, but also allows them to integrate the display of friends blogs, so as to see an aggregated view of desirable content all in one place. I offer an RSS syndication option which is good for most people, but I've found out LJ doesn't let people tie into an RSS feed.... unless the feed owner-to-be (me in this case) pays $$$ to the LJ folks. Well, naturally, I have no interest in paying up for such a thing - its free to make an account, and free to post to an account, and free to blog any which way... so why not automate the whole process and not pay LJ to poach my content?

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