Defining the topic for this blog has been an on-going challenge for me since I started blogging in December 2004. And that is reflected in the way my blog has evolved over the years.
Starting out as a simple way of sharing my experiences as an exchange student in Manchester in 2005, the blog evolved into [...]
Posts under ‘Metabloggerie’
Evolution of a blog
Put on your armor
I’ve found a fascinating blog on feminism and such (“ladybusiness”) called Tiger Beatdown. I’m generously fascinated by the blogger, Sady, who so clearly has found her own voice online and uses it so well. Like in a recent meta-post following some big discussions in the comments on her blog, she ends her exposition with the [...]
Roskilde 2009
Another year, another Roskilde Festival.
As usual, I’ll give a quick summary of the best concerts I attended this year. I’ve done this for the past few years that I have been blogging and attending the festival. But this year, it doesn’t seem quite as relevant to do so. I have been neglecting blogging for quite [...]
My own domain
Hopefully, nobody has noticed, but today I’ve changed the domain of this blog. Now it is no longer in a sub-sub-directory of my father’s domain, but rather on a domain of my own, which I hope I can keep for a long, long time.
I’ve also set a permanent 301 .htaccess redirect, updated my RSS feed [...]
Twitter is drive-by shouting
So, I finally succumbed and created a Twitter account. Despite my initial impression of it being fucking retarded. But now, having begun to follow some people and reading their “tweets” (what an awful word), I’ve been able to see how it works.
Imagine a large group of rednecks, each of them cruising down a broad [...]
My outboard brain
Recently, I realized that this is blog, along with my collection of bookmarks, is becoming my outboard brain – a place to store all the interesting stuff I find and reflect upon so that I can dig it up later when I might need it.
I don’t really expect that this realization will have much influence [...]
Widget-ready
So, a new theme for the blog. I haven’t finished tinkering with it yet, but I’m pretty pleased with the way the widgets in the right hand column have turned out.
As you can see, they’re aggregating content from some of the various web 2.0 services I’m using, including my brand new 23 photo sharing [...]
Get reading while the reading’s good
Not too long ago, I was invited to join GoodReads – yet another social web service the sole purpose of which is to allow people to share book recommendations.
As a start, I’ve added some books that I’ve read to my shelf – my virtual book collection, that is. I’ve also added a shelf called [...]
freshened up
I’ve spent some time this morning upgrading this blog to the latest version of Wordpress, and changing and editing the theme to something even more simple.
I also spent some time updating the About, Writings, and Best of… pages to make it as easy as possible to find your way around the site. So take a [...]
New look!
Welcome to WordPress. I’ve finally gotten around to moving my blog off Blogger, and getting into all the CSS and categorizing goodness of the Web 2.0.
I finally got around to doing this when I read usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s top 10 weblog design mistakes, and I hope to have fixed most his concerns now. The [...]
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