Web Life
Decisions, Decisions
Over at Sapid Existence I play along with something called Photo Story Friday. A bunch of people submit posts that have A) a photo and B) a story to go with it. Rocket science, I know…
Lately though, I’ve been realizing that there are some days where signing in on Friday just can’t happen. I have 1 photo specifically set for the last Friday before I go back to school. When I’ll be going to Charleston to see Springsteen. So I’ve been wrestling with the idea of actually posting my stuff on Thursday, which works because the sign up stuff happens on Thursday evening.
To go along with that, albeit on a much more selfish/evil level, I just want to get my name earlier on the list. There’s nothing making people come back. I always go and look at the blogs that posted before me. I usually come back and look at the ones that posted after me. But I’ll bet that I’m in the minority with that one.
I know, the things that don’t really matter cause me to think and the things that do matter get an almost instantateous decision.
Return of the CD List
Some of you will probably remember how I used to have a CD list on Juggle Chainsaws, and how it got taken away when I stopped adding to it. Well, it’s back. Sort of. It’s on a different site and has a lot more functionality.
Racks and Tags, along with Orange CD, have given me a place to display it. And trust me, it’s a lot better than manually entering everything into a MySQL database. I get just about everything I could ever want (adding lyrics to tracks would be great, or having it suck in the track times when adding something from Amazon), and it’s less work.
I’m sure a few people will think I was paid somehow for this. But I wasn’t. I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. Well, not the online display part. That’s just a bonus.
Sapid Existence at Successful Blog
I’ve submitted Sapid Existence to Liz Strauss’ Blog-to Show. That was the easy part. The hard part is waiting another few hours to see what comes out of that. I guess my expecting to see it when I woke up is another example to egocentric thinking.
I’m hoping that things go well with that. I’ve gotten some some responses that have made me very happy, most recently this one from SuRi:
I wonder if you are planning a future in professinal sports photography. I know you have been published in your school newspaper from previous posts, but your sports photos are good enough to be in sports magazines (not that I look at many of those, but my husband does and your shots are right up there with sports illustrated)
Every time I hear that, I start to wonder if it’s something I should persue more activly. So if anyone knows where I can tart to do that in a place other than with newspapers I would love to hear about it. I just don’t want newspapers because I like to have a few days to go over my stuff and get it ready.
Why Twitter Will Never Happen
Twitter had a good run. But I think it will never be more than a novelty.
I signed up for it for the sole purpose of being able to use Sandy through an IM interface. But Twitter’s IM service went down on May 23 and hasn’t been back up since.
The folks who run Twitter just don’t seem to care. And it’s sad really. It looks like a lot of people want to give Twitter a chance to really catch on. It had the chance to be the next Facebook, something on the web that completely changes the way things work.
But really, how can you trust/rely on a company that seems to thumb their colletive noses at the users? It’s been almost 2 months since Twitter’s IM bot went offline. Two months of cery scattered “We’re working on it”s. 2 months of avoiding even talking about the issue.
Really, I’ve had it. I don’t care if this is a free thing. If WordPress was free and has this sort of service, nobody would use it. MySpace has this sort of service, and people are starting to leave in droves. This makes Wal-Mart’s tendancy to have roughly 2% of its registers open look really good.
I wanted Twitter to work. I really did. But if this is the sort of service that Twitter will provide, I can happily move onto something else.