social media

Text, Video, and Blogging

The trend in blogging has really changed in the past few years. With Twitter’s 140 character limit and Facebooks hearts and games to spread the love seems many have stopped blogging on a regular basis. Instant gratification comes with the real-time services.

I find my news reader list full of feeds with no updates. I miss reading everyone’s posts.  Typing a thought into a twitter window really does not take much forethought for me I can just type some little and sometimes dumb one liner and it is a done deal. While it has it’s place and I realize some use it quite effectively to discuss anything from natural disasters to politics in real time – it does nothing for me in trying to connect with for lack of better terminology – a support system.

I have never been able to find where everyone is sharing on Facebook this one is all me but I have hit a wall with it (pun intended). By the time I clear all the requests for games, join this or that cause – I am worn out. I may be wrong here but I suspect that most of the empty updates in my news reader authors are hanging out and doing their thing somewhere on Facebook.

The origins of blogging are in the weblog. Where websites had a webpage where you shared your thoughts about the web pages you came across, liked, and shared.  Then with new software and services the transition to the blog – I guess more of a personal journal that morphed into what we have now.  Not really into the technical history just what I remember.

For years I have maintained a site at this .com addy. It started out with a cheesy home page and sub-pages on bicycles, hiking, dogs, and vacations. Then as modems improved the addition of photos to go along with the content.

Then I jumped on the blog band wagon. WordPress turned out to be a super neat way to open up communication with folks. One of my first blog commenter’s (Karoli) still remains a friend.  Gosh she has taken her blogging and social media interaction and participation to awesome levels!  I get to say I know someone who was on CNN! due to her health care activism. Blogging and social media usage done well IMHO.

So I find myself wondering why maintain a blogroll, contact info, links to social sites that I can not figure out anyway, and type when my fingers take forever to do what they used to do in minutes?  It is actually kind of a pain in the arse.  The webcam video thing is much easier to pull off then typing these days. I started blogging again with a different goal – to connect with folks going through the same daily crap I am.

What say you?  Text, video? Blogging V Facebook?

Meanwhile I just keep sharing my dribble . …

Dropped or Not

DSC_0961_2009_webFlu vaccines sit in distribution center waiting for “kits”?

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the unnamed outlet paid the family for the launch and may be complicit in the balloon boy hoax.

Marketing web sites are excited about the new wave of Niche Social Media Sites.

A coyote struck by a fast-moving car near the Nevada-Utah border apparently got trapped by the vehicle’s grill and rode for several hours all the way west to the foothills east of Sacramento.  They said they kept driving because they thought they had killed the animal, so there was no point in stopping …

Some High School English classes teach Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe, but students at Sacramento’s McClatchy High School studying Tupac Shakur makes the grade.

IHOP claims that its eggs are “cruelty free” the Humane Society says they are not.

Quote from a hooker interviewed by a local news anchor: “I’ll say this much about police: They have made my job miserable out here,” she said.  (I say police 1 – hooker zip)

Ads going up in New York subway stations feature the slogan, “A Million New Yorkers Are Good Without God. Are You?”

My Horoscope says:  Today may very well just be one of those days, when nothing you do seems to go right. You may find yourself saying things you really mean but didn’t want to say. You may have to bite your tongue hard today… if you need to vent, find an Internet buddy or some other ‘safe’ means of expressing yourself.

Ok dats all folks . …