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Future of blogging

James — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:28:44 +0000

Specifically this blog. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to determine what I wanted to do with this blog. When I first started this (as a LiveJournal blog), the purpose of the blog was to record my thoughts about what is happening in my life, and the lives of my friends. I kept it up for a while, but then as more and more people started to read (and comment) on my blog, I started to begin to self-censor more, and over time the blog lost its original focus. Hence I started to think what now.

One of my thoughts was to continue to make commentary about issues that occur in my life, and the issues that affect me. This would mean that the focus of the blog will take a different direction, and would be less focused on my thoughts and feelings (though these will definitely influence my writings).

I also started to think about how often I would write, and more importantly who I would be writing for. Initially my goal would be to write at least once a week, hopefully more. My audience? Well I am going to assume that there is not one, and this will hopefully limit my desire to censor out my thoughts or feelings. I can’t say that this is the best strategy, but it will be a different one. For now, it is what I have to offer.

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danah visits oz

James — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:45:59 +0000

For those aussie friends of mine who occasionally visit. danah boyd, a phenomenal researcher on youth and their relationship with social networks (among other things), is visiting the land downunder. She will be speaking as part of the Education.au series in Brisbane (August 6) and Melbourne (August 8). Registration details here.

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my Bookshelf

James — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:41:56 +0000

Thanks to Paul English for the heads up about Shelfari, a online tool to assist in creating a virtual copy of your bookshelf.

You can visit my Shelfari bookshelf here.

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Remote Blog Post

James — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:30:51 +0000

Lifehacker referenced a tool the other day that was ‘going to make blog posting easier,’ so I had to give it a try. I did. I can see how this might be useful for phone postings, but with the recent CrackBerry (and the like) addictions that have been rampant in my friendly circle, I think directly logging into the blog and posting will be the easier way to go.

Note: this post started off as a remote blog post through email, and then I edited it with the link and the last sentence. Be warned, it will post your signature (if you have one assigned).

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Lifehacker Discoveries

James — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:10:33 +0000

For those of you who do research, or write papers, you will understand the difficulty with making the appropriate citations (as required by your professor). Over at Lifehacker, they mentioned this tool called Ottobib. A must save for your bookmark list!

Find By Click have now incorporated Starbucks Coffee outlets on their google-map-ified website. Click the city you want, and voila – the location for all the Starbucks. (Source: Lifehacker) This could be extremely useful for this guy.

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