13 posts tagged “blogging”
If you've ever wondered what I use to write 1FPS and my other ventures, ecto has been it for years. Soon I'll use it on my personal Vox blog too, as Adriaan Tijsseling has stated he's working on a plug-in for it. While Daniel Jalkut's MarsEdit is a great blogging app, I've always preferred ecto because of its awesome integration with Mac OS X (an iPhoto + iTunes browser, etc.), toggling between rich text and HTML editing and its ability to bring in info from other web services, such as allowing me to blog stuff from Amazon and automatically insert my affiliate code to make a few bucks. This new ecto3 looks great, and I blogged this entry in it. Very excited for the final product.
As of July 18th, 11:54 am, we have become a 100% pro blogging household, for that is the time at which Jessi's first post at Weblogs, Inc.'s newest blog - DIY LIfe - was published. While this by no means is replacing Jessi's day job of being a high school English teacher, it's great to see her flexing her writing muscles for such an awesome company (the same one that I write for at TUAW and Download Squad) by blogging on a topic she is enthusiastic about: all sorts of home improvement and DIY-type stuff. She's a nut for anything you can do, make or mod yourself around the house, and she's already published nearly a dozen posts to prove it.
Welcome to the pro blogging world Jess! Next you'll have to sign up at all the web 2.0 sites you'll never visit a second time, and then you'll have to join me in being one of those semi-pretentious folks in Starbucks with a laptop so people know you're cool and do stuff on the internet.
Technology Bloggers, what are they good for? « Scobleizer
The TUAW team has been whooping ass the past few months (well it's really been 'always' if you ask me), and Robert Scoble has offered up some much-deserved (and graciously accepted) love. In his own personal A list of bloggers, Scoble listed TUAW as #13, and apparently left us as the only Apple-centric blog on the list. Awesome.
My wife started blogging again, and I love it. So far she's primarily focusing on her experiences with teaching and how impressed she is by her students' work, and it's great stuff. She's a wonderful writer herself (went to school in LA for screenwriting), and I love seeing her flex the pen (so to speak) again.
Kickin' back, bloggin the web, havin' a bud wit' my bud.
Ok fine - it's actually a Fat Tire, and my bud is my dog, but who's counting, right?
Weblogs, Inc.'s Ryan Block just celebrated his 5,000th post - holy crap. Like TUAW's Dave Caolo, I suspect Mr. Block might also employ a small band of children - or a massive fleet of monkeys and typewriters - to get all that blogging done.
Tin foil hat theories aside, I found myself struck with the 'me too' syndrome, so I decided to check on how my post stats are doing. I've been going through quite a bit of personal and academic drama as of late, so things have been a blur the last few weeks; so much so that I didn't notice when I passed the 2K mark. Our CMS tells me I've written 2,033 posts in my time at Weblogs, Inc. since July of 2005. Those posts are spread across TUAW, Download Squad, The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog and The Design Weblog - the former two receiving the bulk of those posts, with the latter two retired some time ago.
I've really enjoyed my time blogging, and the exciting thing - as cheesy as this may sound - is that I'm gearing up to do a lot more of it. I'm almost done with school, and after this semester I'll have nothing but a senior thesis project to complete in the fall. We have some big plans for Download Squad and TUAW, and it should be a lot of fun to be a part of them.
Here's to 2,033 more posts.
Originally published at 1FPS | David Chartier. You can comment here or there.
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These pledges are all the more dangerous because big-media people think they are ethical and we’re not because they have pledges and we don’t. Let’s not fall in that trap. You have to make ethical judgments every day with every thing you do and no pledge is going to help you do that. Your mother either did that job — or didn’t.
I think Jeff more or less does a great job of calling bullshit on the silly concept of a ‘blogger code of ethics,’ but I disagree on the anonymous commenting issue. I don’t know much about whether it’s possible to achieve any kind of accuracy when tracking down a vicious and anonymous comment, but forcing people to enter some kind of credentials - bogus 60-second Yahoo! address or otherwise - is a useful hurdle that I don’t believe should be tossed aside so easily. Yes the internet and blogosphere are great because it levels the playing field and gives nearly everyone a voice, but that voice still needs to easily be tied to a person (again, fake ID or not). In the real world, someone can’t join a conversation without sitting down at a coffee table, peeking their head around a cubicle or raising their hand. Even if that person has a fake ID and tell us his name is John Doe, we still have words and a voice that we can attach to a face, which means that person, even at a basic level, has to think about what they’re saying and the consequences of saying it. 100% anonymity on the web is cute and all, but it removes that vested interest when tossing one’s $0.02 onto the table, and I’m not so sure that elimination is such a good idea.
If something is worth saying, it’s worth tying at least some kind of identity to it. Even if a person goes to all the trouble to use a fake username with bogus ID credentials that can only be revealed by law and only take us so far (if anywhere) when tracking them down, adding a layer of credibility to the conversation won’t hurt anyone. It can, however, help cut down on the signal to noise ratio, and really - isn’t that the best we can hope for?
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A while ago I created an RSS feed of myself with Blogdigger, attempting to collect all of the publishing I do across the web as a sort of vanity project for the one or two readers who actually might want all that stuff in one place.
This endeavor had two major faults:
- I thought that each blogger at TUAW and DLS had their own RSS feeds; this is not true. Only the main page and individual categories have feeds.
- RSS is great, but most surfers are still viewing good ol' fashioned HTML pages in one browser or another.
So, without further adieu, I gladly present DavidChartiér.com, a Tumblr-powered blog that collects my posts from TUAW, Download Squad, my Vox blog, my posts at 1FPS and my Flickr photos. Tumblr's simple bookmarklet also allows me to easily link all the neat stuff I come across that might not fit at any of these other sites.
Now this is by no means meant to replace any of my work at the various sites I write for, and you can tell from how I set up the feed aggregation. Save for the Flickr feed, no full posts are collected - only screenshots and snippets. This way, DavidChartiér.com functions as more of a springboard to these other sites, as opposed to a replacement.
A vanity project for sure, but I I hope at least a few of you can get some use out of it. Enjoy.
Personally, I learned a lot. This was my first time covering a major event of any kind (including live-blogging a major keynote), and boy was it an experience. I met some great people, interviewed some awesome people (footage and podcasts pending) and was offered some exciting freelance opportunities. Three cheers for networking! We already have a ton of ideas for doing things differently and better, and I'm already excited for WWDC, even though it's a completely different beast and not quite as consumer friendly.
Still, Macworld Expo 2007 rocked, and I am incredibly thankful I had the opportunity.
Originally published at 1FPS : David Chartier. You can comment here or there.
What are your resolutions for 2007?
I'd like to start by saying Happy New Year's to one and all, and to all a good year! I have a lot I want to do this year, but not in that 'completely unrealistic resolutions/todo list that I'll just start feeling guilty for not doing somewhere around September' lot to do. I more or less am taking bigger steps towards projects and other things I'm already working on, such as:
- Managing my time better so I can spend more of it with Jessi,
my wife. We were married in July of 06, and between an internship,
bouts of school anxiety and burnout and other things of such
time-sapping nature, we didn't get to enjoy as much of each other as we
would have liked.
- Using Traineo to help track my weight loss goals. I totally want to trade in this snack pack for the six pack I used to have.
- Graduating
in Spring 07. My college career has been up and down between
f/t and p/t since 1998 (including 1.5 years off to get in-state CO
tuition), and it's finally coming to a climax this Spring. Jessi's so
proud and excited, I sometimes worry she's going to explode when she
starts talking about it. As extra motivation to get over my burnout and
to stay the course, she's going to sponsor roughly 90% or so of a
MacBook Pro as a graduation present, and she's also taking me on my
first trip to New York.
- Putting more serious time into blogging here and at 1FPS, my tech and culture blog. I absolutely love writing, and I have some strong ideas for this year (the title, by the way, stands for 1 Frame Per Second).
- Of course, sinking more of my teeth into blogging at TUAW and Download Squad,
my two 'day job' blogs that I absolutely love. I have some big ideas
for the TUAW podcast, and I can't wait to produce more interesting
episodes with the team once I'm gradumated in Spring.
Of
course, I have all sorts of smaller goals like watching more Family Guy
and Scrubs, but this list is a good summary of the big hitters. Wish me
luck!
