If you're into music (*cough* *cough* Tim), you should check this site out.
I haven’t checked it out yet, but I will next time I’m listening to music and getting work done!
fabulis: Announcing the Junior Advisory Board!
Hey. For those of you guys that don’t already know, I’m on the fabulis Junior Advisory Board. You can find the blog post about it below:
Confessions of a fabulis Intern Presents:
Blog Post #4: A Tad Bit of Youth!
Hey there, Mike here, this week there won’t be my usual wittiness, and hilarious commentary on my life here at fabulis (Sad I know). However, this post is a marathon of Member Spotlights.This week I am introducing you…
New Post Format for Links
Hey, so I figured I should add a little note on how the posts are mostly gonna be from now on…
So most of my posts are links, and I’m using the link sharing method of tumblr. So you’ll notice that some of my posts have a star (★) next to them. These are posts that are links to outside articles or websites. In the past I would provide you with a description about it or whatever and then give you a link to it somewhere in the text. Now it’s really easy and straightforward. The links will always be the titles to the posts.
I hope you like the new style. Comments would be much appreciated if you have suggestions for what to change or add. I think I’ve finally reached a stable point for my new blog.
My blog has moved (again)
Those of you who are subscribed to my RSS feed may have noticed that many of my old posts were oddly resent across the feed. This is because I have imported my blogger blog into tumblr. I have decided to move my blog to tumblr.
I realized that most of my posts tend to be things along the lines of “hey checkout this video” or “this thing is really awesome.” The posts generally only have a few lines beyond the content I am trying to share. Posts like these are predominantly found in the micro-blogging world, rather then the general blog world. Tumblr is streamlined for this, and I personally think it has a much cleaner look then my old blogger blog.
Over the last 36 hours I have worked on modifying the layout and design of my blog. I’m fairly satisfied now, but will likely make some changes in the future. I’m definitely up for some comments and suggestions. If you are looking for my old blogger blog, it can be found at http://blogger.old.galbutnotgirl.com/.
For those of you who read my blog through the physical site, you will notice the site now looks completely different. For those of you who read my RSS feed, you shouldn’t notice any problems (however you should check out my awesome new blog!)
From now on you should be seeing posts here. I will do my best to post more often though if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you would know I’m not the most successful at keeping that promise.
What suggestions and requests do you have for me?
Quickly Notify Your Readers of Blog Posts Using dlvr.it
Generally, RSS is the easiest way to get your posts to your readers. If they like what you write, they follow you by subscribing to your RSS feed. I currently use Google Reader for this. But with social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn (I know you’re wondering who actually uses linked in as a social network, but people do), RSS feeds are not fast enough. This is why services like twitterfeed and a feature of Google’s FeedBurner have succeeded: they make it easier to spread the word about your posts to Twitter. Some have added support to publish your feed to Facebook also, but from what I’ve seen, it doesn’t work too well.
This is why I’m checking out dlvr.it. It’s currently in beta, but it hopes to solve the problems of publishing to your real-time social networks in real time. Currently it sees to be working well, I just haven’t gotten my custom Bit.ly Pro url’s working yet. Hopefully that will work on this post.
I also wish they had better ways to make links posted to facebook look more like items I posted with picture support. We’ll see if that works on this post since I am going to add a picture to it.
P.S. This is my second post published using dlvr.it!
Where Did My Posts Go?
So let me start this post by saying that I really wanted to title it something along the lines of “What Happens When d/dx(my postings) -> 0” but I realized that might be just a bit too nerdy for some of my readers. You can just pretend that’s the real title, because it’s totally awesome.
But anyways, on to more pressing matters. My few passionate followers (aka My sister, Jessica, Jesika (did I get it spelled right this time?), my old co-blogger Sylvia, and some more I may not know about (please comment if I forgot you)) may notice that I tend to post very infrequently during the academic year. (Yes Sylvia, all of those parenthesis are really there just for you.) This is because sadly hours_spent_on(school + work + social life + my nerdy activities + gym + sleep) is approximately equal to 24. This means I have very little time to devote to my loyal readers in new postings.
However, anyone who talks to me, or follows me on buzz, or on google reader, knows that I do keep up with all my blogs, and do share posts when they’re interesting. I tend to do it the Daring Fireball way: share a post with a short commentary if applicable. I’ve promised myself that I would do this often with my blog. Unfortunately though, I really get lazy / I say I’ll do it later and never do. What I tend to do is share an item with a short comment, and later make a full post about it when I get the chance. Problem is, this is often way to late.
So I figured I would share with all my readers how to find my Google Buzz and Google Reader shares (and the corresponding RSS feed). The Google Reader feed is everything I share from different RSS feeds (mostly blogs) I subscribe to. The Google Buzz feed also includes random things I find on the web that I like, some of my tweets, and my blog (it’s automatically imported in). I am not 100% sure if everything I comment on also gets pulled in as I don’t know all the small features of Google Buzz and it keeps being updated non-stop right now.
You can find my feeds here (you can subscribe by RSS feed as well):
Google Buzz
Google Reader
To shamelessly promote myself, check me out my twitter.
Most other services I am a member of I use fairly infrequently, so I’ll leave those off for now.
Update: It turns out that sharing and commenting on items as I had been doing in the past really isn’t the way to go with the shares from Google Reader. Therefore, I will do my best to share with a note in the future so that everyone can see my commentary.
A New Home!
So I realized that I never formally introduced our new blog. Life of the Mind = Death of the Soul has a brand new home! It is most unsurprisingly http://www.lifeofthemindequalsdeathofthesoul.com/. You should all check it out and spread the word. Since I’m now on winter break, I plan on blogging significantly more often. Hopefully Sylvia will too.
I still wanna make a nice logo for the blog. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I’m home!
