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Not Pinterested
Posted by Jak in Technology, Web on October 28, 2011
The wife has been tearing it up on Pinterest, and while I admit I was eager to try it out, it turns out it’s just not my cup of tea. First off it’s really more of an image/video board. Not a bad thing if that’s what you’re looking for, Pinterest handles it well in a very Tumblr-esque way. My problem was that I wanted to also bookmark sites quickly using the same service. This is a weak spot as far as I’m concerned. Not only do you have to pick an image you also have to add some kind of a caption. Again, great for an image gallery but not so hot if you just want to keep track of that open-source software for later.
Enter Zootool. Basically I get the same gallery features as Pinterest with all the social sharing, with the added feature of bookmarks. I also found Zootool to be more stable for me. I was able to add some animated gifs that Pinterest was choking on and when you do choose to save a page it creates a thumkbnail of the whole page rather than tring to find a random image to represent the site. Neato! Get this, there’s also a neat little WordPress widget that shows off your Zoo on WordPress. If you have any interest here’s my page.
What’s Happening?!
I was reading through an article on lifehacker.com the other day which really got me thinking again about my goals. My updates have been sporadic at best and I have always convinced myself that it was because I didn’t know what to write about. I have actually started a couple of pieces between now and my last post but either discarded them or left them collecting dust in draft purgatory. The afore mentioned article has given me a better outlook on what I should be doing. I have often discarded writing that I thought was irrelevant or just plain bad, but I have come to the realization that most of what I write WILL be bad. There’s just no way around it. Instead I will now try and take some sadistic pleasure in exposing my audience to what amounts to literary offal. Excited aren’t you? Read the rest of this entry »
Social Butterfly
…though you could hardly call me a butterfly; the similarities end at the expression. I don’t know that you could describe me as social either. Two months without a post? Ridiculous. I have been doing things though. Look there’s a Faceborg widget on the site now! I owe my friend Ranvis for the requisite number of Likes to get a real page name. You know, instead of some ambiguous alphanumeric gobbledygook like www.facebook.com/uR461An7L053r. I think that might have actually been my identifier prior to the proof of 25 friends! You have to hand it to the man who hijacked his friends accounts; thanks Ranvis! I have threatened my own friends on Faceborg that they won’t receive my witty updates unless they “Like” Nerdtopia, since I switched my twitter feed to stream to the Nerdtopia Faceborg page instead of my personal page. Their loss! Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook Farce
Posted by Jak in Technology, Web on May 26, 2010
The recent wave of news about Facebook has really touched a nerve with me. There was that email fiasco just last month, and more recently the news of open graph. I’m not the only one to see the potential for pure and unmitigated evil, and there is no indication that it will get any better. The future of online social media is grim. What really irks me is that it doesn’t have to be. As a long standing member I remember the requirement for a .edu or alumni email address just to participate in facebook. Things were much different then. Sure there were some apps and basic games, but over all it was a fairly sparsely populated service, and I liked it that way. Sure there wasn’t the access to as many of my friends as now, but there was something pristine and cultured about the site. Facebook was indie and cool. Then in a very short amount of time it turned into Myspace. Yes, I had a Myspace account, but I never could get past the juvenile idiocy that ran rampant through that community. I hated that every other page was fully of animated gifs and sparkletastic backgrounds. It was like having a group of tween girls kirked out on a sugar high assaulting every sense with glitter and cheap accessories from Spencers. Sadly this is the drain I see Facebook precipitously circling with one exception. Read the rest of this entry »
Now with Flair!
I have been quiet for longer than I would have liked, but hopefully you will see the effort I have put into updating the blog. There was a certain lack of imagery that I have tried to correct going back and updating past posts with images to give it that special touch. I’m pleased with how things are looking. more importantly I have been working a lot on the back end. Most of these changes have no direct effect on the readers but there is one specific add-on I hope will make things a little more comfortable for readers to comment. I have initiated Open ID login so there should be one less password and user name for you to have to remember. If you’re not familiar with Open ID take a little time to familiarize yourself. It’s good! I’ve been using it myself after I created my chi.mp account a few years ago.
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