It’s going to take some time, but I will be bringing back most of my old blog posts, too, and may cross-post a few articles I did over at Wagist.

Increasingly, I spend time on Twitter and Facebook, leaving little purpose to anything that is posted here on the blog. Why post that awesome YouTube video here when I get a much greater audience on social media sites? And worrying about cross-posting is just a waste of time.

With that being said, I’m just stating what I have been practicing for some time now: this blog is pretty much dead. I will keep it up and maintain it for the sake of posterity, for myself, really.

I also have little interest in keeping this blog as an aggregator, of sorts, for the things that I do elsewhere. I find that I prefer to keep most of my social media activity as private as possible, which is why I keep my Twitter and Facebook feeds locked down. Having such information easily available here is a bit scary to me now.

As of right now, all references to my FriendFeed account are removed, and the stream itself has been made private. I’ve also removed the sidebar widget showing my recent Twitter posts, and the link allowing people to send me an email (which was never used anyway).

On the flip side, I’m keeping links to my Flickr, Delicious, and Last.fm accounts. I’m not concerned with the information posted on those sites, and I have the ability to make items as private as necessary, in the event I need to do so.

For the time being, consider this my last post until otherwise noted, but some day I may revive this thing, if I ever decide that I have something worth sharing with the world. Maybe some day I’ll start a blog dealing with email infrastructure? I don’t know; it could happen.

Well, so long, and thanks for all the fish!

It’s all about learning to relax. There are tons of pictures that I’ll get around to uploading to Flickr eventually. No one really cares if they’re untimely, so why should I? I’ve been mostly quiet for the past week on Twitter, to the point of having some people wonder if something’s wrong. I’m not worried about it and I’m definitely not worried about reading every single post someone makes. There’s just too much information and none of it really matters, in the end.

Probably the biggest service that sucks away my time is Google Reader. In the past week, I have removed feeds that aren’t necessarily as interesting to me anymore or just simply post WAY too much every day for me to reasonably keep myself informed. As for feeds that I want to keep, if there are just too many articles to read, I’m just marking the entire feed as read and moving on to the next one. It’s all about keeping it simple and not worry about inconsequential things.

On the flip side of things, I’ve found renewed interest in my blog, which I’ve neglected a lot this Summer. I really enjoy writing and I think it’s time that I spend less time on Twitter and more time writing out what I’m doing in my life. I consider this article a first step in this direction.

Social media is supposed to be fun, right? It is! The point I’m making here isn’t that social media is wasteful and sucks too much of my time; rather, it’s about returning to what’s fun about it. I love to be connected to the world and my friends this way, and I think it’s more important to focus on quality instead of quantity.

Today I decided to switch to fervens-a by Design Disease. I found it pretty quick and knew that I wanted to use it as soon as I saw it. It’s a clean design and not complicated. I like that there are page links at the top and two sidebars for me to use.

While changing to the new thene, I created an online activity page. You’ll see a link to it at the top. This is basically nothing more than an embeddable widget of my FriendFeed activity, which is perfect for the blog.

Another new feature that comes with the theme is a preview of my recent Flickr photos. You’ll see that on the right sidebar.

Anyway, I think I’m still going to make a few tweaks here and there, but I’m generally happy with the way things look now. I hope you like them too.

Checking out the new WordPress application for the iPhone. This is pretty nifty.

FriendFeed aggregates your online social networking activity on sites like YouTube, del.icio.us, etc. Basically, anything that allows you to share data on the Internet can be brought together into a single feed accessible by either a web browser or RSS feed.

Link: My FriendFeed

So, every time I share an item in Google Reader or post items to Flickr, you’ll see it in my FriendFeed. They also offer Facebook integration so you can see my feed in a profile box.

So far, I’ve had no problems. My plug-ins worked without any problems, although I did update a couple of them prior to upgrading WordPress, so that probably helped.

I absolutely love the new administrative interface; it finally looks like a real Web 2.0 application.

Lots of things to report. I’ll get ‘em posted here soon, including some pictures.

As always, you can find me at Twitter, which I update a few times a day, usually.

You’ll find them posted under the archive for January 2002.

The upgrade went pretty painlessly; however, the Google Sitemaps plug-in is a problem. I’m not able to post anything with it activated, so I’ll have to just turn it off and then wait for the author to come out with something new. I might be able to find a replacement, but I’m likely to wait patiently. Isn’t a big deal if Google doesn’t get an update sitemap from me every time I post something new.

As far as new features are concerned, the only thing that seems of any interest to me is the new tagging system. They’ve finally integrated into the system something that numerous plug-ins attempted to do.