So over the weekend Leo Laporte noticed his Google Buzz feed wasn’t feeding into Twitter for almost the whole month, and no one noticed. He was shocked, but I’m not really surprised. My Twitter stream goes by pretty fast. I probably only read 50% of the tweets. I wish I could read them all, but that’s just not possible. If someone dropped off the face of the Earth, I would have a hard time to tell from my Twitter stream.
He came to the conclusion that if nobody missed him, why is he even there? He felt like he was wasting his time feeding content into Twitter, when he should have been feeding it to his blog, at least he would have something to show for it.
I agree with him on that. So many bloggers have quit blogging because of Twitter. A lot of blogs that I used to read almost daily, now are hardly ever updated. People spend all day Tweeting and at the end of the day have nothing to show for it. If they would put it on their blog, send all the TwitPics to their blog, after a while they would have a nice record of their life if nothing else.
Some people think RSS is dead. I live and die by RSS. If you blog something I will read it thanks to RSS. If you tweet it, there is probably only a 50% chance that I will read it.
Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Twitter is totally worthless. It’s great for short little comments. It’s great to communicate with while watching tv. It’s great for telling everybody what you had for breakfast. But don’t forget about you blog.
If I find something I want to share, I might tweet about it, but it’s for sure going on my blog first. Some people hate it when people tweet about blog updates. I do it, and I don’t care. My blog is mine. I own it. At the end of the day this is what’s important. I couldn’t really care less about Twitter. It’s fun, and I will continue to use it as long as it stays fun, but once Twitter goes the way of MySpace, you will still find me here.
As you can tell I tweaked my blog design a little. I like clean and simple designs, so that’s what I got again. I will no longer be posting my sometimes daily list of links I find interesting. If they annoyed you, well there are done. If you liked them, they will be over there —> in my sidebar. Now they have their very own RSS feed and will be updated as I add stuff rather than once a day.
The thing I like best about blogging is sharing stuff I find cool or interesting on the net. Sometimes they are blog worthy and I blog about them, but many times a link is sufficient.
Like always I will be tweaking the site a bit, but liked it good enough to make the changes tonight.
For quite a while I have had this blog, and a link blog. I am basically addicted to the internet. I like to share cool things I find. I was using Tumblr for my link blog. It would automatically post things that I share on different services. It was so easy that I have been tempted to move my whole blog over there or to Posterous, another nice site. I just don’t feel comfortable switching to someone else’s system though, plus I love WordPress so much. So I found a better way to combine my blog with my link blog. I have moved my link blog to Posterous. Posterous has a nice feature that will post my posts over there onto my blog. If it all works out, my links will get posted to my blog also. So instead of getting a couple posts a week from me, you will be getting a couple a day. Hope you like the changes, and if not I don’t care. It’s MY blog. haha.
I have been using Disqus for my comments on my comic blog at lolmace.com (which I really need to start updating again). Disqus has a lot of cool features including video commenting using Seesmic. I have been debating wether or not to switch my blog comments to Disqus. Today I switched them to Disqus. What changed my mind was the ability to export comments, so if I want to quit using Disqus, I can export my comments out of their system. Soon I will be able to import all my past comments into the Disqus system. Now if only people commented on my blog.
So I was getting a little sick of all the “Twitter Update” posts clogging up my blog. They are still coming in, but they will no longer be on the front page. Thanks to Becky for pointing me in the right direction. It was simple. I just had to put this code into my home.php file:
if (is_home()) {
query_posts("cat=-14");
}
?>
You just have to change the number to whatever category you want skipping the main page. Now if you care about my Twitter updates you can check them out over there —->, and if you don’t care you won’t see them.
So you can see I have a new blog theme. I haven’t used FriendFeed much yet, but I thought I would add the FriendFeed widget to show all the stuff I am up to. In creating my links I thought it was crazy all the online networks that I have signed up for. Most of them I try out and then never go back, but some I use all the time. One reason I sign up for things it is reserve my name. Mace always seems to get taken if I don’t hope on it. I also love playing with new stuff. I play with way more stuff than I could possible use, but I have fun with it. Now I gotta go play with BrightKite to see if I am going to ever use it.
