username: punkassjim
It's getting pretty late in life to still be calling myself a punkass in mixed company, and I'll likely want to try to re-name myself in the digital arena before A) I have kids, and B) they learn to read. But, for right now, it's a name with which I still identify, a name by which I'm widely known.
You can currently contact me, under the name punkassjim, on all these sites:
Last.fm
Twitter
Flickr
del.icio.us
YouTube
LiveJournal (you are here)
Several months ago, I took a Saturday afternoon to port over all my blog entries from Myspace to LiveJournal. It seemed like the right thing to do, given that I already had the LJ account, and well, that's kinda what an online journaling site is for. As much as I just wasn't a fan of MySpace's interface, user experience and overall design, it was really silly of me to be "blogging" on that platform in the first place.
Now, I'm kinda going through the same thing all over again. For several months, I've been uploading all of my "mobile photos" directly to Facebook, basically with the hope that my friends would be notified when I snapped something new. The problem is, Facebook isn't really the platform for that. I mean, it handled it well, but it doesn't make my photos/data/whatever portable.
Honestly, I don't care which social networking site is the current darling...I just want a way to A) re-connect with old friends, B) keep up with new/old friends, and C) show people my thoughts, images, interesting links, and other stuff. And the best way to make it work for everyone is if it all goes modular. Facebook does a great job of this right now, and so does Flock. The key, to me, is to use a damn good photography site for your photos, a damn good blogging site for your blog, and a damn good whatever site for your whatever. The whole point of all this "Web 2.0" crap is to make communication easier without forcing anyone to adopt proprietary software. That's why, on my Facebook profile, the only "apps" I actually care about are the ones that aggregate the updates from my LiveJournal, del.icio.us, Twitter, and Flickr feeds. Eventually, I'll get into shooting quick videos (once the bastards update my iPhone to do so), but until then I'm not likely to care about YouTube too much.
Anyway, the whole thing that got me thinking about this:
http://punkassjim.soup.io/
It's a pretty sweet site, probably the best user-signup experience I've ever had. The whole point of this site is to give you a "river of news" taken from all your social sites. Unlike Facebook, the news feed doesn't miss anything, and also unlike facebook, it doesn't subject you to any BS vampire or lil' green patch invites.
Thank fucking god.
I may end up moving over to Soup for all my blogging needs, but I haven't decided yet. Plus, it's still a young site. But I really like how standards-based their coding is, and how clean the whole user experience is. I'll be playing with it for a bit, but I'm still gonna rely on LJ for my blogging needs.
You can currently contact me, under the name punkassjim, on all these sites:
Last.fm
Flickr
del.icio.us
YouTube
LiveJournal (you are here)
Several months ago, I took a Saturday afternoon to port over all my blog entries from Myspace to LiveJournal. It seemed like the right thing to do, given that I already had the LJ account, and well, that's kinda what an online journaling site is for. As much as I just wasn't a fan of MySpace's interface, user experience and overall design, it was really silly of me to be "blogging" on that platform in the first place.
Now, I'm kinda going through the same thing all over again. For several months, I've been uploading all of my "mobile photos" directly to Facebook, basically with the hope that my friends would be notified when I snapped something new. The problem is, Facebook isn't really the platform for that. I mean, it handled it well, but it doesn't make my photos/data/whatever portable.
Honestly, I don't care which social networking site is the current darling...I just want a way to A) re-connect with old friends, B) keep up with new/old friends, and C) show people my thoughts, images, interesting links, and other stuff. And the best way to make it work for everyone is if it all goes modular. Facebook does a great job of this right now, and so does Flock. The key, to me, is to use a damn good photography site for your photos, a damn good blogging site for your blog, and a damn good whatever site for your whatever. The whole point of all this "Web 2.0" crap is to make communication easier without forcing anyone to adopt proprietary software. That's why, on my Facebook profile, the only "apps" I actually care about are the ones that aggregate the updates from my LiveJournal, del.icio.us, Twitter, and Flickr feeds. Eventually, I'll get into shooting quick videos (once the bastards update my iPhone to do so), but until then I'm not likely to care about YouTube too much.
Anyway, the whole thing that got me thinking about this:
http://punkassjim.soup.io/
It's a pretty sweet site, probably the best user-signup experience I've ever had. The whole point of this site is to give you a "river of news" taken from all your social sites. Unlike Facebook, the news feed doesn't miss anything, and also unlike facebook, it doesn't subject you to any BS vampire or lil' green patch invites.
Thank fucking god.
I may end up moving over to Soup for all my blogging needs, but I haven't decided yet. Plus, it's still a young site. But I really like how standards-based their coding is, and how clean the whole user experience is. I'll be playing with it for a bit, but I'm still gonna rely on LJ for my blogging needs.