1. Online Presence and Future - Between this journal, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr, it can sometimes be a bit of a challenge deciding where to address a certain topic. Really, I don't use Facebook much except to link to stuff I've written elsewhere, as I find the interface rather overly complicated. On the other hand, that's where I have the ( Read more... )

Is there a trick to getting celebrities to reply on Twitter? Yeah, I'm sure there isn't, but I'm still kind of amazed that I've received two replies from Amanda Palmer, who has 192,162 followers. The occasional reply to a fan is actually a really clever marketing technique, though. Even if you only reply every once in a while, it presents the ( Read more... )

So, LiveJournal is cool in many ways, but I've been thinking (partially at the behest of bethje) that I should get my own domain for blogging. I'm not entirely sure what I'd call it, though. The obvious "vovat.com" and "nathandehoff.com" aren't really all that memorable, so I'd welcome any suggestions you might have. I guess I'd mostly want to use the ( Read more... )

You know, I hadn't even heard of Twitter until 3x1minus1 mentioned it, but I've seen it mentioned quite a bit lately, often in a negative context. I was a bit apprehensive about it at first, what with the word limit and all. I have, as you may have noticed, a bit of a tendency toward verbosity. But I've since found it a useful repository for the thoughts ( Read more... )

Wow, there's been a sudden influx of people I know from college on Facebook. Not sure if anyone I added there will follow my links here, but if you do, salutations from Stratovania! I try to write about a little bit of everything, so if you've been turned off by my recent Oz and video game posts, there might well be something more interesting ( Read more... )

I got this from pixielust:
( Ooh, controversial! )

I'm thinking I might want to do some kind of ongoing series of posts, but I'm always afraid that kind of thing will bore people. Yeah, I know it's my journal and I can write what I want, but when I write something kind of involved and no one seems interested, I feel like it was somewhat of a waste. So I'm going to ask for your input on a few ( Read more... )

I was supposed to see a dermatologist today, but it turned out they never got the referral from the regular doctor, even though I called the office about it the other day. The particularly annoying thing is that the doctor's office was right around the corner, but they wouldn't let me go over there to ask about the referral. Apparently they ( Read more... )

I got this from annamatic. I remember doing a similar meme in the past, but this one has some different items on it, and I can't resist a good food-related survey ( Read more... )