Lately, I seem to have rekindled my public internet voice. It’s not that I ever stopped writing, it’s just that I practically stopped writing anything of importance to anyone outside of my circle of friends. But, I feel change coming, which is a good thing. Furthermore, as time goes on and the face of the Internet changes, the places that I’m publishing content changes with it. Therefore, here’s a list of the places where you are likely to find content from yours truly. Along with each item is a description of the kind of content you can find there, or, will be able to find there in the near future.
revjim.net: The topic is, officially, anything that interests me. Generally speaking this contains longish articles that have to do with one or more of the following: Technology, Science, Photography (and other Art), Fatherhood, The Great Outdoors, Gadgets, the World Wide Web, Software, Books and Movies, Music, Poetry, and Local News and Events. Occasionally I even post regarding life events of a public nature. I intend for these to be well-written, polished articles suitable for publication in a magazine, newspaper, or trade journal. Thankfully, I use a content engine that allows me to divide my media into categories so you can pick and choose which parts you’d like to follow.
Daniel James Photography : Someday, this will contain a listing of my photographic services, model requests, photo adventure announcements, a portfolio, and a print gallery.
Arranging Light: One photo per day, taken by me, posted 5 to 7 days a week. Content can range from landscapes to portraits and from polished work to experimental images. Commentary will accompany each Photograph and will vary from a description of the image, to some history about the location or event, to a piece of poetry or prose to accompany the image.
Flickr: All of my images. They are broken down into Collections and Sets to make it easy to find what you’re looking for if you’re looking. All the work found at Arranging Light will be found here, as well as additional images, larger sets of similar images and personal photographs. The “privacy” features of Flickr are used occasionally so being a member of the site and listed as one of my contacts there certainly doesn’t hurt.
Jim’s Tumblr (for lack of a better name): I’ve been using Diigo to keep track of the various links, photos, comics, videos, and music that I find interesting. However, I don’t really care for the service. This Tumblelog will be a replacement for that. I’m not sure if it will take on a scheduled feel (new Foto Fridays, Tight Tune Tuesdays, etc) or simply be a log of what I found when I found. This is still a work in progress.
LiveJournal: LiveJournal is basically a required element in today’s online society, though I’m really not sure why. I have an account. However, in as long as I can remember I’ve only made one post directly to it. Everything else you see there was published first in some other location. I find LiveJournal to be a decent service, however, it’s not particularly awesome at doing any one thing. It has blogging, a friend reader, photos, communities, etc, but none of those services are the best of breed. It’s simply one service that has managed to combine them all together in a fairly decent fashion and happens to be quite popular amongst my circle of friends.
However, I also realize that there are aspects of my life that should probably be kept more private. Therefore, I intend to use LiveJournal for its “friends-only” features. It’ll be a lifeblog, of sorts. You’ll want an account there and you’ll want to have me befriended, otherwise, you’re not likely to get much out of it. If you know of another service that provides this same “friends-only” feature, I’d love to hear about it.
Lots of my friends use LiveJournal and make “friends-only” posts. As much as I’d like to be able to read those posts outside of LiveJournal, everything that is possible isn’t any better. So, my friends list is full of the LiveJournal’s I choose to read as well as those that I wish to allow access to my content.
Twitter: I use this service as a mobile microblog. I update what I’m doing when I’m doing it and expect the same from those that I follow or I’m not likely to follow for very long. I get my updates from this via SMS and I assume that most people who follow me do as well. If you aren’t interested in the minutiae of my life, then this probably isn’t for you. In the future, this may become private.
Facebook: This is the only “social networking” site that I check regularly. There are hundreds of others (Linked In, MySpace, Friendster, etc), many of which I am a member. However, none of the others seem to get it as close to right as Facebook. The service is not at all useful, but it’s silly and fun and a nice way to keep in touch, and that’s basically its purpose. Leave me a silly wall post, drop me a Facebook mail, poke me (but only if you’re female and attractive), leave a note in my honesty box, send me pictures that’ll have me turning off my monitor at work and then checking to make sure no one was looking. Whatever makes you happy. I have to have one of these sites on my list and this is the one I choose. Hate it if you want. I don’t care.
I also need a place to put short, lifeblog style entries that I intend to leave public. Maybe that’ll go in the TumbleLog. Maybe that’ll go in LiveJournal.
Maybe I’ll find another place for that stuff. Thoughts? Options?That probably seems like a lot of sites to you. Maybe it is. But that’s the current state of my online affairs.
What do you think? Your opinion matters… sometimes.