Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Blog­ging about not blogging …

So I haven’t blogged in a while … or rather I’ve been on Twit­ter alot.  As it turns out, to rephrase Hugh MacLeod, “Blog­ging Tweet­ing is a great way to make things hap­pen indi­rectlydirectly.”

David Berkowitz blogged how Twit­ter makes blog­ging bet­ter … and in one way worse:

“One promi­nent blog­ger, who I won’t call out here, includes a daily sum­mary of his Twit­ter posts on his blog. Very few of those posts are worth syn­di­cat­ing. They only make sense if you fol­low him. I find myself read­ing his blog less now because of it.”

I’m not the “promi­nent” blog­ger in ques­tion   but as those of you read­ing the feed know, I’m equally guilty of repost­ing daily tweets here. The post­ings were archived and did not show up on the front page of this blog, but were reg­u­larly shipped out on the feed. This served a few pur­poses, including:

• Using the blog as a jour­nal­ing and archiv­ing sys­tem so that years from now I could look back and find what I was doing on any par­tic­u­lar day, through the archived daily tweets here. Twit­ter has no archiv­ing mech­a­nism and it’s cur­rently very dif­fi­cult to find your tweets from any sin­gle day: you have to scroll back in your twit­ter­stream to do so.
• Post­ing daily tweets to my blog helped keep this blog going at a time when I’ve been par­tic­u­larly busy and haven’t found the time to blog. The last three months have been very hec­tic, start­ing from before orga­niz­ing  Bar­Camp­Mi­ami, to leav­ing Scrap­blog, to the var­i­ous things I’m doing today and which I’ll describe in upcom­ing posts.
• In addi­tion to keep­ing the blog alive with con­tent, the daily post­ings kept Google’s spi­ders crawl­ing and index­ing this site for these past few months.

How­ever, daily post­ings of tweets are dif­fi­cult and/or bor­ing to read and as David points out, they only make sense if you’re fol­low­ing them on Twit­ter as they occur, in which case it’s redun­dant to see them on Twit­ter, on the blog and aggre­gated with my other activ­ity on socialthing! and Friend­Feed.

I’ve been active elsewhere

Speak­ing of which, I’ve been active on many other ser­vices as well. I’ve added the social net­works and shar­ing ser­vices I use most to my blog’s nav­i­ga­tion and side­bar and have thus reclaimed my blog as a cen­tral iden­tity hub from which to find me online. These ser­vices are listed under my pic­ture on the side­bar, and are reposted below. If you’d like to con­nect on any of these ser­vices, please leave a brief com­ment describ­ing how we know each other or why you’d like to be con­nected (see note below*):

Updates on Twitter

Face­book profile

Flickr pho­tos

LinkedIn pro­file

del.icio.us links

Upcom­ing events

Tum­blr lifestream

Trips on Dopplr

Items on Digg

Google shared items

LastFM radio

Jaiku lifestream

Skitch screen­shots

Pre­sen­ta­tions on Slideshare

MyBlogLog com­mu­ni­ties

Friend­feed lifestream

Tech­no­rati profile

ClaimID iden­tity

Alex’s Netvibes Universe

*Note: I accept most friend requests, although I con­nect mostly with peo­ple I already know or have met on Face­book, Dopplr, Tum­blr, Jaiku Google Reader, NetVibes, ClaimID, LastFM, SlideShare, del.icio.us and Upcom­ing. I’m more open with con­nec­tions on Twit­ter, LinkedIn, Digg, MyBlogLog, Friend­Feed and Flickr, although I reserve the right to not con­nect for what­ever rea­son — please don’t take it per­son­ally if I don’t rec­i­p­ro­cate a con­nec­tion request.

Hav­ing said all that …

… I’m blog­ging again