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creeva- September 2nd, 2008
- Being Excited About a New Browser
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- creeva
- September 2nd, 2008
Originally published at Creeva's World 2.0. You can comment here or there.
It’s been a long time since I’ve beeen excited about a new browser. Theoretically I’ve never been excited about a new browser that was announced. I remember being excited when AOL resurrected Netscape - but that turned into a flaming pile of poo and Netscape lost dominance being THE browser to use. Like many users at that time frame I used Internet Explorer 5 and at the time it was best of breed, then a new challenger arose.
The Mozilla foundation announced they were taking the open source bits of the Netscape browser and making a new slimmer browser called Firebird. Because of issues of legal and copyright, Firebird was renamed to Firefox. I’ve been using this browser since Firebird and I have had no reason to move to a different primary browser. I’ve tried Flock and Safari, there hasn’t been a sticky reason to keep using those over Firefox. I was excited, kind of, of the release of Firefox version 3. But that wasn’t a new and different browser, it was more of the same.
With last nights announcement of Google’s New Chrome Browser, but they put up a nice little web comic that explains the features it offers. The security, privacy, performance enhancements alone make this a must watch for browser. WHen it is actually released later today, we’ll see how I feel then.
UPDATE:
Found a site that has some Chrome screenshots you may enjoy.
- What Do The Brain Dead Write When They Have Nothing Else - Reviews
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- creeva
- September 2nd, 2008
Originally published at Creeva's World 2.0. You can comment here or there.
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I’m out of writing ideas. Well that’s not completely true, I have lots of writing ideas. My problem is that I just don’t know how to write them yet. When I sit down and start to write them they are not coherent, too short, and don’t make sense. More or less these ideas still need to fester away in my brain some more before I can spew them out in some sort of legible thought. My dilemna is that I want to regulary update my blog, and I want to write. Maintaining a writing regiment keeps the mind sharp, keeps your readership up, and gives you practice in writing - which does make you a better writer then actually thinking about it.
To this end I plan to start writing movie, book, and video game reviews. Originally I was going to use spoilershorts.com for that - but the original concept had reviews in a very short form. I may repurpose it and post the reviews from creeva.com over there also, but for now I look at the writing and not positioning. I’ve always wanted to do reviews, but never really got around to it. With the exception of movies that are new and in the theaters - I’m going to hold off on movies I see at random and focus (for now) on what I actually own. Sometimes I’ll even be offering my own copies for sale (I really need to clean out and trim down some of my collections).
I’m not going to turn my blog into a review blog, I’m still going to write my random unfocused style - the reviews will just allow me to write ahead and make sure that you have something new and interesting to read every single day. It will also allow me to copy and paste and get some of the reviews done that I’ve wanted to do for All Consuming and Amazon.
Write once - use everywhere - the crossposters motto.
- Mashable Doesn’t Really Like Ping.fm
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- creeva
- September 2nd, 2008
Originally published at Creeva's World 2.0. You can comment here or there.
There was an article on mashable today questioning if ping.fm and hellotxt were helping the web world or hurting it. I understand the authors point that if you are using these services that you are not taking an interest and active use in the social community that you are using these services to post to. I can say from hits for ping.fm beta code requests on my blog, that lots of people are interested in getting access to ping.fm. Now that it’s out of private beta I’m sure I’ll lose my number one spot in google for the term “ping.fm beta code”.
If people want this what does this say? It really means that we have diverse friendships. We have communities that we want to share information with. We don’t have time to manually copy or paste, nor do we have the time to try convince everyone we know to use a single service. Since we can’t bring our friends to the service (much to the dismay of the social network providers), we take our information to them.
We want to share our information, we don’t want to hoard. I for example do all my writing on my main blog, twitter, and handful of other services. Yet I have friends on almost every little social network out there. Why should I be forced to chose between friends and the information I share with them. Yes I’m sure some actual readers that are not into crossposting get annoyed over the repeated information on multiple services. What about my friends though? Where does the line of a healthy blogging business end and friendship cross? My friends are the ones that inspire, the will always have the information directed towards them. I am more then willing to take my information to them. At what cost, a minor annoyance to literally a handful?
No one is forced to read my messages. No one is forced to follow me. No one is forced to my site. If the author doesn’t follow ping.fm links, so be it. I’m not losing what I truly care about. Maybe when the a single network has all the features I want and 99.9% market dominance - then I’ll stop cross posting. Until that time I’m proud to be a crossposter.
- The Crossposting God Series Part 8 - Using A Lifestream to Keep Track of Your Crossposts
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- creeva
- September 2nd, 2008
Originally published at Creeva's World 2.0. You can comment here or there.
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In part 8 I was going to write about crossposting to blogger, but that’s been delayed for the time being. I’ll get back to that subject as soon as I get a chance. Let’s move onto monitoring your crossposting.
Some people may have noticed that on my lifestream there seem to be duplicate posts. This is because I’ve been working on adding all the RSS feeds from all the services in one trackable lifestream. The benefits are that you can see and track how long information takes to get from one site to the next. This also allows you to see where your crossposting is failing. For example I’m noticing that my posts going to pownce are not getting through so when I get a chance I’ll look into what is actually causing that.
Lifestreaming all of our sites into one endpoint site that you can control and maintain allows all the little maintance to happy at a single glance. We all know that crossposting is usually best effort delivery. Not everything shows up in all the sites, but that happens because your not actively maintaining those sites and sometimes things just go wrong.
By having a single stream of all of your sites you are not bogged looking at RSS items for every site all together. If I put all my feed items in google reader then it would take me an hour each day to get through all of them. Having a quick glance allows the information to be singled out in a daily quick view.
Currently I’m using the wordpress lifestream plugin to handle my lifestream page. It gives me the benefit of having a daily summary post generated automatically. This allows me to have a permanent archive of all of my daily archives that I can go back search and vault away in my own life vaulting fashion.
Life is good. Maintaining and monitoring in a single glance - that’s great.
Previous Entries in The Crossposting God Series:
The Crossposting God Series Part 1 - The Introduction
The Crossposting God Series Part 2 - Vox
The Crossposting God Series Part 3 - Live Journal and Derivative Sites
The Crossposting God Series Part 4 - Entry, Distribution, and End Points
The Crossposting God Series Part 5 - Myspace
The Crossposting God Series Part 6 - RSS Feeds to Crosspost
The Crossposting God Series Part 7 - Where Can You Post By E-Mail?
- Online Activity for 2008-09-02
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- creeva
- September 2nd, 2008
Originally published at Creeva's World 2.0. You can comment here or there.
My complete and daily online activity for you to go all voyeuristic on.
September 2nd
8:46am Creeva updated their status on Facebook. Brent Going to bed now.
8:47am Creeva updated their status on Facebook. Brent blarg.
9:41am Creeva dugg 46 links on Digg. (Show Details) 
10:22am Being Excited About a New Browser 
10:23am Creeva posted 3 items on Friendster. (Show Details)
10:24am Creeva posted 3 items on Blogr. (Show Details)
10:25am Creeva posted an item on Each Day. 
12:20pm Creeva bookmarked a link on Delicious.
2:06pm Creeva posted 7 items on Multiply. (Show Details)
2:06pm What Do The Brain Dead Write When They Have Nothing Else - Reviews
2:30pm Creeva posted 11 items on Amazon Reviews. (Show Details)
3:05pm Creeva posted 2 items on All Consuming. (Show Details) 
3:06pm Creeva shared 5 links on Google Reader. (Show Details) 
3:07pm Creeva published 2 blog posts on MySpace. (Show Details)
5:46pm Creeva posted an item on Koornk.
5:46pm Creeva updated their status on Facebook. Brent imagine that a person that wrote a book on twitter - @coachdeb - has over 10k updates.
5:46pm Creeva posted 5 notes on Pownce. (Show Details) 
5:46pm Creeva posted 4 dents on Identi.ca. (Show Details)
7:00pm Creeva posted 3 items on Xanga. (Show Details)
7:00pm Mashable Doesn’t Really Like Ping.fm
7:01pm Creeva posted 3 items on Blogspot. (Show Details)
7:01pm Creeva posted 2 items on Yahoo 360. (Show Details)
7:06pm Creeva posted 3 items on Wordpress.com. (Show Details)
7:54pm Creeva posted an item on Journey To Get Paid.
9:12pm The Crossposting God Series Part 8 - Using A Lifestream to Keep Track of Your Crossposts
9:13pm Creeva posted 4 items on Live Journal. (Show Details)
9:13pm Creeva posted 4 items on Vox. (Show Details) 
9:43pm Creeva posted 7 notes on Tumblr. (Show Details) 
10:36pm Creeva posted 18 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) September 3rd
12:26am Creeva posted an item on Kwippy.
12:26am Creeva posted an item on 43 People.
12:27am Creeva posted 11 items on Google Books - Personal Library. (Show Details) 
12:55am Creeva posted a Jaiku on Jaiku.
12:56am Creeva posted an item on Lists of Best.