Changes to my two blogs January 13, 2011
Posted by David Hiran Watson in About Me, Social Networking.Tags: blog, podcast, Posterous, vlog, Wordpress
add a comment
So I’ve started using the WordPress app for Blackberry a lot more, as evidenced by the amount of posts this month alone compared to the monthly average for last year! If you recall, sometime last year I stumbled upon Posterous – a site attempting to allow someone to post simply via email. I created a mirror blog called dEhiN’s Posterous and set it up to autopost to this blog (my WordPress blog), as well as update my Twitter account.
Now that I’m using the WordPress app for Blackberry, I felt that it’s redundant to have two blogs. You see, somehow along the way, emailing my posts, while being a simpler option, became too simple an option. That is, things I might have normally blogged about, I didn’t think to blog about because I wasn’t used to emailing my blog-esque thoughts and posts. Apparently an app designed to help you blog is more of an inspiration to me than the simpler option!
Anyway, I decided to delete dEhiN’s Posterous. But along the way, I discovered that the free WordPress platform doesn’t have that much space for storing uploaded files. That actually makes sense, since the more powerful WordPress platform is the one designed to be installed directly on your own web server. But that left me with the Posterous platform since they do allow (seemingly) unlimited storage.
Consequently I’ve changed my two blogs. This WordPress blog will continue to be my blog and will continue to be called dEhiN’s Blog. The old dEhiN’s Posterous became dEhiN’s Mediacast, and can be found at dehincast.posterous.com. The only post on my new blog is the one from September 29, 2010 entitled “I’m Podcasting” – currently my only attempt at podcasting. If you have figured it out by now, my plan is to use the new blog to post anything involving media, from podcasts to music to videos to vlogs (if I get into that) to whatever else I fancy. I still have dEhiN’s Mediacast set up to autopost to dEhiN’s Blog, and both blogs are set up to update my Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Wow, that’s a mouthful. Hope you got all of that. But if not, just check this blog for updates.
DH
Blogging your way into marriage! April 6, 2009
Posted by David Hiran Watson in Marriage, Social Media, Social Networking.Tags: blogging, blogosphere, love, Marriage, New York Times, Social Media, Social Networking
2 comments
Check out this article about a blogger who fell in love with one of her commenters, and they are planning to get married.
I’ve heard about couples getting married in MMPORPGs (Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game), such as Everquest or World Of Warcraft. It usually happens along these lines: the two players meet each other through the game and initially chat through the game while having their characters complete game tasks together. Eventually the players decide to meet up offline and love blooms resulting in marriage. Apparently on Everquest there are even couples whose characters are married in the game as well as they – the players themselves – are married in real life!
Coming back to the article, I have to say that this is intriguing. In one sense, I’m not the least bit surprised this situation arose, but instead perhaps surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. I find it interesting that some other major bloggers have negative reactions to this. In fact, I like the way the article is written – as a modern day peasant-and-bourgeousie situation in the blogosphere. I wonder if these nay-sayers do, even sub-consciously, see themselves as above their commenters?
For me, all of this comes down to one thing we need to remember: people will use whatever they can to meet a life-partner. Let me rephrase that to something more pithy. Love knows no boundaries and will blossom in whatever soil it is given. As long as a medium allows some level of human interaction, that medium can be used to meet your future spouse/partner/significant other. And nobody should be surprised at that. Now I wonder if the various social media and social networking sites have been used as matchmaking tools?
DH
