Changes to my two blogs January 13, 2011
Posted by David Hiran Watson in About Me, Social Networking.Tags: blog, podcast, Posterous, vlog, Wordpress
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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
Podcasting February 4, 2010
Posted by David Hiran Watson in About Me, Social Media.Tags: How To videos, podcasts, Tinkernut, twitter, Wordpress, Youtube
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I’m thinking about starting a podcast. I’ve never considered it before, but one of the tweeps I follow on Twitter – @minervity – had an article about podcasting. You can find the article here. The article embeds a few Youtube vids, most notably (or at least the one I checked out) was by Tinkernut. Tinkernut, as far as I can tell from the videos I’ve seen that they produced, create How To videos for tech-related things. The video I checked out regarding podcasting was this one. All I need to do now is buy a mic.
Getting back to the starting a podcast idea, even though I’ve never considered it, it suddenly interested me. If you’re someone who reads this blog regularly, you might be thinking: “Podcasts, like blogs, should be updated fairly regularly. If you can’t update this blog that frequently, how are you going to maintain a podcast?” And I state that because it’s the very thought I had. Well, to be honest, I’m not sure how I’ll maintain the podcast. Or rather, I’m not sure how frequently the podcast will happen. There’s a good chance it’s more likely to be maintained than this blog, because in a sense it’s less work as I’m talking as opposed to typing. But I think my biggest challenge is my level of interest – it waxes and wanes. I almost literally have (or at least used to have) interests of the week. That’s why all my social media outlets – this blog, Twitter, Facebook – are infrequently updated. That’s also why having a Blackberry helps: having a constant reminder of these outlets gets me to attend to these outlets.
Anyway, if I do go ahead with podcasting, I will link to the site and rss feed. Also as a heads up, this blog might move. Basically I currently don’t have my own hosting solution (since I don’t have my own website) to install WordPress and run my own blog. Therefore I used WordPress’ free hosting solution – www.wordpress.com. Unfortunately most plugins available for WordPress are available for the version you download, install and set up yourself (via the .org site). This includes an app to host a podcast. However my church is in the process of setting up a website. Once this gets set up, there’s a good chance I can set up my own blog there using the WordPress version you download and move this blog over to that one. I just hope I can move all my current posts, including date/time-stamps.
DH
