This is a list of the most popular words I’ve used on Twitter within the last year. It’s pretty accurate, I think. I’d say these are also the most popular words I use in conversation.
Seriously, guys, we get it. Everyone has windows in their house. Thanks, though.
Also, really, were all of those ellipses necessary? I think just one period would have done the job.
This is the latest installment of our podcast. The quality sucks, but once I get more bandwidth on Vimeo, I’ll be uploading a better copy. Anyway, we talk about Twitter and Cuba and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. Check it out, bitches.
I thought this was really funny. Some bot on Twitter automatically warned me that I was being racist earlier today. How thoughtful.
I’m really excited to be using Tumblr. I heard about the site for a while, and thought microblogging was a good idea, but I already have several websites that I own (and usually run Wordpress on), I have a LiveJournal account, a MySpace account that lets you blog, a Facebook account and a Twitter account. I didn’t think I even had enough content to warrant creating a Tumblr account. What would I put on it?
Finally I decided to use it, and make Tumblr the place where I post everything that’s going on. There are several times throughout the day that I want to write about something or share something but it’s too big to fit in a Twitter “tweet” and it’s too short for a blog post or just doesn’t really fit on one of the blogs that I own. This is what Tumblr is for.
I’ll be updating my Tumblr page with quotes, pictures, videos, and posts about my personal life, technology, my work, or just about something pop-culture related that I want to share. It’s going to probably be the most accurate reflection of my personality… I’m interested in a little bit of everything, and most of the time, all those different interests are going through my head at once.
Anyway, I decided upon a layout. I learned a little bit (through trial and error… mostly error) about the way themes and layouts work on Tumblr. I created a graphic, and have an idea on how I want that graphic to look on the site. I linked Tumblr to FeedBurner so I’ll have a better solution for anyone who is going to be subscribing to this site using an RSS reader. I also added analytics through both Clicky (which is what we at Team Spearfish offer to all of our clients) and Google Analytics (because I’ve heard good things about Google Analytics, but honestly have never used it).
I also have a lengthly to-do list, that consists mostly of things I want to write about, and also includes adding Google AdSense ads to the RSS feed (I’m going to keep the actual site ad-free for a number of reasons, mostly because I don’t think my personal online presence is an appropriate place for advertisements. Unfortunately, all of the Google AdSense settings, including sites that are under my control that have advertisements, and the payment information, is registered under my personal smkudelko@mac.com Google account, and all of the FeedBurner feeds, including this one, are registered under my company’s webteam@teamspearfish.com FeedBurner account. Why ads for the pages that my company hosts are managed through my personal Google account is beyond me, but it’s something that needs to be fixed, especially because you can’t ad ads to a FeedBurner feed if the feed resides in a different Google account from your AdSense account. Either late tonight or sometime before this weekend I’ll manually be transferring everything in AdSense over to the Team Spearfish Web Team AdSense account. I have no problem with my company managing my personal websites, since they’re already hosted by Team Spearfish, and a number of my staff help me out with things like customizing web scripts, editing graphics, etc.
I am really optimistic about using Tumblr. I don’t think that I’ll abandon this site like I usually do after a few months with other websites/blogs I start that aren’t for a client, and I like that it’s hosted by a third party, so I won’t have to worry about downtime with the upcoming major transition that Team Spearfish is making in regards to the way we host websites for our clients.
Do me a favor and subscribe, comment, come back often, and support my Tumblr endeavor. I’ll try to post stuff that’s interesting to everyone, though I can’t promise that every single post will be interesting to every single reader.
I’ve been a long time Mac user, and I’m still very used to the way of doing things in the “Classic” Mac OS, like System 6 and 7, and Mac OS 8 and 9. Most of the new features of OS X I really don’t use at all, except for the Dock which you’re basically forced to use, Dashboard, and Spotlight which I use all the time for quick calculations and launching applications. (Ironically, I very rarely use Spotlight to actually search for a file. Most of the time I remember where a file is located, or else I’ll manually browse for it. I primarily use Spotlight as a simple calculator or as an application launcher. I do, however, use it to search for Address Book entries all the time.)
I guess this is just because the behavior of the Mac OS is etched in my brain from a time where none of these features existed. Lately, however, I’ve started using one Mac OS X feature that I now can’t live without. Spaces.
For those of you that don’t know what Spaces is, it’s kind of like a virtual desktop manager (for those of you who know what those are, having used Linux or just heard about the Linux feature). You can have multiple “desktops” on the same monitor and switch to them. I have things set up so that I have a “working desktop” which contains all of the windows that I’m currently working in. This includes all of the Safari windows for articles I’m reading, blog posts I’m working on, etc. It also contains windows for any TextEdit/Microsoft Word/Pages documents I have open, iTunes, and TweetDeck. My second desktop is my “background desktop” which I’m using for stuff that is running in the background but I don’t want to have minimized or hidden. This includes a Safari window for Google Voice, iPhoto and a copy of my Flickr set list (since I’m uploading all of my pictures to Facebook, and I want to upload the albums in chronological order since there is no way to re-arrange Facebook albums once they’ve been uploaded), and my e-mail clients.
This is working out pretty good for me this morning. Certain applications let you have multiple windows in different Spaces, like Safari, and other applications will open in the space that they were originally opened in, even if they’re closed or hidden when you click on the dock icon in another space (like TweetDeck). Twitterrific pops up in whatever space I’m currently in. I use Twitterrific for my personal Twitter account, and TweetDeck for our company Twitter account.
I go through periods where I’ll heavily use Spaces for a while, and then I’ll forget about it and have a really messy system of multiple windows, some hidden, some minimized, some dragged to the very bottom of the screen to keep them open but out of the way. I hope this time that I continue to use Spaces, because it’s a really great feature and it helps me be more productive, if only because I’m more organized and can access the things i’m multitasking on much more quickly.
