No blogging
Monday, May 7, 2007 at 6:50 I had been quiet for the last couple of months. There are couple of reasons for that. First, about seven weeks ago I accepted a position of a Member of Technical Staff with VMware and moved back to Silicon Valley -- these past couple of months were quite busy. Second, I cannot find a good unobtrusive and reliable way to post to my blog. For short blurbs, I want to be able to do it from anywhere, but using my cellphone is too inconvenient (I abandoned my PDA a few years ago). I could use Google Docs, but (1) it doesn't work with Safari and (2) I wasn't able to make it post to my MovableType-based blog. I also want to be able to "reply" to other people's blog posts on my own blog, but trackbacks seem to have disappeared from all but a few blogs. Third, I had been working on a few longer articles and I realized that (1) I don't want to mix meaningless musings with longer better thought out pieces on the same blog and (2) I don't know how to tell if the article is finished, so I keep revising it over and over and over.
Any words of advice for me? :)
Reader Comments (4)
Might I suggest some combination of a wiki and Twitter?
I keep trying Twitter from time to time (http://twitter.com/sudarkoff), but I can't force myself to keep it updated. Quite frankly, I can't imagine anyone doing it for any reasonable length of time. I could probably write a couple of scripts that would update my location based on where my bluetooth-enabled phone is registering at the moment, but that would be boring. Plus, the privacy-conscious part of my brain would object! :)
I only use twitter to post about something very significant or funny, or special - in other words, when I do or see something i want to get on the radio with. twitter is your personal ham radio wave, use it when you need it to express moment of truth, love, happiness, beauty, etc.
mine is at http://twitter.com/dk379
i can recommend posterous.com - you can use twitter for authentication (one less password).
posts are by email (or web if you feel like it). any attached images, sounds, or video are hosted
automatically.
they use Amazon cloud storage - so it is slow sometimes for pictures, but text-only is fine.
Oh, and automatic posting to twitter is there, too.
I have included link to mine so you can check out how posts look like.