Social Media additions
If you read my blog posts via RSS reader, or get them sent to you by email, you might not notice what’s happening on my blog. Go on, have a look.
I’ve added a small graphic to the top right of every post, underneath the comments icon. It says ‘Retweet’, and allows you to do exactly that. Clicking on the icon will allow you to retweet the post via your Twitter account. So if you like it, share it!
A couple weeks ago I started incorporating photos into all my new blog posts. These photos are taken from Flickr’s Creative Commons photo pool. They’re photos that are made available for the public to use, for free. So every post will have a photo included in it. Just to spice things up a bit.
Another new look
I’ve changed the theme on this website to something that feels a lot better. I actually tried using this last year, but didn’t have the time or the patience to configure it properly at the time, so I ignored it. But last night I finished configuring it how I want, and I’m happy with it.
If you’re viewing this by RSS, please take a moment to have a look and let me know what you think. Thanks.
My next project will be to go through the posts from late 2005 and add tags to them. There’s a lot without tags, and still using Categories. That will change.
Have a good day!
Internet Archive
I just found this today, the Internet Archive WayBackMachine. What’s really cool is that one of my sites is there from over a decade ago.
Eyes On The World used to be my conspiracy website, reporting on news and ’stuff’ that mainstream media didn’t want to touch. I ran it from 1996 through to 2001. This next image was how it looked when I ended it:
Some of you reading this today were around back then. I’m honoured that you’re still around today.
The changing nature of life and blogging
I’ve been pondering the changing nature of my life and blogging, and I’m finding that it’s too ‘difficult’ to find the time for writing long-ish posts or articles about the things I used to write about.
Technology today is moving everyone to communicating with text-messages or short status messages on various social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, etc. It’s much easier to provide a brief update on what you’re doing ‘right now’ than it is to write an article…
So today I found a means of integrating my Friendfeed output into this blog, and if you click on alan’s lifestream at the top of the page there, you’ll see what I mean.
This page will show you what I’ve been doing most recently, with Twitter, Facebook, items I share in Google Reader, as well as new blog posts.
New email address
If you wish to contact me about anything to do with this website and content, you can contact me via my new email address:
alan@alanzeyes.com
Thanks to Google Apps, I've associated Gmail with my domain, so that you send to my domain email instead of Gmail.
