miahz

In response to Erica’s comment:

Ok so I still don’t know how to make a general comment, but here goes. Are you slacking? Where do you archive your links now? I wanted to forward your the mac/bmw comparison to my cousin and alas I can’t find it…

I trust and rely on you for quality content. Teehee!

I’m sorry.

I guess that’s about all i can say. As for the general comments – i recently tried a contact form (for miahz.com/contact), but that didn’t work, and took it down. So this is fine.

As for the links, i guess you could say they are homeless at the moment. It’s the thing for which i’ve yet to find a perfect solution.

How do i present and keep track of it all?

Lately it’s been simple Google Talk status messages. Because it’s simple—copy, paste. Instant. But then it just as quickly becomes vapor, with no trace. The easiest delivery method will always win; if it’s too difficult or takes too long, it won’t happen. No matter what computer i’m using, i always have Google Talk or Gmail open, so that’s where it tends to go.

The other thing i usually have is Firefox with the Delicious Bookmarks extension, which makes saving links really easy. I’ve been more disciplined about actually bookmarking stuff i find interesting or even just think i might want to remember in the future. So my del.icio.us archive is probably a solid place to check for linkage. You can even subscribe to the feed it generates if that’s your thing. Be warned: i’ll often tag links to random software or websites i come across, or lots of stuff all on one topic or product if i’m researching or shopping—but in that regard it’s maybe a decent metric of what i’m “doing” at the time.

Here are some of the past venues for what i call my wanderings:

• Right here on miahz.com [2004--2006 ... 2008Feb26--2008Apr07]
• Tumblr [2007Sep06--2008Feb25]
  It’s a superb “micro-blogging” service, and incredibly easy to post anything (links, text, quotes, photos, videos). But it lives at its own site, and there was no simple way for me to get it in front of the people i’d want to see it (it didn’t always have permalinks).
• wordpress.com [2007Jan31--2007Jul25]
  I used WordPress’s hosted service to experiment with several things, and at one time that was links.
• Ma.gnolia [2006--2007]
  Basically a del.icio.us clone. I tried to use them both for a time to test things out, but bookmarking everything twice is insanity.
• MySpace [???]
  I think there have been a few times i posted things to my blog on MySpace that didn’t end up dittoed anywhere else.
• AIM profile [2003--2005]
  I actually kept a little link blog in my Instant Messenger profile that i would manually edit and update. One day i’ll post up all those links i have saved. Wonder if any of them still work.

P.S. Apple is BMW.