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Week in a Tweet.

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I’ve decided to setup a new “diary” project. I’ve tried doing Project 365 and failed many times, I just don’t take enough photos, I guess the point of it is to encourage you take more but I’d just forget or lack an interesting or useful sight to capture (I’m sure if I thought hard enough I could create good images but then it would become a hassle when it’s required daily).

Anyway, my new project is called Week in a Tweet, and as the title suggests I’m going to sum up my previous week in a simple tweet length message, that way I can keep pithy updates away from the main page (which I always try to do) but also it should be a nice page to look back over at the end of 2012. I’ve made a new tab for it above so take a look if you so please.

Well I’m shortly off to watch The Iron Lady, I’ll spare this blog a review as there is enough talk about it anyway (I’d suggest checking out Stewart Lee’s non-review) I may fire off a tweet later though. Going to be doing a few minor changes to this blog over the next few days, one of which is revise my blogroll, one person I’m going to be adding is friend and author Sinead Kent, do check out her blog Painting Lies here.

Happy New Year! (Leaving Facebook Edition)

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My blog is looking pretty dusty, and this post, rather than being a deep clean, is little more than me rubbing my fingers across the accumulated decay and letting out a disapproving tut.

I just looked over my “New Years” post from last year where I claim that as a New Year’s Resolution that I was going to blog more; I could pretty much repost that 2010 post and just relabel it as a 2011 post… but there is one key difference. I am actually going to do it this year. “Yeah, sure you will”, you may be thinking, and of course most New Year’s Resolutions are, it would seem, doomed to failure but my first one will not fail. This is to delete my Facebook account, which is trying with it’s new timeline feature/layout to become more like a blog, I already have a blog, so I do not see a need for facebook, a ‘service’ which I’ve never much liked anyway and whose practices, along with other web properties, I’m becoming much more deeply distrusting of and cynical about. Anyway, the detailed reasons behind the decision may make a further post, by deleting Facebook I anticipate making better use of this blog, but for now, I wish you a Happy New Year.

By the way if you’re struggling for New Year’s Resolutions, you could get some ideas from the start of this (I may very well use them all):

Shopping for Puns

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I started a new blog a few weeks ago, as if irregularly updating this one and snackfoam.co.uk wasn’t enough! It’s called Shopping for Puns and basically it’s a collection of bad shop names. Take the one above for example, which amuses me no end because firstly I can have a childish sense of humor at times and because I can just imagine the owners not realising what the name suggests until they hung the sign up and stepped back.

Do check it out and please if you have any photos of shop name puns yourself do send them in, either add them to the comments of this post or find out alternative ways of submitting by going to the Shopping for Puns blog.

Written without Review.

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Despite loving blogs, blogging and the blogosphere there are two things that often hold me back posting , if they didn’t there would be many more posts on this site.

Firstly, Self-Review. I think small blogs; such as this one, work better when people write there opinions in a bit of a rant form and instantly post the result. However, I will often find myself reviewing my posts over and over again and as a result watering them down. Now, I know this is not necessarily bad practice, but it often leads to me not posting things that may be of interest. The reason I trash these posts leads onto point two (in essence there both interrelated)

Secondly, Knowledge. I often scrap posts due to many of them not being readily linkable to anything to support them; as is the nature of ranting. This again is not necessarily a bad thing because sometimes blogs; particularly small blogs, work due to their scattergun approach. The majority of online communication encourages us to be spontaneous and to think and interact without thought… and while this does lead to some interesting content it should not dominate the intellectual exchange of ideas between individuals online. If it does the legitimacy of new media as a source of information could be undermined. There should be a happy balance between the two. Which I try and aim for.

So, as I’ve said before I’m going to add a disclaimer somewhere on this blog that states that some of the content on this blog is my opinion only… or something along those lines. And hopefully as a a result I will start posting some more interesting “off the cuff” posts, that is not to say they will dominate.

But what does seem to dominate on here is youtube videos, and that isn’t gonna change with this post. Here are a couple of comedy clips regarding the opinions of the public both in old and new media.

Return of the blog!

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This morning/afternoon I’ve finally got round to making a few changes to my blog, and this will probably continue for the next couple of days as I finally get back into keeping my blog updated.

On that note, I’ve found a nice piece of blogging software to use on my mac called Blogo, I’m just testing it at the moment, and as with most well made mac applications it appears to be slick, simple and yet still a highly powerful tool. There’s nothing wrong with using the web client, but it can feel a bit clunky at times and Blogo will hopefully solve that, I’ll report back in a few weeks and give it a bit of a review.

In the meantime I’d better continue with my university reading; and yet again I’ll leave you with a some web generated visual media, this time it’s video that is in-fact vaguely linked to the topic I’m reading about.