Captain Oblivious

Let me see. One week on Posterous: 31 posts. To get to 31 posts on this blog, counting backward? August, 2007. Yeah, roughly 18 months. So you could say that I'm mini-blogging a lot more than I maxi-blog.

So, what's the difference? Ease, mostly. It's really, really easy to quickly post a video or picture or grab part of a web page. And it's really well suited for smaller items. I never blog smaller things here anymore, and especially not the ones where I just find something entertaining and make a brief comment about it. I used to do that sometimes, but in the past two years I really haven't blogged something here unless I was going to write a lot of the content myself.

I'm going to keep both sites, but they'll have very different purposes. They already do, in fact. On this site, I'll write longer, original content. Often it will have something to do with technology, particularly Lotus technology. Not always, but often. On Posterous, I'll throw up anything that catches my eye or occurs to me during a given day. I doubt it will ever have anything to do with Lotus, because I'd be incapable of NOT editorializing - at length - which means that hypothetical post would wind up here.

If you're wondering whether or not to bother checking out my Posterous site, here's a brief list of reasons NOT to visit me there: you don't like snarky humor (though I wonder why you're here in the first place...); you can't stand (or aren't allowed to read...) profanity; you think Barack Obama is either not a US citizen or a fascist or a communist or a socialist or an America-hater; you think atheists are going to burn in Hell and feel the need to tell them so; or you don't like science fiction or comic books at all. As you might guess, there will be snarky comments on politics and religion, there will be pop culture (usually geeky), and there will not be a filter of any sort. I do have a widget listing the topics on the right, so if you are curious you can always look at the topics there.

All of which should explain why I haven't asked Yancy to add my Posterous site to Planet Lotus (and won't, in the future). It's just not relevant. It's not a Lotus-related site, it's a Rob-related site. I've explained that to a couple of people, but hopefully it makes sense to all 7 of you now.

Posted by rob_mcdonagh At 07:52:43 AM Location Library Annex | Permalink | Comments (4) |      

Know how I can never be bothered to Tweet anything unless I'm bored to tears and stuck somewhere? That may have come to an end. See, the reason I never post to Twitter (and rarely read it) is that 140 characters isn't enough room for anything meaningful. And I post here infrequently for exactly the opposite reason: it takes effort that I don't consider worthwhile unless I'm saying something significant, usually with LOTS of words.

Guess what? There's a happy medium. No, Aunt Zelda isn't chair dancing around her crystal ball. F$ckin' literalists are everywhere...

I mean that there's a way for me to have a site where I can throw smaller topics up, a place where it's so easy to post the content that even I'm not lazy enough to avoid it, and a place where I can automagically sync with Twitter (it includes almost 140 characters and then creates a tiny link to the primary post). It's perfect. To me, anyway. It's called Posterous. I heard about it via Volker, so you probably already know about it too. But you didn't know that I've got a site up there. So consider this a Posterous Pimping Post (*cough*).

Check out my Posterous page (yes, it's at captainoblivious.net - if you're confused by the .com vs .net site of the same name, mea culpa, but it's my "brand," for what that's worth - I know, not a heck of a lot) if you're so inclined. Or not. But don't say I never offered, mmmmkay?

Before you ask, no I absolutely, positively will not, under any circumstances, sync these posts/tweets with my Facebook status. They're *different* things. Twitter is micro-blogging (making Posterous mini-blogging?), FB is not. Get over it, already.

Posted by rob_mcdonagh At 08:53:43 PM Location Library Annex | Permalink | Comments (2) |