Confabulation

A few weeks ago, I decided it was time to start blogging, again. I sat down to my computer, loaded up my blog and realized that I needed to relaunch my blog first. After all, I had rushed this iteration of the blog together in a hurried attempt to match the business cards that I had painstakingly designed. I had never come back to apply the last bit of fit and finish that I told myself I would. My blog was still powered by Drupal 6! Drupal 7 has been out for nearly a year now. How could I possibly sit down to write under such conditions?

I’m a renting kind of guy. I rent my apartment, I rent movies and I rent the comments on my podcast. I rent things that I don’t want to be burdoned with storing or maintaining. Sovereignty is old fashioned. There are many great services out there that solve all sorts of problems so you don’t have to. There’s freshbooks for invoicing, Basecamp for project management, Shopify for commerce, Twitter for… uh… tweeting, and Disqus for comments.

I’ve been talking to more and more people about what apps are good for the Android platform. These are the 10 I use the most. They’re in no particular order other than the first one is probably my favorite. If I didn’t post your favorite app, drop it in the comments.

Through long hours of careful study, I believe I have unlocked the powers of winning at Google. It would apear the trick is much simpler than my intuition would have lead me to believe. I’ve discovered a pattern throughout the internet and I will share it with you here.

It recently occured to me that there are more than a couple similarities between these two unfashionable things. Here is the long and short of it:

So it’s not exactly news, Plurk is on the scene. For the uninitiated, it is yet another microblog site. The big feature they tout is a cool AJAXy dragable timeline to display your updates (plurks) on. As a graphic designer, I really like that the folks at Plurk are carving their niche by focusing on the interface, but as a twitter user, I need attention to ease of post. .

I have had an account for a little while now. But it was not until recently that I got “it”. There are plenty of people explaining twitter, but the “it” factor can/ will not happen unless you play with it*. I dabbled, but until saw the “itis” at FOWA first hand, I resisted. Now, I follow via IM with sms forwarding while I refresh a web page and sample 2 air clients. It’s not a habit, it’s cool.

While still on the high of just attending the FOWA Miami, I am inspired to start blogging again. If you have not yet attended a FOWA, you should. It is an awesome event put on by some excellent people. I must say, attending this conference really made me feel part of a web community, more than going to any social network ever has.