New look
As you surely will notice if you are reading this, I have changed the blog’s theme. I am still ironing some things out so please shout if you notice something wrong or you have any comments about the changes.
I should note that one of the main reasons behind searching for a new theme was making it all easier to read. If you don’t think it is so as a result of the change, pray do tell me.
Using Facebook feeds to advertise your new blog posts
I’ve been wanting to do this for a week or so, but only now got a minute to look it up. It’s actually really simple. Here are two different websites that explain how to do it:
Text&Images:
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/02/22/how-to-import-your-blog-into-facebook/
Video tutorial:
http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/how-to-add-your-blog-feed-to-your-facebook-profile.html
It seems to work, the only disadvantage I see so far being that the link to your actual blog doesn’t seem to show up in the notes. I guess you could fix this somehow, but I haven’t looked at it yet.
Projects
After being extremely lazy about this, I finally started writing some stuff for my “Projects” page. I will use that for permanent links and descriptions of some of the more important stuff, but I will continue to regularly post here under the “Stuff I do” category.
If you find all this confusing, do let me know, I’ll think about simplifying it.
Also, I added an awesome tag cloud at the bottom of the page. Cool isn’t it? I’m thinking of updating the layout of my blog to make it more efficient, but I don’t think I’ll have time for that too soon though.
Fitness category
After a long debate I have decided to include a “fitness” category on my blog. I found this word to best encompass everything that I intend to put there: post related to general health, nutrition and training.
I hesitated to do so before because I didn’t want to become one of the way-too-many “Internet experts” (i.e. people that pretend to be expert in fields they do not actually have a good grip on by propagating information through the mostly unchecked Internet medium). My decision to actually start writing in this category came together with the concept of focusing more on my beliefs and personal experience, rather than general advice. It’s also a big part of my life, so it should be here. More on this soon…
Getting serious?
I never think of myself as a blogger. I don’t write often, I rarely write about things that interest more than a select few and I don’t do it in a very original manner. But I enjoy this and changes in my life have all been reflected in this blog as it bounced between being a photo, tech and purely personal blog. Further more, one of the pieces of unsolicited advice that I often give people is: “no matter what you do, put passion in it and thrive to at least do the best you can”. So what does that mean?
First of all, I will attempt to add some structure and dedication here and actually post regularly and put a little bit more work in what I write. I would like to stress the word attempt since I got no idea whether or not this will actually work out as I want it. But this blog deserves a bit more work. At the end of last summer I decided to split my public online publishing activity into three components: this blog was going to remain the main component, but it was going to suffer some modifications to remove the very personal things out of it, give it a more presentable view and this has been mostly succesful, I should say. The second was to create a private forum for myself and very close friends that I had difficulty keeping in touch with and that was done shortly and has been going very well also. The third component which was also the least important has actually been a failed attempt and I will not spend more time here on it, I will just say that the need for it was easily covered between the previous two, as I realized some time later. So as it is, this remains the single public publishing online spot I work with and I feel it merits some more work and I will try to get on that.
Second, althought I am still debating exactly what the best manner to go about this is, I will look into adding more categories and variety to the blog. I do a lot more things every day than criticize others, look back at good memories and listen to music. There is a lot I can share with the world (whether “the world” actually wants to read it or not is a different story) and I think I should at least try. More on that soon.
Third, I started out on the wrong foot since this post is one day late according to my own personal schedule, but even more of a reason to catch up! Stay tuned, I hope you’ll be getting more updates on your RSS feeds from me very soon!
