Grant's Blog

My cat was put to sleep yesterday. I’m sad.

I may not get to update today, I’m going to my dads and installing my header into my car (xmas present). I expect to be back tomorrow night, but I won’t guarantee it. This might be a multi-day process. I also need to change my oil, which doesn’t take long and isn’t hard, but another thing on the to-do list while I’m at my dads. Anyways, if you don’t see updates later today, I’m not dead.

I found a series of links that started with RageBoy, then went to Michael “OC” Clarke and finally lead me toBlogger Code. So I went through the effort to found out what mine was and I have added it under my name at the top of the page. If you are unsure of what Blogger Code is it’s very much like Geek Code except instead of describing what sort of geek you are it describes what sort of blogger you are.

I just thought of another problem with A/Vblogging, you can’t link to other documents. No matter what, you have to have some accompanying text to go along with the A/V portion of your blog. Of course the way around this problem is to use Flash or something like it so you can have an interactive A/Vblog, but that takes quite a bit of time to create.

Well, I have avoided putting a link to RageBoy’s blog because every time I click on a link to it I get confused by all of the pictures and such. But I suppose I need to add him, I have been reading though his blog today and it is good stuff. Also Doc Searls and Larry Lessig seem to read him. And the whole point of this blog is so I can be like them, so read RageBoy I will.

READ THIS! It eloquently says what I have been hinting at (or outright saying, albeit poorly) for a few weeks now. The web does not change the types of relationships we have or our fundamental nature. It just brings into focus who we really are. It makes us rethink how we work and how we interact in life. Blogs, ecommerce, DRM, DigID, they all help to bring into focus assumptions we have taken for granted our entire lives. Who am I? Who are you? How do I know you are who you say you are? If I don’t know who you are, how do I conduct business with you? These are issues that have largely been overlooked, and the internet is forcing us to examine them like never before.

It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one who sees that the web changes nothing.

I just relized that I did have JOHO the Blog in my blogadex. Now it’s time to remove the dupicate.

Matt Jones among others were talking about vblogging today. I’m still not too sure about vblogging, it takes more time than normal text blogging like this one. The natural next step is to have audio blogging (ablogging?). It is as easy to create as writing, maybe faster even, harder to edit though. But there is a difference between normal text blogging and both vblogging and ablogging and it is the same thing that is different between print journalism and broadcast journalism.
The difference between normal blogs and vblogs and ablogs, I see it as more of a problem than just a difference, is the length of time it takes to go through each post. With reading it is easy to skip ahead, to not read entire posts (which I guess you could still do with a vblog or an ablog) or to easily reread short passages or sentences that you did not get the first time through. None of these things are as easy when you have some form of A/Vblog.
Anyways, those are my thoughts on vblogging, maybe I will try to start up an ablog here. Or maybe I will have a mix of what I currently have and an ablog.

Last night, while I was trying to go to sleep I was thinking about ablogging more, and I have one problem with it, I don’t have enough storage space online to even have low quality mp3s. It would be nice if I could find a place that had a gig of storage for $5/mo. unlimited bandwidth and ftp access. Anybody know of suck a place? Anybody willing to let me use their account so I can try out ablogging? I have some room on this server, but not a lot, so I will maybe make one or two ablog posts to see how it goes. But after that I’m S.O.L.

I got an email from Dana Blankenhorn, the guy that runs Moores Lore thanking me for linking to his blog. All I have to say is no problem, if your blog wasn’t interesting and if I didn’t enjoy reading it I wouldn’t link to it. So thank you for writing interesting content that I enjoy.