Grant's Blog

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.

Chicago, the new movie, is really good. I saw it tonight, I might buy the soundtrack tomorrow. Go see this movie.
When I wake up in the morning, remind me to write about my idea for a graphical representation of theBlogging Ecosystem and other like documents. (Really, this is just a note to myself.)

So last night Rusty posted the Collabritive Media Foundation’s By-Laws. You can read discussion about themhere. This is a project that I’m very interested in and will try to get a position on the board or at least become an active member. If you search around Kuro5hin a bit you will be able to find out what exactly the CMF is and what it will do. If I had more time I would post links, but I must get ready to eat with family. Hope everybody is having a good day today.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

I’m sitting here reading this article on Tech Central Station about a band called The (International) Noise Conspiracy who want to ” produce the soundtrack to the ongoing war against capitalism.” The question I ask is why is there an ongoing war against capitalism?
I worry that many of my contemporaries, the ones that riot against the WTO and G8, that anti-globalization folks, are going to push the world in the wrong direction once they are in power. I feel that they want the world to be more devided and less interwovan, but I also think that its not possible to have that anymore. Mainly I wonder why youth in the industrealized world are so up in arms about globalization. It doesn’t suprize me that people in developing countries are pissed, but why people in the west?

I figured out why Chris has the same post on two different LiveJournal sites, the second one is syndicated. OnMeglocrush’s site she has a page that syndicates all of her friends posts, thats why there are posts by Sierra, Kuz, and a whole lot of other people I use to know in high school.
Now that I have that figured out and settled, I decided it would be nice to have something like that for blogs. An open standard that different blogging sites and suites can use so we could all have a friends page like that. It would allow me to just read everything on my site and not have to go to each and every site just to read new posts. Anyways, I will think about this a bit more, write something up, and ask one of my computer science friends to write up a script that does it and an RFC so everybody else could duplicate it.

I’m so confused, two different people followed links from this site and this site to here. (Yes, I do enjoy the link propogation). They are both the same post from the same person but on different sites, thats part of what confused me. But what really confused me is on the second page there are posts by squishpink and they are signed ‘Sierra’. Could this be Sierra Martin? The one who use to (and still does, for all I know) go by ‘pink’ online? I haven’t talked to her in forever. Could it be that Chris, the guy that I will be moving in with, is friends with Sierra and I didn’t know about it? That would be cool, I would like to get back in touch with her, see how she is doing, see if she is slightly less insane and see if she is no longer a communist. (She really use to be, it was scarry.)