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So What’s Changed?

vlado — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:34:52 +0000

One of the biggest changes that has happened to blogging, in my time as a blogger, has to be the rise of

Facebook
Twitter
Delicious
… and other similar online applications

How have these impacted my blogging?Â Well, quite simply, they’ve provided quicker, easier, better targeted means of doing much of what I did with my blog in the past.

Facebook provides me an avenue to update family and friends with the latest news about the latest goings on in the Kekoc household, and doing so in a manner that I don’t need to email them when I’ve updated.

Twitter provides me with a way of recording random thoughts etc that I’m happy to share with the wider community.

Delicious enables me to capture and catalogue the many wonderful gems one finds on the internet on a regular basis.

Then there are all the other online applications I use on a regular basis… and while each have their strengths, they have weaknesses that make me quite reluctant to putting in much effort to cultivating my presence on these for much longer… but I’ll go into each of these in greater detail in the coming weeks.

Melbourne’s Southern Star

vlado — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:31:44 +0000

Melbourne’s “Southern Star”. Melbourne’s attempt at a London Eye type tourist
attraction, except, it’s poorly situated and stopped turning after only a matter of
weeks when stress fractures were detected in the structure.

Southern Star viewed from across the Maribrynong River

I’ve decided that I’m going to make some changes here. I no longer have the time, nor the inclination to pontificate in writing and publish it here for the world to ignore. Not on any subject matter. I had ideas of turning this into an area that recorded my thoughts on logo designs etc… that didn’t eventuate.

So, I’m going to go down the photoblog option for this site. As a result, expect a site redesign in the next week or so.

To Photoblog or Not?

vlado — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:18:41 +0000

Giraffe Casts a Long Shadow

Much of my online time of late has been spent at DPChallenge and I’ve been considering changing this blog to a photoblog.

Just thinking about it at the moment…

It seems as I continue to neglect this site… question is, will a photoblog fix that. Will this site give me anything I don’t get via my DPC portfolio, or my Picasa, Zoomr and Flickr accounts?

Need to think about this some more.

2007 Australian Blog Awards – Update

vlado — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:37:54 +0000

For those of you wondering what is happening with these blog awards, I haven’t a clue to be honest.

Earlier this month, Kieran of the DeadRoo kindly offered to compile the lists of the blogs nominated as I couldn’t find the time to do so myself. I haven’t heard back from him yet… then I went to check Collective Apathy to check the comments there, and it would appear if they’re experiencing some technical difficulties.

So, I guess the voting phase of the awards may be a way off yet… perhaps I should send a few emails and find out some details… I bet those guys at Collective Apathy don’t even know that their site is buggered.

2007 Australian Blog Awards – Nominations

vlado — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:32:12 +0000

Collective Apathy

It took me a little longer than I expected to get this years Australian Blog Awards off and running, but I got there in the end and nominations are now open over at Collective Apathy, who have once again kindly agreed to play host.

Not much has changed… pretty much the same categories as 2006… same procedure… but hopefully with fewer stuff-ups (on my part) and bitching (from disgruntled bloggers)… but I’m not going to hold my breath on either of those.

So, go and nominate your favourite local blogs, and spread the word about the 2007 Australian Blog Awards.