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The 18 Wheel Archive

Jim — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:41:06 +0000

I used to have a blog on blogger in 2005. In fact, it’s still there but hasn’t been updated in over 3 years and I don’t know what the retention policy is. So what I’m going to do is post them under the title “18WA-original title-publish date” every few days until I get them all over here because I don’t want to rely on the Internet Archive to get it all for me since it only got part of my first website back in 1996. That said the first one from 14 June 2005 is coming up next.

Where have I been?

Jim — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:00:21 +0000

Can you tell I’m in class again? When I’m not, I blog like a bitch about ever goofy thing I see during the day. When I am, I work and go to class & desperately try to get a few hours of sleep a night.

Anyway, while I’m waiting for the conchs to heal and before I get the septum done, I’m thinking that I haven’t had any needlework done lately. I’m trying to decide what new tat to get since the quarter sleeve that I wanted to get done is not in the budget right now. So I think I’m going to get something small but don’t know what yet. Stay tuned.

How Social Networks Can Stop from Being Completely Monetized

Jim — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:01:23 +0000

Over on Techmeme last month there was there was a link to Robert Scoble‘s blog about Facebook kicking off Joel Comm, the Internet Marketer. Normally, I’d let this go because I think Scoble is a self-agrandizing dick whose primary field of expertise is self-promotion but his tone was so “hurt puppy” that I have to say something. Here’ s the thing: you can’t bitch about being kicked off servers that don’t belong to you. If you don’t like the way they’re treating you, take your ball and go home. Don’t sit down on the curb and whine to everybody that passes by.

I’m all for people making money. I’m even all for people monetizing content on the web. Go for it, it’s not 1993 anymore and we should all come to terms with it. The flip side is that the web is almost infinitely more useful now than it was then but in my opinion everything doesn’t have to be monetized. How about if you Internet Marketer type leave a couple of places that are just for fun?

Francine Hardaway also discusses this on her blog in a good deal less hysterical, end-of-the-world fashion.

Happy Birthday, Matt!

Jim — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:19:23 +0000

Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, turned 25 yesterday. He looks like a sophomore in HS. For those of you who don’t now WordPress is arguably the #1 blogging software in the world & the software running this blog. Thanks, Matt. Hope you had a great birthday.

Twitter

Jim — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:09:37 +0000

Back in July (yeah, I know, screw you) Steven Hodson over at Mashable wrote a piece about Twitter not being a micro-blogging tool. he has some very valid points and finishes by saying that this doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for Twitter. That’s where we part ways. Frankly, I’ve never gotten the whole Twitter thing. I’ve got what amounts to a Twitter feed in the status box on Facebook. Between Facebook and this blog I think I can cover pretty much everything people need to know about me. This ignores the massive scaling problems that Twitter has had over the last year. I guess being able to put up with technology that doesn’t work is something we can thank Microsoft for, right?

I’ll tell you what I’d like to see… two classifications on Facebook– Friends & Contacts– with a way to limit the feed based on the classification. Fact of the matter is that I don’t really care what somebody I barely know is having for dinner.