LinkedIn for me
I thought I’d give linkedin a try — another one of these up and coming web 2.0 things. I still working on my profile, but here it is so far…
The Changing Personal web site
The always interesting Jeffrey Zeldman has a post reflecting on the role of personal web sites. As people start to use web services such as linkedin, flickr, and facebook, there’s less actual content to put on a personal site. He offers one neat example of Jody Ferry, where the entire site is nothing more than a link out to various web services. It is not such a bad thing that the traditional static personal web site go away. The ones I have had, and most others I see, are mostly dusty collections of old stuff. They don’t tell visitors much about what you are doing or thinking about in the present, and as such aren’t really very useful.
WP 2.5 media players
I found two good media players that work in WordPress 2.5 . One for YouTube videos, the other for flash video and mp3s. Both require the use of tags in pages/posts — i.e.[case-vid]35ZY5Osn63Y[/case-vid]
WordPress 2.5 Plugin woes
In the past I’ve used the Anarchy Media Player in various WordPress blogs, and its been great. Well watch out, at the moment it doesn’t work for me in WordPress 2.5. And from a look through their forums other
Beauty vs. Opening Night
At some point in any project you actually have to accomplish something. But its interesting how so often things seem to swirl around with always something else to do before finishing. In the theater world you learn to work with the very real deadline of a paying audience arriving in the theater, and ready or not you have to deliver something on stage. Deadlines are often a very good thing! On the soccer field fancy dribbling is great, but you only win by putting balls in the back of the net!
Xobni makes Outlook better
Xobni, that’s inbox backworks, is a new plugin that aims to make your email easier to manage. It works with Microsoft outlook. Xobni sits in a sidebar, and examines all your email. For each sender it analyzes past emails and determines if the message relates to some prior message (conversations) as well as who the person has emailed/cc’d on prior messages (network). And it reports this in the sidebar, making it easy to recall the prior email transactions on a subject, or jump to issues that might have involved someone else. I’ve been using it for a week or so, and am already a convert. If you use Outlook you’ll want it too!
