Posting about posting

I've been following a few thought lines recently on the internet which touch upon how social networking sites like Facebook & Twitter have transformed the internet, specifically with respect to personal blogs.  If you're provided with a single, centralized place to interact with the people you know, provide updates to your life in various formats, then why go through the trouble to set up an independent place on the web with all the hassle of customizing, and the labor of updating it on a regular basis?  

In my own experience, since I've joined Facebook, I've made very little effort to post anything on this blog, which at one time I used to document my own personal thoughts and significant events, not so much  for anyone else, but primarily for my own amusement.  

Now, in addition to regularly signing in to Facebook, I've also been experimenting with using several different journaling, or quick thought-capture apps, so most of what I have been recording has been piling up on my computer, instead of  appearing in this space.  As such, what has always been for me an introspective process, has become so once again.  But after considering the discussion mentioned above, I realized that what I appreciate most about personal blogs is the intermittent dialogue generated by posting.  

Therefore, in the very near future, I think I may, slowly, and not without some resistance produced by in fact living life, and yet naturally under some consternation arising from potentially missing self-imposed targets, endeavor to begin again, quietly, deliberately, to post.

Oh, by the way...

If you scroll down a ways, you'll see this white box to the right containing some green text. That's a link to stuff I've been looking at on the Web that I think is interesting. Maybe you will too. If not, whatever.

More, more, more...pics

Oh yeah, here is the link to my flickr account, where you can see way more pics from this past Mardi Gras, as well as my recent trip to San Francisco, AND even way older, random pics:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cardoanddecumanus/

Music Box

Okay, so I might not be the most internet-savvy person probably for only recently discovering Pandora, but I was finally introduced by my friend Jim over Halloween weekend. (More to come on those events when I get the pictures uploaded.) This site is awesome. You use it to create custom radio stations based on what you like. I have already created a bunch of house stations based on Peter Rauhofer, Victor Calderone, etc., since I can never find a decent internet radio station that plays the styles I like. You know, that borderline scary tech house sound with some big diva vocals thrown in here and there, and enough beats, breaks and build ups to keep your feet stompin' 'til 8AM, or later, and you finally stumble blinking out of the club into the shivering morning chill and try and catch a warm cab back to your even warmer apartment to sit around the rest of the morning babbling with friends, exhausted, trying to fall asleep.