Alan’s Kiloblog

I promised to create amylafont.com and amy@amylafont.com, which means sending a request to Google for Your Domain.

Need to research how to protect GNU Mailman mailing lists with SpamAssassin.

After selecting the text, once the mouse is up, the underlined text becomes a link, clicking on the link adds the text to a text box, where someone can clean it up, or edit it. Where can I find address scrubbing code?

The Kiloblog is a concept.

This is an experiment. It is an attack on the division between personal and professional lives. We are too busy to afford to maintain personae. The real me is always available through Google. Google compresses us into a singularity.

I’ll not bother to maintain personae.

I’ll expose myself to the magic of search. Put it out there, in as coherient a stream as possible, and see who shows up. Let the long tail guide me. A message in a bottle.

Out with personae. I’m made a fine mess of my penchant for isolation and computing. I’ve often found myself running in the wrong circles. I’ll not cure these ills by hiding them. The sheen of professionalism hasn’t fooled the shysters.

I’ve called this a career. Can you imagine?

The feeling that I’ve got something to hide has lead me to follow a path that gives me the feeling I’ve got something to hide.

The Kiloblog is to shed light on failure. To ruin me for bluster. To expose what I feel are flaws, so that others might explain them to as facets. My experience, on offer, in exchange for yours.

I worry too much about what other people think.

In the past, visitors have been close personal friends, and a few intreped bloggers.

Now I’m finding people from my New Orleans day to day are stopping by, reading, and commenting. They have stumbled across some of my more disheveled posts.

I’ve not been shouting into a hold after all.

The upshot is this.

The exploration of points of failure has done me good. I’ll bang on about that here. Love to think of myself as an abject failure. It is the nowhere to go but up mindset that makes life in New Orleans so exiciting.

Recognize that I’m being hard on myself, and don’t need to be told as much. Life is so much better now, I’m marveling at how horrible it once was. Failure. In every way a disservice.

At the heart of it all, was a simmering shame, which lead me to avoid good relations, and curry the favor of those who disapprove, perverting most engagements. That and a crippling sense of prorpiety.

Anyway, welcome. Tech notes are found here. You’ll also find me reflecting on thirty years of poor mental health. It’s not theraputic. Therapy is for the well insured, and as such, was never my cup of tea.

It’s a reframing. A narrative.

It’s information. It’s creative commons. Remix it. I beg you.

It seems that the only Podcasting plugin in town is PodPress. WordPress creates enclosures when you link to a Podcast, but it doesn’t have a niceity like a player. Something that screams, I’m a Podcast of Alan screaming.

Unzip straight into the plugins directory. Enable the plugin. Write a test post.

Podcasts are created by filling out a form at the end of the post.

Update: I have an issue with the MP3 player. It is too small. I’d much prefer that were a larger, and had a nice juicy play button, like on the Odeo player.

Update: The markup for the the PodPress player is difficult to style. It uses line breaks, and it is not enclosed in a div. None of the elements have a CSS class. I have to hack podpress_theme.php to add an enclosing div.

Create a Station By Example
Music like Galaxie 500. Music like R.E.M. Music like Elliot Smith.

How does it know?

Click “love this track”. Where does that show up on the site? Don’t see it. Must tag then. Okay. Four stars. Okay, not allowed to use an asterisk. Four hugs? Fine.

The rotation is more or less avoiding the radio songs. A numbers game. Building the associations. Does it ever jump genre, in order to find new connections? Is Bob Dylan really like Elliot Smith?

Must I Tag?

Okay, I’m surrendering to tagging. Need to think of keywords for music. Clappy, French, Cabaret. In time I ought to be able to write music reviews, with all mess of synonyms. Could I be a contributor to the ArborYpsi Music blog? Write a review using the last.fm tags attached to the album?

This is going to be a pretty big site. I’m in. Must go back and check out spinner.com, see if they still exist. Nope. I loved them once upon a time (1997-2001). If only they had tagging.

Dating Without Profiles

So, will I be meeting people through this venue? It seems to want to introduce me to neighbors. This is passive social networking, or passive friendster. Like consumating.com. No work. Listen to music. Tag. Create a profile. This is going to to be a stunning dating site.

Are we ever going to get to be writers in this society, with our blogs, our social mind maps, and associative tools, like this one, and like flickr.

Hey, is it possible to broadcast my current last.fm track through iChat, instead of the current iTunes track?

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