Category: about
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Microblogging everyday Kyoto
After arriving in Kyoto I considered how I should journal daily life here. For the month of May I experimented with the indie Micro.blog service, posting pics, videos, and short updates at everydaykyoto.micro.blog. The service is pretty straightforward, with a simple non-surveillance capitalist business model. The community is really nice too. So I can recommend…
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What is the most exciting thing in publishing today?
This weekend I was thinking about the recent history of publishing content: What are the innovations and trends of the past? What is in the near future? Let me give you a few examples of the kinds of things I am thinking about: blogs microblogs vs tumblr vs twitter social interest-based blog networks like Medium…
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Considerations for planning out your online portfolio
I am looking for advice from online creatives. How do you organize your various projects online? Let me give you some context. I have a couple of ongoing projects I am planning to start next year. I would like to blog/photo/video/post the progress of these projects, but I don’t think doing it on my main…
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The unexamined blog is not worth writing
Blogging is an activity I have been doing for more than a dozen years, under a few different guises: an anonymous personal blog, a pseudonymous group blog, and then another pseudonymous Tumblr which actually provides the basis of this blog. Almost 8 years later I am now at 500 posts on this blog. Early in…
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Site refresh and newsletter launch
The site has been refreshed to a more traditional blog layout that exposes a bit more content. I like the idea of a super-minimalist site that focuses entirely on the writing on the page, but I have nearly 500 posts, many that are still valuable as part of this interconnected web of thinking I call…
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New look, old platform
My first blogging experience was on Xanga. For years I blogged on WordPress for Coming Anarchy. This personal blog started in 2009 on Tumblr before moving it to Octopress a few years ago when I set out to learn Ruby on Rails. These days, I am not as motivated to be dealing with environments, dependencies…
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Conversion to Octopress
It took a while, but I have finally set up a new home for my blog. I am on a new host (check out the new home page) and am now powered by Octopress. This is the same system that I use for Above Orbit. (I love having everything in delicious Markdown.) I am still…
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Replacing Flickr
Chad on www.flickr.com Yahoo’s lack of innovation is one thing, but what really drives me bonkers about Flickr is the terrible video support. Maybe 1 in 10 of my video uploads are successful. I take a lot of short vids on my iPhone and even on my 60D I think they should be viewed within…
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Call for feedback
I have an idea for a new venture and am looking for your help. Call for feedback
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Coming out
My New Year’s resolution for 2011 is to be more public on the web. Thus I am changing all my usernames and identities from to reflect my real name. I have been thinking about this for some time now, but have held off for two reasons: naming and timing. My full name (Chad Kohalyk) is…