I have recently changed the layout of Follow*Sound.co.uk. This is the first step into taking control of the Networked part of my life.
I have been bogged down with coursework in April and May, then exam revision at the end of May and July. Now with only 1 exam left (its a resit because I only got a B incited of an A), I have hit somewhat of a wall. For the first time, this year really, I have no revision or c/work to do. Laura Eastwood and Myself, along with Nate(he’s shy so that’s all I’ll say) have been creating exiting video projects, which could or could not get us sued out of existence, anyhow its something to do.
Then the other day I remembered a Diggnation episode (can’t remember the number, diggnation is EPIC BTW), where Alex talks about the .tv domains possibly going away because the island is sinking, and he talked about neglecting his site, I felt that I had been neglecting this blog and my social network life in general.
Alex said that it would be more worthwhile, because of the abundance of social networks, to have your main homepage (followsound.co.uk) just say ‘THIS is me and HERE and HERE are where you can find me’. I agree with him totally, Twitter and Friendfeed have become my blog because I have a simple mind that I only thinks in short (around) 140 character segments plus I love the instantaneous ability of the internet. I took the above and moved this blog to http://followsound.co.uk/blog and made a very meta and stylish homepage (at least I think so) that has all the relevant social networks and blogs on it.
I am also in the process of having a HUGE Twitter and Facebook clear out, unfriending anyone who I don’t find interesting and those people who aren’t interesting and don’t follow back, have got the chop :). (In the nicest way possible!)
I also took some tips from a segment that Natalie Del Conte did on the early show? (I have no clue of UK morning shows let alone American ones), anyway she talked about how to mange you inbox(es). So I deleted 3 years of GMail messages (which was surprisingly only 127MB) plus all the other emails got a spring clean (wow I had some junk) and I started a fresh which I am going to keep on top of by organizing and actually deleting things!
So there the past 6 months (and in some cases 3 years!) of neglect have finally been cleared out and organized!
