September 14, 2007 at 12:08 pm · Filed under allsux, blogging, sucks, WTF
Sometimes life just sneaks up, jumps on you and beats you down with a spork. I realize this is a ‘personal’ weblog and I could blog about what is going on right now, but I’m not even sure I’ve sorted through my own emotional reactions to it yet. Needless to say, my life was already in transition (from grad school to job searching) and something pretty significant just happened in my personal life. I suppose there’s no good time for random things like this to crop up and punch you in the gut, but right now seems a particularly bad time. Ces la vie, more soon maybe.
September 13, 2007 at 5:37 pm · Filed under allsux, Links
It’s so great to see more and more folks reviewing Web Urbanist, each clearly taking something different from their time spent on the site. I have to say I really enjoy the variety on the site, and how can you go wrong with a site titled Subterranean Homepage News? Sheila adds really solid content to that site very regularly – I would highly recommend adding it to your daily reads! I should add that this isn’t the first time Sheila has written something kind about the site!
Oh, and this guy runs a site about weird websites – it sure is strange, but isn’t everything good on the web a little weird? More linky love soon …
September 13, 2007 at 1:33 am · Filed under allsux, scandal
Linkinn. Rant. Building. They rip off content and spam the ripped off content with AdSense, then plaster it in the comments of sites like Digg.com for secondary traffic. They even have the nerve to call it a mirror. Grr … more oon
September 10, 2007 at 3:28 pm · Filed under blogging, pr, writing
They say that “imitation is the best form of flattery,” but I happen to believe that unsolicited praise is. Those of you who blog know that it is great to get your site or a site you work on reviewed. What could be better than a review in general, other than an in-depth review by a blogger you only recently found out about? Allsux has been reviewed in the past, as has Web Urbanist, but rarely in such great detail and with so many positive comments as a recent (unsolicited!) review by Individuals at Home.
This kind of review is a great reminder to bloggers who wonder about their readers – why so few comments? Does anyone really care about this stuff? Sometimes it is those who you know the least who are the biggest supporters of a site you slave over. It is reviews by savvy bloggers with excellent content that remind me that blogging is worthwhile. In turn, reviewing a blog is a way to say thanks as well as an excellent way to introduce your blog to others!
September 8, 2007 at 10:49 am · Filed under allsux, blogging, Links, writing
So I’ve been working a bit toward slowing down on blogging in order to wrap up some real-life projects that need attention. I’ll be posting a bit less here and in a few other places, but I won’t leave you hanging! Regular readers know I like to hand out link love now again, but tend to link some folks more than others – bloggers I have known for quite a while, worked with, been helped by, helped and so on. Don’t be shy: speak up if I forgot someone!
Today, I’d like to thank John for his interview regarding Romlet and his continued support of the widget as well as his early adoption of it! I’d also suggest checking out Tamar‘s blog, particularly the most recent article regarding problems with Digg. Muhammad is really ramping up his new main site with a vengeance – check it out his interview with the creator of Digpicz.   Be sure to dig deep into Webomatica, you may find some old but applicable articles that are well worth reading. Andy has some great tips for bloggers, and has been helping me come up with monetization strategies for some of the sites I work on via e-mail – thanks Andy, hopefully my blogs get to the point where they can at least pay for their own hosting soon!
Finally, I just recently came across OneMansBlog – a really neat site about, well, everything. I have to admit I have a personal soft spot for blogs that don’t try to niche themselves too much. I recommend looking at the ‘top content’ widget on the right for some interesting stuff! Update: I also just came across a contest on OMB. Normally I don’t really go in for contests (this may be my first), but this one is pretty straightforward: link to OMB (I was doing that already!) and subcribe to the feed via email (that too!).
Since I might be away for a few days or longer, and posting just a few times a week tops, I wanted to make sure this top content roundup stays somewhat sticky – if you’re bored it might be fun to browse ;)
September 7, 2007 at 1:31 am · Filed under allsux, blogging
… that this is my personal weblog right? I mean, sure, at times I strive to entertain and such, but at the end of the day this is where I dump the leftover contents that simply won’t fit in my brain. Sometimes I post multiple times in a day to get the lead out, and other times I forget to post for days because I’m simply too busy. I rarely get feedback (hint hint, wink wink!) so I trudge along as if no one is listening despite the (apparently insane?) daily visitors and subscribers to this site.
Anyway, so, what am I doing that is distracting me from writing here you may ask? Or you may be asking yourself why you subscribe to such shite, but let’s assume the positive for the moment! Let’s see, well, I’m doing a lot of management, editing and writing for Web Urbanist. I’m also plugging away at new ideas and promotional strategies for Romlet. Most of all, though, I’m trying to finish up my architectural thesis.
OK, let me explain where this self-reflection is coming from: I chatted with someone today and realized that I leave this site scattered around the interwebs as my homepage. Well, it is my homepage of sorts, in more ways than one. It is one of few sites that I manage all by my lonesome. It is also the first blog (heck, website) that I ever owned and operated. In a great many regards this is my home base. It is where I come back to when I want to spew nonsense into the void or have an axe to grind, which also ties back into the original idea behind the domain name (yes, AllSux was a rant blog to begin with!). Don’t we all need a shoutbox of some kind?
I always read over my posts before submitting them for ‘publication.’ However, this is the one site on which I don’t edit myself for run-on sentences, bad grammar, or really most anything else. I read the posts over to make sure I haven’t missed anything. Well, I haven’t! So goodnight!
September 5, 2007 at 3:54 pm · Filed under digg, images, web 20
For those of you have haven’t heard, someone just came up with something called Digpicz. What is this, you ask? Well, it’s an elegantly designed, simple website that displays newly popular Digg submissions related to images. What makes this so neat? Well, Diggers (as evidenced by how fast Digpicz hit the Digg front page!) have been wanting an image section for a while. Now they have it! Anyway, this isn’t new news anymore, but you should check out the site of the Digpicz creator who is currently working on an even more amazing pics aggregator!
September 5, 2007 at 2:34 pm · Filed under digg, funny, sux, WTF
I was just looking on Digg.com for, well, interesting stuff, news, pics, the usual, and I couldn’t believe how many iPhone-related stories were on the front page. First of all, there were, at the time, 5 iPhone stories in a row that had just hit the front page. Five? I thought (perhaps incorrectly) that Digg had some kind of system for keeping similar stories or stories from the same category from all front-paging at once.
Then I noticed that 6 of the 10 hottest stories on all of Digg were related to the iPhone. Is this really necessary? Isn’t there some Apple blog or something where people who actually care can go read about their precious iPhones? I mean sure, it’s an interesting device, and I’m game to hear updates about it occassionally even if I can’t afford one. Still, I don’t need to see it plastered all over one of the social media sites I frequent. /rant
August 30, 2007 at 3:17 am · Filed under allsux, blogging, scandal
So I could make this a long story, or a short one. It’s late, so I’ll opt for the latter. Long story short: someone walked by, asked a few questions from the street, and cops drove by and arrested him. His questions seemed, well, off – like he was trying to avoid suspicion by blending in with the local population. The cops stopped him even though he appeared to be talking to us (myself and the others out front).
A cop came by a few minutes later, asked if we knew the guy. He also informed us the guy was carrying a gun, which may have been used earlier in the day to fire 7 shots around the corner – a revenge-shooting for some gang activity south of town. I happened to have been around when those shots were fired. He also took a moment to inform us we live in a ‘bad neighborhood.’
Do we? Really? Most of the crackheads are nice folks. No one has shot at me or in my general direction. Hard to say. What do you think? I suppose its time I added a ‘crackhead’ tag to this blog.
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