joe-dunphy-updates

[joe-dunphy-updates]

Simple Enough

      You can use this microblog to try to follow my content when I post it to locations other than Tumblr, without getting a membership on any site other than Tumblr. 

The operative word is “try.” At the time of this writing, I’m using IFTTT to handle updates, because Tumblr’s management (quite foolishly, in my view), got rid of the functionality that allowed us to import feeds from elsewhere, and the far more reliable Dlvr.it hasn’t bothered to set up an option for posting to Twitter. IFTTT, on the other hand, routinely misses RSS updates, and the staff’s position on this problem is that they don’t have to care about whether or not their product works, because they have competitors.

Nice, professional attitude there, boys. Seriously, when social networks based in “flyover country” start to show up, I think that their best marketing strategy will be to start by saying “we’re over a thousand miles from San Francisco, and we intend to stay that way.”

In the meanwhile, though, there’s no reliable option, yet. Sorry about that. The best I can do is say “follow me here and hope for the best, or follow me on Twitter, where I do get to use Dlvr.it, and sorry about the neo-Nazi trolls.” That’s not a joke. They’re really there, Twitter really knows about it, and most of the time, they side with the Nazis. Which makes Dlvr.it’s obsessive love of them a little disturbing, but what can one do?

What you will not see here are my comments on other people’s blogs, my bookmarking and my faving. Those will go elsewhere. Most of the people who will follow me would be annoyed if I told them about every comment I posted on IntenseDebate, I think, so I’m going to try to offer at least a little “granularity” in the option to follow, creating a comment update blog for those desperate to cyberstalk me who view my content with an unusual level of interest.

I might also do my retumblrs here, at least at first, so I don't accidentally tweet something by somebody else and see my name get automatically attached to it in a hashmark. That already happened once. I made sure to post a clarification immediately, giving proper credit, but I don't want to have to keep doing that. After a while, that just gets to be bad form. Posting the retweets here should solve that problem, because I will never feed this blog through to Twitter. There would be no point to doing so, as it exists solely as a means of following my content elsewhere.

Eventually, I think I'll start a bookmarking blog. Please, no complaints about my hogging of urls - the url for that side blog will start with "joe-dunphy-." Its ID will be the ID for my main blog with something appended to it, so unless somebody was hoping to pass himself off as me, I'm not sure of what the complaint would be, but as this is the Internet, I'm sure somebody will make it. Probably the troll who was going to pass himself off as me.

      PS. Speaking of trolling ... after I updated this post in order to insert a link, I was reminded of a bug / feature that Tumblr has been using to delight its users for years, as I noticed that some of the coding I had inserted to insert spaces into my text in order to make it more pleasant to read had been stripped away, forcing me to re-insert it. I wonder if management understands that white space on a blog is not like whitespace in a newspaper, that they're not going to have to pay for the blank spaces on somebody else's screen.

Is management really uninformed enough to believe that this is a cost cutting measure, or is the company just messing with us?