Wes’s Life

I know I said this a while ago, but it never really played out as well as I had hoped. So here’s my second attempt at split­ting up all (the very little that there is) of my writ­ing.

All tech­nol­ogy and web design posts you can find right here at wes​baker.com. I hope to fea­ture posts about things I’ve learned while work­ing and using the tech­nol­ogy in my life.

Every­thing else: books, travel, music, pho­tog­ra­phy, gen­eral writ­ing and any­thing per­sonal (eg. family and friends) will be on tum​blr.​wes​baker.com.

Last, but def­i­nitely not least, any­thing involv­ing myself and my fiancée will be on shan​nonandwes.com.

Started up a Tumblr tum­blelog and I fear that I may stray away from this site because of the ease of use that Tumblr has. It’s pretty fan­tas­tic. Any­ways, you can get to it at tum​blr.​wes​baker.com. Any­ways, most of the small con­tent will be on that site and any­thing lengthy will be here as usual.

Not sure if anyone cares or noticed, but the blog may have been unavail­able for a little bit. I was swap­ping hosts and so far they seem pretty good. Had a slight issue get­ting it set up, but that was mainly my inabil­ity to read the whole e-mail they sent me.

Any­ways, I’ll give the com­pany a mini-​review in a few days.

A con­stant idea on my mind is how should I present myself online. This web­site is under con­stant attack from my brain; I don’t really under­stand why it doesn’t change too much. I’ve looked around and I’ve deter­mined that there are a few levels of ded­i­ca­tion that go with the kind of online pres­ence they con­tain.

1. Blog - Yeah, I guess this was coming. Blog’s tend to take the most amount of time if they are well main­tained. This can range from a self-​hosted Word­press blog, a Blog­ger blog, or a Vox blog. I know I can spend vast amounts of time writ­ing.

2. Tumblr - This is one I just found out about. It’s kinda like having a blog point­ing to other people’s con­tent, with­out the point­ing. It brings together small posts, photos, links, con­ver­sa­tions, quotes and videos. I think I might have to set one of these up for all the small things I want to post about.

3. MySpace/Face­book - This one might be scoffed at, but some people take these things very seri­ously. I’ve seen people that will post daily on the little blog like devices these sites have. I espe­cially have to wonder about the MySpace folks, that site is hideous and I wouldn’t want to read any­thing on it for extended peri­ods of time.

4. Twit­ter - This would take the least amount of time besides noth­ing or set­ting some­thing up and never main­tain­ing it. You can just drop on to the site and put up a quick blurb about what you are doing. You can even update it from your phone or IM. I think they limit you to only so many char­ac­ters, but thats not a bad thing.

So, where do you stand in terms of how much time you feel like spend­ing? I keep going back and forth with how much time I want to spend. Some days the blog is great as I can type out things like this. Other days I would rather not main­tain a thing and would love to just use Tumblr. I main­tain MySpace and Face­book pages, but really those are for my friends that don’t feel like trying some­thing new, which is the vast major­ity of them. I’ve tried Twit­ter, but it just felt trite.

In the end, I’ll keep the blog because I can write as much as I’d like. I might start a Tumblr and give that a shot. MySpace and Face­book will still be there, but I don’t write any­thing on them. Twit­ter will prob­a­bly be aban­doned.

Hmm, seems a bit qui­eter around here then it used to…thats because I’m tran­si­tion­ing all of my more tech­ni­cal con­tent and shift­ing it over to my new blog Swift­Cobalt. I’d really like it if you could go take a gander over there as thats where my better writ­ing will prob­a­bly be.

I also plan to blog a bit more on both! Yes, two times as much writ­ing in two times as many places! Holy smokes, this is free? Sure is.

Plus, if you are inter­ested, I could use some spiffy writ­ers. You know the ones who like to write and do it kinda good. If you are the kind of dry text book writer, then I rec­om­mend you apply some­where else, but if you are the kind of person who wants to talk to who you are writ­ing to, then go ahead and com­ment on this and we can work some­thing out.