I’ve heard nothing but good things about the Flip camcorders. They’re only $150, so you can’t expect eight hours of recording or movie-quality resolution.
But you can pop ‘em into your shirt pocket, record an hour of video on them with the push of a button and then easily upload the video to the Web and share it with the world.
Hey. Yes, you. Notice the little short posts underneath this one? They’re called asides, and they’ll let me post smaller thoughts without the pressure of having to create entire posts. Hopefully, this blog will be a bit fresher in the future.
So, I’ve been packing a lot of information into the column on the right. I thought I should take a minute to tell you what’s going on over there item by item:
Search
OK, this one is obvious. You can search this site easily with this box.
Get automatic updates
You can receive emails every time a new post goes up on this site, or subscribe with a text reader, such as Google Reader.
Upcoming shows
As I slowly gather some more gigs, they’ll go in this spot, after announcing them in a post.
Tweets
These are little notes automatically fed from my Twitter account. Twitter is a kind of micro-blogging site which allows you to post a sentence or two at a time, and no more.
Flickr photos
Here, you’ll see the six most recent photos posted into my Flickr account.
Recent comments
The five most recent comments anywhere on the Web site are displayed here.
Categories
I’ve done my best to divide the topics of this blog into nine different categories. You can click to see posts in any one of the categories.
Jon on social media
These are links to everything I’ve stuck my thumb into, online. If you’re on LinkedIn, for example, and you know me, you can link to me easily by clicking the link listed here.
Blogroll
This will eventually once again have links to other Web sites of interest.
Also …
And below every individual post, you’ll find Related Posts, three links to other posts on this site that a computer thinks are related.
You may not have noticed, but I’ve been spending a lot working adding cool technical features to this Web site:
Get updates automatically!
If you’d like to receive an email every day I post to this blog, then click the link for “Get updates by email” link at the top of the sidebar to the right and follow the instructions.
If you prefer using an RSS feed reader, you can find a link for “Get updates by RSS” right under the email link.
If you don’t know what a feed reader is but you’re interested in knowing more, watch this great little video from Common Craft:
Upcoming shows widget
Also in the sidebar, I’ve included a little widget that lists my upcoming music gigs. If you click on the link, you’ll find more details on every show.
Plus, you can subscribe to the new shows widget as a separate RSS feed, but I’ll likely post about new shows in the main blog, too.
Email this, print this links
When you click on a headline, you go to a page with just one individual post and its comments. At the top of those pages, you’ll now find links for emailing and printing posts.
Potentially related posts
Under each post on its individual page, you’ll find five or so other links that may or may not be related to the post above, depending on if the posting robot had its coffee or not.
