[tags]tumblelog, tumblr, lifestream, wordpress[/tags]

For years I’ve wanted to do something with the amusing crap I discover and link other people to each day. I recently discovered lifestreams and thought that was what I wanted, so for the past several weeks I’ve been toying off and on with trying to get one set up. I tried everything from quickly-hacked php scripts to yahoo pipes, but none of these solutions stirred me.

Then I discovered tumblelogs. I felt like the bee girl from No Rain. Talk about finding your creative element.

Instead of being a passive list of places you’ve visited, where the interesting content is beyond the link itself, tumblelogs create more of a rich-media experience by allowing you to quickly post the most interesting snippet of a website you read, embed the entire video you found on youtube, or even upload a picture from your cell phone. These are little bits of content that make up the internet experience, but are weak on their own. When posted as a tumblelog, this information creates a context that defines our interests and personalities.

A quick google search proved that tumblr is the tool to use for such things. The control freak in me was nervous trying a hosted service, but so far I have been pleasantly surprised. Elated, even. Tumblr allows for complete creative control, even going as far as enabling you to set up custom domain names. And posting content is blissfully simple via the site or bookmarklet. You can even set up other rss feeds to import automatically (like your flickr stream, mog/last.fm/pandora, wishlistr, etc). I would pay for this service. Happily.

Soooo….yeah. Now that I’ve got the big soapbox speech out of the way, let me present my new tumblelog: tumblelog.techslut.net. Seamlessly integrated into wordpress with a bit of a custom theme, and very very squishy. I expect it will mainly end up being a bunch of quotes, but I could prove mysef wrong. It will most certainly be a lot more active than my regular blog. If you want to keep track of these updates, feel free to add my rss feed.

So for the past several weeks, I’ve been going flipping nuts because not all of my recent pictures were showing up in my gallery. Asking on the developer’s forum was no help, although it was comforting to discover I’m not the only one having this problem. So I finally banged on it long enough yesterday to discover that FAlbum uses date-taken-desc instead of date-posted-desc, and Dearest Dan’s shiny new Nikon is set for 2005. Noob. ^_^

My apologies if anyone got annoyed by my photostream when I was constantly reuploading the same picture (with minor EXIF changes) during troubleshooting. Your suffering has gone towards the greater good.

If anyone is interested, here’s a link to my v0.6.9 falbum.class.php file that goes by the posted date.

Lj-sync script fixed. After going as far as taking out the backdate function entirely, I figured out wordpress had the wrong time offset. Oops.

I’m ready to redo the openid implementation, hell…I don’t like the whole comment moderation system at all. But other than that, I’m quite pleased with my wordpress to wp/lj syndication system. Now if myspace only had some sort of API…

Fun fact: According to my phone, I have spent over two days of my life playing solitaire in the bathroom.

Dan got us a pair of DS Lites for Christmas, and I am eagerly awaiting reviews of the M3 Simply homebrew device so that I can have a new project. We haven’t been able to find a Wii yet. *pout*

Also, I am now here: adora.1up.com.

My Flickr friends list is woefully small…I don’t think most of the people I talk to most frequently use it. (But you can use it to integrate a gallery in wordpress so nicely!) This is mainly going out to my livejournal friends, but other passers-by are welcome to play, too. Add me! And yes, I’m going to finish my myspace profile soon…promise.
I’m doing it all offline and will upload the whole thing when I’m done.

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EDIT: Adding Mog.

Tags: falbum, Flickr, myspace, wordpress