First YouTube Video

Well, I posted my first YouTube video, found here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/rkseward?feature=mhee

It is sloppy and pointless.  My cat rarely cooperates.

Still trying to figure out the editing portion. I'm just ecstatic that I was able to post something.

Tweet Button

I attempted to add a Tweet button to the blog, but I could not determine where I should place the code.  I tried a couple of places, but when previewed the blog was replaced with a screen of gibberish, possibly some kind of error code.

In any case, I wonder if the button would be redundant since there exists a tweet button with each post anyway..

Misadventures with Jing

The image I captured from Jing is pretty simplistic.  I feel I have a lot to learn about this particular application.  It took me a significant amount of time just to get the link to include in this blog.  Definitely, further practicing is required to get a better handle on what Jing can do.

 Jing Capture

Blogging as a New Fictional Medium

I think I have started somewhere between 7 and 10 blogs in the past, but I have never been able to muster the discipline to follow through with any of them.  Of these, my favorite was an attempt to write an epistolary novel told through a series of blog posts.  The attempt lasted about seven posts because I never had a clear vision of where the story was going.  I likened this method of storytelling not only to the traditional epistolary novel where the story is told through a series of letters, but also to the Dickensian serial where portions of the work are published in increments. 

I bring this up, because in light of the proliferation of Web 2.0 technologies, blogging still has a foot in the realm of traditional information dissemination.  In many ways, it is the simplest of the new information tools because it is a recognizable cousin of the "archaic" personal journal or diary.

With this in mind, with this blog I will attempt to not only share whatever musings happen to tickle my fancy at any given time (such as books I am reading, movies I have seen, my pets, etc.) I will also try to touch on aspects of technology and how they are reshaping our world into something that is still not altogether alien.