Improvising My Way Out Of Blogging On The G4 (For Now) and My Way InTo Blogging and Jazz
A couple more ideas have been brewing in my head as I prepare to dive into a major upheaval: moving my weblog posting / news aggregating main environment from my trusty Windows box over to the new G4. The main reason is to have my main home page posting tool right by my side, moving anywhere I do. But I'm soooo not sure this is the right thing and time to do this. Genuinely internally upheaved. This move has also made me think about all of the past changes that have left major portions of TNJT lying around in places like http://NewJazzThing.EditThisPage.com and http://radio.weblogs.com/0101235/. I do have some plans to possibly resurrect the EditThisPage site to continue experiments in Manila, but that's another story.
And I'm further scaling and taking the functionality up another level with a serious move to activeRenderer to enable writing and publishing outlines for New Things like future longer rants, stories, playlists, blogrolls, activeRolls...not to mention the structure and, hopefully, focus that outlining might provide my scattered brain. Furthermore, I have been contemplating the use of LiveTopics to add topic keywords to my posts in order to give some sort of Topic Table of Contents to the site (and to help myself find stuff I've previously posted on the site when needing a reference or forgotten link). This opens up a whole realm of possibilities for experiments in the Knowledge Management aspects of weblogging (aka K-logging), at least on the Radio Userland platform, with XML-based standards like Easy News Topics and standard XML aggregators like k-collector (DoIbeta?) to work help organize and share the information we are learning and blogging every minute every day, connected in every way.
Tonight, as I prepared to go ahead and move things (from where this all started), I did a couple of Google searches to see if someone else could talk me out of this Window/Mac/Radio switcheroo. The first one was one I have done more than a couple of times in the last month: 'radio userland move to new computer'. There I found a reason to hesistate, but also, serendipitiously, a link to the old Mathemagenic where I was tantilized enough by the final 'blog is moved' post and K-log linkage to sample the new Mathemagenic where use of activeRenderer (those triangle twisties on the right navigation, alternately revealing and hiding organized link treasures) and hints of LiveTopics and/or k-collector abound. Looks like she's testing something down there in the bottom right navigation (maybe k-collector?). I kind of took all this as a sign that I should plow ahead with the move. Further probing into the Mathemagenic (?) author Lilia Efimova showed a kindred learner, stating so accurately a main tenet of what I feel inside about myself,
"Iím addicted to learning. Iím curious to know how this world works. I love the fun of discovery."
Lilia is presenting a paper titled Blogs: the stickiness factor this coming Saturday, May 24, at Blogtalk (A European Conference On Weblogs) in Vienna, Austria. What a weblogging thinker!! Curious learners will want to see what it takes to put together a paper for presentation...woa.
And I stumbled further into wonderfully exhilerating ideas when I saw Lilia's search options, especially the one for searching 'Weblogs I read'. What a concept. Being able to search across all of the sites that you read, more often than not to find a link or line that you know you read at one time or another but can't quite find right now. That has happened to me A LOT! So I most definitely followed the little orange ? to see what was up with this.
Searching the Blogosphere goes farther than that. Utilizing lists of web sites (easily maintained through your news aggregator or outline creating software...another thread tonight), it will limit a search to just those things. So I'm thinking I can make a list of Jazz Web Sites to search across. This would be handy just as a general purpose search, but imagine if another option from my radio show playlist was a search across just Jazz Sites. When I played a tune, you could search Google, or just Jazz sites, or buy the tune from iTunes or the CD from GEMM. A nice feature to the playlist. I've talked many times before about the playlist from the radio station as a whole as a starting point for many on-line conversations. We just need to get more Jazz webloggers.
And speaking of Jazz and weblogging, performing a Jazz search across all of the sites that Lilia reads, leads to a final chance linkage of the night, to Stuart Henshall and Jazz-Blogging, summed up as follows,
"Jazz-Blogging" as a possible meme for colective collaborative intelligent blogging. What clients want when it comes to thought-leaders is a safe place to engage. My individual blogs are not safe or maybe too public. We need to create safe access environments. Probably as part of a collaborative blogging environment. Perhaps then it more like an extended dinner party in the Hamptons."
Isn't funny how it all came back to Jazz? And that's my take on Jazz and Weblogging. Weblogging as a simple tool for providing textual / visual / audio context to links on the web and thoughts in my head, provides me the means to improvisationally follow links and document what I find on those journeys. And as tonight's post shows, there are usually multiple paths that lead to multiple outcomes when taking these journeys.
One outcome was to dodge the upheaval of switching machines tonight. Not intentionally, but I found out so many things that people were doing in directions I'm going that I had to document them before I head down this path to my new machine. And in taking that step, another evening has come and gone.
Much Love...VO
P.S. I eluded to 2 Google searches above and most of the writing tonight stemmed from just one. The other search was for 'radio userland changing file path which does seem to solve a major problem with moving Radio Userland: all of the file paths used by the program (and no easy way to respecify them). Now I just have to see if I can run a script myself after moving the data to the G4...and off we go...hopefully...and not before tomorrow!
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