Apparently Facebook is going to roll out their Timeline change as a non-negotiable upgrade (if this link is correct). That may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for me, because its entire purpose is to make your history of everything clearer to advertisers and corporations. And Google is apparently rolling out a non-negotiable one-username-shall-rule-them-all policy across everything they own. While in theory I like the idea of not having to log in and out everywhere, in practice it’s the same thing as the Timeline. I cannot decide if…
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Coolest. Kid. EVER!
My 21 month old son just danced into the kitchen singing “We Will Rock You” with sufficient clarity that I could understand him. Totally independently. I don’t even remember it coming up on the playlist today. I mean, he was dancing and singing and I went “…wait, I know that song, that’s not one he’s sung before, that’s…holy CRAP, THAT’S WE WILL ROCK YOU!!!!” Coolest. Kid. EVER! Excuse me, I have to go TOTALLY ROCK OUT with my kid now.
This part never gets old. :)
17 books in (and several anthologies & a comic), and this part never gets old. :) A particularly handsome model displays the new book. :) I’ll pick 3 random commenters to send a copy of RAVEN CALLS to. That’s 3 on mizkit.com & 3 on mizkit.livejournal.com, just so that’s clear. :) And hell, I’ll be doing this on cemurphy.net, Twitter, Facebook and G+, too, so if you’re very thorough you can have up to 6 chances to win a book, I suppose. :) And oh, the spot varnish on this…
Who do you write for?
In what could quickly become a recursive loop, Harry Connolly mentions a post by Nick Mamatas, and–look, the point is Harry’s post, not Nick’s, or even actually just a comment Harry made on his own entry, which was “I write with one or two actual readers in mind (as well as myself).” So of course I immediately started thinking about who I write for. And the answer (if not made obvious by my nerves over the book I wrote for my nephew) is “Me!” I mean, yes, I *clearly* hope…
aheh. :)
Funny that the “Is LJ dead?” post got lots of traffic. :) LJ and mizkit.com (which are pretty much interchangeable) are really still the heart of online communication for me. I use Twitter more than I like, but a great deal of it is announcing word wars and the like. Facebook has two aspects for me, one of which is the personal side, where I do almost nothing but share links and photos from other people. The other side is work, where I try to make an actual effort to…