Mugshot is dead to me

I'm a fickle bastard these days it seems. Mugshot looked great but updated like Yertle the Turtle. I found Profilactic. Good site, strange name. I put their badge here and they have a simple RSS feed I could integrate to Facebook. We'll see if this lasts.

Two unthinkable acts

I think I've left my longtime friend and instant messaging client, Trillian, behind now. I've used Trillian for many a year now because it combined all my instant messaging clients into one and group my many friends with many IM accounts into single contacts.

Now with my social networking experiment running, I've also done what I said I would never do...

registered for Facebook

[I'll give you a moment to compose yourself]

Facebook seems to have what I was looking for in being a kind of social clearing house. Combined with mugshot, I have built a good presence online. But the thing I learned very quickly with Facebook is that it's hard to keep up with all that is going on. I tried a couple desktop clients and added the RSS feeds into my other friend, Google Reader, but they didn't seem to really be what I wanted.

Enter Digsby. This little piece of software does all the IM features I've loved about Trillian and adds in the notifications from social networking like Twitter and Facebook. So far I really like it. It keeps me in touch with my contacts and networks and because it keeps its configuration on the server, will do something Trillian never could do well...travel.

Socializing my internets

Today I spent some time making my blog here into a kind of social spiderweb for my online activities. A while back I had signed up for Twitter for tracking the stock of the Nintendo Wii. After reading an article about some uses for microblogging, I started to see some value in these micromusings. So, that started a registration spree for me adding friends to Twitter, creating an account with Technorati to "public-ize" my home away from home, and set up various badges linking to my other online social services.

So, after spending years away, maybe I'll find I have something to say. I've often spent most of my online time socializing on Ticker Talk but found it consumed far too much of my productivity. Perhaps this miniaturized version of socializing will prove more manageable in an otherwise busy day.