{"id":229,"date":"2008-08-11T14:13:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=229"},"modified":"2008-08-11T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T19:18:25","slug":"calm-before-the-redesign-and-social-networking-temptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Calm before the redesign and social networking temptations."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Twitter\"With our recent podcast now published, I have a few days before I need to think about the next one or the August (for September!) Staggering Stories<\/a> update.<\/p>\n

That being the case I find myself looking, once again, at a site visual redesign. My current efforts are a bit of a shock to the eyes, it will probably need to be toned down a bit! Much more work is outstanding on that job, not least the actual implementation on 400 odd html files…<\/p>\n

Onto my other quick subject, though – social networking sites. Yesterday afternoon I was looking at the ex-Outpost Gallifrey forum<\/a> and the SFX forum<\/a> to post announcements on the Podcast 26 release. On at least one of those sites I was beaten to it by one of my fellow Staggering Stories friends. At the bottom of her post she put a link to the Staggering Stories Facebook site<\/a>. Now I’ve been resistant to the MySpaces and Facebooks of this world for some time, it all seemed a bit pointless and a bit faddish. The past year I’ve been particularly resistant to Facebook after seeing someone publicly vilified (very <\/em>publicly) for a jokey Facebook profile (that was actually done by a friend of theirs.) Is it time I relented, though? Can I sit by and not be part of that Staggering Stories facebook group? Probably not. That cracking sound you hear is probably leading to an imminent cave in!<\/p>\n

The other Social Networking thing I’m currently investigating is Twitter<\/a>. Yes, I’ve already created a Twitter account, AdamJPurcell<\/a>. Just quickly, what’s Twitter? According to the ever amazing Wikipedia (more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus):<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/strong> is a free social networking<\/a> and micro-blogging<\/a> service that allows its users (also known as twits<\/strong>) to send updates<\/strong> (otherwise known as tweets<\/strong>) which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why? It is just a way to add a bit more life to the Staggering Stories site. I can post saying that we are about to start recording a podcast. I can tell people that I’m working on the next update. Even tell them about Sci Fi type things I’m doing or have just found out about. Of course I can do this ‘micro-blogging’ direct on my new mobile phone, too.<\/p>\n

Will this Twitter idea really catch on with me? Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows. An interesting experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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