viatorsmith (lifestream)

p.s. facebook (or, on communicating in the vernacular)

in regards to my last post where I said the daily minutia of my life would be on twitter, I should clarify that most of what I post to twitter (and now tumblr, as well) is broadcast to facebook, so there is no reason to adopt that network if you have not and do not wish to do so. I do not post tweets ladened with @’s and #’s because readers on facebook have no desire to attempt to translate a different format, nor should they have to, since they have chosen which medium suits them best.

here’s the analogy I like to use: I am the social networking equivalent of multilingual, and will address you in your native tongue because that makes you more comfortable and by doing so, we can have a more meaningful conversation. different social networks have different norms, and so they are effectively and necessarily different ways of communicating, not unlike different languages.I want to communicate with you, so I do not expect you to learn another “language” to accommodate me to that end.*

basically it comes down to this, my goal is to keep in touch with people through the means they wish to use….hence my use of an abundance of social networking avenues.

*and, yes, I wish I was better at actually learning other languages, but that starts us off on a whole other post topic.

my digital life

(to sum up: I’ve decided to have tumblr post to facebook and twitter instead of having it import from twitter. this probably does not affect 99.99% of you, but if it does…well, there ya go. more details follow…)

as some of you know, I maintain a nameplate website. I decided to create one after stumbling across this article. so I created, viatorsmith.com in iWeb*. I realized I also wanted to share more than just a cliff-notes resume and some portfolio stuff, so I started this Tumblr page and linked it to the nameplate site.

I’ve toyed around with various amalgamations of importing and exporting data to try and link up all the social networking sites I use in the most efficient manner. I’m pretty happy with the set up right now and I think it works nicely with what I want it to do (share information).

I determined what information goes where based on three levels of privacy: private, semi-public and public. my private sharing occurs in forums (i.e. LiveJournal, Twitter locked account,) that enable the user to select who views which post(s) and in an anonymous blog. my semi-public information is on those networks where I have some, but not complete control of who sees what (FaceBook, LinkedIn, MySpace). and finally, public information is shared where there is no content filtering and there is no reasonable expectation of privacy (Twitter unlocked account, tumblr, public nameplate blogs).

based on these criteria, here’s where my tumblr set up stands as of today:
tumblr imports stories (headlines) from my public blogs and portals (ArtInformant, dexla, JeweledTiger, PerformanceStudies), it will now then export to both Twitter and FaceBook.

since I use Selective Twitter for FaceBook, this should not create any of the double posting issues I experience with previous setups.

oh, and for those of you interested, I also use Ping.fm for completely public posts. it broadcasts to MySpace, LinkedIn, and Twitter and depending on my use of the Selective Twitter function (#fb) it also filters through to FaceBook.

I suppose this essentially makes Tumblr more of a log of my blog posts and less of a lifestream, since the daily minutia are relegated to Twitter, but I feel that Twitter is the more appropriate space for those types of things anyway.

so, if you used to get all your updates from me here (which I’m sure is the grand minority of you), this will now be more of a catalog of my more involved writing and content managing and Twitter will remain the repository of over sharing it was always intended to be**.

*although, after using wordpress for a few other projects, I am working on migrating the nameplate site to WP as well.

**but, since Tumblr will be exporting to Twitter, that will be the place for all your one-stop shopping, er..ahem reading.

No, I did not wear the same pants to the office all week, I work(ed) in theatre, we own/wear a lot of black. #fb

http://twitpic.com/pdw3y - @intellagirl this, my first twitpic, is the view from my office #geekpoll

http://twitpic.com/pdw3y - @intellagirl this, my first twitpic, is the view from my office #ge ekpoll

Thankyou Roy, John, Dallas, Dustin, Norm & everyone else who has served. You are appreciated & loved more than you will ever know. #fb