When I first entered the workforce in 1996 the place I worked used Lotus cc:Mail for its internal email system. We were a satellite office of a large state government department, and the cc:Mail system only worked within our small group of 35 people.
The larger department had an Oracle Mail system which could connect to the Internet, however only one or two people in the office had access to this. [Read more...]
Years ago I took a trip to England where I compulsively documented the experience with a still camera and a mini-DV video camera. I came back home with over a dozen tapes, probably enough to edit together and compile a reality show-worthy documentary.
I started the laborious process of editing the footage down in to something that might be watchable. While doing this I came across moments recorded, but that I couldn’t remember.
What I realized was that by trying to capture an extensive record of what was going on I’d missed out on most of the actual experience. My role had become that of an Observer, not a Participant. [Read more...]
Rearranging things here on my blog, or now blogs. I’ve switched the chrisbusse.com domain to host this new WordPress site which I’ll be using as a place for some serious blog posts.
My Tumblr, which I’ll continue to update as my “field notes” is now at bussefn.tumblr.com and posts to the Twitter account @busseFN
In the near future I’ll do a post on the thoughts that specifically went into my platform choices, but the difficulty of getting good organic SEO on Tumblr definitely had something to do with it. The traffic generation patters on Tumblr vs. a more traditional blog are definitely different and Tumblr does great for “in the moment” kind of content and trends.
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