I am on a number of other sites, mostly with some purpose.
Of course, like everyone, I'm on FB, and there I am connected to many of my Multiply friends. I hate all the game stuff, and although I have managed to block all the stupid game requests when I access FB from my PC, those blocks seem to be ignored on my phone. All that noise on the small screen makes the mobile application pretty much useless.
I do blog on LiveJournal from time to time. Mostly that is intended to be Fedora stuff, and lately it has been only cross posts from Multiply of those posts I want to share with my Fedora friends.
http://jjpmcd.livejournal.com/
I'm also on Linkedin, that's mostly Emcomm folks and former co-workers; there's like a bazillion "groups" on Linkedin, but I rarely post on any of them. Seems like most of them are places for headhunters and similar folks to advertise, although there are some groups that seem to be pretty interesting, but to be useful they take too much time.
Oh, and don't forget G+. This is basically FB without the games, and it could be really good except that not a lot of folks are on it.
And of course twitter and identi.ca. These are, of course, a totally different model, but still useful. Admittedly, I don't check either as often as I should.
None of these, tho, comes close to Multiply in the really great combination of features. Is there another similar thing anywhere?
http://www.blogster.com
ReplyDeleteIve been playing here for over an hour now...so far so good.
There is a multiply refuge group on FB that was started awhile back in case of these until we decided were to go.
ReplyDeleteIm working on a site called blogster right now.
ReplyDeleteSo far Im liking it.
Someone mentioned a site called weebly, John have you heard of it?
ReplyDeleteI told shadow he needs to create us our own multiply
A quick look at blogster didn't give me a warm fuzzy, and no, I haven't heard of weebly. The other big ones are blogger.com and Wordpress, and of course LJ. But they are all pretty similar and not very multiply-like. In some ways, shutterfly offers more multiply-like stuff than most of the blogging sites, and its nothing like multiply.
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall sites with similar capabilities, but I sure can't pull them back from the gray matter.
I'm torn John. I'm not really here much anyway but I'm gonna miss it. I'd love another site kind of like this one with the security issue but I sure not going to miss the viciousness that has taken over this place.
ReplyDeleteweebly looks to be another thing entirely. Cool, but a different animal.
ReplyDeleteI've been largely away from the drama, so I haven't seen so much of the downside.
I can finally say I'm not in the drama but I see it everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI wonder whether G+ might offer much of the same if we used it right. It's kinda like FB, but you can set up these "circles" which amount to filters on the stream. This is a big win over FB cuz then I can see the stream contents per group of folks, which tends to be topics. So, if I want to read Fedora stuff I click on the Fedora circle, family stuff, family circle, etc.
ReplyDeleteI haven't used them much, but the hangouts might be like the multiply groups.
i have several of the same. i learned long ago what a time suck they all are (and back in time it was irc or even further back, fido, et al.).but i have enjoyed your postings and hope to find you on your site some time. i've now got to sort out what i wish to distribute as means of finding me . . and it won't be my linkedin. might be my G+ (which I use to read, but not post). I spend time living in my rss feeds and being non-social (not to be confused with anti-social).
ReplyDeleteG+ can work . . the circles can help you segregate your followers into their respective groups. i just don't spend too much time out there. or twitter. i read what i want, and move on.
i have been to weebly. looked around, but left it be. i have a tagged account. it is about as active as my yahoo account. ;)
i'll check in after i check out a little more.
Funny you should mention IRC. The group of net.friends with whom I am closest by far is on IRC. I am on IRC almost all the time. But the protocol is that everyone idles on channel, and we all have alarms on our nick, so if someone wants to direct someting to me they can either ping me on channel or better yet PM (the PM kinda stays there so even if I'm away I can see what they wanted later -- much later).
ReplyDeleteWhen there is a discussion on channel anyone can go back through the scroll (assuming they were on channel). Pretty convenient.
Years ago I hung with a different IRC group. They had a bot that kicked anyone who idled too long, so then you only went there when you wanted to talk. I like the other approach better.
Oh yeah, freenode channel #Fedora-Docs - there pretty much always, even if I'm away. I head for Lansing tomorrow, but anything that happened will be in the scroll.
ReplyDeleteA few already have the basic blog sites going. I'd really like to see what shadow could do, I think he'd be great
ReplyDeleteYeah, would be interesting to see what he can come up with. I have a few servers I could put something up on, but not for hundreds of people.
ReplyDeleteherbear made one.
ReplyDeleteanotherblogspot.com
I joined just to watch how it transpires.
Secretcorners is also in the process of creating one
http://www.anotherblogspot.com/ is using oxwall 1.4.0 (http://www.oxwall.org/) as the framework. php and mysql are the workers, so it should be a pretty solid site from that aspect. i am installing it so i can see the code (go figger). software is not mature, but has apparently been tested pretty well by others using it.
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