Much like my previous post, this is to announce my recent appearance on a microblogging service. This one, however, isn’t the often failure-ridden twitter, but a new contender called identi.ca. The main differences: Jabber posting ACTUALLY WORKS, although SMS is not yet an option; more importantly, identi.ca is completely open-source; the source code of their backend software (called Laconica) is released under the terms of the GNU Affero Public License, version 3.0. For those that might not have understood that: that’s good.

Anyway: find me at identi.ca/ianmcorvidae, and I’d love if you’d join me! Send me a message there or here if you do!

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Now available on twitter:

http://twitter.com/ianmcorvidae

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As some of you may have read on my Writing page or a few posts ago, this year I’m intending to write 20,000 words per month as part of a group of several writers in my area, 5,000 a month each to novels and to short stories.

I will be making these daily posts every day I actually get around to writing, to update my word count and talk about what I’ve been writing.

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As the title may indicate, the article below is about an interesting new form of social commentary, or marketing, or annoyance, or all manner of other things. “Shopdropping” (also known as “Droplifting”) is the act of putting new stuff into a store (as opposed to shoplifting, which is taking things out). Documented uses include marketing one’s own product, social commentary, blunt illegality, and so forth (the article has lots of cool images and videos).

My own take on this would probably be technological; I’d very likely drop something like Ubuntu CDs in pretty packaging, for the sake of spreading usage of the OS; or even something like The Open CD (even though it’s no longer in active development), for incurable Windows users. In any case, enjoy (and include me on any good ideas… the Contact page is a great place for this)!

WebUrbanist » Shopdropping aka Droplifting: Beginner’s Guide to the Subversive Art of Reverse Shoplifting

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As part of my plan to get back to actually writing something, it seemed it might be appropriate to clear up (for me, at least, and possibly for others) what exactly that entails. Therefore:

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Just in case the above title was a bit cryptic, this post is here to announce my new site and blog at http://www.ianmcorvidae.net and http://www.ianmcorvidae.net/blog/. For those of you reading this from LiveJournal, I’ll still be cross-posting everything for a good while yet (if not indefinitely), so don’t worry about that; then again, considering how much I tend to post on that blog, you probably weren’t worrying anyway.
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Ah, the old standby:

“Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!”

… I just didn’t have the heart to delete it, so here it is. Hopefully I have posted or will post more here, but as of right now, that (see above) is all I’ve got.

Enjoy!

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