http://www.ianmcorvidae.net Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:30:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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; ... http://www.ianmcorvidae.net/2008/08/02/now-available-on-identica/ Now available on twitter: http://twitter.com/ianmcorvidae http://www.ianmcorvidae.net/2008/05/10/twitter/ 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 ... http://www.ianmcorvidae.net/2008/01/01/01-01-2008/ 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 ... http://www.ianmcorvidae.net/2007/12/27/weburbanist-%c2%bb-shopdropping-aka-droplifting-beginner%e2%80%99s-guide-to-the-subversive-art-of-reverse-shoplifting/ 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: Works in progress, or works that should or could be in progress: Magic Conspiracy story - Tried this ... http://www.ianmcorvidae.net/2007/12/23/works-in-or-not-in-progress-and-goals/ 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 ... http://www.ianmcorvidae.net/2007/12/23/now-with-more-wordiness/ 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 ... http://www.ianmcorvidae.net/2007/12/23/hello-world/