Organizing my blogs and other random stuff

0Don • 29th Nov 2009 • Miscellany

I’ve been trying to rein in my blogs that are scattered around the web and lack focus. It’s the blessing and bane of the bar being lowered for entry into publishing online.

Right now this blog is going to primarily be where I blog about tech stuff and keep an updated bio and resume. I will be pulling over old entries from the old Insight blog soon.

Makoviney.com will still be the family blog. In fact, there’s some tech entries there I will move over here as well.

DonMak.com has seen several lives. Originally it was a home for my music and songwriting, but since those items have moved back on the priority totem pole, it’s just a placeholder for now. Six letter domain names are in short supply, so I guess I’ll just hold it for the time being.

Makovision.com will continue to be a more formal place for tech information. Less opinionated and more hands-on tutorials and advice. It will also experience a new layout soon that I am working on, which will provide a simple interface and promote my services for things I’m passionate about, like project management, SEO, writing, and internet marketing.

BloggingMuses.com was once the #1 songwriting blog on the web and has been dormant for almost a year now. It unfortunately fell victim to the same issues as DonMak.com. There’s lots of useful information there, and it still generates a little revenue, so I’ll just leave it online for archival reasons.

I’ll continue to use other third-party services for the time being. I’m finding my Posterous account to be a fun treat now and again when I remember to check back. It’s convenient for posting photos as well, because I can post them to both Twitter and Facebook with my celphone in one fell swoop. I’ve tried other services, but really enjoy it the most. I also enjoy looking over my listening history at Last.FM, which gets scrobbled from multiple places.

I found a fun little item called TweetCloud that does some text analysis of your tweets over a period of time. Here’s mine from the last year. Who knows how long the service will be around, but it was a fun little distraction.