essays & ephemera

My Dashboard is Full of Typepad Goodness

I'm looking at so much goodness in my Typepad Dashboard right now. Scription reviewing cool photography gear. Starry Sky Ranch capturing the exotic cars that just drove by. Book of Joe posting the coolest NBA graphic I've seen in a while (and clearest rationale for the death of the midrange jumper). Sparkwook & 21 just being real. Andew Sullivan filling the world with thoughtfullness and frivolity in equal measure on The Dish. Fashion Copious sending along the artful beauty of fashion. Retro Thing pitting the 60's Batmobile vs the 80s Batmobile. 3 Quarks Daily just being awesome.

Do you miss cassettes?

I miss cassette tapes. Maybe that's why I was first attracted to Diana Miller's I Listen To Everything blog. She rocks the mixtape imagery.

via featured.typepad.com

So Diana hooked me with the mix-tape but she keeps me with her great recommendations that run the gamut and get me out of my music rut. Do you listen to everything? No? Well, you should.

As a sidenote, writing this post makes me nostalgic for imeem and the Cassettepus. It made for a great mobile icon...

...and an even better cake. Long live Cassettepus!

Change The World?

Toying around with Storify now that I've been granted access. It's a neat tool for the new Read & React and Curation  ecosystems. First saw these guys at TechCrunch Disrupt in SF and am just now getting my first taste. The object below is a blog post in its own right... a curated set of 3 distinct objects:

• A Tweet from Tyler Willis (itself a retweet)
• Some original text from yours truly
• A YouTube clip of Eric Clapton in concert posted by someone back in 2007 (again, a bit of a found object)

It's especially appropriate that I gained access today as I was just listening to Steven Rosenbaum discuss Curation Nation on On The Media yesterday...  Steven makes an interesting case for the transformative power of curation. Listen for yourself at this handy dandy URL. 

@sixapart, how about a character counter for titles in #typepad?

You know I'm going to tweet all my new posts right?  So why not make it easy for me?  Tell me how many characters I have left including the bit.ly link.  Or if that's too extreme maybe give me both a Title Field *and* a "Share Field"?  That way I can title without regard for social promotion and can customize my one line social marketing message, as well.  Mull it over.

Oh, and while I'm in the feature requesting mood, how about integrating the bit.ly links into TypePad Mobile so that I can have unified link love in my TypePad Dashboard?

kaythxbye