bitdepth — bitdepth

Bitdepth is now 7

I suppose 7 is a lucky number, and I can’t let an opportunity pass to start posting again, so what can be said about this blog turning 7?
It appears that a lot of my bloggy energy is dissipated due to Twitter and Tumblr as well as 43 Things. Maybe I’m not as focussed on writing or haven’t had the time to reflect and write properly. Are we all becoming addicted to smaller screens and the constraints of 140 characters?
There is the more instant gratification of sending something out and getting a response. It happens with a blog, but with Twitter you can send a few more out and it can feel more conversational. But I still do like to seek out writing that is longer and sometimes more thoughtful and I enjoy writing that.
The good thing about birthdays and anniversaries is that it gives you a chance to take a pause, reflect and think about where you are. So now I’m here, thinking that it’s good that I have a home on the web and glad that the tools and process for putting things here is so simple that I can move from computer to computer, or device to device and read, write and create in many different and simpler ways. So now it’s easier to create and connect with the amazing people that are out there (like you). Now it’s time to write something a bit more interesting than writing about blogging.

May 31, 2009 anniversary, bitdepth, blog, me, meta

Bitdepth Year 6

Six years ago I started this blog and it’s been my online home for that time as everything changed around it. Now everything is spread out much more and overall it’s a lot easier to do this stuff and you don’t need to get your hands very dirty with HTML and SQL and CSS to have a blog. As I write this, I’m not even using my own laptop and not having my laptop with all of the files also gives me the opportunity to reflect on how things have changed over the past few years with the technology that I use to communicate with you and how everything ties together.

Continue…

May 19, 2008 43things, bitdepth, blog, blosxom, flickr, history, marsedit, twitter, wordpress

Five Years of Bitdepth

About six years ago Carolyn was talking with me about weblogs or blogs as they’re commonly known now. She saw the possibilities right away while I was trying to wrap my head around it to figure out how I’d like to do it. While I had a web site with Apple’s Mac.com service, I hadn’t registered my own domain. But then bitdepth.org was finally purchased and the next step was figuring out what to put there and how to put it there.
I decided to use Rael Dornfest‘s blosxom due to the simplicity and elegance of it. The posts consist of text files and a small Perl script turns it into a blog. It has served me very well and at this point it’s been running for five years and has been with two different ISPs. While “redo my blog” has been on my list of things to do for a long time, it hasn’t been a high priority because it works and a lot more of my energy goes into other things such as 43 Things , Vox and tumblr (which I really like). The next step here is to switch from blosxom to typo and it could happen this Summer since I will have some free time and a new coat of paint and a bit more flexibility in configuring the blog will probably result in a bit more writing here.
Thanks for coming around here and keep checking in for the next five years, which should be pretty exciting.
tags: bitdepth, blog

June 9, 2007 bitdepth, blog

Being Online

Presence online is a interesting thing as we put various parts of ourselves online and share different words, images, sounds and video. Habits change as new trends and tools emerge. As you may have notice, I haven’t written here for a long time. While I have been online in other places such as Flickr, 43 Things, Bad Metaphor, and more recently, Vox, I haven’t wanted to give up this site, which is where it pretty much started. One of the things on my to-do list has been to upgrade and change the system that this runs to make it easier to post. But I haven’t gotten around to it, but maybe I will do it soon. In some ways I’m amazed at the durability of blosxom in keeping things running with a simple Perl script. Ultimately it will probably migrate to Typo, since I love how it works and looks, but now Blosxom is fine.
Maybe I haven’t been here since I don’t have comments, so the feedback is infrequent. Maybe it’s because the other places that I’ve been have a lower barrier to post. Or maybe I just needed a bit of a change. It’s been an exciting year and while it doesn’t look so here, it’s the most that I’ve written, photographed, recorded and published online. It also doesn’t look as though it will reduce a lot in the next while either.
So now I finally come back to bitdepth before my annual year-end posts to look back at the past year. Thanks for sticking around and I’ll pop in here more over the next while.
tags: bitdepth, blogging

December 30, 2006 bitdepth, blogging

Bitdepth is Four

bitdepth is four Looking at the date I realize that I’ve had this blog up and running for four years now. It’s the beginning of year five and I looked back over some of what I had written. I tended to ramble more in the past, but the focus more recently on this site has been on films. My posting times tend to be variable, but I’m still using the same tools. The site is served up with the same Blosxom script by Rael Dornfest that I’ve been running for a few years and I still write the posts in BBEdit. I am planning to move over to Typo, which I like very much, but I have to import all of the entries first, so I’m waiting until I have time to do that.
What has changed is that I’m posting more online in other places. Flickr has added a whole visual dimension to what I do online and the Blogger-hosted Bitdepth Digest is a place to post shorter things. A more frequent presence is also maintained through 43 Things, and then 43 Places, and 43 People and especially All Consuming, where I now keep track of (mainly) the films that I consume. The other big change is the podcast that my son John and I do at Bad Metaphor. Podcasting didn’t exist when I started this, but it’s definitely around now.
Thanks for reading, stay in touch, and I’ll write more soon.

May 10, 2006 43things, allconsuming, badmetaphor, bitdepth, blogger, blogging, blosxom, flickr, writing

Presence and Absence

I haven’t been here for a long time. My plan was to write a lot during the Atlantic Film Festival, but I didn’t. I wrote more in my Moleskine than online, and I’m thinking that in the long run it will be better, since I’ll have more thoughtful writing here than rushing to put something up quickly.
It’s interesting that I was able to keep posting a bit on 43things and 43places, and Flickr which have lower barriers to contribute. So I haven’t disappeared online completely, but just changed where I am. Maybe podcasting will make it easier or posting from a cell phone… maybe next year, but now I’m still text and image based, so I’ll keep doing that. So things will start up here again soon and I’ll go back to my notebook and start posting more here. There’s a lot to write about and many great films to see, so thanks for reading this and see you all soon.

October 9, 2005 bitdepth, blogging

1 / 2