Category Archives: Social Networking

digital gardening.

Good day, I hope this post finds you well. Here is a repost from a software developer whose blog no longer exists. Something told me archive this post, most likely long before said blog disappeared. 0xshapeshifter.dev, thanks for sharing. Digital … Continue reading

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Why personal websites are replacing social media.

Greetings all, and Happy 2026. This is my first post of the year on the last day of the month so I achieved my goal, albeit late. Hope all is well with you and yours. The other day, a good … Continue reading

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…and it’s Blaugust 2025

Greetings all, thanks for stopping by, as usual. I hope, as you are reading this, you are well. In the spirit of this week of Blaugust, I’ll introduce myself to those who have never read this blog. In short, I … Continue reading

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Digital echoes in an unquiet mind.

Greetings all, I hope this post finds you well. Here we are, the last day of March 2025, signifying the end of the first quarter of the year…already. I don’t know abut you, but it continually feels like time is … Continue reading

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While the “sky” is Blue(r), X users are fewer.

Greetings all, I hope this post finds you well. ICYMI, in social media news, over the last few weeks, Bluesky has gained a massive amount of users migrating (or as I like to call it “skygrating”) from X (nee Twitter) … Continue reading

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30 of 30 straight days: blogposts

Well, the challenge has been met. Thirty days. thirty blogposts – done. I knew it wasn’t going to be a difficult challenge. If you go back to my first post of this challenge on November 14th, you can read about … Continue reading

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The Social Media Trends Bandwagon – Do you “do you”?

Without going deep (simply because I have not that time in the least bit), many of us have used social media in some shape or form since it’s been created (remember when the term was called “social networking?). All the … Continue reading

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Digital Day Off (DDO) – An exercise in virtual abstinence

This blog post was originally published back in May 2010. Over the last 12 years, a lot has happened in the world of digital consumer technology in the area of social media and mobile devices, though I believe the grip … Continue reading

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Twitter and the (bitter)sweet 16!

Greetings all. I hope you’re well. Today (actually tonight at 11:43:36 pm) will mark the 16th birthday of being a Twitter user. My very first tweet is below: I’ve seen the the evolution of Twitter since pretty much the very … Continue reading

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Exploring Mastodon

Greetings, I hope this post finds you well. This is the post for Day 4 of the #30DayBlogChallenge that Soulcruzer, Darrenkeith, and I have accepted. For those of you unaware, Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features … Continue reading

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