August 22, 2008

• Sharing

  Today I am going to do something that I seldom do… and that is blog about a Xanga feature. Namely the Share button.
  
  I like it. I like it a lot. I wish every site on the internet had a share button so when I found something blog-worthy, I could click the link and get started blogging right away.
  
  Most of my readers will probably agree that I am more than a little long winded, both in my posts here and often in my comments on their sites. So now… if I see that I am being obnoxiously verbose, maybe I’ll click the share button instead and hop back to my own Xanga to respond. The only problem with that is, the share button doesn’t share the fact that someone has used it with the person whose blog inspired the clicky-clicky.
  
  Another thing that I love about the share button is that it lets me post my blog here to Myspace… which I usually neglect. I don’t blog much on Myspace because their blogging tools are just set up so bass ackwards. Mostly I wander Myspace for the message boards, not the blogging. Prior to this, if I wanted to post my blog in both places (for the edification of my coworkers who prefer Myspace), I had to cut and paste. The Share button simplifies that… though it only posts a link to my Xanga, which is kind of annoying. I’d rather have it post the whole blog. I guess maybe they think only readers would be playing with the share button? They don’t expect I’d be sharing my own post in a secondary blog so they think a link is sufficient….?
  
  Ah that’s me… always nitpicking at things, even things I like.
  
  Now, aside from Xanga and Myspace, I don’t know much about the various places the share button allows you to go. I’ve heard of most of them, but I’ve not had much to do with them. So I suppose a further exploration is in order. However, I do like the simple fact that the share button works along the same lines as the “featured question.” It links back to the original topic which spurred the blog you are about to create. I love that. I only wish it also mimicked the featured question in that it created automatic tags. As anyone who’s given my taglist a once over can tell you, I love my tags. If my blog were a book, the tags would be an index to said tome. Other people use tags to get people surfing in from the search engines. I use my tags to find specific posts months or years later. Sometimes I only have a handful of tags for a particular post. More often, I have dozens. There have even been a few posts where I filled up the tagbox not once, but twice or even three times. I’m a tag-aholic. If nothing else, when you use the share button to respond to someone’s post, it should produce a user tag so that the person is aware that they have been someone’s muse. But I guess not everyone is as tag-centric as me. hehe… I love making up new words.
  
  In any event, I think the share button is the most innovative thing Xanga has done in at least a year. The blogged idea was cute but so far, not very useful. The separate Xanga sites like Momaroo, Revelife, and that Dating blog are plain obnoxious. The credits and minis are… well, useless to me. But the Share button is just uber-cool for someone like me, who mostly lives online. I swear, if they had a way to upload your consciousness to the internet, I’d give up my fleshy ways and be a real cyber-haunt. lol The only place I really socialize or seek entertainment is online. I don’t even watch tv any more…. though that will probably change once Heroes comes back in a month (September 22nd). The second season comes out on DVD soon too.
  
  
  

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  August 22nd
  

  
  Aedesia, a fifth century female philosopher of the Neo-Platonic school, was famous also for her virtue and her beauty. She was honored today.
  
  
  

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  This is the sixth day commemorating Odin’s Ordeal on the world tree Yggdrasil.
  
  
  

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  The Feast of Montu occurs on the 5th day of Paopi.
  
  
  

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