I posted this video one year ago.
Time-lapse of my old hood (Mt. Pleasant) in Washington, DC on July 4, 2007.
I have a tongue made of beef brisket. Courtesy of Big Bear and blogging chefs.
Mark definitely got the better of this photo-opp
I am conflicted. I’ve been using Tumblr as a micro-blogging platform more than anything else I’m publishing over at themarkpike.com/blog. My readership on Tumblr has grown to over 150 people (who actually interact) while the readership of my other domain remains around 3 (hi Mom!).
Basically, I really enjoy using Tumblr to post random things on the web that I run across, snap photos on the run, reblog insightful quotes, etc. However, at the same time, I want to maintain a professional long-form method of self-publishing on my own hosted domain.
In fact, the main reason I initially decided to micro-blog over at Tumblr was to keep my own domain site more professional as a first impression for potential employers. Ironically, my prolific blogging on Tumblr has promoted it to 5th place in a Google search for “Mark Pike.” I’m having difficulty figuring out the best way to bring these two interests together.
Right now, I’m importing my Tumblr RSS in a sidebar on my own domain (themarkpike.com/blog). It doesn’t look great, and the Tumblr posts deserve to be featured somewhere more visually compelling. But, I don’t want to completely import Tumblr onto my domain because then I lose some of the professional appearance when it’s just a stream of random photos. I don’t like leaving the two separate as I’d prefer to have a clearinghouse for my web activity.
Any suggestions? Anybody integrate Tumblr with a WordPress account?
This was the dorkiest post I’ve ever written.
As we begin to think about what a Barack Obama administration might look like, one of the intriguing ideas the Democratic nominee-to-be has proposed is a Cabinet-level chief technology officer.
I’d go with Carl Malamud. I had the pleasure of working with him at the Center for American Progress. He helped the Clinton admin with some similar issues that a CTO would handle and I’m confident he’d be able to tackle the agenda. He has great ideas for a free info society and would wire Washington completely. Leave the entrepreneurs in Cali where they belong, and in the words of Lessig, let a real geek get a crack at the gig.
