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Pulpconnection Year in Review 2008

Taking a look back at the year that was 2008…

January 2008

59 posts, 9443 visits

The year started off with serious family medical problems that got better later. I started my begging campaign for an iPhone and by the good graces of Bytemarks (and Hawaiian Telcom), I got a free Vudu evaluation unit. The Pulpconnection Pour Some Sugar on Me giveaway also wrapped up taking a look at the naughty side of sugar.

February 2008

57 posts, 7379 visits

With the possibly last release of the iconic Air Jordan, I had to get me a pair! How else can you properly pay homage to his Airness?  Other than getting some heat from an Abercrombie & Fitch ruckus, not much else happened.  Luckily, March is supposedly my bloggiest time.

March 2008

49 posts, 7131 visits

To take care of the medical issues, we traveled to California for Hope by Way of FAT.  Everything went very well.  March wasn’t my bloggiest month after all, but March Madness and my annual kicks analysis filled the month.

April 2008

64 posts, 6472 visits

April showers brought a lot of Starbucks and Dancing with the Stars flowers. This month Pulpconnection bloomed on Alltop.com, listed under the Hawaii section.

May 2008

55 posts, 5706 visits

May was a mellow month with a lot of Top Chef and Dancing with the Stars coverage.

June 2008

66 posts, 7582 visits

In June, Club 939 turned three years old. The pulpy pushing of Hawaii’s hottest gentlemen’s club helped me roll in the dough. Just don’t call me a numnah.

July 2008

64 posts, 7728 visits

The Alien Ninja landed in July and brought with him an iPhone 3G!

August 2008

60 posts, 8186 visits

Following the Alien Ninja in July, I became immersed with the supernatural in August. From the mystery-laden LOST, the family came across Naveen Andrews (Sayid).  I started reading about vampires in the Twilight series and offered Hawaiian travel packages a President Elect would love.

September 2008

55 posts, 9301 visits

The fanaticism over Twilight and Brian Austin Green grows.  Chill out and have a spam hot dog.

October 2008

48 posts, 11346 visits

There was a medical setback this month.  Not related to the original medical issues earlier in the year, but still a cause of great concern.  After things settled down, I finished reading the Twilight series and started my digital transition.

November 2008

57 posts, 13917 visits

The month started with a lesson of what a moose knuckle is.  Then November got passionate, sensual, and a little erotic as Brooke Burke became a Dancing with the Stars Champion.  Finally, young love between a vampire and a human in Twilight the movie ended the month.

December 2008

61 posts, 11127 visits

Freshest in my mind is migrating Pulpconnection from Blogger to WordPress. This was a move that took years and hopefully pays off in 2009. Right now, it’s sucking with stats way, way down. It’s like a power outage happened or something. No worries though as Roderick Flemings’ dazzling kicks hopefully lead me out of this blackout.

Relooking Blogging and Social Network Tools

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After the move to WordPress, I need to reevaluate my blogging tools. Ecto version 3 is still okay as a desktop blogging client but doesn’t access all the capabilities of WP (though I don’t know if that’s possible with WP plugins). I don’t like the way Categories and Tags are “linked.” If I select a Tag, a category with the same name automatically gets checked. I’m still organizing posts with categories and tags so this “feature” doesn’t help clean up things. Where’d Technorati tags go? Why won’t my accept trackbacks setting stick?

This post is generated with MarsEdit which I like to use for Movable Type blogs. MarsEdit has always been bare-boned, shying away from WYSIWYG functionality and instead focusing on HTML editing and markup. In many ways, this is probably the best way to go, but sometimes, you want easy ways of doing things (like making ordered or unordered lists).

Recently, I heard about another Mac-based blogging client called Blogo. Mashable calls Blogo bad ass so I figured I’d try it out. Blogo is actually not that bad though its interface feels more like an over-glorified widget vice a real desktop app. With Blogo, not only can you author blog posts, but you can use it as a Twitter client as well. I do like how Blogo handles Categories and Tags. Categories are prepended with a # so you know #passion is a Category and blogging is a tag.

Including images with any of the above mentioned blogging clients has always been tough. I’ve found that it’s usually best to use the native web interface to add images. By working in HTML, you have better control of getting what you want. Ecto, MarsEdit, and Blogo all have mechanisms of incorporating images to blog posts, but the results vary greatly.

And speaking of Twitter, I bought Tweetie, a Twitter client for the iPhone. Tweetie has some awesome features like picture integration with Twitpic and location awareness. But I don’t really care for the iChat-like interface, much preferring the simple and clean interface of Twitterrific. Even with the crowded interface, the features are too much to ignore.

Things To Do After the Move

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Still have a lot of things to do after moving Pulpconnection from Blogger to WordPress.

  1. Get previous Blogger authors accounts on WordPress
  2. Figure out blogging tools and workflow
  3. Update ads and widgets
  4. Dump Technorati?
  5. Recategorize and retag posts
  6. List WP plug-ins used
  7. Figure out RSS feed for comments
  8. Figure out why search isn’t working (12/25)

and a lot more…

Completed:

  • Updated RSS feed for Feedburner. Pulpconnection feed should still be http://feeds.feedburner.com/pulpconnection
  • Updated pulpconnection.net domain to new nameservers
  • Fix domain names of pulpconnection.com and .net, used 301 redirect from .com to .net (12/24)
  • Redirect Blogger posts to WordPress using 301 redirects (12/24)
  • Update DNS records, went from GoDaddy to Dreamhost (12/23)
  • Added TLA ads (12/25)
  • Got Google Friend Connect working (12/24) but I have no friends 🙁

Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008

Technorati’s annual State of the Blogosphere report is rolling out this week. It’s an interesting but maybe somewhat limited look at the trends and characteristics of blogs and bloggers.

Each day, a new topic is published. So far, Who are the Bloggers? and The What and Why of Blogging are available. The How of Blogging, Blogging for Profit, and Brands Enter the Blogosphere round out the week.

I think I fit most of the descriptions outlined in The What and Why of Blogging. Pulpconnection contains multiple topics loosely centering around pulp, passions, and addictions of mine.

“Half of bloggers consider their style to be sincere, conversational, humorous, and expert in nature.” Yeah, I’d go with that.

“Self expression and sharing expertise are the top reasons for blogging.” Yup, yup.

“Personal satisfaction is the key success metric for three out of four bloggers.” Must be since revenue around here is paltry. While blogging is mostly for fun, once in awhile you get monetary surprises. Let’s see, for the month of September, Google Adsense says I’ve earned $6.82.

“Blogging has opened up unique opportunities” and has benefits. I still got my Vudu box for an occasional flick. 🙂

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