Category: blogging

Update to blog template

Now that I have started blogging again, I have updated the site quite a bit. Now that it is up and running properly, I am going to start adding some content. I am trying to put something in everyday to get in the habit.

I was just searching for my last name (habib) online and discovered http://www.freehabib.org/ which appears to be the site for an animation designer in Beirut. The only link on the site leads to some sort of music video.

Back to the blog and online identity

Okay, I am going to give it another go at keeping up with blogging.

I have been working on two personal projects (now three) lately:

1. Participating in social networking communities.

  • During JOMC 191 I began participating in 43Things.com and this remains one of my favorites because it has a practicial goal beyond networking.
    http://www.43things.com/person/mchabib
  • I began a LinkedIn profile when my old roomate from the University of Amsterdam sent me an invite. This also is one of my favorites because it is brutally practical in purpose.
    http://www.linkedin.com/in/habib
  • I joined MySpace, Friendster, and Facebook because my friends use them. Most of my friends appear to be on MySpace. However some of my classier friends are only on Friendster. I have just started exploring Facebook, but look forward to seeing more of Fred Stuzman’s research on it.
    http://myspace.com/habibmi
    http://www.friendster.com/habibmi
    http://unc.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2724087&l=29cd0f9cdf

2. I am working to build an online identity. While the social networking profiles are part of my strategy, ClaimID is the hub holding it all together. This is a great idea started locally by a few PhD students here at SILS. I would write my praises of it, but the folks at PostBubble have already said what needs to be said in this post. I have been working to add my ClaimID hcard to all of my various sites and have verified the sites that I can.
http://claimid.com/habib

3. Start to blog.

Finished

I have spent many hours trying to set my blog up to have the functionality and format that I wanted, and am finally done. There are a few functions I would still like to add, but have figured out that there is no manageable way to do so at this point in time. Tagging of individual posts is too difficult with Blogger. It has also proved very hard to trackback other people. I think that I have otherwise been able to manage everything else that I wanted to.