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Some of you might be interested in having a look at my web clippings tumbleblog; you might even want to subscribe to the RSS feed.

It does exactly what it says on the label: it is a collection of “clippings” (i.e. quotes, videos, photos or links) that I found on the web and that I wanted to make a note of. Note that it has somewhat more frequent posts than this blog.

For a while I used Google Reader’s Shared Items functionality for this task, but I found it suboptimal in at least the following ways:

1. I can’t highlight the part of the post I find noteworthy.
2. I can’t “share” things that weren’t in my feeds.
3. The URL to my Google Reader shared items is so awful that I don’t dare link to it.

Headlines from the web clippings appear now in the sidebar of this blog.

Oh, and one last thing: the Tumblr user experience rocks! Truly a pleasure to use, a rare thing on the modern web, sadly.

I succumbed to the hype, and decided to try out one of the ‘presence blogging’ services in earnest. I chose Jaiku, since they are prettier, younger, and don’t have some of the horrible backgrounds Twitter has. Don’t know yet how exactly will I use this new medium, or if I will use it much at all, but let’s try. I’m curious.

Feeds for my bookmarks, photos and listened music are being pulled into my Jaiku stream. And I’ll post some random crap every now and then. So follow me if you are curious and you have a Jaiku account. And if you don’t have a Jaiku account, I happen to have 6 invites left, so ask below.

Oh, and I added a Jaiku badge to the blog’s sidebar. Because you can’t have too much crap on your sidebar.

Executive summary: if you were a subscriber of On jobs, work and careers, please unsubscribe from http://anaulin.org/on_jobs_work_and_careers/feed and subscribe to http://anaulin.org/wordpress/feed instead.

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You’ve possibly noticed already, but just in case you didn’t: following readers’ comments and my own preference, I’ve merged the blog on jobs and careers with this one. It sounds like most people anyway subscribed to both feeds, so this should save everybody some hassle.

All the entries from the other blog appear now here. The feed for the old blog is now redirected to the feed for this blog, which will carry all entries. Eventually, the URL for the old feed will start returning 404s.

So if you were subscribed to http://anaulin.org/on_jobs_work_and_careers/feed, please point your feed reader to http://anaulin.org/wordpress/feed instead. Thank you for your understanding.

[And yes, I broke all the links from the previous blog. I don't think anybody was linking to those, and Googlebot will recrawl the new URLs soon enough, so no worries.]

Dear readers,

As you might know (or not), a while ago I started a little side blog, On jobs, work and careers. After a few amazingly brilliant posts (if you don’t believe me, just go have a look!), it got neglected in favor of this older but comfier blog.

I just asked the readers over there what should I do with it. So I thought it would be only fair if I asked you guys as well: what to do about the young and feeble creature? Should I merge it with this blog (maybe the readers of both blogs are all the same people, and it annoys the hell out of you to have to follow two separate feed for the crap of just one little person)? Should I let The Other Blog die unattended? Or what is your genius suggestion?

Discuss.

[Originally posted on what used to be a separate blog 'On jobs, work and careers' and later was merged into this blog.]

If you’re one of those readers that are paying attention (of which, admittedly, I probably don’t have many, but still…), you might have noticed that I haven’t been writing much around here. I’ve been writing a bit more on the other blog, though.

Since I don’t like to leave things to rot unattended and unfinalized, I want to ask you, my gentle reader, what should I do about this blog On jobs, work and careers.

Below is my list of proposed paths forward; please state your preference in the comments. If I don’t get at least three votes, I will declare this blog dead.

1. Migrate all the entries from this blog to the other blog. Post all subsequent related posts there.
2. Keep this blog separate and post more frequently. If this is your preferred option, please suggests post titles or topics that you would like to see addressed here. You can also list your preferred posting frequency, if you so wish.
3. Other: do you have a better proposal?

Thank you very much in advance.