Stephan Miller

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I sign up for about everything just to see what it’s like, which is why you might see me in a lot of different places. I like playing with concepts and new things. So if you messaged me or friended me and I haven’t done it yet, I will eventually. All of these type email notices get filtered into one email folder called "Friends" and then I go through and reciprocate a few times a week.

I signed up for Twitter and it took me forever to find the people I wanted to follow. I knew them on other networks [...] Continue Reading…

I have gradually built up a list of invisible rules for this blog. What are invisible rules? Rules set by the popularity of past posts. Rules that cause writer’s block and stage fright. And I hate rules.

Why are they invisible? Because I never stated them to myself but they pop up whenever I have a post idea and 9 times out of 10 lately, the idea gets shelved.

So to disarm them, I will try to investigate them. And maybe then, they will stop messing with me.

Try to write about site concepts instead of just an [...] Continue Reading…

One of the first things you want to do when starting a new blog is find the neighborhoods that you will hang out in when you are working on your blog. These will be the blogs you comment on, get news from and reference when writing the posts on your own blog.
Google Reader
I am a Google Reader junkie. I use it in the browser, in the sidebar, in iGoogle, and on the phone when I am bored in waiting rooms. It is fast and a very useful tool. And I found it a necessity to use someone else’s processing [...] Continue Reading…

I can be accused of reaching too far. I can also be accused of getting in over my head, at least for a few days at a time. But, if I had a choose between having a path laid out ahead of me or just taking steps forward like an explorer, not waiting for the rules or maps, I would choose the later.

I do like making money online. I just want it to be easier. The words that I can write at the various blogs and sites I own are only one part of the equation. The part that [...] Continue Reading…

I decided to write a post about cloud computing, because I am using less and less of my own resources and more and more of what is freely and cheaply available on the internet. It saves time, money and space.

You may be using the cloud without knowing it. If you use webmail like Gmail, an App like Picnik, or host your blog at Wordpress.com or Blogger, then you are using the lower levels of cloud computing. You are taking chores and storage and moving them from your computer to a place online where you can access them from any [...] Continue Reading…

Mobile Web On A Budget
I probably spend less than an hour a month on the cell phone. Talking, that is. Plus I usually just listen and say things like
"OK" and "Uh-huh" and on long phone calls I create these sweet doodles that I can never recreate at any other time. It is a tool to keep in contact with my wife and family. For anyone else, they can wait until I am near a land line because most of the time they are in close proximity.
I don’t really speak that much at all. I am comfortable with that most [...] Continue Reading…

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I will have to send you to a couple of other blogs to get most of this story. I just happen to log on last night and catch it. I have been using Friendfeed lately and it is fast at catching new stories. I saw that Andy Beard had a new one and had to check it out.
But this is not a new story. It has been going on for a while.
It seems that ePerks and iHype didn’t like a review Vlad wrote. And took it to the [...] Continue Reading…

I have been trying to start another blog lately. At least, that’s what I am telling myself.
It’s a clean slate right now and that’s a good place to start. I have started many sites but it is hard to make the first move. Is that the right amount of categories? Did I cover everything? Will I have to bolt something on down the road to make sure the site’s complete?
You see, I don’t want new blogs to turn into the mess of categories and tags that this one turned into. It’s fine for this blog. I cover everything here [...] Continue Reading…

Related Tweets

I have got my lifestream up and running on Gregarius. I still plan on using Profilactic though. It will be more effective at updating the stream multiple times a day. I could put a cron job on the Gregarius installation but it would have to run often because Twitter is in the stream.
What I do plan on using it for is to serve related content for my sites by serving the feeds of search results. It’s a hacked way to do it, but it will work until something better comes along. But the question is how do I [...] Continue Reading…

I went back to Darkroom today. I needed only to see the words continuing on the black screen to know that I missed this. I think I actually type faster that I write now. I cheat though and look at the keys as I am typing.
I just opened Darkroom up right in the middle of doing other things and decided I needed to write something. So this post is probably going to be very loose and disconnected but I don’t really care right now. The words need to come out.
I do like writing posts. I do like writing in [...] Continue Reading…