5 posts tagged “fresh plastic”

I've gone over this before, but here it is again...

My blog has become neglected, Twitter's now in favour.  I think it's because I have a short attention spam, like to blurt things out as I think them and well, Twitter is a two-way medium - blogs (esepcially VOX ones) are not.  I'm all about communicating - I like to talk to people, people!

I've tried to rectify this with a brand spanking new blog over at Posterous - but even that's fallen out of favour.  I guess, as much as I like blogging for myself, it's nice to see who's visited and why - StatCounter gives me that on VOX, I've got nothing on Posterous.

Why choose one over the other though, right?  They're quite different beasts, so I'm thinking they can run in tandem.  What content gets to go on one and not the other though?  Hmm...

Oh, and almost forgot, I still have a Wordpress blog!  Only one post on it though, mind.  The best thing about it is the brand spanking new, er, branding...

Nice, huh?

Let me clear this up, I didn't perform surgery on my good friend, Ms Minogue.  I'd refuse if she were to ask as um, I'm not a surgeon!

I hope that clarifies the issue.

Ant
Fresh Plastic

(Herald-Sun: Kylie Minogue in fresh plastic surgery rumours)

It's been a long time coming but I've just picked a proper domain name.  One could say I'm now the master of my own domain!  Sorry about that, I'm a huge fan of Seinfeld...  Anyhoo, I've plumped up $10 and finally settled on a name.  Yes I took on board all the advice I received.  And yes, I still went for just one domain name and no variations.  There's also a dash in it which could prove a problem, but the non-dash version was taken (and I reckon it's not essential).

If Carling did holding pages... Probably the best holding page in the world

Why did I go with 'Fresh Plastic' when I've grown tired of it?  Didn't I spend hours, days, weeks, months... trying to think up a more catchy, more relevant, more fun name?  Okay, this is what it boils down to...

On each of the big search engines above you can see (click to make bigger!) what results I got earlier when I typed fresh and plastic.  Add to that, I've been using it here for a while (however long I've had this VOX blog) as well as a bunch of other sites, such as Qik and YouTube (check me out with my one video!)

No variations or a personal domain for the time being.  My full name is taken anyway and I'm sure the .me can wait (if not it's no biggie).

Now all I need to do is figure out how I want to get my content on to my site.  Do I want to use Google Page Creator or continue with a blog-style layout using the likes of WordPress or Blogger (also from Google)?  Maybe there's something else out there that I haven't heard of that all the new kids are using!  Who knows?  All I know is there's a steep learning curve ahead of me and I'm useless at learning anything new and practical!

By the way, my brand spanking new domain name is:
http://www.fresh-plastic.com
not:
http://www.freshplastic.com

As you can see, I added a bit of dash!

If so you've got more patience than I'd have!  Don't get me wrong, I like Widsets (it used to be my fav app on my N73) but it really isn't the best way to read blogs.  You probably won't be able to read all this post and there's no way to click for more.  The AccuWeather widget is amazing though and the various teletext services work surprisingly well (despite being re-purposed for mobile).

My Widset!

In just two days I've had 104 people use my widget on Widsets!  I had no idea that many people would give it a go, I just decided to add it when I was playing around with the dashboard (I was attempting to see what would work best and look good on the Skypephone)

Below are some pictures of what Widsets looks like on the Skypephone...