Things Change

Man – how things change. When I first put together the list of Top 20 People I Follow on Twitter – back in April 2009 – I was a bit naive and was a bit too quick to put names up of popular peeps. I was really only starting to appreciate twitter back then and still had a lot to learn. Ok, I am still learning, but from what I have learned and from my experience I need to amend this list – as well as focus it a bit. Also relationships change, especially when there is no cementing of them by means of genuine face to face contact.

Not about Points

Also this is not a popularity contest and I do not get points for who I follow. It is about where my interests lie; blogging, filmmaking and friends. Don’t be perturbed if you are not on the list; there will be another and it will be different.
So here is my current list: (more…)

8,829 and counting …

that’s the number of  plugins currently available at wordpress.

Over the time of my blogging I have installed 81 plugins with 43 currently activated. This changes all the time as I experiment. Some are evident to the reader while some work in the background. How many do you use? (more…)

Previously I wrote of my frustrations and desire to figure out tabbed widgets: Tabbed Widgets Part One. Funny that I had to struggle to find a way to display the code in a way that would not be parsed and or run by the blog engine. Hence the delay. However I found a plugin that suited me: iG:Syntax Hiliter. Don’t let the age of the plugin worry you, I run WordPress 2.9.2 – at the time or writing this – and it works. (more…)

I have been trying to gt this right for months. Ok, granted, I am not an expert web programmer but I am a programmer so I was dead set on solving this. It was like there was some secret brotherhood trick, I was thinking like Battlefield Earth kind of thing. You know where the aliens hid the real technology behind a facade of dummy circuitry. I searched an search and found a lot of sites saying stuff about it but not actually implementing it, and those that did must have been doing that Battlefield Earth facade thing. Well I use it (as of March 2010) and I aint gonna hide how I got it to work – here is what I did (feel free to slate me if it does not work for you):
This got a bit long so I put this in two parts; Part one, this post is kind of the back story and how I got to what I wanted, and part two will be the how to (what to download, php, css, etc)
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This is my second round of testing out the WordPress Theme by John Saddington called StandardTheme.
It has been fun, and I’ll certainly be continuing on with the Theme – maybe even invest in it once it comes out of beta; John deserves every cent for the great work he has done. Watch out Thesis
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It has always been the goal of this blog to be engaging. At the moment that engagement only happens through comments on topics originating from me. That’s a bit restrictive. The best way around that is to hand over the power to you, where you originate the topic and discussion can happen in a way that is both independent of me and this blog.

For now this is an experiment. I am using bbPress with a few plugins, no CSS editing by myself. However I am using the BusinessLike theme by Spyka.

So please, feel free to add a topic in the watercooler – tell me what you think. Tell me anything I will set up a few posts to start off with that will serve as direction for where SynapticLight is going – but you can completely ignore them if you want.

Here it is:

Synaptic Light Cooler Forums

Yayy, The Synaptic Light Fan Page is picking up steam; thanks to all the fans. Feel free to join in and take part in the conversation here or on facebook. Share your links, comments and pictures

This site does not generate a much traffic as it has the potential but visitors do click on the advertising elements in my sidebar. Considering that my efforts towards more awareness and community are generating results (in terms of visits, comments and outgoing links), I am considering the idea of paid advertising.

Why
It would be great for this blog to pay for itself; for hosting(free at the mo), backups, it’s own advertising, and in the use of more professional tools/plugins. But more than that – a group of us are working towards making a movie; at first we are taking baby steps – and each step requires time effort and money. So basically the money would go in the direction of: (more…)

The 8Bit Experiment has begun.

The 8BIT Network’s Mission is to resource the Church with timely, relevant, practical, and exceptionally valuable content. Our properties receive tens of thousands of pageviews a day and are widely regarded as online epicenters within their respective fields of coverage

Committing to one year of blogging; success or fail (but of course it will be successful), the members of 8Bit will provide posts relating to the following spheres (spheres for want of a better name):

• Web: ChurchCrunch
• Media: ChurchCreate
• Tech: ChurchIT
• Mobile: ChurchDrop

For me and the strategy of this blog I have registered to contribute at ChurchCreate – Media; specifically in the area of Video (how it pertains to the Church, usage, leveraging Video and tutorials on relevant tools).

Here is the ChurchCreate break down:

• Art and Design : Creativity Unbound
• Community: Me, You, We
• Production: A Fine Art
• Video and Audio: Engineering Awesome

I feel that this is an EPIC WIN because it leverages an already integrated community and allows them to offer their own skills and knowledge to empower and help the greater Church community. I have tried to champion this with building a Christian Video and Filmmaking Tribe but I am small fry in regards to my reputation and reach; ChurchCrunch and it’s community is not.

Will you come and join us?

You have probably noticed that I have not only changed themes – from Thesis to the new Beta StandardTheme by John Saddington. So over the next couple weeks I will be trying out a few things in order to help smooth the theme into Release Candidate status. I ask that you please tell me if you see any anomalies or funnies while you dig around.

I was always going to perform a complete style overhaul so this has now become my opportunity to put a few of those ideas into effect while testing the StandardTheme. So please let me know what you think of the style – recommendations are welcome.
I do not mind any opinion or thoughts. Each will be considered and , when appropriate, submitted to the StandardTheme Development Team. Your input is important.