There are many limitations to Facebook that don’t really need to be all listed, but what I like about the Blogger format is that I have more control over the look and feel of the content that I’m creating. On Facebook, for example, you can’t italicize something for emphasis. And maybe while that might not seem like enough to abandon a platform, it highlights the aspect that I find the most discouraging: it’s not creative enough for me.
One of the things that I liked about MySpace was that it gave you the ability to hack the behind the scenes HMTL of your own page so that you could make it look and feel however you’d prefer. You weren’t just relegated to white background, black text.
So I’m experimenting with a new way to communicate. Instead of posting to Facebook, which often requires little to no thought, or even posting to Instagram for that matter, I’m going to work on putting more effort into communicating in the form of a blog, such as this.
I’m on a train heading to Baltimore for a work assignment, and I’m writing on my iPhone because Amtrak WiFi is terrible. I have my wireless keyboard hooked up to my phone, so I’m not typing this with my thumbs.
But I’m trying to put something together in this article which contains some mixed media.
It’s really simple to reference any video from YouTube. The reason I filmed that is because later there may be a time when we could potentially use that footage for a future project.