Blog status update (August 2020): My Facebook page is back (yet again)
In this month's blog status update, I've brought back the site's Facebook page (again).
My social network usage (Spring 2020)
Here’s my annual look at my current social network usage. Facebook I shuttered the blog’s Facebook page in late 2018, and not reopened it since. At this point, Facebook
A look at Facebook in the 2010s
Facebook rose over the 2010s to become synonymous with the phrase “social media.” Early on in the decade, Facebook was seen as reasonably benign, or at least an improvement over the
My thoughts on Mastodon and Pixelfed, open source social networks
Update (7/4/20): I’ve shuttered my Mastodon and Pixelfed pages out of a lack of use, so I’ve deleted the links to those. Over the past week, I&
My social network usage (Spring 2019)
It’s been about a year since I last wrote a dedicated post about my social network usage. Thus, I thought it was time for another update. Facebook Photo by PhotoMIX-Company (Pixabay
Flickr to limit free users to 1000 photos; also, a look at Flickr alternatives
Flickr announced on Thursday that it’s making changes to its service. (Flickr was bought by SmugMug back in April.) It’s dropping its free 1TB tier, which was added back
Blog status update (September 2018): Social network changes
It’s time for another of my periodic updates on what’s going on with this blog. While Diverse Tech Geek is doing fine, its social media presence is going through
My social network usage (Spring 2018)
I thought I’d look at my social network usage as it now stands, versus the last time I wrote in-depth about it. Facebook Photo by opopododo (Flickr / CC BY) Facebook’
Tips on using hashtags on social media
According to Wikipedia, a hashtag is a type of metadata tag that’s used on social networks to label/categorize entries by a certain term. The concept of hashtags was introduced on
Smartphones are now the dominant means of photography
I’ve previously written about how photography’s shifted over the years. In 2003, digital cameras first outsold film cameras, with the latter soon dying out. Recently, I wrote about how