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What’s going on!

mike d. 1 Comment Blogpost, The Page

A few interesting things have happened in the last few months. Most noteworthy to you, good readers, is my rather sudden drop off in blog posting. I think the reason for this is that I’ve been way way busier at work. Admittedly the easiest time for me to update my blog is during breaks at work, or during lunch, or while eating a snack. Work has been abundantly busy and demands many of those minutes that I previously considered my own. Will this be the end of MikeDiDonato.com? I sure hope not. Perhaps I need shorter more potent posts. Or, maybe we need something else like Augustography to light some fire under my blogging butt.

As always, ideas are welcome.

Augustography – Pregame.

mike d. 6 Comments Blogpost, Photography, The Page

Okay Readers. August is just around the corner. So let’s get pumped for photographs like whoa. Here’s how it’s going to work. We have eight participants. Each day, we must post one photograph to our blogs – and that photograph must have been taken within 24 hours of the publishing time. As advance notice, my photos will probably be going up in the evenings.

How can you see all these photographs? The easiest way is to sign up for their RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. This can be done very easily using Google Reader. Here are the sites to subscribe to:

www.MikeDiDonato.com
www.JonAbad.com
camalittle.wordpress.com/
vivren.wordpress.com/
approximatelymika.com/wordpress/
          (a note about Mika’s site. Better to use the RSS button on the site itself.
          Jesse reports that using the recommended gooogle reader site is not actually the correct one.)
eeksabound.blogspot.com/
www.PeteWilk.com
benprivett.tumblr.com/
UPDATE: kurt is in!!
eastie04.tumblr.com/
ANOTHER UPDATE: Alicia is in!!
photinia.tumblr.com
EVEN ANOTHER UPDATE! Jen is in!!
jengriswold.tumblr.com

Alternatively, Ben has convinced me to also copy the code from each of these sites and to amass the pictures here. I can’t do this for any pictures e-mailed to me or linked in comments because formatting pictures for websites can be time consuming – and I already anticipate this will be quite a bit of work. But, if you want to make up a blog for this event and send me the link, I’ll include your photos in the bunch. For new blogs, the management here at MikeDiDonato.com recommends Tumblr.

Otherwise, feel free to post links to pictures in the comment section for each day in August.

We might have some themed days and stuff but right now I don’t know what will happen. Overall, I’m just curious to see how all this goes. We’ll see how many of the mighty eight can continue the marathon for the full month.

This will not be easy.

Augustotography

mike d. 18 Comments Blogpost, Photography, The Page

Hello good readers.

Next Monday shall start 31 days of photography here on MikeDiDonato.com. What makes this all the more exciting is that seven of my friends have agreed to participate as well: Jon Abad, Eileen, Ben, Mika, Pete, Vivienne, and Cam!

The only two rules:
1. Post a picture on your blog every day in August.
2. The picture must have been taken within the previous 24 hours of the posting time.

Maybe hugely artistic pictures will come of our efforts! And certainly there will be days where we take terrible pictures too!! But you know what? it’s something different and something to make our lives a little more interesting and memorable. If this project interests you, I encourage you to join us! I think it could be pretty fun. I’ll be posting the web addresses of my friends who are participating in order to spread the community of photography. You can sign up to their RSS feeds and everyone can marvel at the wealth of photographs! If you e-mail me letting me know that you’d like to participate before Friday, I’ll make sure your blog is mentioned in the mix. You can e-mail me at: MikeDiDonato AT gmail D0T com.

Get pumped for photographs.

Up and Coming

mike d. 4 Comments Blogpost, The Page

What can you expect in the next month here on MikeDiDonato.com?

Firstly, I hope to have my roller derby recap posted within the next 24 hours or so. Roller Derby is so great.

I’ve also edited another clip from the open mic a month or two back. I will likely post that come the end of the week.

I’m thinking about doing 30 days of pictures for the month of August. A picture each day (weekend posting still undecided). Do you guys like this idea?

Do you remember sentence diagrams? In my quest for improved comma usage I’ve decided to revisit sentence diagramming here on MikeDiDonato.com.

And lastly, I’m working with a few friends on a new kung fu party trick concept. As I have, at least for the moment, paused my Kung Fu training, this may be the last of the series. We’ll try to go out with a bang.

Stay tuned!