While I’m not around as much as I used to be or would like to be, evidence of my continued existence on this planet and in this internet can be found…

…if you know where to look.

Herewith, a brief rundown of those other places on the ‘net where I tend to pop up from time to time (even if those times are few and far between). If you have an account on any of the following services, feel free to add me as a contact, friend, or whatever the respective term is.

Update: Fixed all the links so they’re not broken. Heh. Oops. Should all work now.

• More likely to have some evidence of me poking around:

  • My primary website, eclecticism, which can be syndicated on LJ via woody_eclectic.

  • Flickr, where all my photography gets posted. Lately, this has been getting more attention than any other aspect of my online persona.

  • del.icio.us collects my daily" title="this is nifty links. This is the source for the (hopefully not too annoying) daily-ish linkdump that pops up here on LJ, and for the same (but more constantly updated) list on the sidebar of Eclecticism.

  • Library Thing is my book collection. The ‘reading’ tag is whatever I’m currently working my way through, while a quick glance at my author tag cloud will give a quick overview of my reading habits. Suggestions are always welcome.

  • Upcoming.org, where I post events around town that I might be either considering or actually dragging myself out of the house to wander down to.

• Not quite as likely to be actively poked at, but still often showing signs of my existence:

  • Amazon.com, where I occasionally shop and toss things into my wish list on the off chance that someone might feel generous and rich.

  • Last.fm tracks every single song I listen to. My current playlists are a little skewed due to a hard drive crash that lost about 90Gb (yes, gigabytes) of music, but it’s not completely off base. Yes, my musical tastes really are that varied.

  • I haven’t had as much time to keep up with Metafilter as I’d like, but they’re still one of (if not the) best linklog on the ‘net.

  • MySpace. Sadly, yes, I too have been sucked into the sucking black hell of MySpace. I don’t check in very often, but I do exist.

  • Much like MetaFilter, my Slashdot presence has dwindled down to very little. However, it’s still amusing to look back on the insanity of when I got Slashdotted. Yes — I’m that guy.

  • I used to be pretty active in the Yahoo chatrooms, but gave up on that years ago. There’s still a few friends in the Yahoo-verse, though, so I keep this somewhat up to date. Somewhat.

• Not really used at all, but I have an account and occasionally remember to check in to see if I need to pay attention to anything:

  • 30 boxes, an online calendar/time management system.

  • OK Cupid, home of stupid little ‘net quizzes.

  • Tagworld, yet another social networking system, this one jumping on the tagging bandwagon.

  • Tribe.net, one of the few of the early social networking sites to still be around.

Some of you will already know this. Some don't, however. So --

This LiveJournal is basically a secondary spot for my babbling. I tend to do more regular rambling at my main weblog. This is why there is the occasional time when one person says "I saw your post about [insert event here]," and someone else says "What? When was there a post about that?"

Thanks to the magic of LJ syndication, if you want to keep up with that side of things also, just add woody_eclectic to your friends list. There will be the occasional double post when I cross post between the two, but I try to keep those to a reasonable minimum. Then you won't have to miss any of the mindless vacant drivel that I spout, whether it's on LJ or off! Isn't it exciting?!?!

Er. Okay. Maybe not.

This is just a quick reminder as I’ve had a few people add me to their friends lists (hi guys!) that because I don’t use LiveJournal for my daily babbling, I’ll rarely, if ever, pop up on your ‘friends’ listing.

However, on the off chance you actually want to keep track of the drivel that falls out of my brain on a fairly irregular schedule, you can add woody_eclectic to your friends list, and you’ll get a quick notification on your friends page whenever I post something, almost like if I were really using LiveJournal!

Aaah, the magic of these here computer-thingys. Gets me all misty-eyed every time.

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Basically, this LiveJournal is little more than a placeholder. I do all of my “real” weblogging at Eclecticism, hosted by the good folks at TypePad.

However, as I’ve got some friends that are LiveJournal users, having this allows me to comment on their journals without needing to be ‘Anonymous’, as well as providing a better pointer to Eclecticism.

My Eclecticism weblog can be subscribed to through LiveJournal by adding woody_eclectic to your LiveJournal friends list.

And…well, that’s it for now, I think.