Where has the time gone?

I can't believe it's been over four, almost five months, since I last posted to my personal blog. Where has the time gone? I kind of got tired of writing so I simply stopped. Music making made up for the loss of that creative outlet. Now I feel like writing some more but who knows for how long. One thing is, I can't stand the new look of Blogger.

Six Apart's Vox blog publishing service closing September 30, 02010

Six Apart is closing its Vox blog publishing service effective September 30, 2010. A few migration paths are available. I was able to move The Fictional World of Archives, Art Galleries and Museums to Blogspot. Some additional work is required to prettify the site, but at least it will have a longer life and be easier for me to maintain at Blogspot.

My Ten Thousand Year Blog now available for commercial syndication

My Ten Thousand Year Blog is now available for commercial syndication through Newstex. Details are available at http://www.newstex.com/publisher-search/Blogs/The-Ten-Thousand-Year-Blog/

Testing, testing Twitter and Facebook tweet and status updates

Just set up access to my @10kyearblog Twitter and my Facebook accounts from my David Mattison blog, so let's see if this works good.

Royal BC Museum gets bitten by the blogging bug at last

The Royal BC Museum Blog, hosted by Google's Blogger service, in case you had not yet heard, is out there on the blogosphere. The first post by Tim Willis was on March 10, 2010 and the most recent by archivist Ann ten Cate, all about a bathroom fetish, was on May 12, 2010. The RBCM is also on Facebook and YouTube.

The Bigger Picture, Visual Archives and the Smithsonian blog

Thanks to Peter Kurilecz on the Yahoo! PhotoHistory group, here's the Smithsonian's photography and artwork blog, The Bigger Picture, Visual Archives and the Smithsonian.

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