John Lagomarsino
Video · Photography · Music · Motion Graphics

Somewhat surprisingly, my last entry about Evernote and Instapaper/Readability has been getting a consistently large amount of traffic. I guess it makes sense; I use Evernote for just about everything, so why shouldn’t everyone else? So, to that end, I’ve made a little improvement to the site.

Now, you can clip directly from this blog to your Evernote account. Just click the little “clip” icon on the top of any entry, and a popup will appear from which you can clip the entire post to your Evernote account. This window will also show you what other articles you’ve clipped from this site in the past.

I use Evernote to store all my bookmarks, so hopefully this will help someone else who does the same. If you’d like to learn how to implement it on your own site, check out Evernote’s Site Memory section!

It was suggested to me recently that I describe why these square photos show up next to my posts, and why they often have little to do with the content of said posts. Simple, really: I do a Google Image Search for (usually) the title of the post, and choose an image from the first page of results. Naturally, I aim for the most preposterous of the lot.

And sorry, if you read this blog through an RSS feed, you’re not seeing the images. It has to do with how the site works – I don’t need to manually resize my images, but the tradeoff is that they don’t show up in the feeds. Sorry!

I haven’t written here with much substance in a very long time–last summer, almost. And so, in the spirit of writing things, I’m giving something a try.

Plinky, recently acquired by Automattic (the WordPress people), is a site created to alleviate writers’ block. They basically provide an essay prompt every weekday as a way to spark blog entries. I’ll give it a try for a while and see how it works out. So if you see entries marked “powered by Plinky,” that’s what’s going on.

Also forthcoming: an entry explaining the images in these posts. I promise there is some rhyme, and maybe even some reason, behind them.

It’s weird how there’s such a huge correlation between a new song and traffic to this site.

I guess this means I should write more often.