Yes, I paid $50 to get access to the App.net alpha test with “boles” as my username and yes, I’m an Old White Guy who had money burning in his pocket to make him feel special. I was finally granted access to the App.net site this morning and, after a password reset or two, I was able to get into App.net and poke around a bit — and let me tell you right now — it’s one lonesome place… and that’s the excitement of it all!
I discovered Bitly.Pro the other day, and I can’t believe I missed the early beta invitation to join the free program that gives you your very own personal link-shortening URL. I sent in a request to be added to the beta program and in three days I received my welcome letter!
I am a collector of fun internet domain names, and if a new top-level domain becomes available, and if I’m in a funky enough mood to grab it, I can stake a new claim of life in a country beyond the borders of the USA. I recently purchased Boles.co and Boles.me as new pointers to my main Boles.com domain. Bite.me was already registered.
From January 10-16, 2009, the incredible Gordon Davidescu and I published 50 new articles — you’re reading number fifty right now – in the Boles Blogs Network! That is an incredible and unbelievable new publication record that didn’t happen by chance or circumstance. Gordon wrote 13 network blog articles and one Go Inside Magazine article and I wrote the rest.
We are delighted to inform you the Boles University Bog Archives are once again hosted right here in the Boles University Blog! You can search everything we’ve written in one place.
We welcome you to the new Boles University blog This blog used to be hosted on the awful and mundane Blogger for several years We decided to move the blog to our Pair Networks setup to bring all Boles Blogs Network writing under a unified Movable Type container.
Welcome to the new Boles Blues blog — the newest member of the Boles Blogs Network!
We used to be known as Old Cooter — but before that site even went live, we decided to become Boles Blues instead — and in our next post we’ll explain who we are and what we’re doing here with you.
Thanks for visiting!
18 months ago, we made the blog publishing switch from WordPress.com to Movable Type. Once we were only Urban Semiotic and now we publish 11 blogs under the Boles Blogs Network banner and nine of those blogs are published with Movable Type. Yesterday, we upgraded our Movable Type installation to version 4.3 and the first thing we noticed was the expanded options for signing in to comment on all our blogs. You can now use your Google account to comment as well as Hatena, Yahoo! JAPAN and livedoor. We’ve already seen a spike in user comments across the blogs network because of this expanded opportunity to sign in and verify your identity.
It is with great delight and pleasure that we here at the Boles Blogs Network announce the publication of our three thousandth article across our 11 blogs!
The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words: “Hello — Goodbye!” and no address.
We are pleased to announce the acquisition of the BolesUniversity.co.uk domain. We decided to make the purchase for two reasons:
We are pleased to announce the formation of the Boles Blogs Network! Now you can read a unified worldview with diverse truths and indisputable facts as we stretch our Urban Semiotic mandate into a wider web of ideas. We also removed the “David W. Boles” part of the official title of all the network blogs to better serve our new, greater, mandate of inclusion.
When we were notified by Google that Video was coming to Google Apps Premier — sans SSL protection — we were excited to add video to Boles University.
We set up the video service in our GApps dashboard.
We uploaded a few videos.
