jasonspiro.com blog

Hello denizens of the internet, and the world.

My web hosting service, hostforweb.com, has a pretty good blogging platform available for use with my accounts. So I’ve installed and configured b2evolution.

Then there is the multi-media food blog I set up, located at thespiroeffect.com. Every element is in place, except the “podcast,” or internet radio show. Short video pieces, and a comic strip, are soon to be added to that site as well. I’ve enjoyed updating the site from my iPhone. I do give up a lot in terms of producing a site that has a seamless look-and-feel, but I gain the convenience of being able to produce a site using iPhone apps. In the short term, I can explore the world of iPhone blogging apps and work on sucessfully coding RSS feeds into an HTML based website. I’m sure that this is not an entirely successful endeavor across all OS and web browsing platforms (and feedback is encouraged), but I’m still “in like” (and forgive the “in quotes"–oh, hack) with my iPhone. There is a vast spread of quality coming from iPhone app developers. These phone-only apps range in usability and functionality, from complete shit (iStrum), to highly convenient (WordPress), to providing a nearly revelatory connection with the muses (Four Track). I’d like to see better integration of Google’s voice recognition software, beyond speaking Twitter updates into the phone.

I have the food blog but I’ve also I’ve wanted to explore older preoccupations, such as comedy, politics, and technology. So jasonspiro.com now has a blog. The writing on this site will not be exclusively “slow” in nature–indeed, I expect to do microblogging and to type up simple, quick observations. Yet both blogs have story topics that require genuine bouts of research. Much has been written and discussed about the ethics or lack of accountability in the food blogger community. As a self-published blogger, or unpaid writer, I feel a commitment to standards, superior form, and in-depth research, well presented.