Rav Casley Gera

Change. It’s in the air. From the Change Election to the End Of Capitalism, the very smell of the world has gained a top note of transformation of late. Or something.

Sometimes, though, change is bad. Sometimes, it doesn’t work. Importing comments and tweets, while a fun idea, didn’t work. It was confusing and made the site seem odd and inconsistent - moreso than it already did. So I’ve turned it off. As before, you can find my comments on other sites, and my tweets, in the left-hand sidebar.

Hi. I’ve been having one of my periodic redesigns. One result is that all the content that used to only be on the main casleygera.com is now also in the blog. The main site is now a showcase for my best writing, or at least the stuff I like best.

That renders the old feed for the main site - http://feeds.feedburner.com/ravcasleygera - pretty much redundant. So I’ve repurposed it as a “firehose” - one feed combining every photo upload, blog post, bookmark and video - a total web 2.0 extravaganza.

I can totally understand that this may be of no interest to you, in which case you should switch to the blog feed, which is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ravcasleygerablog.

The main site’s comments feed is no more. If you’re still subscribed to that, switch to http://feeds.feedburner.com/ravcasleygerablog-comments.

And don’t forget you can subscribe to any type, series, theme or topic - or the comments on any post - by sticking /feed at the end of the URL.

If this all seems really irresponsible and wacky of me, bear in mind that according to feedburner, I have, like, ten subscribers. Sob.

I use cocomment to record the comments I make on other blogs and put them in the blue box you see on the right of the page. But I’m going to experiment with using a plugin to import such comments right into this blog, to keep all my web-writing in one place. Let me know if you love this, hate it, or if it just doesn’t seem to be working.

Everything pretty much back to normal. Tags and categories on the main site still messed up. Let me know of any other problems.

The articles section of this site, at the root www.casleygera.com, has been replaced by - well, by a bare-bones wordpress blog called “fuckoff”. I don’t know when, or why, this has happened. I also don’t know how to fix it. I’m basically mad as hell.

Can’t get enough of this blog, casleygera.com, and my tumblelog and twitter feed? Who can blame you?

If only I was a big media portal like Yahoo or Google, then I could get everyone to download my very own Rav toolbar!

In web2.0 world, people, dreams come true.

Download Rav toolbar

I’ve started a tumblelog. It’s a place for things insufficiently thought-out to go here, but not sufficiently personal to just share on Facebook. It may expand to become a magnificent multimedia repository; it may not. It may take on a wierd tone and need to be anonymised. It may remain a separate blog and subsume its cousin, Rav Idly Wonders. Or it may merge into here under its own category.

I

just

don’t know.

But you can find it here:

Ravindr

If you want.

UPDATE: Tumblog? Tumblelog? I don’t know. What do you think?

So I submitted an edited version of my column “Democracy 2.0” to the London Paper’s “the columnist” feature. And they printed it today! Hooray!

I’ve made a remix! Admittedly, it’s just some vocals added to an instrumental, but then that’s how the very first remix, Frankie Knuckles’ You Got The Love was made.

The music is Explosions In The Sky’s “Memorial”, from their excellent album The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place. The vocals come from an interview that was recorded a few weeks ago for WAMC’s Weekly Rundown. I can’t remember the name of the interviewee, unfortunately.

Memorial (Warning)