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Year in Review: Google+ video edition

Happy New Year! This year was filled with many memories, and I probably took more photos this year than ever before.

Google made this movie automatically from photos I’ve uploaded to Google+ Photo Albums and added it to my Google+ photos, with a private setting. Auto awesome! Good thing I didn’t make it public, it contained photos of people who aren’t family and shouldn’t be in the video! So I edited it in Adobe Premiere and uploaded the result to YouTube, after taking out the annoying music, too.

In dependence

Jeremy aka Adactio has a great all-inclusive article about the recent web posts amongst independent online publishers (bloggers?) who are pondering the future of the medium. Namely Jason Kottke who said the blog is dead.

http://adactio.com/journal/6620/

For myself, looking at the year-over-year data for my own personal website brandonmoeller.com, even though I likely created more posts here than ever this year, my readership hasn’t significantly increased.

But surely, if this really mattered to me, I would have strived more often to write content that would appeal to a larger audience … For the most part, I’ve been busier with more important things. Read: Baby.

But I don’t care if the audience is in the silos … More and more I find myself not inclined to share my posts from this outlet in the social media circus that I consume more of than participate in. I enjoy the control over my content that the other sites will never allow; my key target audiences of relatives and my own selfish self are happy … Who cares?

Lauren and Kevin Janecek wedding

Today, Kim played witness to the wedding ceremony of Lauren and her cousin Kevin Janecek. I wanted to be there, but wasn’t able to; Marshall’s varied sleep schedule (he’s all over the clock these days, folks) and teething trauma would have meant the ceremony would start in cranky prime time. So we stayed home, avoiding the perfect storm of being that one baby everyone remembers at the wedding years from now, and Kim captured these memories that I’m sharing online.

Permalink: Kevin’s Wedding album.

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News just for Marshall, Corina

I’m proud that I’ve been able to secure domain names for Marshall and Corina.

marshallmoeller.com

and

corinamoeller.com

I’ve had these now for a few years, but today, they’ve now been properly redirected to their corresponding tags on this site. My previous web host didn’t allow redirects to the dynamic pages created by WordPress tags. (Sigh)

I also added campaign tagging to the redirected URLs so I can know when people are using the domain names by analyzing my site’s traffic with Google Analytics.