My poor, abandoned blog
Since falling into the Tumblr rabbithole I’ve been neglecting my old blog at www.lies.com. Lately I’ve been examining different ways of mirroring my Tumblr content onto that (WordPress-based) blog. I have a couple of reasons for wanting to do that:
- There are a few people who follow me via lies.com. They probably think I’ve been kidnapped or something (and in a way I guess I have). I’d like them to have a chance to bask in the warm glow of my continued output (or take issue with my opinions in the comments, more typically).
- Tumblr is so here-and-now focused that it’s incredibly hard to find anything after I’ve posted it. Content going back 15 years on my old blog, on the other hand, is trivial to find. By mirroring my Tumblr stuff from here to there I’m hoping to make it more findable.
I’ve tried a few different options for importing all my old Tumblr content from the past several months to my lies.com blog; so far I haven’t found a good way to do that. But a helpful someone pointed me to ifttt.com (a site that lets you set up piped actions between different parts of the net), and a few minutes later I’d found a different helpful someone’s Tumblr > WordPress recipe. This post represents my first attempt at using that recipe to mirror my content from Tumblr to the old blog.
Here goes nothing.
via Tumblr http://lies.tumblr.com/post/42472771175
February 7th, 2013 at 9:47 am
Proof that the word is mightier than any assault rifle.
You should have titled your post “Lizzie B. Kills Lies.com”
What does LBD have to do with the Lies.com manifesto?
http://www.lies.com/wp/2005/05/20/the-lies-manifesto/
February 7th, 2013 at 10:42 am
I think there is a typo in this blog’s name: lies.com is missing a few letters:
lizziebennetdiaries.com
there, fixed it for ya
I guess following a 20-something web, er drama? is more fun than crankish blog postings (or posters, see: mirror). I dunno, 86 episodes, about 5 minutes each, make it 420 minutes = 7 hours of watching to catch up. tl:dr
February 7th, 2013 at 11:15 am
Well, I suppose one could construct an in-depth analysis of how Lizzie sees only what she wants to see, and her recognition and overcoming of her prejudice is the story’s main dramatic arc. So that’s kind of manifesto-ish, maybe.
At this point the story is kind of an intense backlog of content. Note that it’s not just that one main youtube channel. There are spinoff youtube channels with other characters’ perspectives, and lots of “transmedia” content on Twitter and elsewhere, in which the characters interact with each other (and sometimes with the audience) as part of the real-time playing out of the narrative.
And then, of course, insane amounts of analysis and shared squee and factionalized holy wars on Tumblr, of which the postings to be posted here from my tumblr henceforth are a teency fraction.
So yeah. It’s kind of out of control.
February 7th, 2013 at 11:23 am
OK I’ll try a few episodes in the corner of my screen while I work. KQED is doing their damned pledge drive, TED talks kinda picked over, pandora channels all need deleting… but hearing there are spinoff channels and twitteriffic gobs-o-time-wasters ahoy… I dunno…
I’m pretending this is your lies.com podcast.
February 7th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
I trying to pretend this isn’t really happening. LOL.
February 7th, 2013 at 3:50 pm
So, to offer a little more explanation:
I’ve always been a big fan of the 1995 adaptation. That may involve having a crush on Jennifer Ehle.
Growing out of that, over the years I’ve come to really enjoy other Austen (and similar) adaptations, and the original novels. And I’m a big sucker for adaptations that try to update source material to a modern era. Not just because I enjoy the stories themselves, but because I’m intrigued by the choices that get made in doing the updating. How does event A in the original time and place get turned into event B in the here and now, and how do those two relate to each other? There’s a lot of that going on in the Lizzie Bennet Diaries.
On top of all that, I’ve been obsessed since the 1980s with online community and computer-mediated communication, so it has been really interesting for me to dive into Tumblr’s feature set and community, and figure out how it’s similar to and different from a standalone WordPress blog (which is what lies.com is these days).
Put all that together and this has just become a big-time obsession for me.
So, anyway. That’s that.