Thought I’d let everyone know why it’s been quiet here lately: Jillian and I are in Wyoming visiting family and friends - and just got legally married. We’ll be having a proper ceremony next summer, though.
Buy Renegade Futurist t-shirts
Starting at $14.95, you can now order Renegade Futurist t-shirts from Spreadshirt.
The t-shirt design, and new logo, are by Portland artist and designer Ogo.
I got my sample shirts yesterday, and they look great!
I’m going to be in the LA area weekend next weekend. If anyone would like to get together on Friday, March 6th let me know.
I’ve been running this site since 2000. And I actually started work on it in late 1999. After nearly a decade working on the site, it was just time for a change. A lot of things have happened and changed since I started Technoccult, and I’ve changed quite a bit personally (remember, I was 18 when I started this site!) It seemed like it was time to send Technoccult to be with Stare, Irreality, and Key 23/64 in that big web site in the cloud and move on.
But I didn’t want to start all over with a brand new site - it’s hard to launch a new site in this info-glut. Besides, the site has grown and changed with me over the years. I realized I could follow the lead of Diebold and Blackwater: same thing, different name. I could keep the history, but start fresh at the same time. Well, that’s the theory. We’ll see how it turns out.
The focus of this site has been gradually changing over the years, and that evolution will continue. Don’t worry, I didn’t decide to just scrap the old site and start a barbie doll collector blog or anything. I think regular readers will still find quite a lot enjoy here. There won’t be a lot of occult/magical related posts anymore, but that’s always only been a small part of the overall package (and it’s been diminishing over time).
There will be more posts dedicated to media criticism, mobile technology, and politics than before (especially since I’m merging klintron.com into this site as well). I expect to be amping up my coverage of alternative energy and other sustainability issues as well. But you can still expect to find information about obscure cults, outsider art, and other weirdness.
I want to thank everyone for reading for all these years, and TiamatsVision, Bill Whitcomb, Fell, and all the other guest bloggers that have graced these pages over the years.
Stick around, I promise to make it worth your while.
Technoccult is in the process of mutating into Renegade Futurist.
More info soon, but be aware that things are probably going to be actively breaking over the next few hours as I deal with server migration issues, WordPress upgrades, design changes, new plugins, domain issues, etc.
So I was pretty relieved that you all aren’t clamoring for a Technoccult message board, since I don’t really want to moderate one.
But here’s another idea: a basic directory of readers organized by geographic location. It would have only the barest of profiles: name or handle, location, optional couchsurfing.com profile link, and space to add one or two more links (to Twitter or a blog or Facebook or whatever you want). Also an optional e-mail form, so that you can be contacted through the directory w/o displaying your e-mail address.
I don’t know of any off the shelf solution for this so it would have to be built from scratch. It should be simple but I wouldn’t want to get started on an undertaking like this if there’s not interest.
What do you think?
Just realized it’s the 9 year anniversary of this site. Crazy.
What would you like to see more of at Technoccult? What would you like to see less of?
Would you like to see more community features? Message board? Twitter clone? Social networking? Online dating? Should Hexx (our Digg clone) be resurrected?
Thanks for reading everyone. It’s been a long, strange trip and it’s far from over yet.
I’d like to welcome Bill Whitcomb to the Technoccult faculty. Bill’s the author of The Magician’s Reflection and The Magician’s Companion, a prolific link disseminator and Technoccult commenter, and a good friend. I’m pleased to have him here.
Here’s the Technoccult TV interview I did with him
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I’ve installed OpenID for commenting here. Let me know if you have any problems with it (klint at klintron dot com).
Since the new version of Hexx never took off for anything other than spamming, I’ve taken it offline. I might try setting it up again on another platform, less vulnerable to spamming (Pligg is notorious for being spammed), but I might not bother. Seems like Digg-clones are so yesterday.
Thought I call attention to the fact that TiamatsVision has started an LJ.
The e-mail subscription feature has been around for a long time, but somewhere a long the line the subscription form disappeared from the site. Fill out the form in the side column, or click here.
I also just setup a TwitterFeed which you can follow here.
You can also follow me on Twitter here
Oh, we still have a Myspace here where we post occasional bulletins.
Hey everyone, sorry about the podcast spamming that’s been occuring today. I’m in the process of implementing a system to automate the posting of certain podcasts to this site (in lieu of the old “Podcast Round-Up” feature), but it ending up dumping a TON of posts into the system. Sorry about that.
That last post was from our latest guest editor Justin Boland (aka Humpasaur Jones) of Skilluminati and Brainsturbator.
Since he, very sadly, isn’t able to make it to Esozone this year, he’s gonna be blogging here for the next couple weeks while I’m busy with the final preparations for Esozone, and the event itself.
(there should be a couple more Technoccult TV episodes being released before Esozone, though… stay tuned!)
I’m in the middle of a server move, and it could take a while and get messy - it could be done my morning or it might not be done til Monday, depending on how things go.
For the past 8 years, Technoccult has mostly been a “solo project” with various guests along the way. Now Fell and TiamatsVision are joining the band as regular contributors. Technoccult is officially a group blog.
For those looking at this in an RSS reader: klintron.com has been redesigned. Take a look.
Please welcome TiamatsVision and Danny Chaoflux to Technoccult. Danny is the designer of the Technoccult logo, and my co-conspirator for both Portland Occulture and Esozone. And you probably know TiamatsVision for her prolific commenting here at Technoccult. I’m looking forward to seeing what they share with us.
And by the way: the RSS feed location has changed to http://www.klintron.com/feed.
I’ve moved the blog from being at the /brain/ location and put it on the main page of klintron.com. Please update your links and bookmarks.
Thanks,
The Management
I thought I did a post on this, but either I didn’t or it got deleted… anyway, in case you haven’t noticed you can turn off the ads by clicking the “Turn Off Ads” link at the top of the page. You could also turn them back on again, if you wanted to do that for some reason. The ads on Hexx will disappear if you login.
In case you’re reading in an RSS reader: there’s a new design at Technoccult, so Technoccult, so check it out. The new design was created by me based on the HemmingwayEx theme for WordPress. I will eventually package it for release on its own. The new logo was designed by Danny Chaoflux.
Also, check out the new subsite Hexx, where you can submit your own links through a Digg-style interface.
Oh, and I may break a few things here or there as I work out the kinks in the new design.
Please welcome t0tem7 and Stephen Baxendale to Technoccult.
And thanks to the outgoing guests Brenden Simpson and Fell.