For starters, I haven’t been posting much. This is most disappointing to me, because I vowed I would be consistent. Much worse though is the fact that I haven’t added the rest of my podcasting series, and now we’re close enough to the holidays that it seems I might break that promise too.

My sincerest of apologies to those of you who were waiting for more episodes before Christmas, especially those who made a point of saying so in the comments. In the New Year, I will atone for all of my sins, I assure you. Still, Time magazine has voted me Person of the Year.

Lastly, I owe a big thanks to Mack Collier, his “Z-list” has brought me a huge burst in traffic and links, and I haven’t had the time to reciprocate to all of the linkers. This one I will rectify much sooner. Thanks to all of you who are reposting my link over and over again, I am entirely grateful. I haven’t checked yet, but you might have moved me up the Technorati ladder quite a few notches. In blog land, that’s like hard currency.

And, did anyone else notice that the entire WordPress dashboard UI changed overnight? I’m still getting used to it.

Update: ‘Twas Rob who changed my dashboard; adding a plugin as a surprise, as he mentions in the comments.

I’m rather embarrassed to admit that I missed the sign-up deadline for Casecamp, Crayonville (held in Second Life) tonight. Sounds like I missed out.

Anyway, without that coolest of the cool ‘unconference’ to attend in that 3D world I’m gradually warming up to, I started digging into the episodes of “Crayoncast,” the podcast by staff of Crayon, “a new marketing company.” And I like it. The staff each give a quick minute on their favorite topic of the week. Some of it is actually useful too, such as the tip to check out JPG Magazine, the first “user-generated” print magazine, for photographers.

What are you waiting for cool kids, submit your shots now. You could win and get published, and with that receive $100 and a free subscription. The future of publishing is now.

You’re probably all just dying to know, and although I’m tempted to publish a whole list here, this is actually just to announce a cool new feature from Flickr:

Give the Gift of Flickr. As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of the service, but I am still on a free account. And even though, as Factory Joe (aka Chris Messina) reports, those free accounts are going from 20MB to 100MB per month in uploads, I still feel as if I owe it to the Flickr community to contribute more than just my occasional photo or two.

So if you’re stumped, and you want to get me something that I will cherish for many years to come, this is the idea you’ve been looking for. If my new Pro account isn’t under the tree this year, I resolve to purchase this for myself in the New Year. Just like I resolve to finally start training for the Vancouver Marathon. Seriously.