Changes Abound

After extensive thought about a week of thought, I’ve decided to change up my Tumblr approach.

I’ve renamed this blog, formally known as Forr Kicks!, to forrestkoba. It will continue to serve up technology commentary and awesome shares — hopefully in higher aggregate volume than the first four months of 2012.

And because I have an urge to start sharing more baseball-and-sports-related content, I’ve started up a new place specifically for that content: ballmeme. It has all of zero posts right now, but expect that to change very soon. As a lifelong sports fan, it’s overdue for me to contribute and make a mark in the sports blogosphere, so this is my step towards accomplishing that.

The Great Re-Follow

It’s been about two weeks since I finished unfollowing my account to zero. It seems that I’ve set off a bit of a trend—as Chris Brogan has unfollowed to zero as well (heh heh)—but so far, I have absolutely no regrets about my decision.

As of today, I follow about 600 accounts. This is a great number for me, but I feel that I am far from done. I have a clear vision for the types of accounts I want to include in my stream, and there will be plenty of unfollowing and following taking place in the next few weeks.

The response has been fairly positive but not without opposition. For those who have opposed my approach, I recommend that you give the unfollow-to-zero strategy a try before bashing it. It really is the greatest decision I’ve made on any social network. You will likely find the same.

The bottom line: No one can tell you what to do on your social networks. Own your accounts, make the decisions and follow who you want. In the end, as long as you are pleased with your decision, you can’t lose.

The Great Unfollow: More Than 50% Complete

My follow count as I write this is at 7,450. At the start of the great unfollow, I was following just over 16,000 people, so this means that there is over a 50% chance that I have unfollowed you.

So far, so good. It’s not like I have any important updates about this process, but since you are already engaged and reading this post, I’ll share a few.

As for actions on my end, I’ve been hard at work identifying the users who I will be following back shortly after hitting 0. I’ve also been aggressively blocking and reporting spammers. For reasons unknown, Twitter spam has been rampant as of late (especially through DMs).

What, you expected juicier updates? Sorry to let you down!

Feel free to reach out to me (forrestk [at] gmail [dot] com) if you have anything to say. I feel that for the most part, people understand what’s going on. But if you have questions, comments or just want to chew me out over a technological channel, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Really.

A New Look

Spent some time tonight tweaking my new theme for my Tumblr blog. In case you’re wondering, it’s the Scaffold Theme, available here.

It took me a while to pick out a new theme, as I knew I wanted a premium one and have been pondering my options carefully. Here it is. I’m very excited about the selection and know that it’s another step towards establishing my online presence through a new outlet.

Not too long ago, I had a Wordpress blog up at forrestkobayashi.com.

I deleted it.

For the time being, I’ve set up my flavors.me account as a landing page, so for my stalkers out there, you can find me all around the interwebz.

As for exactly why I deleted my Wordpress blog, that is another story. I’ll fill you in (eventually) on my thought process behind deleting 40+ posts in the blink of an eye.

Until then, enjoy the new look and let me know if there is anything that can be improved in terms of design or functionality.