About

This content is archived as of Dec 31, 2020.

A little about me

I was a partner at Fusionary Media from 1995 until we sold the company in May of 2020. I remain there in a consulting role. Fusionary is a terrific digital development studio in Grand Rapids, MI, and if your business needs something built for the web or mobile devices you should 💌 send them a note.

I blog here at baty.net ✒️. I write about photography, blogging, analog tools, productivity, software, you name it.

I take notes, daily, in public, using TiddlyWiki at Rudimentary Lathe.

You can email me at jack@baty.net ✉️. I still like receiving email!

I have a few other interests:

Photography. I call it “photography” but it’s more like “camera collecting.” I shoot both film and digital and upload to Flickr.

Analog. Digital is where we are, but I still enjoy using things like film cameras, vinyl records, manual typewriters, notebooks, and fountain pens.

See the Now page for a list of more specific current interests and projects.

Do not expect consistency.

Miscellany

Weblogs and other publishing experiments

• baty.net - You’re soaking in it, since 2000
• rudimentarylathe.org - My original wiki (using Tiddlywiki)
• copingmechanism.com - My occasional blog, mostly about photography.
• baty.net/roam - A public Roam database used as a wiki and sort of microblog
• tilde.club/~jbaty - because nostalgia is strong and Paul Ford is my hero

Photography

• Flickr - I’ve been posting photos to Flickr since forever. Flickr is still the best photo sharing service, and I’m looking forward to what’s next now that it’s owned by SmugMug.
• I’ve been using SmugMug again recently for various galleries.

Social Media

• @jackbaty@mastodon.technology on Mastodon
• @jackbaty on Twitter
• MrJackBaty on Instagram, although I don’t post often

Other

• Books I’ve read
• Things I use
• The origin of my avatar
• Letterboxd is where I track and rate the movies I watch
• Goodreads for sharing what I’m reading