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richard
@admin-richard@www.main-vision.com

I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • Any french speaker in Switzerland knows this frustration.

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAny french speaker knows this frustration. You see that a new service is available to Switzerland, drop by the site and everything is in German. Google latitude is in German and hundreds of other sites too. The most recent site to suffer from this curse is Nokia music, recently made available…

  • Don’t make me sign up to login, and use Disqus so I can leave comments.

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m active on the web, spending thousands of hours a year connected to the web. As a result I have to log into a lot of sites often. I don’t like logging in though. That’s why I would love for big name publishers like the WSJ, NYTimes and others to sign an…

  • The 50,000th tweet

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor Valentine’s day I reached my 50,000th tweet which I dedicated to @orchideane through twitterfone, as asked by @toppgold. I really want to lay in to twitter for having database maintenance. really I do, but I won’t. I’ll concentrate on other things. There; contemporary joke: What’s the difference between twitter and…

  • Feedly

    Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I started using feedly which is a great tool for managing rss feeds and content into an easy to view form. Connecting with google reader, friendfeed and a number of other surfaces it provides you with three principle displays for viewing the content you have selected to have aggregated. The first…

  • Friendfeed has a great future

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI really like Friendfeed and what it’s becoming. What I love is how easy it is to follow many people and converse with them about everything they share. It’s the future of web sharing but it may take several months for people to move towards it. There are a number of things…

  • I know which twitter users come here.

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I installed twitter remote on this blog. It’s a quick and fun way to see which of you twitter friends have been to my site recently. This is particularly interesting now that more and more people have their own twitter account. Here’s a quick preview of what it looks like.

  • Twitter friendships and why I took some time off

    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you first arrive on twitter it’s lots of strangers sending messages speaking about what they’re doing and it quickly becomes overwhelming, especially with the vast number of people. For the first few months many people send no more than a hundred posts a day as they get used to the twitter…

  • The Geekiness of My Lifestyle

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have fun with technology which means that I spend a lot of time online as a result of which I enjoy creating online friendships. The advantage of that is that wherever I am in the world I have people to chat with, or so I thought. I am taking a…

  • A Proposed Social Media Deontology.

    Reading Time: 3 minutesArticle 1. I shall take interest in the projects of others before my own. In this capacity, I will pay attention to what others are doing and see how I may help them bring those projects to fruition Article 2. I shall Participate as actively as possible in as many discussions as…

  • One Hundred Million Geo-Tagged Images

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne Hundred Million is the number of photographs geotagged on flickr. That’s an impressive number. There’s an article about the news here but I want to explore the fun side of things. Whenever I take photographs with my mobile phone they’re geo tagged so where ever I am in the world…