Flickr users and video
Isn’t it amusing to see what you can find on flickr video?
Now to add some music and get a laugh out of people.
According to recent articles myspace is losing user share in relation Facebook but this is not necessarily a bad thing. When you think of facebook you know that it’s a glorified phonebook therefore everyone “needs” to use it to remain in the loop. In contrast Myspace is a specialised music sharing site for artists and creators of music to come together and collaborate as members of the same art form.
As a result of many users leaving myspace for other social networking websites so Myspace will have far less noise, in other words extra chatter that does not contribute to the appreciation of music. I for one have found myself using Myspace slightly more due to certain bands using the website.
There are a hardcore group of people that are part of many social networks at once and they are able to cope with the demands. Most people spend twenty minutes in front of facebook getting up to date with their friends before disappearing. “MySpace’s lead in terms of “attention” is almost embarrassing: it scores 10.79% against Facebook’s 1.67%.” source. People look at more content on Myspace than Facebook and user involvement is what counts to advertisers.
Myspace is good for the sharing of music you create without people having to install extra api whilst Facebook is personalised by adding api and hoping that your friends install the same. Both will co-exist happily for another few months whilst waiting for the next site of interest.
I keep seeing articles and posts about how WordPress is on the Fediverse now via the plugin. This is half true. You can write blog posts and they will appear on the Fediverse. What they fail to mention is that those blog posts can have comments, on the Fediverse, but not on WordPress. If you see a post, and you comment once, then that comment cannot be answered via wordpress, but it can’t be interacted with via Wordpress. To interact with an interaction on Wordpress you would need to create an account that has two way synching.
At the moment Fediverse/WordPress integration is unilateral. It works more like RSS or an atom feed than a full fledged Fediverse instance.
I would love for WordPress to be a fully functional blogging instance on the Fediverse where we can post and have conversations like we do with a full fledged mastodon server. The reason I pay for a Fediverse instance, and am experimenting with a Raspberry Pi and Mastodon is that I want to integrate a long form blogging instance, with the option to have conversations. Some Mastodon instances allow us to write one thousand character posts. Others allow long form blogging, and micro-blogging in a single package. This is interesting. It allows people to be short and succinct, or verbose and long winded.
I ran a quick test to see if WordPress.com blogs react the same way as privately managed blogs do and they do. You can read a comment, but if you comment to a comment on WordPress blogs they will not be seen in the Fediverse. I see this as a big limitation. This requires you to have your blog account, and a second account to comment to what people have said about your blog, or thoughts.
What I loved was the potential. What I see is that the project has fallen short by not getting commenting to be two way yet. This would place WordPress in league with Mastodon, Firefish and other fediverse instances. For now it needs some embellishment.
If it’s something geeky you’ll see me learn how to use it. The most recent thing I’ve played with is the n95 8gb and google maps. This time though it was from a car rather than on foot and as a result it was far quicker to correct a mistake. I took care to locate the satellites before leaving home so that when I arrived to Lausanne I could stop by the side of the road, load google maps, press 0 and the gps in the phone would automatically locate me within 30 kilometers.
I then had to type the address of where I wanted to go and confirm it was correct. Within seconds I had a track. I looked at it. Saw where I was and where I needed to go and that was that, very easy. Once or twice I overshot but within just a few seconds I knew and finding the place was a piece of cake.
Of course I didn’t use the device whilst the car was moving. I made sure to keep both eyes attentive to the road conditions and only when I was stopped did I check. It worked really well.
When I lived by the seaside in England I was told by one of my flat mates that they had seen a rat go into my room and I don’t remember how I felt about it. Rat traps were soon placed to catch them. A few years later I saw a flat mate have the comic book reaction of fear upon seeing a mouse and I found it deeply amusing. I was also surprised by how ugly that mouse was.
When I was younger I remember walking through a museum with exhibits of how people would catch mice in the olden days. The one that I remember is one that would drown rats and mice. There is a channel on youtube celebrating the art of catching, mice, gophers, rats, voles, moles, yellowjackets etc.
The trap above is an interesting series of traps that eventually see a mouse make its way into the rear bucket that can either be a live trap or a drowning trap.
Rat traps are not just to get rid of pests. They’re also a way of catching food as in the example below. This trap is designed so that you can capture rats alive. It’s an unexpected type of trap.
If you have mice in your office you can get the rubbish bin trap. It keeps them alive and you can dispose of them in a place where they will not come back to the building.
He tested an 1876 live catch mouse trap and it works well enough except that when too many mice are in a small enclosed space for too long they fight for their own survival.
There are plenty of traps spanning centuries of development and innovation. It’s interesting that traps from the Ancient world and Middle Ages can be reconstructed and used today. It’s also interesting to see how ideas that originated in Medieval Europe can be updated using a 3D printer and proved to be effective.
If I ever find I’m in a place with a mouse problem I will know what to do.
Internet addiction and e-mail addiction should have gone the way of the polaroid years ago. Why are there several news sources claiming that people are addicted to e-mail? That’s like claiming that people are addicted to toilet paper or using a pen when writing on paper.
It’s a question of practicality and it’s already an out of date claim. Who still writes e-mails when you can send a pm, write on someone’s wall or send out bulletins. Most of those reading this post will understand what I mean.
When’s the last time you sent an e-mail? Hotmail has been replaced by Facebook and myspace. Why would you use old fashioned technology like e-mail when Facebook and myspace are more practical. There’s no spam, there’s no spending twenty minutes looking for the names and addresses.
It’s a pointless article that demonstrates a lack of understanding of the new online communication channels. There are so many to be used, whether for photo, audio, video, or other.
As an afterthought, it’s a bunch of statisticians having fun with numbers. Why don’t they do polls like the one I did, why don’t they give some theory behind the article? I haven’t even read the article, skimming was enough for my prejudice for such an article to form.
Get the early adopters to write and explain the relevance of such statements, not the computer illiterate. I want the skills I have learned through my media tech and society module to be used.
“Science sans conscience n’est que ruine de l’ame” or in this context, “stats without analysis are no more than a waste of time”. 😉
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This is great! I’m becoming a fan of Flickr video…
Hi, by the way! (@rivalee on Twitter) 🙂