Hm, I don't get your point, really. Twitter is a micro-blogging site, got that. But people post micro-blog postings ( Tweets ) with the intention that someone else will be following those micro-blog posts. That's why I called it a community: people connected to other people.
So if a vocal subset of those people stand by their friends and leave Twitter for WHATEVER reason, the network starts to fall apart - once more people I'm interested in connecting with move elsewhere Twitter will be less interesting to me, and I'm more likely to move, dragging my legion of 29 followers with me...
There will no doubt be all sorts of threads here about whether Twitter has to remove content, if people are making too big a deal about this, comparisons to Flickr/YouTube/Microsoft(of course), etc... And of course LOTS of conversations about why Twitter is always down.
But to me the real issue here is simple: This will make people say "If that is the way Twitter treats people, I'm moving on".
A community-building site needs its community, otherwise it is just a php script sitting on a server somewhere. Piss off a vocal part of the community and eventually the tide will turn elsewhere.
I agree with people that have complained/worried that ideas like this will just be taken over with advertising, or worse yet, 38 pictures of the same 2 people standing at a street corner with different looks on their faces.
I've been geotagging Photoblogger posts for a while now (starting with my own...) and have found the results really interesting after a while. A popular area here in Toronto is the Don Valley Brickworks - http://wholemap.com/map/area.php?area=TorontoBrick works shows interesting photos of the area, videos, links to Project Gutenberg books, and so on.
Yeah, I thought that was weird too. Once our old Windows XP machine dies I'm moving to Linux at home for sure, and hope my 5 year old will expect OSes to be open and as free from DRM as possible. Not so that she can think stealing content is the right thing to do, but to help her understand that there is a whole world of content that ISN'T designed to just sell more content; that there are a set of authors that WANT to share parts of their work for free.
While I think attempts like Scratch are a good idea, this just shows that there is still a lot of work to be done to move forward...
On the flipside, I've started seeking out more free-media. Of course 'Corporate America' has spent lots of money trying to convince us that the only thing worth listening to is music from big labels, with lots and lots of marketing (and videos, back in the day).
But it doesn't take long with Google to find lots of amazing, free music. Wikipedia and the Creative Common sites have many sources, Songird makes it easier to find, and many small independent labels have lots of great content.
I took a look at Rollyo.com when it first came out, and it has a nice early Web 2.0 feel about it, but it was limited to just 25 sites in a 'Searchroll'. I can see that being useful in some cases, but for me it was way too restrictive.
I've just created a really quick and dirty Google custom search with 249 Toronto Photoblogs (shamless plug http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=0065093496128235 88935%3Ahixzfwm7k6y ) in about a total of 5 minutes. Sure I need to make the page look pretty, etc... but WOW it was easy, and the result set looks exactly what you'd expect from Google.
I couldn't find the maximum # of sites that Google will let you include, and the maximum # to exclude... Anyone find the limits?
It isn't an easy habit to kick; the CBS netcast page still uses the word 'Podcasting' when they say: "Here are several free or commercial Podcasting applications available for download" even though they did have a graphic artist create a "NETCAST PLAYERS" graphic (called netcast_player_title.gif )
"The copyright law . . . makes reward to the owner a secondary consideration. . . . Creative work is to be encouraged and rewarded, but private motivation must ultimately serve the cause of promoting broad public availability of literature, music, and the other arts."
Seems like a pretty importat quote, no? Can any explain this? Links to more information?
No no no. Dust off your parent's old 8mm film movie camera -- the article makes it clear SLRs are still going to work, digital or film, but a motion video camera won't work. So pirates will have to bring film movie cameras into the theatres, and then sell all 6 spools of 8mm films for one movie... Somehow this makes me think of the movie Brazil.
News Flash: We already have 3D web pages -- 'D!gg Spy' (can I say that on Slashdot?) and the "In The News" VOX visualizer both include that important 3rd Dimension: time. Of course Wikipedia has an important time element too.
This to me is a MUCH more useful dimension to add to Web content.
Why convert the price to dollars in the headline? Quite frankly, the number "7.32" was close to being the most interesting part of this whole yawn of a story.
And besides, you got the math wrong... The exchange rate listed on my bank's web page is around 2.2 for the Sterling Pound, so that makes $16.91.
And before you correct me and say "No, its not 16 dollars; 7.32 pounds is more like 19 dollars", then someone else says "What? 7.32 pounds is exactly 22.87 dollars" realize that I don't live in Australia (the first number), or in the Barbados (the second number). Nope, I live in Canada where 7 pounds is around 16 dollars.
Just a reminder that the first 2 "dubya's" in "www" is "World Wide" which doesn't equal "USA". Although... maybe we can move from "french-fries" to "freedom-fries", and from "www.blah blah.org" to "usaww.blah blah.com"??
(Wow the political overtone of this posting took over pretty quickly, no?)
Don't do this for some mysterious group of "handicapped" people you think you'll never see or know about; do this FOR YOURSELF.
So far no one has mentioned the obvious fact that we will ALL be "handicapped" by time, our life style, accidents, and so on.
I don't know about you, but I'm 33, so I've been abusing my body for the last 20 years or so:
Watching too much TV
Listening to too much loud music on headphones or going to concerts (although that is totally worth it)
Spending too much time coding, web browsing, playing Unreal Tournament...
Spending too much time inside, rather than outside getting excercise
And don't forget the worst invention for all our wrists: the mouse and crappy computer GUI design (how many right handed people do you know that have switched to using their left hand?)
Add all that up and I consider these regulations a good thing for me; not now, but in the next 15 years or so.
Have any HTML coders used even something as simple and very useful as the accesskey attribute in some of their elements?
This isn't the nearly the same as retrofitting mountains or bringing the standard down to the lowest denominator. This is just plain good sense and will help all of us over time.
-- My sig is too cool to post, you'd just steal it and use it as your own. --
I like the idea. Maybe not for run-of-the-mill web pages, but it would be great for reference information (documentation, legal documents, etc...)
I assume XML is a first step in this direction; all we need is some DTD aware browser (ie NOT just XML to HTML conversion displayed in an old HTML browser).
Why stop at the physical display, with well marked up source you could do great things based on content as well (ie show me all articles related to the STATE of New York that don't mention the CITY of New York.
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Hm, I don't get your point, really. Twitter is a micro-blogging site, got that. But people post micro-blog postings ( Tweets ) with the intention that someone else will be following those micro-blog posts. That's why I called it a community: people connected to other people.
So if a vocal subset of those people stand by their friends and leave Twitter for WHATEVER reason, the network starts to fall apart - once more people I'm interested in connecting with move elsewhere Twitter will be less interesting to me, and I'm more likely to move, dragging my legion of 29 followers with me...
There will no doubt be all sorts of threads here about whether Twitter has to remove content, if people are making too big a deal about this, comparisons to Flickr/YouTube/Microsoft(of course), etc... And of course LOTS of conversations about why Twitter is always down.
But to me the real issue here is simple: This will make people say "If that is the way Twitter treats people, I'm moving on".
A community-building site needs its community, otherwise it is just a php script sitting on a server somewhere. Piss off a vocal part of the community and eventually the tide will turn elsewhere.
I agree with people that have complained/worried that ideas like this will just be taken over with advertising, or worse yet, 38 pictures of the same 2 people standing at a street corner with different looks on their faces.
k works shows interesting photos of the area, videos, links to Project Gutenberg books, and so on.
p in=SART-264 to http://wholemap.com/map/area.php?area=TorontoROM&p in=DDOI-1
I've been geotagging Photoblogger posts for a while now (starting with my own...) and have found the results really interesting after a while. A popular area here in Toronto is the Don Valley Brickworks - http://wholemap.com/map/area.php?area=TorontoBric
And by adding in the time element you can see the construction of the new addition to our museum, not in boring drive-by photos from the top of a Beetle, but though images like http://wholemap.com/map/area.php?area=TorontoROM&
Yeah, I thought that was weird too. Once our old Windows XP machine dies I'm moving to Linux at home for sure, and hope my 5 year old will expect OSes to be open and as free from DRM as possible. Not so that she can think stealing content is the right thing to do, but to help her understand that there is a whole world of content that ISN'T designed to just sell more content; that there are a set of authors that WANT to share parts of their work for free.
While I think attempts like Scratch are a good idea, this just shows that there is still a lot of work to be done to move forward...
On the flipside, I've started seeking out more free-media. Of course 'Corporate America' has spent lots of money trying to convince us that the only thing worth listening to is music from big labels, with lots and lots of marketing (and videos, back in the day).
But it doesn't take long with Google to find lots of amazing, free music. Wikipedia and the Creative Common sites have many sources, Songird makes it easier to find, and many small independent labels have lots of great content.
Wait! It was only a dream.
I took a look at Rollyo.com when it first came out, and it has a nice early Web 2.0 feel about it, but it was limited to just 25 sites in a 'Searchroll'. I can see that being useful in some cases, but for me it was way too restrictive.
5 88935%3Ahixzfwm7k6y ) in about a total of 5 minutes. Sure I need to make the page look pretty, etc... but WOW it was easy, and the result set looks exactly what you'd expect from Google.
I've just created a really quick and dirty Google custom search with 249 Toronto Photoblogs (shamless plug http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=006509349612823
I couldn't find the maximum # of sites that Google will let you include, and the maximum # to exclude... Anyone find the limits?
It isn't an easy habit to kick; the CBS netcast page still uses the word 'Podcasting' when they say: "Here are several free or commercial Podcasting applications available for download" even though they did have a graphic artist create a "NETCAST PLAYERS" graphic (called netcast_player_title.gif )
No no no. Dust off your parent's old 8mm film movie camera -- the article makes it clear SLRs are still going to work, digital or film, but a motion video camera won't work. So pirates will have to bring film movie cameras into the theatres, and then sell all 6 spools of 8mm films for one movie... Somehow this makes me think of the movie Brazil.
News Flash: We already have 3D web pages -- 'D!gg Spy' (can I say that on Slashdot?) and the "In The News" VOX visualizer both include that important 3rd Dimension: time. Of course Wikipedia has an important time element too.
This to me is a MUCH more useful dimension to add to Web content.
Why convert the price to dollars in the headline? Quite frankly, the number "7.32" was close to being the most interesting part of this whole yawn of a story.
And besides, you got the math wrong... The exchange rate listed on my bank's web page is around 2.2 for the Sterling Pound, so that makes $16.91.
And before you correct me and say "No, its not 16 dollars; 7.32 pounds is more like 19 dollars", then someone else says "What? 7.32 pounds is exactly 22.87 dollars" realize that I don't live in Australia (the first number), or in the Barbados (the second number). Nope, I live in Canada where 7 pounds is around 16 dollars.
Just a reminder that the first 2 "dubya's" in "www" is "World Wide" which doesn't equal "USA". Although... maybe we can move from "french-fries" to "freedom-fries", and from "www.blah blah.org" to "usaww.blah blah.com"??
(Wow the political overtone of this posting took over pretty quickly, no?)
So far no one has mentioned the obvious fact that we will ALL be "handicapped" by time, our life style, accidents, and so on.
I don't know about you, but I'm 33, so I've been abusing my body for the last 20 years or so:
- Watching too much TV
- Listening to too much loud music on headphones or going to concerts (although that is totally worth it)
- Spending too much time coding, web browsing, playing Unreal Tournament...
- Spending too much time inside, rather than outside getting excercise
- And don't forget the worst invention for all our wrists: the mouse and crappy computer GUI design (how many right handed people do you know that have switched to using their left hand?)
Add all that up and I consider these regulations a good thing for me; not now, but in the next 15 years or so.Have any HTML coders used even something as simple and very useful as the accesskey attribute in some of their elements?
This isn't the nearly the same as retrofitting mountains or bringing the standard down to the lowest denominator. This is just plain good sense and will help all of us over time. -- My sig is too cool to post, you'd just steal it and use it as your own. --
"Unreal" is right.
Whatever the bike, I'd never buy one; the thing couldn't even outrun a huge SUV, on flat, dry pavement. Come on!
I hope Triumph is suing, or Nissan/Toyota/whoever paid a lot of money for that "special effect".
I like the idea. Maybe not for run-of-the-mill web pages, but it would be great for reference information (documentation, legal documents, etc...)
I assume XML is a first step in this direction; all we need is some DTD aware browser (ie NOT just XML to HTML conversion displayed in an old HTML browser).
Why stop at the physical display, with well marked up source you could do great things based on content as well (ie show me all articles related to the STATE of New York that don't mention the CITY of New York.