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A collection of forms (really, you know, paper ones)
March 2007 Archives
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If something is private, I recommend not digitizing it and putting it online. Adding privacy features to a public service is dumb. 09:44 PM March 15, 2007 from web
Just re-read that last post. What a load of pants, let me try again...
Flickr was founded by an artist and at first, lots of artists where members. While there are clearly loads of ordinary family pics on the service there are also loads of really interesting, edgy creations. These range from surreal mindmaps, to strange images made with toy cameras to the nude self-portraits of Female Tech.
Like most wonderful, slightly marginal things, the content was never going to be to everybody's taste. Those of us who where there in the beginning feel a sense of belonging and Flickr's transition from online photography haven for the creatively inclined to mainstream storage service for the merry masses' Kodak moments is proving to be a painful one.
It's not that there's anything wrong with Yahoo or even with the aims of providing the sort of all-American, clean-living service that they are trying to build. It's just that they're crossing the line where arbitration and moderation are taking place.
It's these moderation 'choices' that are causing the trouble. No one has ever been able to get this right and there's just no way Yahoo's group of ingenue moderators are going to be able to get through this cultural minefield in one piece.
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an open source project charged with the development of internationalization software for humans.
Safe???!! WTF does that mean?!! This from the Flickr help files:
My account has been reviewed as safe. What does that mean?
Having a "safe" account means that you are good at moderating your own content. Awesome!
"Good at moderating your own content" wow that sounds creepy. I hate it when I read something like this that intellectually I know is right but somewhere hidden at the back there's a little alarm bell that goes off... Now if I could only work out what it was.
One of the Flickr posters in my contacts has had a lot of grief with her regular readers complaining that they could no longer see her pictures. I've been doing a little reading ever since I became a libellous Flickr user (can you libel someone in an email address? I'm sure there's a precendent out there...) and you know, this Flickr content filter thing is really getting up my nose.
Anyway, am not liking the feeling of being 'handled' this is definitely not the Flickr experience I signed up for.
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Nice collection of two-point-oh logos
You know, I wasn't going to get all huffy about it, but I just don't believe the explanations coming out of Yahoo.
I ignored the many emails explaining how this was going to be a seamless transition and that us early adopters who sent Katerina our cash from day one would be happily assimilated into the collective and that really this was for the best for all concerned. So I finally got this today:
Aside from just not liking their style or their products, one of the main reasons I never got a yahoo id is because the options suck. Well, not in any inherent way, but because they've been carrying a registration database around since 1996 so have more than two users.
Call me a wanker (and many do) but I've grown used to having nice logins, I'm "dug" on delicious and most other places. If not, I'm Bozo (generally for thing's I'd be a little embarrassed to discuss with my mom) or even donkeyontheedge if I'm trying to extend or integrate with the blog.
So of course I tried donkeyontheedge@yahoo.com (and co.uk) and hey, of course they're gone, as are dieyahoodie, dieyahoodiediedie, yahooarescum, filthyyahooscum (which I thought sounded a bit like self-criticism but which Nicki suggested) and any permutation of yahoo and sucks...
Nope, I'm not kidding;-)
So yeah, has this harmed my experience of Flickr, has it impacted our network of one? Well, yes it has. Am I going to stop using Flickr? No. Am I going to stop fantasising about Katerina? Well, probably not but I'm gonna try, dammit. In any case, while I was regressing to the state of a vindictive six-year-old, I finally managed to find a yahoo id that wasn't taken:
This rant inspired by Digital Mavericks: Opal Fruits, Marathon, Jif, now Flickr - Grrrrr! via Technorati.
Been playing with tumblr :-)
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Nice work from Publicis
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a slideshow of two-point-oh sites maintained by a chap called Paul Terry Walhus
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Really, in a grid and all...
Recently, I've been working as part of the Orange group design and usability team. It's been quite interesting as I'm involved with teams who are busy developing the offerings well into the future.
Today I'm in Paris at a their future thinking conference. Should be very interesting. Confidential, but interesting. Ever since seeing that Cory Doctorow video on the theme of self-determination I've been seeing the mobile network operators I work with in a whole different light, as custodians of some really important stuff.
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The most unbelievable ship
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and again, just an amazing ship
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So it's Red Nose Day again:-) Clemmie had to go to school in big clothes today. I think that means wearing my shirt so we'll see how that works out. In the mean time Clem asked me to wear these noses.
(the bike is curently wearing the smaller stick-on variety)
If only I could read Japanese I would understand what エストニア独立記念日 - Skype 日本語ブログ is all about. As it is, all I can do is wonder at the photograph...
Oh, and while I came for the photo, I stayed for the kinky Skype Pro stuff. Clearly I've not being keeping up with Skype's new offerings. Is this a Skype employee blog or are they offering hosting to pro customers?
Interesting site centered on the use of sms: 160Characters Association
It's run by Mike Grenville who I'm told is a very nice man who organises crack-of-dawn bicycle trips for 3GSM participants:-)
So doesn't anybody else think this daylight savings time (DST) thing is a bit odd. I mean I'm probably getting the wrong end of the stick but are people having to apply patches (to their computers)? Because of daylight savings time? In 2007?
OK, no more question marks but I can't help digging around for my smug hat, this is just daft...
This twitter by little_ceeg cracked me up...
Credit scores are like SAT scores for adults.
Trifle for lunch (well, for pudding) :-)
So while I'm on the film theme, here's a frame from a classic picture on the iPod (click on the photo to zoom in, the text reads "unica").
Hey, it's a quiz, can you name the picture from the still?
You know how you get those dvds with your Sunday paper and then they collect on the shelf? Well, my family got me an iPod for my birthday in January and I've discovered how fabulous it is to integrate films (here Himmel über Berlin, Der (1987)) with iTunes.
The screen is tiny but the headphones give you the cinema experience. Another benefit I hadn't figured on is being able to freeze frame and shuffle forward and back. Not sure why I think that's so cool but really enjoying doing it:-)
OK so I'm the last person to work out how to ping links as part of a twitter. So sue me, I've got beer:-)
