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Webbie Link Fodder
 A couple of years ago I made a drunken comment at a GTAB gathering about how we needed a social networking group for garlic lovers. Maria ran with it and created Garlicster. Nice she put my name on it even though I have not made a single post. But whatever-ster is no longer relevant; I think it is time for GingerBook.
 Stupid fuckers. Snap had a fun lil widget that allowed me to pick & choose when I wanted to highlight a link with a pop-up thumbnail. Yeah yeah, some people were annoyed by it but now the fuckers have decided to have the javascript automatically link some of the popular keywords in my posts, without my permission. Buh-bye SnapShots.
You know, on the Internet there are things that are better left untouched. Some will make you angry, some will make you really really depressed. And then some will make you do things you shouldn't. And really, you shouldn't see the reference. No really, you shouldn't. Unless goatse was something you enjoyed.
"We do not allow liberal censorship of conservative facts." In other words, Conservapedia reserves the right to publish any material they think fits into the category no matter how inflammatory, one-sided, bigoted or oblivious of the facts. And when they are in doubt of something, they will quote the Christian bible, because we all know that is the final source of fact.
Eeek, I accidentally signed up for StumbleUpon because I thought it was Ffffound but what I really meant was I needed a place for quickly blogging images without context -- ala this boy is tumbled. Really, we have too much right now.
So you are looking at some website and giggling insanely cuz of a captioned image of a cat looking shocked or peeking at your from inside your toaster. Your mother doesn't understand why you found it funny or that you spent an hour looking at them. That's alright, just let her read this Time article.
Is it worse to be detached from the various online community networking "tools" or to have tried them and found them useless after a while because... well, you are as much the outsider in this current online world as you were in the old Real World?
Hee !! It's called iPhoney and it's a way I can get back into the web design / web building subset of computer geeks -- i will design pages only fit for an iPhone!! (via airbag)
Imagine that, an Encyclopedia of Life. Will they get lost in the deleting of extinct species before they finish entering in the existing ones? Will they get to about 0.75 million and then get bored, placing entries like, "Another fucking ugly bug with long legs and antennae??"
I did something like I Only Need a Page! in the early days of websites. Back then they had no clue when you asked them, "What do you want on your website?" Most still don't. We did them for contruction companies and called them Internet Brochures and condensed all the company's advertising details onto one page that was indexed on a Construction Association's portal.
Facebook will stay as my decidedly censored side of me on the web. Considering that possibility of ‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’ it's no wonder. But then again, my aunt reads my blog and can send back anything inappropriate to her AND my cousin & her mother are already on it.
Wow. That is a memory. It's nice to know that no matter how much is accidentally deleted or you allow to be deleted, memories still persist on the web. If anyone ever asks, "What is the point of blogging?" I will have any answer.
Remember what I said yesterday about the affect of us little guys canncelling accounts or severing relations as being of no effect. Take a look at this Flickr discussion and you will see it's not just the lil never-published people but some of the Flickr mainstays. Whoah.
To follow up on the whole JPG Debacle from yesterday, there is a MetaFilter discussion about it. The funny thing is all the people saying they are cancelling their accounts -- I wonder how many people who cancelled their accounts were actually published in the mag. It's like me saying I will never shop at Walmart again. If I was a regular and spent billy-uns there, then I would affect it... but I barely shop there so I am of no account.
This entry by Heather about JPG Magazine is odd. Even odder is the lack of entries on the web talking about it. I guess it has to deseminate more. It's very freaky that an entity could eliminate the history of it's founders without any explanation whatsoever. I look forward to the flamewar that will inevitably generate. P.S. This is Derek's page; I wonder how long it will be allowed to last.
I hope that when the web expires into some other form of world-connected media form, the people that made it great by being a gem of a find amidst all the dross are remembered in some manner. For example, a perfect source of inspiration and envy for me was Matt Rossi and I wonder constantly where he is.
How much Spam in blogs do you think is connected to scripts written by people that are still running on servers long after the person seeking to benefit from that spam has gone bye-bye? I sort of have this horrific image of servers running spammer scripts without knowing it long after the person who installed it has moved on.
I wonder how long before this latest net scandal, the one i got upset about a few days ago, becomes the latest piece of web nastiness to break the "real world" barrier?
Speaking of social networking (i really hate that term but i cannot put my thumb on why) I recently drank some Koolaid that, for the first time ever, had absolutely nothing to do with people who I work with or whom I relate with mostly via the Internet. Yes, I joined the facebook.
Part of me wants to snicker at the crop of Web 2.0 features & apps & wizbangers, otherwise referred to as The Evolution of Cat Blogging, but another part of me says that for each innovation we are moving ahead in technology. Blogs have proven themselves useful for more than cats; a few iterations later another useful tool will appear.
OK, the concept started as teenage girls with webcams sharing their daily life, mutated into kiddie-porn-esque sites dedicated to men my age sending them gifts in return for "more intimate" access and now has spawned a fictional collection of videos referred to as lonelygirl15. I think this would have been more fun as a massive campaign for a movie.
I, for one, am completely for sale to potential advertizers to do reviews on your product. All reviews come with the following disclaimer / warning: my review writing skills are seriously lacking AND nobody reads this site. But that said, that stalker chick in southern california will buy everything I review.
I started here at the Lala love you set on Flickr. He tags his CD cases from La La, a place to trade CDs for about a buck. And it sort of spread around. I like that.
When someone attached to this amorphous extended blogging community passes away a number of people feel the need to blog it even if they really had no idea who she was. I knew who Leslie Harpold was, having been around the A thru C Listers during the 2000s but did not know her personally. Having read quite a few of the eulogies over the last few days, heather's is the only one that touched me.
It's only a matter of time before there is an ap like Shelfari for every aspect of life, where you can share you interests and be part of a community that shares that interest... in sharing. The important thing is not the chosen interest but the accessible and enjoyable aspects of the community.
I just signed up for Pandora Internet Radio, another of the music suggestion services that works like a radio. The app is simple but I hate the way it just sits in the middle of the page like an abandoned popup.
I am a sucker for these Web2.0 gadgets and gizmos, such as Twitter, but probably more so because I can do them with my phone.
Considering the ease at which Americans sue, I imagine the whole 'Jason Fortuny posting responses to a sex-ad publically' webscandal is going to tie up their local legal system for a while.
David
A slang word meaning lonely or loser. A David is a person who tries to hard to get attention. David can be used interchangebly with tool or poser. *sigh* Now, is it wrong to use Google as a verb, as opposed to google, or is it just wrong to use Google as a verb while typing your search request into Yahoo?
OK, I have been saying w00t for years and didn't know it's origins. Oh, I knew it was somewhat internet based but I didn't know the specifics.
While I understand that an old man, who happens to have power over the regulation of the Internet in the US, doesn't really understand the technology, even if they each brought in their own geeks to explain it to each other, I am sure people still wouldn't get what the Internet is.
Maybe a neat idea. Take a picture of a smartpox blob with your camera-phone. It decodes into some information like a URL, text message or whatever. Kinda interactively lame.
Oh well, anotehr one bites the dust. This one is weird because, being a search engine of torrents, they never actually did any of the actual file sharing.
Interesting how I would need to read about a magazine called maisonneuve to find out what the significance of the street name was in montreal.
Some guy from montreal is trading things for bigger and better things. He started with one red paperclip.
Computer geeks know that null is often used as an inbox for testing messages. But what if your email address was null@whoever?
Group Hug is for confessions like this one but it needs comments so you can say, "Duuuuude, this IS completely normal at 14. Or at 40 for some." (via jer)
This year seems to be all about, "Wow. Something something is still around." So, wow Barbelith is still around.
Once again I feel like reading a post, a post about couple of Anil's opinions of Interestingness (another idea of giving value to things on the web based on their popularity) and the associated rebuttals and then give my own opinions. But, I am just going to link to it instead.
Heather rightly says, "You're kidding me," when an art centre asks her to remove mirrorshots taken at the art centre. *rolls eyes*
The Fray was the first web based project that I thought would go somewhere, right after I discovered you could do interesting things with a website. Nice to know it's still going tres strong.
I have been looking for ways to inspire me to get back into web design / site building. Maybe I should take a stab at Greg Costikyan's site?
I feel behind on my web related phenomena (doo dooo de doo doo) but until today I had never heard of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism though I had seen the image briefly.
So how do you tell the people at Google Earth that they seemed to have moved the label for my home town (Sydney, NS) about 35 km east of where it is? And why is Glace Bay full of detailed info while Sydney is a blurry blob? (via jer)
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